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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 ...
RAA Place (formerly Westpac House, Santos House, BankSA Building, and State Bank Building) is an office building located at 91 King William Street, Adelaide.It is a 31-storey office tower, reaching 132 metres (433 ft) at its roof, with each level approximately 4.2 metres (14 ft) in height.
1981: BNSW merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia. [8] [9] [10] The Parliament of New South Wales passed the Bank of New South Wales (Change of Name) Act 1982 on 4 May 1982, changing the name of BNSW to Westpac. [11] [12] The new brand incorporates the "W" motif, which had been the logo of BNSW.
As a former building society, the bank was also heavily involved in lending in the residential property market. [2] In 1996 the bank acquired the Victorian business of Challenge Bank from Westpac for A$659.7 million, making the Bank of Melbourne the fourth largest regional bank, and the eighth largest of all listed banks in Australia. [2]
The Bank of New South Wales Building is a heritage-listed former bank building located at 33 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Hall & Devereux and built from 1928 to 1930 by F J Corbett & Sons. It is also known as Westpac Bank Building.
The Bank of Melbourne is a financial institution operating in Victoria, Australia.A subsidiary of Westpac, it commenced operations on 25 July 2011.. The Bank of Melbourne initially rebadged the Victorian business of St George Bank, another wholly owned subsidiary of Westpac, as part of a major local branding strategy.
St.George Bank is an Australian bank with its headquarters in Sydney. Since a 2008 merger, the bank has been part of Westpac, having previously been an independent legal entity. In 2010, St.George was deregistered as a company and ceased to be a standalone authorised deposit-taking institution. [1]
This list of Westpac buildings includes a number of notable (often heritage-listed) buildings, currently or formerly used by the Westpac Bank or its predecessor institutions including Bank of New South Wales.