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Annual Report 2000

Grow with ANZ

Key dates

Record Date for Final Dividend
9 November 2000

Annual General Meeting

15 December 2000

Payment of Final Dividend

15 December 2000

Announcement of Interim Results

26 April 2001

Record Date for Interim Dividend

17 May 2001

Payment of Interim Dividend

2 July 2001

Front cover:
ANZ staff member Alexandra Haritou,
Corporate Financial Services.

The Carter  family, from our ‘Grow with
ANZ’ television advertising campaign.

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2000 Highlights*

> Earnings per share up 15% to $1.04

> Operating profit after tax up 15% 

to $1,703m ($1,480m)

> Return on equity up to 18.3% (17.2%)

> Annual dividend increased to 64 cents

– fully franked

> Grindlays sold for $2.3b

> Strong positions developed
in B2C and B2B eCommerce

* before abnormal gain of $44m (1999 nil)

Profit after  tax* up

* after abnormals

1,747

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performance organisation delivering for our shareholders
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At a glance

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Shareholders

> Total shareholder return of 35.3% during year

> $941m dividends (16% increase)

> Return to full franking

> Electronic distribution of documents

> Online and telephone voting introduced

> Shareholder meetings held in Perth, Adelaide,

Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch

Sharemarket accumulation index

ANZ

All Ordinaries

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462

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ANZ Chairman, Charles Goode,
at the 1999 Annual General Meeting.

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Staff

> 23,134 employees

> $1,758m in personnel expenses

> Offered subsidised home pcs for Australian 

and New Zealand staff with more than 10,500
applications received

> Introduced “Max”, ANZ’s Intranet site

> Share scheme introduced to enable staff to increase

shareholding from their salary at a discount

> Graduate recruitment program expanded

– 175 graduates recruited in Australia in 2000

Overall satisfaction level

from staff survey July 2000

58

49

Database
average for
all companies

Average for
companies
undergoing
major structural
change

1999

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70

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Call centre staff celebrate ANZ’s victory as the
best financial services call centre in Australia.

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Melma Hamersfeld,
Director of Metalicus Australia.

Customers

> New customer segments introduced:

– General Banking

– Wealth Management

– Small Business

> Over 420,000 customers registered for

Internet Banking

> $200m investment in upgrading branch

computers commenced

> Personal Investor Magazine Awards:

– Home Lender of the Year

– Business Lender of the Year

– Best Business Credit Card

> Maintained leadership in Corporate Banking

customer satisfaction

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At a glance

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ANZ Human Resources Consultant, Sophie Williams offered
advice and conducted training interviews as part of ANZ’s
partnership with Australia’s Youth at Risk organisation.

Community

> $2.5m in donations and community programs

> Committed $750,000 to the Intensive Care

Appeal over three years

> Committed $1m to support Foodbank

nationally over five years

> Maintained ANZ’s dollar for dollar commitment
to match staff contributions to the ANZ Staff
Foundation

> Committed $1m to the Foundation for Rural &

Regional Renewal over three years

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Personal Financial Services

Achieving growth

Business Outcomes

> Leading mortgage origination bank in Australia

for the past two years

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> Approximately 27% of all credit card expenditure
in Australia is on an ANZ credit card, more than
any other bank

> Home Lender of the Year and Business Lender of the
Year (Personal Investor Magazine Awards–2000)

Profit after tax
$772m

> 423,000 Internet Banking customers (360,000

in Australia and 63,000 in New Zealand)

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> Successful alliance with E*TRADE Australia currently
generating approximately 50% of new customers

> 4 million customers (3 million in Australia,

1 million in New Zealand)

> 1,021 points of representation (871 in Australia,

150 in New Zealand)

Financial Outcomes

> Profit $772m (1999 – $616m)

> Income growth 9%

> Cost income ratio 55.2%

> Asset growth 20%

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Staff
12,235

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Assets
$71,673m

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At a glance

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Corporate Financial Services

Leveraging our leadership position

ANZ is the leading corporate bank
in Australia and New Zealand with
81,000 customers

Business Outcomes

> Best FX Bank of the Year – INSTO

Magazine 2000

> eauto launched – already one of the

premier automotive web sites in Australia

> Transformed the Relationship Banking

business into a specialist industry segment

> Developed innovative eProcurement

capabilities with MRO.com and corProcure

> e initiatives – FX Online, eGate

Financial Outcomes

> Profit $647m (1999 – $562m)

> Income growth 6%

> Cost income ratio 46.7%

> Asset growth 10%

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Profit after tax
$647m

Staff
4,689

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Assets
$77,169m

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International

Selective investments

Business Outcomes

> Grindlays sold for $2.3b to 
Standard Chartered Bank

> Entered into a joint venture with OCBC
of Singapore to create an Internet bank
targeting the emerging affluent in Asia

> Investment in two new countries

in the Pacific

> Mobile banking launched in Indonesia

Financial Outcomes

> Profit $40m (1999 – $62m)

> Cost income ratio 65.6%

> Asset growth 38%

> Impaired assets down

2

Profit after tax
$40m

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Staff
1,961

Assets
$8,011m

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At a glance

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Technology

eTransforming ANZ

Comprises
Technology, eCommerce and Payments

Business Outcomes

> Majority of sites connected via a single Internet

Protocol network

> Renegotiated telecommunications contracts
resulting in $25m in savings to the Group

> Most employees now connected to the intranet

and email

> Successfully completed Y2K and GST programs

> Continued the move to standardised servers and
desktops providing all staff with the best tools at
a low cost

> Strategic alliances with Microsoft and Dell

> Established ANZ Ventures, an expert team

supporting minority investments in eCommerce
companies including Identrus

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Chairman’s message to shareholders

ANZ has again delivered on our promises
to shareholders. In the year ended 30
September 2000 profit rose 15% to
$1,703m, a new record for the company.
Earnings per share grew by 15% to exceed
$1.00 for the first time and the dividend
was increased by 8 cents to 64 cents per
share and was fully franked.

