Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly says she is fully prepared to increase the rates her bank charges customers to cover the rising costs of funding the lending book. The head of the nation’s second-biggest bank also foreshadowed big changes for Westpac’s branch network, which ranks as one of the country’s biggest, saying that within a few years branches could be smaller and there might be fewer of them.

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