ANZ traces its origins to the Bank of Australasia, which opened its first office in Sydney in 1835.

The bank established a Melbourne office in 1838, where ANZ's world headquarters is located today.

ANZ is a publicly listed company, and was incorporated on 14 July 1977 in Australia.

ANZ is the main holding and operating company for the Group and our registered office is Level 14/100 Queen Street, Melbourne.

We are one of the ten largest and most successful companies in Australia, and we are the number one bank in New Zealand.

We have assets of AUD$471.02 billion.

We operate in more than 30 countries across Australasia, the Pacific, Europe, Dubai, USA and Asia, including our technology and operations centre in Bangalore, India.

We have 376,813 shareholders and our total shareholder return for the 12 months to 30 September 2008 was 15.6%.

ANZ shares and related securities are listed on the Australian and New Zealand exchanges.