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The ANZ Bank (Australia And New Zealand Banking Group Limited) is one of the largest Australia. In addition to operations throughout Australia and New Zealand (where the legal entity became known as the ANZ National Bank Group Ltd. in 2004), it has branches abroad in: History of ANZ
ANZ is one of the largest companies in any sector in Australia and New Zealand. ANZ is among the top 100 banks in the world in size.
ANZ world headquarters is located in Melbourne, Victoria where it first opened an office as the Bank of Australasia in the 1830s. Its NZ headquarters is loacted in Auckland, with an IT centre located on The Terrace in Wellington.
ANZ has its own Banking Museum in Melbourne
The museum opened in May 1985 to mark the 150th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to the Bank of Australasia, a major ANZ forebear.
Housed in the lower ground floor of the ‘Gothic Bank’ at 380 Collins Street, Melbourne, the museum collection comprises artefacts acquired by the Group over the past 160 years. Admission to Banking Museum is free.
ANZ's history stretches back over 150 years and involves the aquisistion of dozens of different banks.
2003 Acquires National Bank of New Zealand
2002 Forms joint venture with ING Group for funds management and life insurance business in Australia and New Zealand
2001 Acquires 75 per cent 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, thus entering the US banking system as a retail bank
1998 Acquires stake in PT Panin Bank, Indonesia
1997 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 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
External link - Official website (http://www.anz.com.au/)
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