Briefs: Bluestone upgrades with Mambu, Westpac suffers another outage 06 July 2021 6:15AM Banking Day staff Briefs, Consumer lending, IT systems, Westpac Bluestone has gone live with a new lending platform, using a Mambu core on a cloud-based platform hosted by Amazon Web Services. The new system is also supported by NextGen and Katabat. Upgrades on the platform include real-time payments, automated validation of application information, real-time status updates and automated valuations. Westpac suffered an outage yesterday that affected its online and mobile banking services. The bank went on social media to say it was aware of some customers experiencing intermittent issues, which it was working to resolve. But comments posted on Downdetector suggest the outage was more serious and lasted most of the day. Westpac customers also reported service problems on June 20 and June 17.