(New Zealand) – Superbank, the new bank set to be launched in March by supermarket giant Foodstuffs and Australia’s St. George, will use the Datacom company for its IT back-end infrastructure.Datacom is 28 percent owned by NZ Post, operator of the no-frills Kiwibank retail provider.
Datacom will host Superbank’s hardware in Wellington, including Unix servers from IBM, with disaster recovery located in Auckland.
Superbank will also use software from Melbourne firm Ultradata, which is also used by Kiwibank.
Although set to be launched in March, chief operating officer James Munro says it may be three years before Superbank evolves into a full service provider.