ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ABN 11 005 357 522
ANZ Centre Melbourne, Level 9A, 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC 3008
3 November 2021
Market Announcements Office
ASX Limited
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20 Bridge Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) today released its 2021 ESG
Supplement.
It has been approved for distribution by ANZ’s Continuous Disclosure Committee.
Yours faithfully
Simon Pordage
Company Secretary
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
SHAPING A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE
AND COMMUNITIES THRIVE
2021 / ESG SUPPLEMENT
Approved for distribution by A N Z’s Continuous Disclosure Committee, 3 November 2021
2017
Established our Ethics
and Responsible
Business Committee
2018
Implemented our
Ethical Decision
Making Framework
2019
Committed to fund
and facilitate $50
billion by 2025 in
sustainable solutions
for our customers
2020
Committed to fund
and facilitate $10
billion of investment
by 2030 to deliver
more affordable,
accessible and
sustainable homes
1
2021
Reached more
than 67,600 people
through our financial
wellbeing programs,
MoneyMinded and
Saver Plus
2
1. Refers to homes to buy and rent in Australia and New Zealand. 2. Includes individuals who have participated in more than one program (for example, people who have participated in
MoneyMinded as part of Saver Plus are counted twice as they are included in both the MoneyMinded and Saver Plus totals) in the period 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021.
In 2017 we introduced our purpose ...
Shape a world where people
and communities thrive
Since then we have been integrating purpose and
ESG into our strategy, creating an opportunity for
us to better serve our customers and generate
long-term shareholder value.
CONTENTS
Overview 2
Our 2021 reporting suite 2
2021 ESG performance snapshot 3
About our business 4
ESG governance and risk management 5
What matters most 6
Stakeholder engagement 9
Our ESG targets 11
Financial wellbeing 15
Improving financial wellbeing 15
Community investment 20
Environmental sustainability 24
Our approach to climate change 24
Sustainable finance 26
Reducing our environmental footprint 29
Housing 32
Improving the availability and
affordability of homes 32
Fair and responsible banking 35
Improving conduct and culture 35
Supporting customers
experiencing vulnerability 37
Improving customer experience 40
Cyber security, data protection
and privacy 44
Financial crime 46
Responsible business lending 47
Managing ESG risks in our supply chain 50
Human Rights 53
Our Human Rights standards 53
Employee wellbeing and inclusion 56
Employee engagement, wellbeing
and development 56
Workplace diversity and inclusion 59
Additional information 66
UN Principles for Responsible
Banking self-assessment 66
UN SDG alignment with ESG targets 75
Explanatory notes 80
KPMG Assurance opinion 81
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2021 Annual Report
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2021 ESG Supplement
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2021 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
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2021 Corporate Governance Statement
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ABOUT THIS ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL AND
GOVERNANCE (ESG) SUPPLEMENT
This report provides stakeholders with more detailed
information on the Australia and New Zealand Banking
Group Limited’s
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ESG performance and challenges.
This report is structured in three sections. The first outlines
our purpose and values; our approach to ESG governance
and risk management; our approach to the identification and
prioritisation of material issues; our stakeholder engagement
and our ESG targets. The second section outlines our
management of materially significant issues aligning with
our focus areas of environmental sustainability, housing,
financial wellbeing and fair and responsible banking.
The third section contains information on human rights,
employee wellbeing and inclusion and our second self-
assessment report against the United Nations Principles
of Responsible Banking.
Comparative performance data, including Equator Principles
data and our United Nations Guiding Principles Reporting
Framework index is contained in our separate 2021 ESG data
pack available at anz.com/annualreport.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI
Standards: Comprehensive option. A complete GRI Index
is available in our 2021 ESG data pack.
KPMG has provided limited assurance in respect of this ESG
Supplement, including considering whether the appropriate
indicators have been reported in accordance with GRI
Sustainability Reporting Standards Comprehensive level of
disclosure. A copy of KPMG’s independent limited assurance
report is on pages 81– 82.
