Australia is ANZ's biggest business sector, serving pretty nearly six million Retail and Commercial clients through a system of around 800 branches, 115 business focuses, 2,700 ATMs and driving online and versatile saving money applications. In 2012, they declared five-year, $1.5 billion venture system, known as Banking on Australia, that will change the way they work together to make keeping money less demanding and backing our clients, our kin and group to advance.

ANZ has a glad legacy of over 180 years. They work in 34 advertises all inclusive with representation in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East. ANZ is among the main 4 banks in Australia, the biggest keeping money bunch in New Zealand and Pacific, and among the main 50 banks on the planet. ANZ world base camp is situated in Melbourne. It initially opened as the Bank of Australasia in Sydney in 1835 and in Melbourne from 1838. ANZ was built up on 1 October 1951, when the Bank of Australasia converged with the Union Bank of Australia Limited.

Michael Smith
Chief Executive Officer

Michael Smith is Chief Executive Officer of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ). Until June 2007, Mr. Smith was President and Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; Chairman, Hang Seng Bank Limited; Global Head of Commercial Banking for the HSBC Group; and Chairman, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad. Mr. Smith joined the HSBC Group in 1978 and amid his 29-year vocation he held a wide mixed bag of posts in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific locale, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Middle East and South America, incorporating arrangements in Commercial, Institutional and Investment Banking, Planning and Strategy, Operations and General Management.

Mr. Smith graduated with distinction in Economic Sciences in 1978 from City University of London. In 2013, he was recompensed an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University, Melbourne and in 2015 was granted an Honorary Doctor of Science from the City University of London. He is a Member of the Australian Bankers' Association, the Business Council of Australia and the Asia Business Council; a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and in 2014 drove the B20 Australia Financing Growth Taskforce.

ANZ boss Mike Smith's annual pay has grown to $10.7 million, cementing his position as one of the country's highest paid chief executives. Mr. Smith was paid a salary of $3.15 million in the 2013/14 year, plus a cash bonus of $2.05 million.

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