It is also pleasing to see this performance
reflected in the share price, which rose

in excess of 25% during the year and recorded all time highs.

Management and staff are to be complimented for these
achievements which were made in a rapidly changing and
sometimes volatile world.

On 27 April we announced the sale of the Grindlays business
to Standard Chartered Bank. The transaction was completed on
31 July with ANZ receiving a total consideration of $2.3b including a
$1.2b premium over book value. With the changes in world banking,
the sale of Grindlays to Standard Chartered Bank enables ANZ to
receive value today from a buyer which specialises in emerging
markets banking. While we retain the liability for the dispute with
the National Housing Bank of India, even after provision for this
and other items, we realised over $400m net profit from the sale.
The sale of Grindlays allowed us in one move to “simplify and focus”
our international network in line with the strategy outlined in last
years annual report. It also represents a substantial step in our
program to reposition ANZ as a more balanced organisation.

capital management. As at 30 September this buyback was
approximately 50% complete. Recently in October we announced
that participation in the Dividend Reinvestment Plan and Bonus
Option Plan would be capped at a maximum of 50,000 shares
for each shareholder as a further capital management initiative.

In July we outlined further details of our strategy which focuses
on the themes of specialisation, eTransformation and growth.
The establishment of individual customer businesses to focus on
general banking, wealth management and small business customers
underscores our commitment to improving the customer experience.
This strategy is discussed further in the CEO’s strategic overview and
the business commentaries.

Our focus is now shifting to the application of eCommerce to our
internal operations and increasingly to growth. We already have
significant momentum in eCommerce with greater penetration of
our customer base than our peers and first mover advantage in
business to business eCommerce. The announcement of the Asian
internet banking joint venture with Oversea Chinese Banking
Corporation of Singapore is an important building block in our
plans to leverage our eCommerce expertise in regional markets.

In terms of outlook for the 2001 year, while there is some prospect
of further interest rate rises and a moderately slowing economy,
ANZ has a strong financial foundation, a clear strategy and good
momentum in key areas to continue to deliver shareholder value.

In conjunction with the announcement of the sale of Grindlays we
also announced a $1b on market share buyback to enhance ANZ’s

Charles Goode
Chairman

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Specialisation, eTransformation and growth
We have spent much time over the past three
years repositioning ANZ to reduce risk, improve
efficiency and establish a better balanced
organisation. This work is now largely complete.

In July we outlined our strategic thinking on
how to take ANZ forward in a rapidly changing
world. Our strategy is around three themes –
specialisation, eTransformation and growth.

Specialisation

Reconceive ANZ as a portfolio of specialist businesses
> Make each of our 21 businesses a specialist in its own right

> Establish three new stand alone customer businesses –

General Banking, Wealth Management and Small Business

> Accelerate the growth of our strong product

monoline businesses

> Move towards open architecture, selectively over time

> Manage the portfolio and brands actively from the centre

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Chief Executive Officer’s
strategic overview

eTransformation

Become an “eBank with a human face”

> Provide our customers with a multichannel, personalised
experience through seamless channel integration and 
web enablement

> Create robust and flexible infrastructure by rationalising
core systems and platforms, standardising desktops and
servers and creating a single IP network across ANZ

> Build strong eCommerce capabilities through our

eCommerce centre of excellence, ANZ Ventures disciplines
and by changing the way business and IT work together

> Continue aggressive cost reduction using technology
to improve productivity in payments, processing and
internal administration

> Differentiate by out-innovating and out-executing

the competition

Growth

Create growth businesses

> Build from our strong corporate franchise by creating new
businesses in corporate ePayments and eProcurement

> Strengthen our consumer franchise through building
on our early eCommerce momentum, creating strong
core propositions and new businesses

> Extend our leadership in the Pacific by replicating our

model in new countries

> Leverage our consumer and corporate eCommerce
and Cards capabilities by partnering to build new
businesses in Asia

> Build a small number of regional and/or global niches

which leverage our capabilities

> Be very selective about acquisitions, considering only
those which add strategically to individual businesses
or enhance capabilities and create value

Our strategy is already showing positive
momentum. The majority of our businesses are
building strong positions as leaders or co-leaders
in their respective segments. We have established
targets for all of our businesses to outperform and
we are well placed to achieve these. We are
implementing a range of initiatives around the
themes of specialisation, eTransformation and
growth in the year ahead and expect to achieve
further improvements in overall performance.

Finally, I’d like to personally congratulate and
thank staff for their contribution to our great
result. We are entering 2001 with greater cohesion
for our shareholders, our customers and our staff.
I look forward to another successful year ahead.

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Chief Financial Officer’s review

1 of 4

The following review excludes the impact of abnormals, unless stated otherwise.

Earnings and dividends per share up

Earnings per share

Dividends per share

103.9

64

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00

Higher return on equity

18.3%

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120

90

60

30

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91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00

Strong earnings and dividends per share growth

> Earnings per share 103.9 cents; up 15% (1999 – 90.6 cents)

> Dividend per share 64 cents; up 14% (1999 – 56 cents)

> Payout ratio 61% (1999 – 62%)

> Franking 100% interim, 100% final (1999–80% final)

Return on equity increasing towards 20% target

> The Group has a goal of achieving a return on equity of 20% for the next 2/3 years

> During the year, we made progress towards achieving this goal, increasing our return

on ordinary shareholders’ equity from 17.2% to 18.3%

> Profit attributable to members of the company $1,703m; up 15% (1999 – $1,480m)

> Average ordinary shareholders’ equity $8,789m (1999 – $8,237m)

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Chief Financial Officer’s review

