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  • Westpac and St George: A three-year IT hangover?

    In the wake of the confirmed AU$18.6 billion merger between Westpac and St George Bank, observers have forecast that the IT hangover from the deal could take at least three years to wear off, but in the process the merged banking entity will become one of the largest IT shops in Australia.

  • IBM: Host with the most?

    IBM has opened a new hosting centre to meet increased demand for outsourced management of e-business sites.

  • Australian bank pushing for open standards

    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.

  • NetBank outage hit CIO's pay

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia's extended internet banking outage earlier this year affected the remuneration of its top technology tsars, including chief information officer Michael Harte, the executive revealed today.

  • Long queue for Internet banking

    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.

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • Australia's affair with mainframes

    Leading Australian companies HCF, ANZ Bank, Westpac and St George share their ups and downs with the mighty mainframe in this special report.

  • 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.

  • Banking on outsourcing

    The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.

  • Java does the business

    After the initial hype following its introduction, has the computing world lost its addiction to Java? Not on your life.

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