ANZ Banking Group - News, Articles & Research

ANZ spins out venture unit

ANZ is to spin out its venture and incubator business ANZi as a standalone entity, reducing regulatory impediments that have hampered its agility.

23 July 2021

News/retail

Aussie banks hit by internet outages

ANZ, CommBank and Westpac all faced issues with their online banking services on Thursday thanks to a problem with a DDoS mitigation tool run by cloud services provider Akamai.

17 June 2021

Company announcement/retail

ANZ CEO says platforms and ecosystems will play a greater role in both wholesale and retail banking

One of the achievements I’m most pleased with is how we have simplified the bank, consistently delivering lower absolute costs, focusing on our key customers and cementing our capital base.

27 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

ANZ to extend Samsung Pay offering with eftpos choice

ANZ today extended its Samsung Pay offering to give eligible debit card customers the additional choice and convenience of selecting cheque or savings accounts via eftpos.

08 March 2021

News/wholesale

ANZ NZ taps Bud for Open Banking implementation

New Zealand's biggest bank, ANZ NZ will utilise Open Banking technology from the UK's Bud to improve the loan approval process for business customers.

17 February 2021

News/payments

Oz lenders ready to put bank guarantees on a blockchain

ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, IBM and Scentre Group are to formally launch a blockchain-based platform that reduces the time to issue a bank guarantee from one month to one day.

10 February 2021

Company announcement

ANZ becomes first Asia Pacific bank to settle all 18 currencies on CLS

CLS, a financial market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, is pleased to announce that its long-standing settlement member, ANZ Banking Group Limited (ANZ), has onboarded the Hungarian Forint, making it the first Asia Pacific bank to settle all 18 eligible currencies on CLS’s payment-versus-payment (PvP) system, CLSSettlement.

15 December 2020

News/payments

Worldline buys controlling stake in ANZ commercial acquiring biz

European payments firm Worldline is paying A$485 million for a 51% stake in ANZ's commercial acquiring business, creating a joint venture with the Australian bank.

15 December 2020

News/startups

ANZ invests in fintech Aider

ANZ has made a strategic investment in Aider, a New Zealand fintech that helps SMEs get insights into their cash flow, staffing and accounting needs. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

17 November 2020

Company announcement/devops

ANZ New Zealand goes agile with Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that ANZ New Zealand, the country's largest financial services group, worked with Red Hat to increase productivity and time to market through the adoption of agile practices and automation.

13 October 2020

Company announcement/regulation

ANZ fined $10 million by Asic after unlawfully levelling $3 million in customer fees

On 1 October 2020, the Federal Court of Australia ordered that Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) pay $10 million in penalties after finding that ANZ engaged in unconscionable conduct and breached its obligations as a financial services licensee.

02 October 2020

News/people

ANZ transformation head to leave bank

The executive charged with managing ANZ's digital transformation project is to leave the bank in October while the specialist 'agile' teams will be folded into the bank's general technology unit.

18 September 2020