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Year on year profit comparison

expenses

b&d
debts

tax 1703

non
interest
income

1480 net

interest
income

NPAT 

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99

NPAT 

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$m
1900

1800

1700

1600

1500

1400

1300

1200

1100

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Strong profit growth

> The Group reported a strong profit increase of 15% to $1,703m

> This was a good profit result driven by increased revenues and flat expenses

> Net interest income up $146m (4%) to $3,801m

> Non interest income up $206m (9%) to $2,583m

> Expenses flat at $3,314m

> Provisions down marginally to $502m, despite increased volume, reflecting

improved risk profile

Solid income growth

Non-Interest Income

Net Interest Income

$m

Operating income

> Net interest income growth of 4% was the result of solid asset growth of 11%, 

partly offset by margins decreasing from 3.05% to 2.87%

> Non-interest income (excluding abnormals) increased by 9% to $2,583m

> Fee income up 9%, reflecting increased lending fee volumes, together with 

increased transaction fees

3
8
5
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7000

6000

5000

4000

3000

2000

1000

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91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00

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Cost income ratio lower

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00

51.7%

%

80

75

70

65

60

55

50

Cost income ratio below target of 53%

> We made a commitment to reduce our cost income ratio to 53% – with expenses flat from last year
and with strong income growth, we have been able to reduce this ratio to 51.7% (1999 – 54.5%)

> The $50m reduction of costs resulting from the sale of Grindlays 10 months into the year,

was partly offset by an additional $7m from irrecoverable GST and an additional $11m costs
associated with the purchase of EFTPOS New Zealand

>

Implementation costs for the GST were $19m

> Restructuring provision of $361m created to cover costs involved in restructuring our current

technology, premises, and organisational infrastructure

> Management has a cost income ratio target comfortably in the forties

Improved asset quality in International

$m

60

50

40

30

20

10

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Provision for
Doubtful Debts
(International)

51

Non-Accrual loans
(International)
858

681

22

99

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99

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$m

900

750

600

450

300

150

0

Asset quality

> Last year we undertook to improve asset quality in our International division – 
there has been a material reduction in both provisions for doubtful debts and 
non-accrual loans in International (excluding the impact of Grindlays)

> For the Group, non-accruals reduced by 10% to $1,391m, from $1,543m

> Specific provisions as a percentage of non-accrual loans were 49.7%

> General provision credited with $502m (1999 – $510m) using Economic Loss Provisioning
(ELP), with reduction attributable to improved asset quality, partly offset by growth in loans
and advances

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Solid asset growth (excludes Grindlays)

International

CFS

PFS

8,011

5,814

56,653

77,169

59,709

71,673

1999

2000

$b

180

150

120

90

60

30

0

Total shareholder return

Value of $1000 invested in September 1990

$

6000

5000

4000

3000

2000

1000

0

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00

Balance sheet management

> Our active capital management program resulted in share buybacks that returned $1,014m

in capital to shareholders

> Total assets grew 13%

> Change in asset mix to lower risk Personal Financial Services assets which now account for

50% of loans and advances (1999 – 38%)

> $5,961m raised from global capital markets during the year

Financial goals
ANZ is committed to maximising returns to shareholders. To achieve this going forward,
we have set ourselves the following financial goals for the next 2/3years:

> Earnings per share growth above peer average (target 10+%)

> Return on equity above 20%

> Cost income ratio comfortably in the forties

>

Inner Tier 1of 6%

> Maintain AA category credit rating

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Customer Businesses

General Banking
Rural, regional, general consumer banking and small businesses
with annual turnover typically up to $3m

> Creation of dedicated business unit with responsibility

for end to end product and service delivery

> Providing control over both distribution and transaction products

creating a single responsibility for customer experience and
migration to self-service channels

> Sales events up 200% per employee since January 1999

Strategies

> Focus on continuing to improve productivity and the

customer experience

> Leverage information analysis capabilities for sales effectiveness

> Transform and reposition the branch network

Wealth Management
Premier and Private Banking clients

> Creation of dedicated business unit with responsibility

for end to end product and service delivery

> Opened 11 new look Premier branches bringing the total
to 22 Premier branches in Australia and New Zealand

Strategies

> Offer customers choice from a menu of options – advice,

products, price

> Service proposition to be underpinned by an integrated product
suite covering banking and investment products and a seamless
‘bricks and clicks’ approach

> Extensive third party offerings for
funds management and insurance

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ANZ customers Joseph Scopelliti, Cindy Condon and baby Eva.

Personal portfolio

Accelerating growth

Personal Financial Services provides a full range of
financial services to around three million personal
and small business customers in Australia and
around one million in New Zealand. It comprises
three customer businesses, three product
businesses and Personal eCommerce:

Small Business
Small business customers typically
with annual turnover from around $3m

> Share of small business debt increased
from 10% to 12% over the last year

Strategies

> Creation of dedicated business unit with
responsibility for end to end product
and service delivery

> Develop integrated seamless offering
across relationship branches, call
centres and the internet for each
customer sub-segment

> Coalesce small business eCommerce

Product Businesses

Mortgages
Origination, funding and servicing of
both ANZ and third party mortgages

> Won the Personal Investor Magazine
Home Lender of the Year for 1999
and 2000

> Largest share of mortgage originations
and funding in Australia over the year.
Steadily grew share in New Zealand

Strategies

> Continue the development of award
winning products, active database
marketing campaigns and broadening
of distribution to maintain leadership

> Improve productivity through

rationalisation of systems and
increased automation

> Improve funding flexibility

Cards
Credit cards, personal loans, corporate
/purchasing cards and merchant
processing of credit/debit cards

> Retained and grew market leadership

position in credit card issuing, with ANZ
share of total credit card spend up from
25% to 27%

