Westpac plays down its Asia story 05 May 2015 3:53PM Ian Rogers and Shereel Patel The completion of IT investment by Westpac is one theme of a mostly thin outline of the bank's hits and misses in Asia recently.Westpac said it implemented "global trade platform and core banking systems in Singapore, Hong Kong and India, delivering faster processing and servicing times for customers," over the March 2015 half.The institutional bank delivered growth in lending of ten per cent to A$6.1 billion, so Asian corporates are buttressing otherwise low levels of credit growth.Expenses increased two per cent, "with most of the increase related to investment in growth areas including Asia, Wealth and SME," the bank said.