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We'll it's done.

BaNCS Treasury has been installed in our system. Changes has been implemented in the Core banking system and the branch applications. The core and branch systems has been running for a full business day. One complete end-of-day process cycle has completed and I haven't heard of any trouble.

Tomorrow the Treasury system will be put through it's paces in it's first production day.

Rumors has been floating around that another South African bank implemented the same software two months earlier and had to hack it for more than fifteen days to get it to work.

I'm really hoping we can beat that, in spite of us being a smaller bank with less resources to throw at the problem.

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