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  • Smith-Gander's profile available on LinkedIn

    The LinkedIn profile of former Westpac senior technology executive and new NBN board member Diane Smith-Gander (formerly Sias) had appeared to have been removed from the professional networking site last week, however, it is currently available.

  • Is Westpac mulling a new Hogan hero?

    Australia's banking IT sector is currently buzzing with speculation that Westpac is planning to migrate its core banking system to the CSC Hogan platform used by its new subsidiary St George.

  • Westpac's double-dragon IT jitters

    Westpac's $340 million project to integrate St George's systems was on target, Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly said today, but the bank's financial report warned "unexpected costs relating to the integration of technology platforms" could smother expected benefits.

  • Australia's banks get IT transfusion

    National Australia Bank took the knife to its long-time chief information officer Michelle Tredenick this week, but was this a reflection of her perceived incompetence or simply a consequence of the manoeuvring at higher levels that seems endemic in Australia's incestuous banking IT community?

  • Backley hangs up Westpac jersey

    Westpac's former chief technology officer David Backley has ended his 12-year stint with the bank, with chief information officer Bob McKinnon announcing Backley's resignation to staff last Friday.

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  • How much CIO pay is too much?

    How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?

  • Changing of the guard: Westpac

    Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

  • What's driving data warehousing spend

    Compliance with increasingly rigorous reporting obligations and a thirst for customer behaviour information are driving the financial sector's rising investment in data warehousing and analytics.

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