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• CBA plans to build privacy technologies into its products

  Customer demand for secure mobile banking has led the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) to start investigating the development of privacy technologies to be built into its products and services.

• Rabobank reduces malware risk with new authentication services

  Customers of Rabobank Australia and New Zealand are being offered two factor secure authentication services when they transact online following the signing of a deal with US-based security vendor ThreatMetrix.

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  Private cloud 'very important' for ANZ Banking Group: CIO

  While CBA CIO Michael Harte has dismissed data sovereignty and security excuses used by businesses not to move to the cloud as “absolute garbage”, over at ANZ, CIO Anne Weatherston has taken a different approach to cloud adoption.

• ANZ Bank launches Transactive iOS app for corporate customers

  ANZ Bank has continued its mobile banking push with the release of the Transactive iOS app for corporate customers, allowing them to remotely monitor real-time account balances, view current transactions and approve or reject payments.

• Bankwest branches into Android app space

  Commonwealth Bank subsidiary Bankwest has responded to customer demand for mobile banking by launching a free Android application. This follows the bank’s release of an iPhone app in March this year which has been downloaded 85,000 times from the iTunes app store.

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  CommBank updates mobile apps, eyes social payments

  The CommonWealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has updated is suite of mobile banking applications with native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and the browser-based HTML5, with technology for near field communications (NFC) and social payments on the way.

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  Westpac enables mobile banking on Android and Blackberry

  Westpac has stepped up its mobile banking capabilities, enabling customers with Blackberry and Android-based smartphones to access its banking services.

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  St.George Bank makes play for Windows Phone 7

  St.George Bank has made a move for some Windows Phone 7 action with a new banking application encompassing Australian app, Mobile Banking Lite, which enables customers to check their account balance and transaction history.

• Visa trials contactless mobile payment app

  Visa has kicked off a four week trial of a contactless mobile phone payment application, enabling iPhones to become a “virtual wallet”.

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  Commonwealth Bank deploys NetBank for Android

  The Commonwealth Bank has released its NetBank mobile banking app for Android smartphones to customers.

• St George releases Android mobile banking app

  St George bank has released what it claims is the first mobile banking application for Android smartphones in Australia.

• Mobile banking faces uphill battle in mature markets

  The mobile phone is turning into the platform of choice for banking in emerging markets. In developed markets, however, the phone has struggled to compete with existing payment methods, and the challenges aren't going away in 2010.

• Mobile banking expected to soar in next few years

  The number of people actively using mobile banking in the U.S. will grow by more than five times by the end of 2013, Tower Group Inc. predicted in a report released yesterday.