Australia Post hired two former NAB executives, Michelle Tredenick and Andrew Maitland, to work at the government-owned firm. Foresight Publishing reported the hirings at its publisher's blog. Tredenick served as chief information officer at National Australia Bank for five years from 2004 to 2009. Maitland worked as head of consumer cards and then general manager of consumer lending until 2008.The hirings will add to speculation that Post - now headed by NAB's former Australia CEO, Ahmed Fahour - continues to harbour plans to enter the banking market in some fashion (or perhaps more realistically, plans to work seriously on its options).Fahour omitted to include banking and payment services as a core theme in the strategic roadmap for Post publicised to staff and stakeholders over the last few weeks.Foresight is publisher of trade titles Online Banking Review and Retail Banking Review.