Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year deal with digital identity firm IdenTrust to enable more secure authentication and electronic signatures for CommBiz customers using certain applications.
Telstra has sealed a 10-year telecommunications and managed computing deal with Coca-Cola Amatil.
Most Commonwealth Bank customers will see real-time banking next year as the bank's main products are switched over onto its new core banking platform.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has topped up its core banking war chest with a further $150 million aimed at bulking up analytical, risk and financial management systems, as well as extending its new platform to subsidiaries.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has initiated a review of major IT licensing contracts held by Bankwest as it takes the first steps into integrating the technology systems of its new subsidiaries Bankwest and St Andrew's.
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Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte this week publicly pondered popular Web technologies most IT managers must be looking at and asking "how can these make/save me money?"
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It is quickly becoming the norm for Australia's largest banks to offer discounts on or completely free computer security software to boost internet banking security. The question is, why?
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