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(12 February 2010 – Australia) ANZ has plans to utilise Microsoft’s multi-touch tabletop screen ‘Surface’ technology. However, is still working out how to best apply the technology to the real-life banking environment, reported Online Banking Review.
(10 February 2010 – UK) The UK customers of, Spanish bank, Santander were unable to access the bank’s ATMs and online services for over six hours earlier this week due a power failure.
(5 February 2010 – Global) Sagem Wireless, French handset manufacturer, and UPEK, biometric fingerprint specialist, have partnered up and revealed plans to launch a Google Android phone than can capture fingerprints for identification authentication, aiding in the security of m-banking.
(5 February 2010 – Australia) The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has posted a video on YouTube promoting the bank’s vision of the future for its customers.
(2 February 2010 – UK) Thousands of Egg credit card holders have been unable to make online repayments for the past six weeks due to out of date banking records.
(1 February 2010 – Europe) Deutsche Bank and SAP, a business software provider, have announced the bank’s plans to replace its core banking system with a total SAP solution.
(28 January 2010 – UK) British bank Barclays has announced it has made improvements to its mobile-banking system, in what the bank is claiming to be a UK first.
(27 January 2010 – Europe) A polish bank is upgrading six million customers’ Visa debit cards to contactless chip and PIN, according to local reports.
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