ANZ slashes application footprint, continues Agile push
In FY18 ANZ decommissioned 264 applications as part of the bank’s broader simplification push.
In FY18 ANZ decommissioned 264 applications as part of the bank’s broader simplification push.
Fintech – startup companies offering innovative financial services — are often touted as a major threat to established banks, but, says Laura Crozier, global industry director, financial services at Software AG, it is the 'bigtech' companies — in particular Amazon, Apple and Google — they should fear most.
Global payments network SWIFT has partnered with Microsoft for a proof of concept project that uses the technology company’s Azure cloud.
"Craig’s experience will be a major asset for us in Australia as we continue to build sustainable momentum."
Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.
IBM Wednesday announced the signing of five strategic agreements in the Kenyan financial services sector, which it said are another example of the growing wave of innovation in African banking.
A U.S. district court in Texas has dismissed all but one of the claims brought by several banks against Heartland Payment Systems over the massive data breach the payment processor <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126379/Heartland_data_breach_could_be_bigger_than_TJX_s">disclosed in January 2009</a> .
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Computers and robots will replace humans in enough jobs that they will dramatically change the economy, said industry watchers and MIT economists at a robotics symposium Monday. And, they said, the transition has already started.
In a rare instance of a court's siding with consumers in a data breach lawsuit, a federal appeals court has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit to proceed against grocery chain Hannaford Bros. over a 2007 <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9068999/Update_New_retail_data_breach_may_have_affected_millions_of_Hannaford_shoppers">data breach</a> that exposed millions of customers' credit and debit cards.
Swab tests recently conducted of public surfaces in six major cities revealed that ATMs are among the worst carriers of illness-causing germs.
PayPal has unveiled a mobile payment initiative for shoppers that doesn't require near-field communication (NFC) technology inside smartphones.
Goldman Sachs came out on top in a ranking of the best IT departments in the financial services sector, as determined by a survey of 144 tech pros who work in that industry.
Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 people who visited waterpark resorts in Wisconsin and Tennessee between December 2008 and May 2011.
The three wireless carriers in the Isis mobile-payment joint venture are investing more than $100 million into the project, according to a published report.
NYSE Euronext has rolled out 10GbE throughout its data centers, and with the new networking technology the stock exchange boasts 2.4Tbps aggregate bandwidth or a sub-75 microsecond round trip for network messages.