The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is

an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Melbourne,

Australia. It is the second largest bank by assets and third largest bank by market capitalisation in
Australia.[2]
ANZ was established on 1 October 1951, when the Bank of Australasia merged with the Union Bank
of Australia Limited.[3] It is one of the big four Australian banks, with the Commonwealth
Bank, National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac.
Australian operations make up the largest part of ANZ's business, with commercial and retail
banking dominating. ANZ is also the largest bank in New Zealand, where the legal entity became
known as ANZ National Bank Limited in 2003 and changed to ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited in
2012. From 2003 to 2012, it operated two brands in New Zealand, ANZ and the National Bank of
New Zealand. The National Bank brand was retired in 2012, with a number of branches closing and
others converting to ANZ branches.[4] In addition to operations throughout Australia and New
Zealand, ANZ also operates in 34 other countries.[5]
ANZ was named the most sustainable bank globally in the 2008 Dow Jones Sustainability Index
making it the 2nd year in a row ANZ has been granted the title. In 2007 the title was shared with
another Australian bank, Westpac, which had held the title for the previous five years.[6]