CBA steps ups competition for AI engineers by opening Seattle office

The bank is deepening connections with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, including putting IT teams together in a new US office.

James EyersSenior Reporter

Mar 27, 2025 – 4.46pm

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Commonwealth Bank will rotate up to 200 of its top technology engineers annually through the United States, as it seeks to bolster its artificial intelligence capability by embedding some of its staff with tech giants Amazon and Microsoft.

CBA chief executive Matt Comyn and the bank’s chief information officer, Gavin Munroe, were in Seattle and San Francisco this week to mark the opening of a second US office in Seattle; the other is in New York.

James Eyers writes on banking, payments and fintech. He is a former legal and investment banking editor at the AFR, has degrees in commerce and law from UNSW, and is co-author of Buy now, pay later: The extraordinary story of Afterpay