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Redemption Notice for Westpac NZD Subordinated Notes

Debt Issuance8 July 2021WBCFinancials

NZX Release



9 July 2021



Redemption Notice for Westpac NZD Subordinated Notes (Notes)


Westpac Banking Corporation today provides the attached documents regarding the Notes:

• a letter to Notes holders regarding the redemption of the Notes on 1 September 2021;

• a redemption notice; and

• an NZX Listing Rule 3.14.1 notice.





For further information:


David Lording Andrew Bowden

Group Head of Media Relations Head of Investor Relations

+61 419 683 411 +61 438 284 863



This document has been authorised for release by Tim Hartin, General Manager & Company

Secretary.


Level 18, 275 Kent Street

Sydney, NSW, 2000



Westpac NZD Subordinated Notes

Issued by Westpac Banking Corporation, through

its head office, Sydney


All Registrar communications to:

Link Market Services Limited (Link)

PO Box 91976, Victoria Street West

Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Telephone: +64 9 375 5998

NZX Code: WBC010

Email: enquiries@linkmarketservices.co.nz

Website: www.linkmarketservices.co.nz




9 July 2021

Dear Investor,


REDEMPTION NOTICE FOR WESTPAC NZD SUBORDINATED NOTES (NZX TICKER CODE:

WBC010)


I am writing to let you know that on 1 September 2021, the First Optional Redemption Date for

Westpac NZD Subordinated Notes (Note or Notes), Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) will

redeem all Notes on issue. The accompanying redemption notice is issued in accordance with

condition 4.4(a) of the Note conditions (Conditions).


What this means for you


On 1 September 2021, you will be paid the redemption proceeds of NZ$1 for each Note, together

with the final interest payment for the period from 1 June to 31 August 2021 (inclusive) on any

Notes, that you hold on the Record Date of 20 August 2021. The interest rate for this period is

4.6950% per annum.


These payments will be made in the same way your interest payments have previously been paid.


You may sell your Notes on NZX at the prevailing market price (which may be higher or lower than

the redemption proceeds of NZ$1 per Note) on or before 18 August 2021, which is expected to be the

last day of trading in Notes. It is also expected that off-market transfers of Notes will not be accepted

after 20 August 2021.


You do not need to do anything in response to this letter unless you wish to update your account

details. To do so, visit Link’s investor centre at www.linkmarketservices.co.nz or call Link on +64 9

375 5998 to request a form be mailed to you. Payments can only be made by direct credit into a New

Zealand dollar bank account. Any changes must be made before 5.00pm (New Zealand time) on 20

August 2021.

More information

For further information, visit www.westpac.com.au/westpacnzdsubnotes or call Link on +64

9 375 5998 (Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm, New Zealand time).







Thank you for your investment in Notes and support of Westpac.



Andrew Bowden

Head of Investor Relations

Westpac Banking Corporation


Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in this letter have the same meaning as given in the

Conditions.





Redemption Notice for Westpac NZD Subordinated Notes



Westpac Banking Corporation, through its head office in Sydney (Westpac) gives notice to the Holders

of its NZ$400 million unsecured, subordinated, convertible fixed rate notes with the NZX ticker code

WBC010 (Notes), that Westpac will exercise its option to redeem all of the Notes on 1 September 2021,

being the Interest Payment Date falling on the First Optional Redemption Date, in accordance with the

Conditions (as defined below).

On 1 September 2021, Holders of Notes recorded in the Register as at the Record Date (20 August

2021) will be entitled to receive the Face Value of each Note (NZ$1) together with a final interest

payment of NZ$0.0117375 per Note, in accordance with the Conditions.

Westpac issued the Notes on 1 September 2016 under a master deed poll dated 25 July 2016 and a

supplemental deed poll dated 25 July 2016 (Supplemental Deed Poll). The terms and conditions of

the Notes are set out in schedule 1 to the Supplemental Deed Poll (Conditions).

Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in this notice have the same meaning as given in the

Conditions.


Tim Hartin

General Manager & Company Secretary

Westpac Banking Corporation



Corporate Action Notice



Page 1 of 1

Section 1: issuer information (mandatory)

Name of issuer Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC)

Class of Financial Product Unsecured, subordinated, convertible fixed rate notes

NZX ticker code WBC010

ISIN (If unknown, check on NZX

website)

NZWBCD0010L1

Name of Registry Link Market Services Limited

Type of corporate action

(Please mark with an X in the relevant

box/es)

Share purchase

plan

Renounceable

Rights issue


Capital

reconstruction

Non

Renounceable

Rights issue


Call X Bonus issue

Record date 20/08/2021

Ex-Date (one business day before the

Record Date)

19/08/2021

Currency NZD

Section 2: Call

Total number of Financial Products

being called

400,000,000

Total call amount payable in respect of

all Financial Products

$400,000,000, together with any accrued and unpaid

interest

Amount payable per Financial Product $1.00, together with any accrued and unpaid interest

Call notices mailed Redemption notice released through NZX and mailed

to Holders on 9 July 2021.

Redemption Date 01/09/2021

Section 3: Authority for this announcement (mandatory)

Name of person authorised to make this

announcement

Tim Hartin, General Manager & Company Secretary

Contact person for this announcement Andrew Bowden, Head of Investor Relations

Contact phone number +61 2 8253 4008

Contact email address investorrelations@westpac.com.au

Date of release through MAP 09/07/2021

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