ANZ

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (commonly referred to as ANZ) provides online banking services to individuals and businesses in the primary markets of Australia and New Zealand, as well as Asia, the Pacific, UK/Europe and the United States.

ANZ traces its origins to the Bank of Australasia, which opened its first office in Sydney in 1835. The bank established a Melbourne office in 1838, where ANZ's world headquarters is located today.

ANZ is a publicly listed company, and was incorporated on 14 July 1977 in Australia. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited is the main holding and operating company for the Group and our registered office is ANZ Centre, Level 9, 833 Collins Street, Docklands, Victoria, Australia.

ANZ is one of the five largest listed companies in Australia by market capitalisation, one of four major banks in Australia (by total assets) and the largest bank in New Zealand (by total assets).

In 2015, ANZ signed a five-year deal worth A$450m with IBM. As part of the deal, the two companies agreed to build an innovation lab to enable the bank's developers to build, test and deploy new services and applications. In 2016, ANZ launched another innovation lab, ANZ BlueSpace in Singapore. The company has also estabilshed a lab in India.

As at 30 September 2018, ANZ had a market capitalisation of A$81.0 billion and total assets of A$942.6 billion.

It operates in more than 33 markets across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East. Its 40,000 staff serve retail, commercial and institutional customers through consumer and corporate offerings in our core markets, and regional trade and capital flows across the region.