> Acquired EFTPOS New Zealand, the

leading provider of merchant terminals
in the NZ market (40% market share)

Strategies

> Continue to improve and leverage

Qantas Telstra Visa Program

> Acquire new customers through cross-

sell to Personal base and new channels

> Build leadership in eCommerce
and other high growth merchant
acquiring segments

> Develop state-of-the-art operations,
credit and portfolio management
capabilities

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Infrastructure
Two key infrastructure initiatives
will be supporting the strategic
development of all the businesses
in the Personal portfolio:

> Implementation of a new sales and

service platform and customer
relationship management system for
front-line staff. This will be web-based,
common across all channels and enable
a more consistent, positive and
proactive experience for customers

> Increased levels of ‘straight through

processing’ to improve responsiveness,
reduce cost and enhance the customer
experience

Funds Management & Insurance
> Appointment of new experienced

management team

Strategies

> Leverage bank distribution strengths

and customers

> Reposition asset management and
optimise products and features

> Leverage universal account and targeted

marketing to grow IFA channel

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Personal eCommerce
Personal and small business eCommerce

> More than 420,000 customers now

registered on internet banking

> Highest % customer take up of internet

banking of any bank in Australia

> Launched myanz.com as a completely
self-tailorable home page or web site
incorporating internet banking and a
wide range of non-financial information

> Alliances with MultiEmedia.com and

Gateway for small business enablement
on the web

Strategies

> Create a business that is obsessed

with satisfying our customers needs
with innovative online solutions

> Establish anz.com as the leading

financial services portal in Australia
and New Zealand

> Unlock new sources of value by

translating our skills and partnerships
into new online offers to both
consumers and the SME sector

> Transfer and inculcate eCommerce

capabilities in traditional businesses

Mortgage market share

Share of credit card spend

%

15

14

13

12

11

10

%

30

25

20

15

Internet banking customers

% of total relationships        Sept 00

13.6

12.8

11.8

11.2

6.9

%

14

12

10

8

6

4

2

0

June 94

Aug 00

June 94

Aug 00

ANZ

St G WBC
Source: Ord Minnett & Roy Morgan

NAB

CBA

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Customer Businesses

Institutional Banking
Large corporate, multi-national, institutional and
government clients

> Completed restructure of Institutional Banking into nine

industry segments

> Awarded Best Bank in Australia 1999

(US Global Finance Magazine)

Strategies

> Leverage industry specialisation capabilities

> Increase advisory work and related corporate finance activities

> Maintain focus on customer profitability, cross sell and

effective use of balance sheet

Corporate Banking
Mid-market corporate clients, typically with turnover
of $10-150m

> Maintained leadership in Corporate Banking market share
and customer satisfaction while increasing profitability
and reducing risk

Strategies

> Increase sales of new value added solutions such as private
equity, securitisation, fixed income and interest rate risk
management; investment banking products to middle
market customers

> Deepen share of wallet through broader fee-based

offerings, eCommerce solutions and personal banking
packages for employees

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Jo Wastell, Corporate and Institutional Banking, with ANZ customer.

Corporate portfolio

Leveraging our leadership position

ANZ is the market leader in corporate banking
in Australia and New Zealand, serving some 
81,000 corporate customers. It comprises three
customer businesses, four product businesses
and Corporate eCommerce:

Asset Finance
Asset finance business focusing on
equipment and vehicle financing

> Achieved significant efficiency

improvements in Esanda in Australia
and UDC in New Zealand through 
better use of technology

> Successfully launched eauto as
a leading automotive web site –
currently has the largest number of
participating dealer franchises of any
automotive web site in Australia

Strategies

> Strengthen leading eCommerce position

in auto-finance

> Continue unit-cost reduction in back
office – transform operating platform

> Grow into new asset and customer

classes where the back office and/or
customer base can be leveraged

> Utilise extensive customer base
for the sale of non-asset related
products such as insurance

Product Businesses

Strategies

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Structured Finance
Global project and structured finance

> No.1 Arranger 1999, Asia Pacific
(Project Finance International)

> No.1 Arranger 1999, Asia and 
Australia (Global Finance)

Strategies

> Strengthen client relationships

through leveraging chosen industry
and geographic expertise

> Increase focus on structured,
high margin product solutions

> Establishment of securitisation

structure to reduce balance sheet
usage and risk levels

Financial Markets
Foreign exchange and precious
metals trading

> Best FX Bank, Australia 1999 (FX Week)
> Best FX Bank of the Year
(INSTO Magazine 2000)

> World No.1 FX Options AUD, 1999 

(Risk Magazine)

> Continued expansion of the product
range and focus on sales as the main
drivers of business performance

> Expansion of the precious, semi-

precious and base metals business

> Increased penetration of FX Online 

to major users/investors in Australia
and overseas

Capital Markets
Debt instrument and derivatives
origination and trading

> Partnership with Lehman Brothers
for offshore fixed income products

> Establishment of new issues web
site for ANZ bonds issue data

> No.1 Domestic Commercial Paper

(Asiamoney July 2000)

> Derivatives/Risk Management House 
of the Year (INSTO Magazine 2000)

Strategies

> Introduction of Credit Derivatives

and Equity Derivatives businesses

> Increase scope of securitisation

activities in Australia and New Zealand

> Expand partnerships with Private
Banking and Corporate Banking

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Overall satisfaction with bank

Corporate Banking

Score out of 10

ANZ

NAB

CBA

WBC

8.5

8

7.5

7

6.5

6

1995

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

Source: Roberts Research

Transaction Services
Incorporates trade finance, custody,
correspondent banking and cash
management services

> No. 1 trade services provider 
in Australasia 2000 (Brand 
Wood International)

> No. 1 in sub-custody in Australasia
2000 (Global Investor Magazine)