KPMG has also provided limited assurance over ESG content
within our Annual Report and Annual Review.
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See pages
261–262 in the Annual Report for a copy of KPMG’s opinion.
This report covers all ANZ operations worldwide over which,
unless otherwise stated, we have control for the financial year
commencing on 1 October 2020 and ending 30 September
2021. Monetary amounts in this document are reported in
Australian dollars, unless otherwise stated.
REPORTING SUITE
We produce a suite of reports to meet the needs and
requirements of a wide range of stakeholders, including
shareholders, customers, employees, regulators, non-
government organisations and the community.
This ESG Supplement complements our 2021 Annual Report
available at anz.com/annualreport. In preparing pages 1–72
of the Annual Report we applied aspects of the International
Integrated Reporting Framework to describe how our
business model, strategy, governance and risk management
processes are addressing risks and opportunities in our
operating environment and delivering value for our
shareholders and other stakeholders.
Our 2021 Corporate Governance Statement discloses how we
have complied with the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s
‘Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations –
4th edition’ and is available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
This year is our first year reporting against the 4th edition.
Our 2021 Climate-related Financial Disclosures report,
assured by KPMG, will be released prior to our Annual General
Meeting and made available at anz.com/annualreport.
We are continually seeking to improve our reporting suite
and welcome feedback on this report. Please address any
questions, comments or suggestions in relation to this
report to corporate.sustainability@anz.com.
1. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (the Company) and the entities it controlled at the year end and from time to time during the financial year (together, the Group).
2. The 2021 Annual Review comprises pages 1–72, 252–253 and 261–262 of the 2021 Annual Report and a Remuneration Overview.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ANZ 2021
ESG Supplement
2021 ESG performance snapshot
$139.7M
community investment
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255
people recruited from
under-represented groups
2
151,600
customers to build a
savings habit since 2020
67, 6 0 0
participants in our financial
education programs
3
47%
reduction in Scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas emissions
against a 2015 baseline
35.3%
of women in leadership
4
$1.43B
funded and facilitated to deliver
more affordable, accessible and
sustainable homes to buy and
rent since 2020
5
Engaged with 100 of our largest
emitting business customers
on their low carbon
transition plans
1. Figure includes forgone revenue of $106m, the cost of providing low or fee-free accounts to a range of customers such as government benefit recipients, not-for-profit organisations, students and the elderly. International transfer fees were waived for funds sent
from Australia and New Zealand to the Pacific to support communities impacted by COVID-19. 2. Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and refugees. 3. Includes individuals who have participated in more than one program
(for example, people who have participated in MoneyMinded as part of Saver Plus are counted twice as they are included in both the MoneyMinded and Saver Plus totals) in the period 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021. 4. Measures representation at the Senior
Manager, Executive and Senior Executive levels. Includes all employees regardless of leave status but not contractors (who are included in Full Time Equivalents (FTE)). 5. In Australia and New Zealand.
$21.95B
funded and facilitated in
sustainable solutions since 2019
Supported around More than
of people feel like they
belong at ANZ
84%
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ESG Supplement
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About our business
We provide banking and financial
products and services to around 8.7
million retail and business customers,
and operate across 32 markets.
Our expertise, products and services make
us a bank. Our people, purpose, values and
culture make us ANZ.
OUR DIVISIONS
Australia Retail and Commercial – serves retail
commercial and private banking customers through our
branch network, business centres, ATMs, and digital and
mobile banking applications.
Institutional – serves institutional and business customers
across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America
including Papua New Guinea and the Middle East.
New Zealand – serves retail, commercial and private
banking customers in New Zealand and is one of the largest
New Zealand companies based on profit and assets.
Pacific – provides products and services to retail and
commercial customers located in the Pacific Islands, where
our history dates back 138 years.
Technology, Services & Operations and Group Centre
– comprises functions that support our business including
Risk, Finance, Communications and Public Affairs, Internal
Audit and Talent and Culture.
