Citing a slow down in financial services, IT outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services has chopped 15 SAP specialists from its Australian financial services division.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.
Australia's central bank has criticised the nation's four largest commercial banks for shirking on investments in payment systems technology, resulting in a lack of innovation and neglect of systems like EFTPOS.
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Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.
The National Australia Bank has taken a pre-tax writedown of AU$409 million on its software assets for the year as botched initiatives such as its notorious global enterprise resource planning project take their toll on the financial institution's full-year bottom line.
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