> Leader in cash management and

transaction banking services. Major
deals won included Telstra 2 and
NRMA floats

Strategies

> Continue to re-engineer and automate
processes to reduce cost and improve
responsiveness

> Develop value added transaction

products and solutions

> Embrace eCommerce in payments

Corporate eCommerce

B2B eCommerce

> Independently judged to be B2B leader
in the SME/Corporate market with over
170,000 registered users

> Established eProcurement market-place

in conjunction with MRO.com

> First bank to offer an online foreign

exchange trading product

> Continued development of ANZ eGate
as a leading multi-payment, multi-
channel payments platform

Strategies

> Provide turn-key online enablement

solutions with complementary partners
where financial services integration &
ANZ distribution add value

> Internet enable existing products

to create a corporate banking portal
that improves customer financial
decision making

> Build the most innovative range
of financial eProducts to enable
customer electronic trading

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International portfolio

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Selective investments

Sale of Grindlays
As part of the previously announced strategy to reduce risk
and simplify and focus the international network, the sale
of Grindlays to Standard Chartered Bank was completed
on 31 July 2000:

> Price of $2.3b delivers good value for shareholders

representing 2.3 times net assets and 14.2 times earnings.
Dividend of $0.9b from retained earnings prior to sale

> Transaction enables the planned repositioning of the

business in a single move, quickly and without substantial
restructuring costs

> Co-operation agreement established with Standard Chartered
Bank to enable continuity of service to customers in trade
finance and project finance

> Freed up capital and management to focus on growth in

Asia-Pacific

International now provides financial services including
consumer finance, trade finance, structured finance and foreign
exchange through ANZ’s international network in 20 countries
outside Australia and New Zealand and the money centres of
Europe and New York.

Francis Chew, Finance Manager, International

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Simplification completed in one move

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Impact Grindlays Sale on risk profile

Asset in countries rated below 'Single A'

$USm

9,460

10,000

8000

6000

4000

2000

0

4,835

31/3/00

30/9/00

• Grindlays transaction
• Asia – selective investment
• Pacific – extended leading position

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Grindlays transaction

Asia — selective investment

Pacific –     extend leading position

> $9.5b assets, $109m earnings
in 10 months to 31 July 2000

> Simplifies network in one move

> Japan, Korea: trade, money centres

> South Pacific well covered

> Three Chinas: 4 branches

> 41 branches

> South East Asia: Singapore, 

> 20-60% share of market

> Extracts immediate value at 2.3 

times NAV and 14.2 times earnings

Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, 
Malaysia, Thailand

eAsia

Asia

Pacific

> Announcement of 50/50

ANZ/OCBC joint venture to build
web-led bank in Asian region

> 10% share in Hong Kong

internet broker Boom.com

> Network positions in 11 countries

> Investment in Panin Bank Indonesia

Strategies

> Build existing positions

– Re-energise network points

– Support Panin to become a top

5 or 6 retail bank

> Invest in new growth

– Target the emerging affluent

as they get online

– Partner to complement ANZ’s
strengths in eCommerce and
monoline businesses

> Leading position in 8 markets

> Strong track record

Strategies

> Extend leadership position

to new geographies

– Organic growth or acquisition

– Rapid deployment of successful

management model

> Continue to drive operational

improvement

– Continue to invest in new
channels and products

– Review opportunities to
regionalise operations

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> Continued to develop a new, high capacity eCommerce

platform including servers, firewalls and networks

> Web-enabled a large portion of ANZ’s workforce via network
upgrades and deployment of Windows NT PCs. 700 branches
connected in Australia this year. 16,000 desktops are now
connected to the intranet and email. This project continues

> Continued to implement standardised servers and desktops,

including preparation for Windows 2000 rollout

> Continued rationalisation and simplification of applications

and platforms providing significant cost savings and
increased business capability

> Initiated the implementation of new global payments
technology, providing greater efficiencies and real
time capabilities

> Successfully completed the Year 2000 and GST Programs

> Continued to develop specialist eCommerce Centre of

Excellence capability providing cost effective rapid delivery
of business solutions

> Established a Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Centre of Excellence developing a systems capability for a
single view of the customer

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ANZ staff member Georgi Dickens, with Max,
ANZ Staff Intranet in the background.

Technology, eCommerce
and Payments

eTransforming ANZ – eBank with a human face
This division oversees all technology and
eCommerce strategy, policy and infrastructure
and manages the payments business:

> Established ANZ Ventures providing

expert support for making and
managing minority equity investments
in strategic eCommerce and technology
companies

> Renegotiated telecommunications

contracts resulting in $25m in savings
to the Group

> Increased use of development
capability in Bangalore, India

> Numerous projects under way to achieve

significant productivity savings to
business operations through automation
and straight through processing

> Developed the systems solutions for the
successful launch of many new products
including eGate and eauto.com

Objectives

Provide our customers with a personalised,
multi-channel experience through
seamless channel integration, web
enablement and CRM technology
> Provide robust, flexible and cost

effective infrastructure – rationalise
core systems and platforms,
standardise desktops and servers
and create a single IP network

> eCommerce capabilities – build 
strong capabilities through our
eCommerce Centre of Excellence, 
ANZ Ventures discipline and improving
the way Business Units and IT 
work together

> Cost reduction – aggressively reduce
costs by using technology to improve
productivity, reduce complexity,
increase straight through processing
and automate administrative functions

> Close alignment of IT and the Business

Units, from planning through to delivery

> Provide low risk, high efficiency and

state-of-the-art payments capabilities

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Enabling our staff

Max

pcs@home

ANZ became the first company in Australia
to implement a home-computer offer for
staff. More than 10,500 staff in Australia
and New Zealand applied for the heavily
subsidised PC deal which included
Internet access.

pcs@home has proved to be one of the
most popular staff initiatives in ANZ’s
history. Delivery started in September
and continued throughout October.

