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Habib Bank Limited is the oldest Pakistani commercial bank, having been established in 1941. Over the years HBL has grown its branch network to become the largest private sector bank. It has over 1,450 branches and a customer base exceeding five million relationships. With an international presence in 25 countries, HBL is the largest Pakistani multinational organization. The Bank is expanding its presence in principal international markets including the UK, UAE, South and Central Asia, Africa and the Far East.  

HBL previously had a distributed infrastructure, so each country had its own ATM Controller box. While this model made sense previously, the centralization of HBL’s international data processing in Pakistan now provides an opportunity for the Bank to consolidate the various country ATM controllers into one system. 

To achieve this objective, HBL selected Avanza Solutions to provide them with a multi-channel, multi-institution and comprehensive end to end next generation infrastructure for their international operations. HBL chose Nimbus (ATM Switch), Rendezvous (Financial Middleware) and Vision (Card Production System) to help them meet their requirements. This product combination carries the internal brand ‘HAWK’. 

HBL has gone live with Avanza’s solutions for UAE operations, becoming the very first institution to have successfully moved from a distributed environment to a centralized one in Pakistan. The ATMs at HBL UAE were migrated from the legacy ATM controller to Avanza’s Nimbus in a seamless manner, without any interruption in operations. Further to this, HBL UA