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| May 30, 2023 | ANZ taps generative AI for code testing | ANZ Banking Group has “formally sanctioned” a team to explore generative AI to augment its code testing capabilities as well as to explore deeper potential use cases.
The bank has roughly 4000 software engineers, with sees opportunities to ... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | Australia's major banks look to dynamic CVV to combat payment fraud | Three of the 'Big Four' Australian banks have turned to dynamic card verification value (CVV) functionality to combat online payment fraud and boost digital consumer protections.
The CVC or CVV is traditionally a static, three-dig... |
| May 4, 2022 | ANZ proposes restructure to help digital efforts | ANZ Bank is planning to adopt a new structure that seperates its core operations from other 'non-banking' functions to improve opportunities to develop and acquire new products and technologies.
In its 2022 half year results, the ... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | ANZ combines its digital and retail divisions | ANZ has announced it is re-merging its digital and retail divisions into one unit, as the bank gets closer to launching its customer-facing app, ANZ Plus.
ANZ Plus is a new digital banking service that contains a range of in-built financial... |
| Nov 25, 2021 | PMI releases new construction industry training certification to better equip the workforce to meet the needs of the high growth sector | 45% of construction industry professionals report project delays as their biggest challenge, with 72% always or often experiencing delays
Major project activity across the Australian construction sector set to peak at $A 100 billion in the ... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | ANZ Banking Group prepares for ANZx launch | ANZ Banking Group is set to launch the first customer-facing proposition through its major banking transformation program ANZx in early 2022 under a rebranded name 'ANZ Plus'.
ANZ Plus will act as a new channel designed to assist ... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | ANZ funds its technology projects 'like venture capital' | ANZ Banking Group has revealed the “significant work” of its technology and finance teams to more accurately cost IT projects and technology-enabled processes, and pursue faster time-to-value.
Group executive for technology Gerard Florian s... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | ANZ carves out ANZi innovation arm, renames it 1835i | ANZ Banking Group has spun out its innovation and investment arm, ANZi, into a separate entity called 1835i.
The bank said the new operating model would allow 1835i to run "more like a start-up, without the same regulatory requirements... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Australia and New Zealand Banking : Financial Wellbeing of Australians is on its way to recovery | The ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing Indicator found that during the month of March 2021, financial wellbeing reached its highest spot score since the pandemic began (59.0 out of 100), indicating that the financial wellbeing of Australian... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | Telstra, ANZ, NAB redefine their future workspaces | Australia’s biggest companies are formulating what a return to physical office spaces will look like and what the change in work culture means for underlying technology systems.
Many expect to adopt a “hybrid” approach that mixes working fr... |
| May 6, 2020 | ANZ runs cloud boot camp to train 2000 staff remotely | ANZ Banking Group put over 2000 staff through a week-long cloud boot camp that it ran virtually with the aim of getting as many as possible AWS certified.
The ‘get certified in a week’ program was run by ANZ’s enterprise cloud portfolio tea... |
| May 4, 2020 | ANZ converts Chengdu data ops to IT service desk, adds 'significant' system capacity | ANZ Banking Group temporarily recast its data operations in Chengdu as an extension of its internal IT service desk and made additional “significant changes” to systems capacity to continue to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bank,... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Women are on the frontline in the war against coronavirus — and JobKeeper is failing them | The ACCC says rapid antigen tests still cost somewhere between $20 to $30, a markup that is "very difficult to justify".
For decades women have fought to be equals in the workforce. Now they are emerging as Australia’s most essent... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | There Can Only Be One Silicon Valley, So Let’s Try Something Else | We just don’t have what they have. The DEMO Conference/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
By Ian Maxwell, University of Technology Sydney
The world only needs one Silicon Valley. The evidence? Firstly, Silicon Valley doesn’t just serve the US, it is a m... |
| Jul 16, 2019 | ANZ says Facebook's Libra is no bank-buster | ANZ Bank has offered its opinion on Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and while the bank hasn’t kicked holes in the idea it has identified some worrying weaknesses.
The Bank’s director for institutional portfolio management James Cu... |
| Jul 4, 2019 | Westfield to run live pilot of blockchain system | Lease holders for retail outlets in Westfield centres across Australia will take part in an eight-week “live pilot” of a blockchain-based platform for managing bank guarantees.
The system has been under development by a consortium of major ... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | ANZ reveals the good and bad of its Agile transformation | ANZ Banking Group has revealed the full impact of its large-scale agile transformation, including how it created a new class of leaders and now handles the same workload with up to 30 percent less staff.