OUR PURPOSE AND VALUES
Our purpose is to shape a world where
people and communities thrive.
Launched five years ago, our purpose explains ‘why’ we
exist, guides the decisions we make each day and drives
everything we do.
Our values are the foundation of ‘how’ we work – living our
values every day enables us to deliver on our strategy and
purpose, strengthen stakeholder relationships and earn the
community’s trust. All employees and contractors must comply
with our Code of Conduct, which sets the expected standards
of professional behaviour and guides us in applying our values.
OUR ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL AND
GOVERNANCE (ESG) FOCUS AREAS
We are helping to respond to complex societal issues central
to our customers and our business strategy. In particular, we
are focusing our efforts on:
Financial wellbeing – improving the financial wellbeing of
our people, customers and the community by helping them
make the most of their money throughout their lives
Environmental sustainability – supporting household,
business and financial practices that improve environmental
sustainability
Housing – improving the availability of suitable and
affordable housing options for all Australians and
New Zealanders.
Supporting sustainable development
We are committed to the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and believe that business
has an important role to play in their achievement.
Our 2022 ESG targets support 12 of the 17 SDGs.
In 2019 we became a founding signatory to the UN
Principles for Responsible Banking. Under the Principles
we are required to set at least two targets that address
our most significant (potential) positive and negative
impacts, aligned with the SDGs and the Paris Climate
Agreement. We have reported our progress towards
implementing the Principles using the Reporting and
Self-assessment Index, available on pages 66–74.
Fundamental to our approach is a commitment to fair and
responsible banking – keeping pace with the expectations
of our customers, employees and the community, behaving
fairly and responsibly and maintaining high standards
of conduct.
Integrating ESG and purpose into our strategy has created
an opportunity for us to better serve our customers and
generate long-term shareholder value.
INTEGRITY
COLLABORATIONACCOUNTABILITYRESPECTEXCELLENCE
OUR VALUES ARE:
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ESG Supplement
ESG governance and risk management
Our governance framework provides the structure for effective
and responsible decision-making within the bank.
The Board is responsible for the oversight of the bank and its
sound and prudent management, with specific duties as set
out in its charter available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
There are six principal Board Committees: the Ethics,
Environment, Social and Governance (EESG) Committee; the
Audit Committee; the Risk Committee; the Human Resources
Committee; the Digital Business and Technology Committee;
and the Nomination and Board Operations Committee.
Each Committee has its own charter setting out its roles
and responsibilities.
At management level, the Group Executive Committee
comprises ANZ’s most senior executives. There is a
delegations of authority framework that clearly outlines those
matters delegated to the CEO and other members of senior
management. In addition, there are a number of formally
established management committees that deal with
particular sets of ongoing issues.
Our ESG governance processes are overseen by the Board
and management through our Board EESG Committee and
executive Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC).
These Committees are also supported by our Risk
Governance Oversight Committee (formerly the Royal
Commission and Self-Assessment Oversight Group).
Refer to page 24 of our Annual Report available at
anz.com/annualreport for further detail.
Our most material ESG issues (refer to pages 6–8) are captured
and managed within the Group’s Key Material Risks. For further
information on risk management refer to pages 51–55 of our
2021 Annual Report available at anz.com/annualreport.
For further detail on our governance framework see our
2021 Corporate Governance Statement available at
anz.com/corporategovernance.
BOARD ETHICS, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL AND
GOVERNANCE (EESG) COMMITTEE
The Board EESG Committee, led by ANZ’s Chairman, is
responsible for assisting the Board by overseeing measures to
advance ANZ’s purpose, focusing on ethical and ESG matters.
This includes the oversight, review and/or approval of ESG
reporting and objectives, corporate governance policies and
principles, customer complaints and other conduct-related
matters. The Committee also oversees the ethical and ESG
risks and opportunities relevant to the bank’s ability to
advance our purpose and operate as a fair, responsible
and sustainable business.
