2020 Annual Report

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Growing business during a crisis

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Banking through times of change

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Opportunities arise in challenging times

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Building financial wellbeing in the Pacific

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Supporting Wesfarmers to transition to net zero emissions

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New Zealand’s agribusinesses leading the way on transition planning

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60c Dividend for 2020 per share
$3.8b Cash profit
$139.5m in community investment
6.2% Cash return on equity
$20.04 Net tangible assets per share
132.7c Cash earnings per share
11.3% Common equity Tier 1 Capital
>61,000 people have been reached through our financial wellbeing programs, MoneyMinded and Saver Plus
33.4% of women in leadership
$9.08b funded and facilitated in sustainable solutions since 2019
~1.8m customer accounts remediated

How We Create Value

By transforming our business - embedding a purpose and values-led culture and simplifying our products and services - we aim to create long-term value for all of our stakeholders.

Our value creation model outlines how we create value for our key stakeholders through our business activities, and identifies the inputs – or value drivers – that we rely on to enable us to deliver that value and meet our strategic objectives.

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our oprerating environtment

The risks and opportunities in our operating environment impact our ability to create value.

Low credit growth environment

Increased regulatory oversight and stakeholder scrutiny

Digital advancement and technological change

Demographic changes

Environment and climate

Globalisation

Customers

Trusted relationships with over 8.5 million retail, business and Institutional customers.

Finance

Access to capital through customer deposits, debt and equity investors and wholesale markets enables us to run our operations and execute our strategy.

People

Employees and contractors with the key competencies and right behaviours to deliver our strategy.

Risk Management

Reducing the risk of doing business for our customers and the bank, with systems and processes that are less complex, less prone to error and more secure.

Technology and data capabilities

Flexible, digital-ready infrastructure to provide great customer experience, agility, scale and control.

Community and Relationships

Strong stakeholder relationships are essential to our brand and reputation.

Our business activities

Operating across 33 markets, we provide banking and financial products and services to individual and business customers.

Through our business activities we deliver the following output:

  • we provide transaction banking services
  • we hold deposits for our customers
  • we lend money to our retail, business and institutional customers
  • we help customers mitigate and manage financial risks
  • we support customers with trade and capital flows
  • we provide wealth management products
  • we provide advisory services
  • we invest in our people to build a diverse and inclusive workforce
  • we collaborate with partners to build capacity and improve financial wellbeing
  • we pay taxes in the countries within which we operate
  • we pay dividends to our shareholders

Shareholder value

Deliver decent returns enabling shareholders to meet goals

  • 132.7 cents earnings per share1
  • 6.2% cash return on equity1
  • 60 cents dividend per share for 2020 with an interim dividend of 25 cents and a final dividend of 35 cents, both fully franked
  • $20.04 net tangible assets per share2

Customer value

Improve the financial wellbeing of our customers

Provide funding for lending, helping customers to own homes and start and grow businesses and assist businesses to transact, trade and invest across our region.

Great customer experience through flexible and resilient digital infrastructure

  • 19,839 FTE supporting our retail and commercial customers, providing $353 billion in home lending and $91billion in business lending (Australia and New Zealand)
  • 5,291 FTE supporting our Institutional customers, providing $158 billion in lending
  • Custodians of $552 billion of customer deposits across the business

Employee value

Build a resilient, adaptable and inclusive workforce with a strong sense of purpose and ethics

  • 86% employee engagement (up from 77% in 2019)
  • Employed 919 people from under-represented groups (since 2016)
  • $4.9 billion in employee salaries and benefits
  • Increasing the skills and capabilities of our people providing almost 970,000 hours of training

Community value

Connect with, and invest in, the communities in which we operate to support growth, deliver services and develop opportunity

  • Invested $139.5 million in the community3
  • $2.3 billion in taxes paid to government4
  • > 61,000 people have been reached through our financial wellbeing programs MoneyMinded and Saver Plus5

50 years as a Brand, 185 years as a Bank

On 1 October 1970, in what was then the largest merger in Australian banking history, ANZ Bank Ltd merged with the English, Scottish and Australian Bank Limited to form Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited – the modern ANZ

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1835

A NEW BANK

The Bank of Australasia opens in Sydney

1887

WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE

Bank of Australasia employs its first female typist, believed to be the first woman employed by an Australian bank. Mary Switte was appointed to the position of 'lady typewriter'.

1951

ANZ BEGINS

In London, the Bank of Australasia merges with the Union Bank of Australia to form ANZ Bank Limited.

1970

MERGER WITH ES&A

ANZ Bank Limited merges with the English, Scottish and Australian Bank to become Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.

1996

CONNECTED

anz.com launches, followed closely by phone banking and internet banking.

2003

NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

ANZ Bank Limited acquires National Bank of New Zealand from Lloyds TSB.

2010

ANZ GOMONEY LAUNCHES

ANZ is the first bank in Australia to offer customers a mobile-to-mobile payment application.

2012

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

National Bank of New Zealand integrates into the ANZ brand.

2016

APPLE PAY AND ANDROID PAY

With the launch of Apple Pay and Android Pay, ANZ customers in Australia now able to make tap and go payments wherever contactless payments accepted.

2020

COVID-19 SUPPORT PACKAGE

ANZ launches an unprecedented support package for small business and home loan customers with the potential to inject $6 billion into the Australian economy and assist in the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

The evolution of the ANZ brand

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