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• UBank launches AI-powered budgeting tool

  UBank has partnered with Australian fintech Basiq to provide a machine learning-powered budgeting tool that provides its 560,000 customers with spending insights across 40 categories.

• UBank’s Hubbard joins Rest as innovation tech leader

  UBank CIO Jeremey Hubbard has been named Rest’s group executive, innovation and transformation.

• Judo Bank aims to ‘outmanoeuvre’ large banks

  Judo Bank co-founder and CIO, Alex Twigg, will tell you he doesn’t do digital transformation - instead he does digital.

• Super fund Rest recruits UBank CIO

  UBank’s chief information officer Jeremy Hubbard is joining superannuation fund Rest to lead a team covering strategy and planning, IT management, innovation, and data governance.

• UBank taps FaceMe and IBM to launch Mia, a digital home loan assistant

  Australians are set to be among the first to be exposed to what UBank is calling the world’s first AI-based digital home loan application assistant called Mia.

• Sharing the stories of the CIO50: #18 Jeremy Hubbard, UBank

  UBank has been on a 12-month journey to transform the business, according to head of digital and technology, Jeremy Hubbard.

• CBA launches new AI chatbot

  Commonwealth Bank on Friday unveiled a chatbot that it says uses artificial intelligence to assist customers with more than 200 banking tasks.

• ​UBank recruits IBM’s Watson for chatbot

  UBank has used IBM’s Watson technology to build what it claims is Australia’s first virtual assistant to help potential home buyers and refinancers complete their online home loan applications.

• How UBank's FinTech culture enables Agile to thrive

  Bulletproof’s Lorraine Longhurst, describes how the online bank succeeded in adopting an Agile approach to software development
  

• NAB View pulls together multiple customer accounts

  National Australia Bank (NAB) is rolling out a portal called NAB View for its 4,500 business bankers which brings together information from 12 million customer accounts.

• NAB Traveller card can be loaded with 10 currencies simultaneously

  National Australia Bank (NAB) has upgraded its Traveller card so that customers can load up to 10 currencies at one time onto the card using Internet/mobile banking while they are in Australia or overseas.

• Social media adds spice to financial services, say banks

  Social media can make financial institutions seem less dull and better engage customers, according to officials on a panel at the AB+F Retail Financial Services Forum.

• Data brings banks closer to customers

  Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.