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EXPLAINED: What caused the major outages for Commbank, WestPac, ANZ, Virgin customers

Australians banking, booking flights, and accessing postal services were affected by a major disruption. Here’s what happened.

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Banking services were among those heavily disrupted, with Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank, ANZ and St George all down, along with the website of the Reserve Bank of Australia, the country’s central bank.

Australia’s largest banks hit by major outage

Thousands of customers reported being unable to access the services on Thursday afternoon.

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Commonwealth Bank was among the banks experiencing an outage.

Westpac wants to help improve Australia’s flagging coronavirus vaccine rollout

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Westpac chief executive Peter King wants the corporate sector to be allowed to step in and help Australia’s flagging vaccine rollout.

Westpac sued for alleged insider trading over $12 BILLION interest rate swap deal

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ASIC is taking Westpac to court and alleging insider trading.

Westpac profits soar as economy strengthens

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Westpac says a lift in profit for the first half of 2020/21 is "promising".

Westpac says first-half earnings will be lower by $282 MILLION after compensating customers

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Westpac's first-half earnings will be lower by $282 million, mostly due to compensating customers.