ANZ’s staff intranet went live on
1 November 1999. Max provides staff with
a powerful search tool and a platform for
the paperless office of the future.

Max’s features include online leave forms,
a global contact list, daily news, ANZ
share price updates and business unit
home pages. Over 25,000 pages are
available on Max which receives over
3 million hits per month.

Shares Scheme
ANZ has launched a Share Save Scheme
where staff can buy ANZ shares at a 
5 per cent discount to the market price
from their salary.

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The package is designed to help staff
and their families become familiar
with PC and Internet technology, and
underlines the strategic importance
ANZ places on eCommerce.

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Enabling our staff

Staff Survey

More than 14,500 staff responded to the
2000 Staff Survey.  Overall, staff
satisfaction with ANZ increased from the
previous year by 9 per cent to 58 per cent.

Our survey provider says this is one of the
biggest improvements ever achieved in a
single year by a company of ANZ’s size
and complexity.

98 per cent of staff indicated that giving
customers a high standard of service was
important to them, while 77 per cent said
they had the opportunity to show initiative
in their jobs. 

Survey action

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Staff believe
Management
will act on
issues identified
in this survey

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%

50

40

30

20

10

0

1999

2000

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Pip Blackwell from St. Heliers branch in
Auckland, New Zealand, is one of the
10,500 staff who received a heavily
subsidised PC at home.

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ANZ Staff Foundation

> The ANZ Staff Foundation is a charitable trust that is funded

by contributions made by ANZ and its staff. Staff participation
in community work is coordinated through the Foundation

> The ANZ Staff Foundation donated over $100,000 to various

groups including:

– Care Ring (Vic)

– Eagles RAPS (NSW)

– Noosa Youth Service
Association (Qld)

– Palmwoods Riding for
the Disabled (Qld)

– Rivskills (SA)

– Speech and Hearing Centre (WA)

– Starlight Children’s Foundation (National)

– St John’s House Crisis Accommodation and

Support Centre (Qld)

– Wimmera Community Care (Vic)

Foodbank and ANZ staff participation
ANZ has committed $1m to support Foodbank nationally
at $200,000 a year for 5 years. ANZ gives Foodbank the
opportunity to help welfare agencies around Australia meet
the most basic need of people – food.

The partnership between ANZ and Foodbank gives ANZ staff
the opportunity to make a real difference through volunteer
activities for those who need it most. A number of activities
have been conducted with Foodbank:

> ‘Paint a fresh face on Foodbank’ –

about 70 ANZ staff volunteers made a big
difference on the building’s “new” look

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Wet ‘n’ Wise program about water safety.

Community involvement

ANZ is strongly involved with the communities
in which it operates through the ANZ Staff
Foundation, direct donations and sponsorships.

Foodbank – cont.

> volunteer team work from a number
of business units to pack goods

> SPC ‘Operation Share-A-Can’ – over 50

staff and partners volunteered their time
by working on the production line which
resulted in $750,000 worth of products
which were donated to Foodbank and
the Victorian Relief Committee

Foundation for Rural
and Regional Renewal
ANZ has donated $1m over 3 years
to the foundation to fund projects to
support and reinvigorate rural and
regional Australia.

ANZ Staff Foundation supported involvement
of Queensland community groups at a recent
Brisbane Broncos Game Day.

Wet‘n’Wise
Wet‘n’Wise, a major partnership with the
Royal Lifesaving Society in Australia, is a
national program about water safety
and teaches young people how to save
others. Wet‘n’Wise will see the
development of resource kits for
schools and a special website on water
safety, as well as building on existing
water safety education programs.

Intensive Care Appeal
ANZ is helping save 2000 lives each
year through its support of the
‘Intensive Care Appeal’, run by the
Australian and New Zealand Intensive
Care Foundation. The appeal aims to
raise $5m over 3 years. ANZ has already
contributed $250,000 to the appeal this
year and has committed the same
amount in 2001 and 2002.

Youth at Risk Australia
ANZ has donated $100,000 to
conduct a series of educational/training
programs to skill young people in job
search and job retention tools – the
program deals with issues such as
positive attitude, goal setting,
presentation and communication skills,
interview techniques (ANZ Human
Resources staff ran these sessions)
and relationship building.

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Donation of computers
ANZ has donated 180 Pentium
computers to 30 Victorian schools
in rural and regional areas and 130
Pentium computers to 25 NSW schools
in disadvantaged areas.

Over 100 computers have also been
donated to Rotary to pass on to
charities and disadvantaged people.

Philanthropy Australia

ANZ is currently providing rent free
accommodation to Philanthrophy
Australia on Level 10/530 Collins Street,
Melbourne, at an annual cost to the
Group of $65,000 for 3 years. ANZ also
supports their seminars and luncheons
in Martin Place, Sydney.

Political Donations
In Australia in the year to September
2000, ANZ donated $80,000 to the
Liberal Party, $55,000 to the Australian
Labor Party and $10,000 to the
National Party.

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Risk Management

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The identification and management of risk is an essential part of banking.
Risk management policies are approved by the Board with the Board Risk
Management Committee supervising implementation and adherence to policy.

