Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) has headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. As a multinational banking and financial service company, it ranks as the second-largest bank based on assets and third by market capitalisation in Australia. The bank was established in October 1951, after a merger between the Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia Limited. It is considered one of the big four on the Australian banking landscape but also operates in 34 other countries.
Serving nine million clients worldwide, along with its subsidiaries, the conglomerate employs 46,000 staff as of March 2022. In Australia alone, the bank serves six million customers in 570 branches. In early 2016, under new CEO leadership, ANZ joined forces with Apple Inc. to offer its customers the recently developed Apple Pay option.
In February 2022, the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group was awarded the number one ranking for overall relationship quality in Asia. This was the company’s fifth consecutive year of being awarded this title by the Coalition Greenwich Asian Large Corporate Banking study. The Australian and New Zealand Banking Group Limited operates on the ASX under the ANZ ticker.
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