The Australian dollar has made a stellar start to 2023, hitting its strongest levels in five months. It’s a trend that can be sustained in the months ahead, Westpac senior currency market strategist Sean Callow tells Wire in a podcast interview.

Speaking at Westpac's recent internal technology convention TechX, Swimming Australia performance scientist Jess Corones tells Amazon Web Service's Justin Lennon how cutting-edge data analytics was key to helping the Australian swim team to bring home the most successful Olympics medal haul in history last year.

Westpac director Nerida Caesar tells Westpac Wire about the insights and inspiration she’s drawn from more than three decades of experience as a top executive in Australia and overseas.

"Seeing the impact of experts tackling the scourge of online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines has compelled us to extend Westpac’s support for this work," says Westpac's Chief Sustainability Officer Siobhan Toohill in a conversation with the International Justice Mission's Lucille Dejito.

Board director and social entrepreneur Audette Exel AO says the zeitgeist has shifted in the way big businesses see their role in the community, in a broad ranging podcast interview with Westpac Wire, the first in it's Board Walk series.

The Social Enterprise World Forum, to be hosted in Brisbane in September 2022, will be transformative for Australia’s burgeoning social enterprise sector, says renowned social entrepreneur, Luke Terry, in a podcast interview in conversation with Westpac Wire's Emma Foster.

Westpac’s head of financial crime insights Ben Young says the ‘dynamic CVC’ digital card feature has seen fraud drop by 80 per cent among customers who use it.

Westpac chief sustainability officer Siobhan Toohill interviews Westpac institutional bank chief Anthony Miller and Economist Impact's Georgia McCafferty on the findings of a new report which flags a “profound attitudinal shift” driving up the net-zero ambitions of corporates and investors.

Westpac's chief technology officer David Walker says a new partnership with Microsoft will see the bank "double down" on its use of cloud technologies, in the latest Tech in 10 podcast.

Westpac technical product manager Rachel Thewlis talks to Westpac Wire's Emma Foster about the bank's new Android-based EFTPOS payment terminals, soon to replace around 110,000 end-of-life terminals across Australia. She explains why accessibility has been at the forefront of the terminal's design, including getting input from people who are blind or have low vision. A transcript of the interview is available at www.westpac.com.au, search for the story titled "Tapping accessibility in new payment terminals".