Risk

Credit Risk

Credit Risk
The potential financial loss
resulting from the failure of a
customer to honour fully the
terms of a loan or contract

> Policy controls aimed at developing

and maintaining a well diversified credit
portfolio are supervised by the Board Risk
Management Committee

> Major lending decisions require sign-off

from an independent credit area as well as
the business area. The largest transactions
require approval by the Credit and Trading
Risk Committee or Risk Management
Committee

> Rebalancing portfolio towards lower risk

consumer credit

> Capability developed to reduce

concentration risk through the credit
derivatives market

> Main area of concern was cross border

lending. The sale of the Grindlays
network has reduced our exposures
to high risk countries

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Risk Management

Risk

Credit Risk

Market Risk
Risk to earnings arising from
movements in interest and
exchange rates and bond, equity
and commodity prices

> The Group Asset and Liability Committee

oversees the Group’s balance sheet risk –
trading risk is monitored by the Credit and
Trading Risk Committee

> Main area of concern was balance sheet
exposures to emerging markets. The sale
of Grindlays has reduced our exposures
in this area

Asian exposure

11.5

6.1

5.6

6

97

98

99

00

2 of 3

US$b

15

10

5

0

36

Risk Management

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Risk

Credit Risk

Market risk  (Value at risk – average)

Operating Risk
Operating risk arises from
the potential breakdown of
day-to-day processes

Prime responsibility of Business Units
is to ensure compliance with policies,
regulations and laws

> The Operating Risk Executive Committee is
responsible for development and oversight
of operating risk policies

> ANZ has spent significant time and effort

during the past year to develop world class
measurement and management capabilities
in operational risk management

> Key focus areas include fraud prevention,

payments risk management, and
eCommerce security

23

23

5

4

97

98

99

00

A$m

25

20

15

10

5

0

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Corporate Governance

Good corporate governance is essential for ANZ to carry out its business activities
and meet the objectives of shareholders, regulators, customers and employees.

ANZ Directors online at the Board Meeting.

Effective Committee Structure

Good Corporate Governance
Board of Directors to

> Chart direction of Group

> Monitor management’s performance

> Ensure regulatory and ethical standards

are met

> Approve delegations and discretions

to management

> Appoint Chief Executive Officer

Experienced Balanced Board

> Seven non-executive Directors and

Chief Executive Officer

> Wide range of business backgrounds –
see next page for Directors’ details

> Directors appointed after 1993
will retire after 15 years service

> Directors resign and are proposed

Good Corporate Governance
Board of Directors to

> Four main committees cover:

– Audit
– Strategy

– Risk
– Human Resources

for re-election by shareholders every
three years

> Chart direction of Group

> Regular meetings

> Monitor management’s performance

Ethical Standards

> Non-executives are ‘independent’ –
not substantial customers/suppliers
nor past executives

> Chaired by non-executive Directors

> Ensure regulatory and ethical standards are met

> Committee charters regularly reviewed

> Approve delegations and discretions to management

> Details in Concise Financial Report

> Appoint Chief Executive Officer

Active Participation

> Non-executive Chairman

> Directors must hold at least 2,000
shares (page 31) – restrictions on
share trading

> Code of Conduct covers conflict of

interest procedures

Experienced Balanced Board

> 10 board meetings during the year
> Seven non-executive Directors and Chief Executive Officer

> Annual strategy review

> Wide range of business backgrounds – see next page for

> Open access to information including 

Directors’ details

independent expert advice

> Directors appointed after 1993 will retire after 15 years service

> Regular meetings with staff and visits

> Directors resign and are proposed for re-election by

to branches

shareholders every three years

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Board of Directors

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Mr C B Goode
B Com (Hons) (Melb), MBA (Columbia), Hon LLD (Melb)

Chairman, Company Director.

Director since July 1991. Appointed Chairman August 1995.  

Chairman of Woodside Petroleum Ltd. Director of CSR Limited, Singapore Airlines Limited,
Air New Zealand Limited and other companies. 

Lives in Melbourne.   Age 62.

Mr J McFarlane obe
MA, MBA, FAIBF, FAIM, FHKIB, FRSA, FFTP (Hon), MSI

Chief Executive Officer.

Appointed Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in October 1997. President of
the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance, a Council Member of the Australian Bankers’
Association, Director of the Business Council of Australia, Australian Graduate School of
Management and The Financial Markets Foundation for Children.  Former Group Executive 
Director, Standard Chartered PLC (1993–1997), Head of Citibank, United Kingdom 
(1990–1993), Managing Director, Citicorp Investment Bank Ltd (1987–1990), Director 
London Stock Exchange (1989–1991).

Lives in Melbourne.  Age 53.

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Board of Directors

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Dr B W Scott ao
B Ec, MBA, DBA

Company Director.  

Director since August 1985. Chairman of Management Frontiers Pty Ltd and The Foundation
for Development Co-operation Ltd. Director of Air Liquide Australia Ltd and the James N. Kirby
Foundation Ltd. Australian member of the Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management.
Former Chairman of the Australian Government’s Trade Development Council (1984–1990).
Former Federal President, Institute of Directors in Australia (1982–1986).

Lives in Sydney. Age 65.

Mr J K Ellis
MA (Oxon), FAICD, Hon FIE Aust, FAusIMM, FTSE

Company Director.

Director since October 1995. Chairman of Sandvik Australia Pty Ltd, Australia-Japan Foundation,
Australian Minerals & Energy Environment Foundation and Black Range Minerals Limited.
Director of Aurora Gold Limited, GroPep Limited and Pacifica Group Limited.  Chancellor of
Monash University. Council Member, Victorian College of the Arts. Former Chairman, BHP Limited,
International Copper Association Ltd and Board Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art. 

Lives in Melbourne. Age 63.

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Board of Directors

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Ms M A Jackson
B Econ, MBA, FCA

Company Director.

Director since March 1994. Chairman of Transport Accident Commission (Victoria), Qantas Airways
Limited and Methodist Ladies College. Director of The Brain Imaging Research Institute, Billabong
International Limited and Equest Telecom Pty Ltd. Board Member of Howard Florey Institute of
Physiology and Medicine. 

Lives in Melbourne.  Age 47.

Dr R S Deane
PhD, B Com (Hons), FCA, FCIM, FNZIM

Company Director.

