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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 170 years and involves dozens of different banks.
- Appoints Mike Smith as Chief Executive Officer
- Achieves leading global bank ranking in Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- Finalises acquisition of E*TRADE Australia
- Completes investment in Malaysia's AMMB Holdings Berhad, China's Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank, Vietnam's Saigon Securities Incorporation and ANZ Vientiane Commercial Bank, Laos
- 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
- Launches strategic alliance with Sacombank, Vietnam
- Opens representative office in Noumea, New Caledonia
- Extends SaverPlus matched savings program to 500 low-income earners
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Acquires 75% of Bank of Kiribati
- ANZ Timor Leste opens
- 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
- ANZ Internet Banking launched
- ANZ announces strategic alliance with E*Trade Australia for online share trading service
- Purchases Amerika Samoa Bank
- Acquires stake in PT Panin Bank, Indonesia
- 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)
- www.anz.com launched
- ANZ opens its second Vietnamese branch at Ho Chi Minh City
- Opens a commercial banking branch in Manila, Philippines, the first Australian and New Zealand bank to do so
- 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
- Acquires 75 per cent of Bank of Western Samoa
- Opens representative office in the Philippines
- 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
- Purchases PostBank from New Zealand Government
- Opens branch in Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Opens branch office in Paris, France
- 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
- Singapore and New York representative offices upgraded to branch status
- Acquires the Bank of Adelaide
- ANZ incorporated in Australia (transfer from UK)
- Opens representative office in Malaysia
- 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
- Establishes representative office in Tokyo, Japan
- Opens office in New York, USA
- Starts operations in Honiara, Solomon Islands
- The Bank of Australasia merges with the Union Bank of Australia to form ANZ Bank
- The English, Scottish and Australian Bank was established in 1852. This was an Anglo-Australian bank
- The Union Bank of Australia was established. This was an Anglo-Australian bank
- ANZ began in London when The Bank of Australasia was established under Royal charter
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