The Board EESG Committee meets quarterly, and each
meeting opens with an overview of the ESG operating
environment, covering current and emerging issues, including
regulatory and parliamentary inquiries, community sentiment,
competitor activity, relevant international developments
and our stakeholder engagement activities.
Further information on oversight activities and issues
discussed by the Committee during this year are outlined
in our 2021 Annual Report on pages 44–45 available at
anz.com/annualreport.
ETHICS AND RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS
COMMITTEE (ERBC)
The ERBC, chaired by the CEO, comprises Senior Executives
and members from business divisions and Group functions.
Independent ethics adviser, Dr Simon Longstaff, also
participates as an observer.
The Committee is a leadership and decision-making body
that exists to advance ANZ’s purpose. It seeks to ensure ANZ
operates responsibly and achieves fair, ethical and balanced
stakeholder outcomes.
The Committee considers the social and environmental
impacts of the industries, customers and communities that
ANZ serves. It also considers our products and services and
how they are provided, as well as stakeholder and community
expectations.
The ERBC is accountable to the Board EESG Committee in
the effective discharge of its responsibilities. It operationalises
Board objectives and makes decisions on issues and policies.
It also approves the bank’s ESG targets and monitors
performance against them quarterly.
Issues discussed during 2021 included ‘how we bank’ –
our ESG focus areas, customers experiencing vulnerability,
product suitability, accessibility and diversity and our COVID-19
Statement of Intent. The Committee also considered ‘who we
bank’, through industry sector and country specific reviews,
human rights policy and modern slavery, climate change policy
and sensitive wholesale transactions.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ESG Supplement
What matters most
Through our annual materiality
assessment we engage with internal
and external stakeholders to inform
our identification of ESG risks and
opportunities. We seek to identify
those issues with the most potential
to impact our ability to operate
successfully and create value for our
shareholders and other stakeholders.
Climate change
emerged as the
highest priority issue
We use the results to inform our strategy, public ESG targets
and external reporting.
This year we obtained stakeholder views on a broad range
of ESG issues.
External views were sought from institutional investors,
retail shareholders, consumer advocates, financial
counsellors, customers and analysts. One-on-one interviews
were conducted with the external stakeholders by an
independent consultant.
Overall, climate change emerged as the highest priority issue,
with stakeholders noting both the social and environmental
impacts and the influence the bank can have in terms of
deploying capital to finance the transition to a net zero
carbon economy.
Fairness and ethical conduct continued to be seen as critical
to everything we do and key to our social license to operate.
Financial wellbeing was viewed as ‘core business’ and our
efforts in this area can improve customer experience and
positively impact the broader community. Finally, innovation
and technology were seen as essential to supporting
customer experience in today’s digital world.
External stakeholders also highlighted biodiversity and human
rights as issues of rising significance. Internal stakeholders
highlighted cyber security and data protection and housing.
These insights were presented to our executive Ethics
and Responsible Business Committee and Board Ethics,
Environment, Social and Governance Committee and helped
to inform the development of our public ESG targets.
OUR MATERIAL ISSUES
We considered the following in order to identify any changes
in risks and opportunities that should be reflected in the list of
material issues (as published on pages 7– 8 of our 2020 ESG
Supplement available at anz.com/annualreport):
•our Key Material Risks (refer to pages 54 –55 of our
2021 Annual Report available at anz.com/annualreport)
•our strategy, values and code of conduct (refer to
pages 10 –11 of our 2021 Annual Report available
at anz.com/annualreport)
•media analysis
•recent regulatory developments
•peer review
•industry trends, including the Sustainability
Accounting Standards Board Materiality Map and
the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Risks Report
•the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
We concluded that ‘biodiversity’ and ‘human rights’ be listed
as stand-alone issues given their increasing importance (we
had previously incorporated these issues within ‘responsible
business lending’). For clarity ‘Digital innovation’ was renamed
‘technology and innovation’. ‘Fraud and data security’ was
renamed ‘Cyber security and data privacy’ to better capture
the increasing challenge of cyber crime experienced during
the pandemic. We also removed ‘financial and economic
performance’ as an ESG issue, as we consider this topic is
sufficiently captured in ANZ’s Key Material Risks.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
6
ANZ 2021
ESG Supplement
Top 5 material issues,
ranked by stakeholders Description of issue Location of disclosures Relevant UN SDGs
Climate changeManaging the business risks and opportunities associated with
climate change. Includes the role we play in supporting our
customers to transition to a low carbon economy.
