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NEWS NAB announces Girl Geek Academy tie up
with the latter’s CEO Sarah Moran joining the technology team at the Australian bank during 2017. The inaugural Girl Geek in Residence programme will see Moran supporting NAB employees to build their careers and use their skills to innovate for customers. It will also deliver initiatives designed and created by Girl Geek Academy, including the all-female hackathons #SheMakes and #SheHacks.
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“I chose to join the team at NAB because I wanted to know how they are doing what no organisation in Australia seems able to – changing the gender ratio of women in technology
AB has partnered with Girl Geek Academy,
– and be part of the company’s success,” she says. “The culture at NAB is a rare find in a company – it’s a culture where women are empowered to advance their career in technology.”
Founder of NAB’s Connecting Women in Technology programme and Divisional CIO of Technology Support Services, Dayle Stevens, comments: “Sarah and the Girl Geek Academy pitched the Girl Geek in Residence idea as an opportunity to come together, use our knowledge and our networks to tackle the issues facing women in technology together. As a major employer in the technology industry, this partnership is helping us deliver on our commitment to supporting gender diversity and the push to see more women in technology. I knew Girl Geek Academy were already changing outcomes for women in tech and having great success – and this was an opportunity to broaden the programme’s reach and positively impact NAB employees too. At the same time, Sarah gets to pilot Girl Geek Academy events and ideas with us, taking their programmes from smaller groups to hundreds here at NAB and even more beyond.”
Scott Thompson Al Khaliji rolls out Temenos tech
live on Temenos’ T24 core banking system. Al Khaliji has branches in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaima. The bank has rolled out the latest version – R15 – of the vendor’s software.
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Implementation was achieved five weeks ahead of schedule, IBS Journal understands, with T24 replacing the incumbent Orion platform by Capital Banking. Temenos is reporting multiple deals per month. In March, Pakistan- based Khushhali Microfinance Bank signed on Temenos for its T24 core banking system, with the implementation
he UAE operations of Al Khaliji have gone
handled by local partner National Data Consultant (NDC).
Earlier that same month, it signed a deal with CloudBees for its Jenkins software delivery platform. It is hoping to use the platform to help banks enable a faster time-to-market. Temenos’ Chief Strategy Officer Ben Robinson, speaking at the company’s Innovation Jam event in London, said that banks and FinTechs are a match made in heaven.
Alex Hamilton
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