Director since September 1994. Chairman of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited, 
Fletcher Challenge Limited, ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand) Limited and Te Papa Tongarewa 
(The Museum of New Zealand). Director of Woolworths Limited, TransAlta Corporation, eVentures
New Zealand Limited, The Centre for Independent Studies Ltd and Institute of Policy Studies.
Formerly Chief Executive and Managing Director Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited,
Chief Executive Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd, Chairman State Services Commission,
Alternate Executive Director International Monetary Fund and Deputy Governor Reserve Bank
of New Zealand.

Lives in Wellington, New Zealand.  Age 59.

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Board of Directors

4 of 4

Mr G K Toomey
B Com, FCPA, FCA, FCIS

Company Director.

Director since March 1998. Appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Air New Zealand Group
announced.  Formerly Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Qantas Airways
Limited (December 1993 to September 2000). Formerly Non-Executive Director of Air Pacific Limited
(May 1998 to September 2000).

Lives in Sydney.   Age 45.

Mr J C Dahlsen
LLB, MBA (Melb)

Solicitor and Company Director.

Director since May 1985.  Former Consultant and Partner of the legal firm Corrs Chambers
Westgarth.  Chairman of Woolworths Limited. Director of Southern Cross Broadcasting
(Australia) Limited, Mining Project Investors Pty Ltd, The Smith Family and J.C. Dahlsen Pty Ltd
Group.  Former Chairman of the The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne Business
School Limited and Deputy Chairman Myer Emporium Ltd.

Lives in Melbourne.  Age 65.

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Group Executives

David Boyles
Chief Information Officer

John McFarlane
Chief Executive Officer

Peter Marriott
Chief Financial Officer

Peter Hawkins
Personal Financial Services

Roger Davis
Corporate Financial Services

Elmer Funke Kupper
Strategy & International

Bruce Brook
Deputy Chief Financial Officer

Greg Camm
Mortgages

Satyendra Chelvendra
On Sabbatical leave

Craig Coleman
Wealth Management

Larry Crawford
General Banking

Bob Edgar
Corporate and
Institutional Banking

Kathryn Fagg
Global Transaction Services

Mick Green
Retail Risk Management

Brian Hartzer
Cards

Graham Hodges
Small Business

Murray Horn
New Zealand

Mark Lawrence
Risk Management

James MacKenzie
Funds Management

Peter McMahon
Asset Finance

Grahame Miller
Investment Banking

Elizabeth Proust
Corporate Affairs and
Human Resources

Rick Sawers
Group Treasurer

Alison Watkins
Personal eCommerce

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2000 Concise Financial Report

The 2000 Concise Financial Report has been derived from the Group’s 2000
Financial Report. This Concise Financial Report cannot be expected to provide as
full an understanding of the Group’s financial performance, financial position and
financing and investing activities as the Group’s 2000 Financial Report. The Chief
Financial Officer’s Review on pages 8 to 9 provides a discussion and analysis of
the financial statements.

2000 Financial Report
A copy of the Group’s 2000 Financial Report, including the independent Auditors’
Report, is available to all shareholders, and will be sent to shareholders without
charge upon request. The Financial Report can be requested by telephone
(Australia 1800 11 33 99, overseas 61 3 9615 5989) and by internet at
investor.relations@anz.com or viewed directly on the internet at www.anz.com

Open Concise Financial Report

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Shareholder information

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Dividends
The final dividend of 35 cents per share
will be paid on 15 December 2000, 100%
franked. Dividends may be paid directly to
a bank account in Australia, New Zealand
or the United Kingdom. Shareholders who
want their dividends paid this way should
advise ANZ Share Registry in writing.
Dividend Reinvestment and Bonus Option
plans are available to shareholders.

The plans are detailed in a booklet called
‘Shareholder Alternatives’, copies of
which are available from ANZ Share
Registry at the addresses shown below.

Stock Exchange Listing
The Group’s ordinary shares are listed on
the Australian Stock Exchange and the
New Zealand Stock Exchange. The Capital
Securities offered in 1993 and the
Preference Shares issued in 1998 are
listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

American Depositary Receipts
The Bank of New York sponsors an
American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
program in the United States of America
and ADRs are listed on the New York
Stock Exchange. ADR holders should
deal directly with the Bank of New York,
New York, telephone (212) 815 2276,
fax (212) 571 3050 on all matters
relating to their ADR holdings.

ANZ

ANZ Share Registry

Registered Office
Level 6, 100 Queen Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Tel: (61 3) 9273 6141
Fax: (61 3) 9273 6142
Secretary: J Slatter

Australia
Level 12, 565 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Australia: 1800 11 33 99
Fax: (61 3) 9611 5710
UK: (44 870) 702 0000
anzshareregistry@computershare.com.au

New Zealand
Private Bag 92119
Auckland
Tel: 0800 174 007
Fax: (64 9) 522 0058

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Credit Ratings (November 1999)

Short Term
Moody’s Investors Service
P-1

Standard & Poor’s Rating Group
A1+

Long Term Debt
Moody’s Investors Service
Aa3 (outlook stable)

Standard & Poor’s Rating Group
AA- (outlook stable)

2000 Financial Report
A copy of the Group’s 2000 Financial
Report, including the independent
Auditors’ Report, is available to all
shareholders, and will be sent to
shareholders without charge upon
request. The Financial Report can
be requested by telephone
(Australia 1800 11 33 99,
Overseas 61 3 9615 5989), by email at
investor.relations@anz.com or viewed
directly on the internet at www.anz.com

Australian Telephone Numbers

Customer Banking Enquiries 13 13 14

anz.com 13 33 50

Esanda Finance 13 23 73

ANZ Funds Management 1800 021 052

Credit Card Enquiries 13 22 73

Lost or Stolen Cards 1800 033 844

Home Buyers Line 1800 035 500

Internet

ANZ product and company information
is available on www.anz.com

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