The Advance Bank was an Australia

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 that existed as a bank from 1985 until 1997, when it merged with St George Bank.

It started as the NSW Building Society

Building society

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. It was demutualised in 1985 & became known as the Advance Bank. In 1995 it acquired the State Bank of South Australia

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, changing its name to the Bank of South Australia

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. It was taken over in 1997 by St George Bank, itself another former building society.