Your Anz Your World Annual Report 2010
ANZ 2010 ANZ AnnualReport 2010 YOUR ANZ YOUR WORLD ANNUAL REPORT 2010 We live in your world WorldReginfo - 55a610c0-e112-4d2b-b1a3-70368f140fc5 Cover: James Riley, Relationship Manager and Jenny Fan, Assistant Manager, Business Banking, Melbourne, Australia BUILDING A BANK OF GLOBAL QUALITY WITH A REGIONAL FOCUS Almost three years ago ANZ took a decision to change. We set an aspiration to become a super regional bank – a bank of global quality with clear strategy to focus on growth in Asia Pacifi c, one of the world’s fastest growing regions. We had strong franchise in retail, commercial and institutional banking Together, our franchise, our clear strategy and the actions we have in our home markets of Australia and New Zealand and an existing but taken to change have uniquely positioned us to ride the wave of under developed presence in Asia dating back more than 30 years. growth in the region and to create value for our customers and for Our aspiration and the foundation we had to build on played perfectly our shareholders. into the growing economic, trade, educational and cultural linkages Today, ANZ is the only Australian bank with a clearly articulated between Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacifi c. strategy to take advantage of Australia and New Zealand’s With our roadmap for change, ANZ remained well capitalised and geographic, business and cultural linkages with Asia, the fastest profi table through a time of great turmoil in global markets. This has growing region in the world. enabled us to take advantage of opportunities to grow and to make tangible progress toward becoming a leading bank in the region.
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