2021 Annual Review, pages 19–21 and 38–39
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 24–31
2021 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
available at anz.com/annualreport prior to our
Annual General Meeting
Fairness and
ethical conduct
A strong corporate culture, known for ethics, values, fairness
and transparency. Simple and understandable products and
communications (i.e. product disclosure, including bank fees
and charges) and appropriate hardship/collections policies.
2021 Annual Review,
pages 15, 24–25, 29–30 and 51
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 35–41
Financial wellbeingPromoting and enabling access to safe and affordable products
and services, particularly for lower-income and vulnerable
consumers. Work with cross-sector partners to help customers,
employees and the broader community meet current financial
commitments and needs, and improve their financial resilience.
2021 Annual Review, pages 8 and 34–36
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 15–19 and 37–39
Customer experienceDelivering value and improved customer experience through
appropriate financial products and services for all customers,
small business and personal.
2021 Annual Review, pages 15–25
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 37–43
Innovation
and technology
Keeping pace with digital innovation to ensure we are offering
our customers reliable and convenient products and services
in a rapidly changing market.
2021 Annual Review, pages 16-19
available at anz.com/annualreport
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ESG Supplement
Other issues
(not ranked)Description of issue Location of disclosures Relevant UN SDGs
Anti-money laundering
and terrorism financing
Compliance with international sanctions, anti-money
laundering and terrorism financing requirements.
2021 ESG Supplement, page 46
Banking regulationRegulation of the banking sector, including policy and
compliance requirements relating to consumer protection,
risk management and capital adequacy.
2021 Annual Review, pages 4–5, 14, 24–28 and 45
available at anz.com/annualreport
BiodiversityManaging the business risks and opportunities associated with
biodiversity loss, as a result of species extinction and/or reduction.
Includes the role we play in supporting our customers to manage
their biodiversity impacts.
2021 ESG Supplement, page 25
Corporate governanceAppropriate governance frameworks in place (i.e. processes and
policies, including those relating to risk management, executive
remuneration and financial stability) to ensure ANZ is managed
in the long-term interests of stakeholders.
2021 Annual Review, pages 40–50
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 Corporate Governance Statement
available at anz.com/corporategovernance
2021 ESG Supplement, page 5
Cyber security and
data privacy
Policies and processes in place to protect our systems, data and
customers against cyber attacks. Includes customer access to
personal data.
2021 Annual Review, page 52
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 44–45
Employee capability
and wellbeing
Attracting and retaining a capable and engaged workforce, that is
diverse and inclusive, helping us serve our customers better and
drive strong business performance across the markets in which
we operate. Includes supporting the physical and mental health
and wellbeing of employees.
2021 Annual Review, pages 29–33
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 56–65
HousingAvailability of suitable and affordable housing options for all
Australians and New Zealanders.
2021 Annual Review, pages 22–23
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 32–34
Human rightsSupporting and respecting the human rights of our employees,
customers and communities including through the expectations
we have of our business relationships and supply chain.
2021 Annual Review, page 37
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 50–55
Investing in
the community
Supporting the communities in which we operate through
workplace giving and volunteering; and recovery from
natural disasters.
