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Westpac Banking Corporation, also known as Westpac, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered at Westpac Place in Sydney, New South Wales. [ 2 ] Established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales , it acquired the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1981 before being renamed to Westpac Banking Corporation ...
On 3 April 1997, Westpac made a $1.43 billion bid to acquire the Bank of Melbourne. At the time, Westpac had a branch network almost twice as large in Victoria as the Bank of Melbourne (212 branches), but a smaller share of the local lending and deposit markets (8.6% and 9.1% respectively). [2]
Westpac New Zealand: 31 October 2006 New Zealand retail banking subsidiary Westpac: 18% (2022) [6] Sydney, Australia: WBC NZ Branch: 1 April 1987 New Zealand registered branch of offshore banking group Auckland, New Zealand: Heartland Bank: 17 December 2012 New Zealand listed retail bank: Publicly listed on New Zealand Exchange: 0.7% (2022 ...
Westpac Bank branch in Rangiora On 22 July 2014, the firm announced that it would pilot a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments technology to customers. It was the first bank in New Zealand to actively bring HCE mobile payments to market [ 12 ] and one of only a handful of banks globally to be using the innovative 'digital wallet' technology.
The entity traded under that brand name until January 2004, at which point the brand name was retired and replaced with Westpac. [1] In 2008, Westpac merged with the St George Bank . In 2011, Westpac relaunched a redesigned Bank of Melbourne brand, trading with the infrastructure and employees of St George Bank in Victoria and led by Chief ...
This list of Westpac buildings includes a number of notable (often heritage-listed) buildings, ...
In 2002 Westpac Banking Corp sold the site as part of its process of rationalising its property holdings. The Bank has recently [when?] sold many of its former branches and flagship sites, including the Bank's headquarters at 60 Martin Place, as it pursues a policy of leasing premises rather than owning them. Westpac will lease the 341 George ...
The following is the list of banks in Australia, as well as restricted authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADI), [1] credit unions, friendly societies and subsidiaries and branches of foreign banks in Australia.