Banks face jump in technology spending: report

Banks which have patched up their information technology (IT) systems too often in recent years face big increases in spending to modernize their operations for the digital age.

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But digital innovation should help offset the outlays by cutting the costs of new branches, which are likely to be 25 percent smaller and have a fifth fewer staff.

IT costs are likely to rise by about 10 percent over the next 10 years, broadly offset by a possible 5 percent fall in branch costs, analysts predicted.

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