2021 Annual Review, pages 34–36
available at anz.com/annualreport
2021 ESG Supplement, pages 20–23
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
OPINION
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ESG Supplement
Stakeholder engagement
One of the ways we create long-term value and deliver on our
business strategy is through a collaborative and proactive approach
to building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
2021 has been a challenging year as we continue to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout, we have
sought to be transparent and responsive in our communications and relationships to demonstrate trustworthiness and
to build confidence. Stakeholder engagement is embedded in our policies, processes and operations. Outlined below
are the key issues raised by our stakeholders throughout the year and how we responded.
How we engaged
with them
•Branch staff and
relationship managers (via
calls, emails and letters) for
specific customer support
•ANZ’s online customer
research community
•Online forums, surveys,
focus groups, co-creation
sessions and individual
in-depth interviews
•‘Voice of Customer’
platform capturing
feedback on customers’
experience with ANZ
•Conversations with our
Customer Advocate and
related functions; and
Complaints Resolution
Centre
•Social media
Key issues raised
•COVID-19 deferral support
and government assistance
such as Job Keeper
•Financial assistance
packages
•Conduct and culture
•Products; fees and charges
•Customer service
•Updates to ANZ’s digital
apps and internet banking
platform
•Societal challenges (e.g.
support for refugees and
mental health impacts on
the community sector as
a result of the pandemic)
How we responded
Our response to the issues
raised by customers can be
found on pages 35–45 of
this document and pages
15–25 and 29–30 of the 2021
Annual Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
How we engaged
with them
•Annual `My Voice' survey
and regular `pulse' surveys
•Interactive webcasts and
teleconferences with CEO
and Executive Committee
•Direct people leader
communication
•Internal communications
channels, including
intranet and Yammer
•Meetings with unions
representing
ANZ employees
Key issues raised
•Support for staff during
COVID-19
•Business strategy and
priorities
•Professional growth and
development, including
‘New Ways of Leading’
•‘Speak up’ culture
•Our purpose and ESG
focus areas
•Diversity and inclusion
•Flexible working
arrangements
•Organisational
restructuring
•Remuneration and reward;
performance management
How we responded
Our response to the issues
raised by employees can be
found on pages 35–36 and
56–65 of this document and
pages 29–33 of the 2021
Annual Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
CUSTOMERSEMPLOYEES
We seek to listen to and
engage constructively with
government, regulators and
policy makers. In addition to
appearing before the House
of Representatives Standing
Committee on Economics, we
participated in a wide range of
government consultations and
parliamentary inquiries. We
continue to provide data to
Government to help it
understand the impact of
COVID-19 on the economy
and on the financial wellbeing
of Australians. An overview of
the work underway in response
to issues raised is outlined on
pages 15–19, 24–25, 32–46 and
57 of this document and pages
15–39 and 51–52 of the Annual
Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
How we engaged with them
•Appearances before House
of Representatives Standing
Committee on Economics
and Joint Standing
Committee on Trade and
Investment Growth
•Meetings with political
stakeholders, public officials
and regulators
•Submissions to
Parliamentary committee
inquiries and government
and regulatory consultations
Key issues raised
AUSTRALIA
•Support for employees
and customers in response
to COVID-19
•Implementation of
Royal Commission
recommendations, and
related government and
industry reforms (consumer
protection, cyber security
and consumer data right)
•Prudential regulation
of financing to export
industries
•Public policy development
on issues, research and
programs related to
financial wellbeing and
capability
•Co-investment in
financial capability
program Saver Plus
•Economic analysis and
outlook provided by our
Research team
NEW ZEALAND
•Support for employees
and customers in response
to COVID-19
•Regulatory issues including
responsible consumer
lending, merchant service
fees, conduct of financial
institutions and prudential
supervision
•Economic analysis and
outlook provided by our
Research team
•Public policy development
on issues including
accessibility of banking
services, climate-related
financial disclosures,
retirement savings, housing
and macro-prudential tools,
financial inclusion, digital
identity and the consumer
data right
•Findings from the tri-ennial
financial wellbeing survey
(in New Zealand)
and priority issues for
reporting and follow-up
GOVERNMENT AND REGULATORS
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
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INCLUSION
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We seek to provide
shareholders with quality
information in a timely
manner through our reporting
suite, announcements and
briefings to the market,
shareholder communications
and our dedicated shareholder
site at anz.com/shareholder.
