• ANZ says it has appointed Truett Tate as head of institutional relationship banking, America. Tate, a US citizen, last worked for the Lloyds Banking Group, as head of institutional banking, but left Lloyds in early 2012. He was one of a group of Lloyds executives obliged to return some of their final bonuses earlier this year. ANZ said Tate will replace Doug Stolberg, who will take up a new job, as chief risk officer of international and institutional banking, based in Hong Kong.• Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Sopra Banking Software and Temenos have been named by Forrester Research as its global banking platform leaders. In its latest "Global Banking Platforms" study, released this week, Forrester says that most banks "are either working on modernizing their application landscape or planning to do so within the next few years."• The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is to consolidate some of its regular statistical publications on the banking sector in an effort to more consistently report on the newly minted mutual bank sector. APRA announced the change yesterday. It said it would introduce a new quarterly publication on "property exposure" that will include data on commercial property exposures, residential property exposures and new housing loan approvals.