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The National Australia Bank has conceded its drive to embrace open standards is being hampered by the need to leverage existing investments in legacy applications.
The queue for the teller may be long, but that’s nothing compared to the line that major banks, building societies and credit unions have joined in order to provide Internet banking services.
St George Bank chief information officer John Loebenstein will retire at the end of June this year, with the bank restructuring its technology division in his wake.
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