In 2021, in addition to interim
and full-year results briefings,
we held our fourth annual
ESG briefing providing an
update on our approach to
ESG, with a focus on the
current environment,
including social impacts of
COVID-19 and our response.
How we engaged
with them
•Interim and full-year
results briefings, and
quarterly updates
•ESG investor briefing,
strategy and other market
updates
•Annual General Meeting
•Disclosure documents,
including results
announcements, investor
presentations, external
reporting suite and other
ASX lodgements
Key issues raised
•Approach to managing
the bank and supporting
stakeholders during
and post the COVID-19
pandemic
•Opportunities and
challenges associated
with the current operating
environment
•ANZ’s strategic
focus, execution and
business priorities
•Financial performance
•Capital and balance
sheet management,
quality, liquidity and
funding positions
•Balance sheet
quality and liquidity
and funding positions
•Dividends
•ESG approach,
commitments and
progress
SHAREHOLDERS
How we engaged
with them
•Regular program of
CEO and Senior Executive
meetings with civil
society leaders
•Direct engagement with
NGOs and academics
•Regular engagement
with peak bodies for
professional community
services, such as financial
counselling
•Regular meetings with
our community partners
Key issues raised
•Impact of COVID-19
(capacity of community
sector organisations
to continue providing
effective services during
lockdowns, financial
impacts on customers,
economic impacts and
mental health effects)
•Customer and community
support due to bushfires,
drought and other natural
disasters in Australia
•Family violence and
support for customers
and communities,
including financial
wellbeing initiatives for
women and children;
and children's rights
•Responsible gambling
initiatives and policies
•Indigenous social and
economic development
•Unemployment and
social and economic
participation
•Emerging humanitarian
issues for refugees and
support of new arrivals
in Australia
•Financial wellbeing in
the community
•Homelessness in Australia
•Vulnerable customers,
hardship programs and
consumer protection
•Conduct and culture
•Remediation and
compensation schemes
•Regulatory reform
in financial services,
including the impact
of open banking
•Climate change policies,
carbon risk management
and biodiversity
•Human rights grievance
mechanisms
•Animal welfare
principles
How we responded
Our response to the issues
raised by NGOs can be
found on pages 15–65 of
this document and pages 8,
15–25, and 29–39 of the
2021 Annual Report available
at anz.com/annualreport.
Our 2021 Climate-related
Financial Disclosures will
be released prior to our
Annual General Meeting
and made available at
anz.com/annualreport.
How we engaged
with them
ANZ is a member of a
number of industry
associations. Key
memberships include the
Australian Banking
Association (ABA), the
Business Council of Australia,
the New Zealand Bankers’
Association, and Business
New Zealand.
We engaged with key
industry associations,
including the ABA, to respond
to COVID-19 and to develop
strategic responses to
reputational issues.
Through our
memberships we:
•participate in discussions
about industry-wide
issues and strategy;
•provide input to industry
association responses to
parliamentary inquiries and
government consultations;
and
•participate in the ABA
Modern Slavery Working
Group which aims to
develop an industry
position on the practical
response to instances of
Modern Slavery in
member Banks.
Key issues raised
•Implementation of
Royal Commission
recommendations
•Industry initiatives to
support customers,
including in response
to COVID-19
•Open banking and
payments
•Climate change policy
•Modern slavery
We have begun a process
of periodically reviewing
our membership of key
associations and will publicly
disclose outcomes and any
material change to our
position.
NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS (NGOS)INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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Our ESG targets
Each year we set public targets that reflect our ESG focus areas,
support the delivery of our business strategy and respond
to our most material issues.
