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The consumer group CHOICE has called on the federal government to allow consumers who have credit cards from the big four banks to cancel them online without having to call or write to the banks.

A group of Australian banks, which have applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for leave to jointly talk to Apple about gaining access to Apple Pay and the near field communication (NFC) on iPhones, have modified their demands, stating that they only want open access to the NFC function.

Independent EFTPOS institution Tyro Payments claims Australian banks are holding back business and the economy because they won’t grant loans to small and medium-sized businesses unless owners put up their houses as collateral.

Financial services company FlexiGroup announced on Monday that customers of its subsidiary cards brands, Lombard Finance and Once Credit, would now be able to use Apple Pay.

ANZ has extended its tie-up with Android Pay to its Mastercard customers from today.

A survey sponsored by open source firm Red Hat has found that most businesses in Australia and New Zealand know how mobile devices can deliver value and have begun to implement a mobility strategy.

If you have heard the term Blockchain recently you are not alone – it is the foundation of cryptocurrency Bitcoin and its applications now way exceed its roots.

HR Departments must embrace digital disruption and proactively engage with workers to meet the expectations of a diverse millennial workforce.

IBM’s Watson cognitive computing tool has come to Australia. Melbourne’s Deakin University will be the first in the world to use a system powered by Watson to develop an online student engagement advisor. ANZ Bank is also using the technology to help financial advisors.

An Australian rival to PayPal is much closer, with a major trial of cardless online payments from Coles and two of the major banks.

ANZ customers using the bank's iOS and Android apps were left in the lurch today after a system-wide error rendedered the app useless.

EMC and Rackspace have extended their relationship to include the ANZ region.

The continued erosion of the CIO-CEO connection in Australia's four major banks is a disturbing trend, with the potential to limit CIOs' ability to influence decision making if their recommendations to chief executives had first to percolate through 'filters of ignorance or misunderstanding.'

Westpac has announced that its high profile chief information officer Bob McKinnon is stepping back from his full time group executive role and will no longer be the bank's chief information officer. The news comes less than a fortnight after the bank took steps to axe 188 IT positions as part of a major shakeup.

Alastair Currie, the recently installed group chief operating officer, who has overall responsibility for technology at the ANZ Bank, has been given a clear mandate to cut costs, despite the bank today reporting a 12 per cent increase in underlying profits to $5.65 billion for the year to the end of September.

Guess which is the most hairy chested sector to work in as an ICT professional? Clue: it's not mining and it's not defence.

The Commonwealth Bank has floated the idea of consumer biometrics - using the camera in an iPhone to authenticate the identity of an individual.

Just a week after speaking at a CEDA event to stress the importance of technology to the success of banks in the current economic climate, ANZ Bank chief information officer Anne Weatherston has been stripped of her direct reporting link to the bank's CEO Mike Smith.

Cloud vendors may be wildly spruiking their wares - but they need to evolve their offerings further according to ANZ chief information officer Anne Weatherston who does not believe cloud is likely to be relevant for banks for another five years.

ANZ Bank chief information officer Anne Weatherston has unveiled a radical overhaul of the structure and composition of the IT teams at the bank in order to meet the technology needs of the institution as it increasingly positions itself as a regional, rather than just ANZ-focussed,  financial services provider.