General manager of omnichannel Chris... |
| Mar 25, 2019 | ANZ rips apart blockchain, catalogues its big list of non-uses | If you’re a distributed ledger or blockchain true believer, take a deep breath. And maybe sit down. This won’t be comfortable. Or boring.
One of Australia’s Big Four banks, ANZ, says it’s run ruler over the supposedly transformative technol... |
| Dec 7, 2018 | Stop making cyber security so scary, difficult and inaccessible: ANZ CISO | Forget all the motherhood statements about how humans are the most important part of the cyber security puzzle.
For former Australian Signals Directorate and infosec chief turned ANZ bank CISO, Lynwen Connick, a good start to real behaviour... |
| Nov 22, 2018 | ANZ puts boot into HR for digital hiring failures | Box ticking body shops and bank human resources staff who can’t see past checklists of so-called hard skills for technology are under fire from senior management at the ANZ bank, as the institution continues on its mass agile culture push t... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | ANZ digital chief Maile Carnegie frets over human obsolescence | The head of ANZ’s digital banking division, former local Google chief Maile Carnegie, has taken to YouTube to pour petrol on the robots vs humans debate, declaring that application of artificial intelligence will determine the winners and l... |
| Sep 12, 2018 | ANZ breaks out LEGO to bust staff silos | Forget the hype around the hundreds of millions invested in start-up hubs and incubators by Australian banks.
If you want serious nerd cred, LEGO is where it's at. Just ask ANZ.
In a sign of just how essential it’s become for major cor... |
| Sep 7, 2018 | ANZ brings Atlassian technology on board to help turn company culture around | Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar.
Australian big-four bank ANZ has enlisted startup giant Atlassian to give its company culture a 21st-century boost.
The bank has signed an enterprise licence agreement to use Atl... |
| Oct 3, 2017 | ANZ Bank buys Aussie data science startup | ANZ Bank has snapped up an Australian data science startup whose algorithm is said to predict property prices to within five percent of their selling value.
The bank said today that REALas would continue to operate independently albeit as a... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Westpac, ANZ explore blockchain for bank guarantees | Westpac and ANZ have built a small-scale proof-of-concept for a blockchain-based system to replace paper bank guarantees for commercial property leases, which they hope will be broadly adopted by the finance industry.
The two banks started ... |
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| Nov 7, 2016 | ANZ Bank's new tech chief hints at cloud push | ANZ Bank's newly-christened head of technology has hinted at plans to significantly boost the use of cloud computing at the bank and increase its adoption of agile software development.
Gerard Florian has joined the bank after a long c... |
| May 23, 2016 | The Internet and the Rise of Microbrand Watches | The Internet is making it easier for people to start their own ventures, follow their passions, or even successfully make a career jump. Obviously, there is still risk involved, but it is easier to calculate the risk and find resources and ... |
| Mar 1, 2016 | ANZ Bank hires Google Australia boss as head of digital | Google Australia chief executive Maile Carnegie will move to the ANZ Bank as its new head of digital banking.
The move ends three years at the top of Google's local operations for Carnegie, who joined the search giant from Procter &... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | Rate cut won’t reignite property market: John Symond | Another quarter or half percent interest rate cut won’t make the property market hotter, John Symond thinks.
The founder of Aussie Home Loans noted parts of the real estate market had cooled.
“Certainly the lower rates go the more affordabl... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | Tired of pop-up ads? The ‘native’ alternative could be worse | Over the years the online world has become crowded with advertising pop-ups (which can be blocked), banner advertising (which can be annoying) and sponsored ads (which can be ignored). The reducing effectiveness of getting noticed has led t... |
| ANZ stops 500 fraudulent digital accounts from being opened | ANZ Banking Group said it has stopped more than 500 attempts at opening a fraudulent digital bank account using stolen data in the past year-and-a-half.
The bank revealed the number in a post on its BlueNotes blog on Wednesday, crediting th... |
| ANZ Institutional folds generative AI into intelligence-gathering tool | ANZ Institutional has incorporated generative AI into a business intelligence tool used by frontline bankers to stay abreast of market developments.
Cloud capability lead Sally Lau wrote in an ANZ Bluenotes blog post that the tool, called S... |
| ANZ to put 3000 leaders through an AI "immersion centre" | ANZ Banking Group will put 3000 leaders through a new AI "immersion centre" at its Melbourne headquarters over the next 12 months.
The role of the immersion centre, which is being set up in partnership with Microsoft, is to get le... |
| ANZ targets 3000 engineers to use GitHub Copilot | ANZ Banking Group has one of its Melbourne engineering teams using GitHub Copilot, an "AI pair programming" tool that has led to some work being completed up to 50 percent faster.
Copilot is intended to aid faster coding, drawing ... |