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June

The Granville Harbour Wind Farm in Tasmania is an example of good community engagement, Greg Bourne says.

Australia must overcome these challenges to meet its net zero targets

A massively complex and expensive task is ahead for Australia to decarbonise its power supply and infrastructure. To start, it will take a lot of building.

May

New technologies like AI and automation are helping businesses to strengthen their operational resilience.

AI can spot threats before they happen

Australian organisations are drawing on improved technologies to alert them about when and how they need to act.

Long queues of passengers at the check-in counters at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, amid the global IT disruption caused by the Microsoft outage in July last year.

Responsibility for cybersecurity shifts from IT desk to boardrooms

Consumers, shareholders and regulators are increasingly demanding companies take proactive steps to anticipate, mitigate and recover from system failures.

March

Airwallex CEO Jack Zhang.

Bank innovations a slow and steady process

The big four know they must respond to the rapid changes introduced by start-ups, but modernising respected financial institutions is a tall order.

David Walker, group chief technology officer at Westpac.

AI agents the new frontier in digital banking

The new wave of digitisation is overhauling digital banks, but experts warn that differentiation will be increasingly difficult to achieve.

Kapil Kukreja: “There is considerable investment going into AI by banks.”

AI squeezes the juice from data to stop scams

The technology can find patterns with greater accuracy and identify potential fraudulent transactions faster than any human.

Banks are working through regulatory implications as agentic AI becomes part of the standard financial services tech stack.

Robotic decision-making throws up new risk amid privacy reforms

Increasing use of “agentic AI” means banks must tread carefully to comply with regulations covering personal information.

Technology such as AI and quantum computing will offer a paradigm shift in the way we bank.

Banks brace for AI-powered digital revolution

The sector must confront the twin challenges of dealing with their legacy systems and developing a tech-savvy workforce.

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