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ANZ is one of the largest companies
in Australia and New Zealand and a major international
banking and financial services group, which is among the
top 50 banks in the world.
ANZ world headquarters is located in Melbourne, where it
first opened an office as the Bank of Australasia in the
1830s.
ANZ's impressive history stretches back over 150 years
and involves dozens of different banks.
2006
Completes 20% investment in China's Tianjin City
Commercial Bank
Achieves Top 3 ranking on Corporate Responsibility Index
Launches Progress Loans program for low-income earners
Releases Statement of Commitment to Reconciliation
2005
Launches strategic alliance with Sacombank, Vietnam
Opens representative office in Noumea, New Caledonia
Extends SaverPlus matched savings program to 500
low-income earners
2004
Announces record operating profit after tax of AUD
$2,815 million
Announces agreement with Royal Group to establish joint
venture bank in Cambodia
Named Bank of the Year for a record fifth year in a row
by Personal Investor magazine
2003
Acquires National Bank of New Zealand from Lloyds TSB
Formalises cooperation agreement with Shanghai Rural
Credit Cooperatives Union
Enters credit card joint venture with Metrobank,
Phillippines
Releases Australia’s first survey of adult financial
literacy
2002
Forms joint venture with ING Group for funds management
and life insurance business in Australia and New Zealand
One millionth customer registers for ANZ Internet
Banking in Australia
Acquires Bank of Hawaii operations in Fiji, Vanuatu and
Papua New Guinea
2001
Acquires 75% of Bank of Kiribati
ANZ Timor Leste opens
2000
ANZ sells its Grindlays businesses in the Middle East
and South Asia, and associated Grindlays Private Banking
business, to Standard Chartered
Granted local currency (Renminbi) licence from the
People’s Bank of China
1999
ANZ Internet Banking launched
ANZ announces strategic alliance with E*Trade Australia
for online share trading service
Purchases Amerika Samoa Bank
1998
Acquires stake in PT Panin Bank, Indonesia
1997
John McFarlane appointed Chief Executive Officer
ANZ Phone Banking launched
Official opening of Beijing branch, China
Bank of Western Samoa changes its name to ANZ Bank
(Samoa)
1996
www.anz.com launched
ANZ opens its second Vietnamese branch at Ho Chi Minh
City
1995
Opens a commercial banking branch in Manila,
Philippines, the first Australian and New Zealand bank
to do so
1993
Joint venture established with PT Panin Bank, Indonesia
Opens a branch in Hanoi and a representative office in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Opens a branch in Shanghai and a representative office
in Guangzhou, China
Starts operations in Tonga
1991
Acquires 75 per cent of Bank of Western Samoa
Opens representative office in the Philippines
1990
Acquires National Mutual Royal Bank Limited
Acquires Lloyds’ operations in Papua New Guinea
Acquires Bank of New Zealand’s operations in Fiji
Acquires Town and Country Building Society in Western
Australia
1989
Purchases PostBank from New Zealand Government
1988
Opens branch in Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Opens branch office in Paris, France
1985
Acquires Barclays’ operations in Fiji and Vanuatu
Receives full commercial banking licence and opens
branch in Frankfurt, Germany
Announces ANZ Singapore Limited
Opens representative office in Bangkok, Thailand
1984
Purchases Grindlays Bank
1980
Singapore and New York representative offices upgraded
to branch status
1979
Acquires the Bank of Adelaide
1977
ANZ incorporated in Australia (transfer from UK)
1976
ANZ (PNG) established
1971
Opens representative office in Malaysia
1970
In what was then the largest merger in Australian
banking history, ANZ Bank merged with the English,
Scottish and Australian Bank Limited to form the present
organisation, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Limited
Starts operations in Vanuatu
1969
Establishes representative office in Tokyo, Japan
1968
Opens office in New York, USA
1966
Starts operations in Honiara, Solomon Islands
1951
The Bank of Australasia merges with the Union Bank of
Australia to form ANZ Bank
1852
The English, Scottish and Australian Bank was
established in 1852. This was an Anglo-Australian bank
1837
The Union Bank of Australia was established. This was an
Anglo-Australian bank
1835
ANZ began in London when The Bank of Australasia was
established under Royal charter |