Progress against targets is reviewed by the executive
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee quarterly
and twice a year by the Board Ethics, Environment,
Social and Governance Committee.
As a founding signatory to the UN Principles for
Responsible Banking, we have set targets that address
our most significant potential impacts; and are aligned
with the UN SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement.
2021 ESG TARGETS
PERFORMANCE
1
This year we have achieved,
or made good progress against,
the majority of our targets.
Details of our targets and performance
are set out on the subsequent pages.
25% Achieved
67% Partially achieved or in progress
8% Not achieved
NEW ESG TARGETS FOR 2022
The following targets will be introduced in 2022, to extend work underway in our focus areas and replace the targets that expired in 2021.
FAIR AND RESPONSIBLE BANKING
Targets
Relevant
UN SDGs
Implement ANZ’s new Customer Vulnerability
Framework, including enhanced training of
5,000 employees to build their capabilities
with respect to identifying, supporting and
referring customers who are experiencing
vulnerability, by end 2022. (Australia)
Implement ANZ’s new human rights
grievance mechanism, and publicly report on
complaints received under the mechanism,
by end 2022.
FINANCIAL WELLBEING
Targets
Relevant
UN SDGs
Support 1.3 million customers to save
regularly, by end 2022. (Australia and
New Zealand)
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Targets
Relevant
UN SDGs
Engage with 100 of our largest emitting
business customers to encourage them to,
by end 2024:
•strengthen their low carbon transition
plans so that more customers achieve a
‘well developed’ or ‘advanced’ rating; and
•enhance their efforts to protect
biodiversity.
1. Unless otherwise noted, targets are Group-wide and cover the financial year 1 October–30 September.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
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WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
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2021 ESG TARGETS PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
FINANCIAL WELLBEING
Improving the financial wellbeing of our people, customers and communities by helping
them make the most of their money throughout their lives.
TargetsPerformanceStatusRelevant UN SDGs
Support 250,000 customers to build a savings
habit, by end 2021. (Australia/New Zealand)
•Since October 2020 we have supported around 151,600 customers
to build a savings habit. This includes:
–more than 3,000 Saver Plus new participants actively saving using
a Progress Saver account
–148,567 customers who have set savings goals using the ‘set a savings
goal’ feature in the ANZ App
–319,081 customers have set a savings goal since the introduction of
the ‘set a savings goal’ feature in October 2019.
Publish Adult Financial Wellbeing Research to
inform our product design and financial literacy
program delivery, by end 2022.
•Analysis of survey data has been completed, with key insights focused on
improving understanding of socio-economic and behavioural determinants
of financial wellbeing in Australia and New Zealand.
•We are on track to launch the survey report by December 2021.
Establish seven new partnerships to expand the
reach and improve impact of MoneyMinded for
people experiencing vulnerability, by end 2023.
•MoneyMinded has reached an estimated at 64,011 people across Australia,
New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific in 2021 (an increase of around 6,000 from 2020).
•Since October 2020 we have established three new MoneyMinded Partnerships:
–New Zealand – a new partnership with ‘Fruition Horticulture Bay of Plenty’
to deliver MoneyMinded Pacific content to over 1,000 Recognised Seasonal
Employees each year
–Fiji – Memorandum of Understanding with Reserve Bank of Fiji, to help Fijians
better manage their funds
–Australia/Pacific – partnered with Powerpac, an approved provider of the
Federal Government’s Pacific Labor Scheme for Pacific seasonal workers
arriving in Australia.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability.
TargetsPerformanceStatusRelevant UN SDGs
Fund and facilitate at least AU$50 billion by 2025
towards sustainable solutions for our customers,
including initiatives that help improve
environmental sustainability, support disaster
resilience, increase access to affordable housing
and promote financial wellbeing.
•Since October 2019, we have funded and facilitated AU$21.95 billion towards the
target, of which AU$12.18 billion is funded and AU$9.77 billion is facilitated.
•The majority of target transactions provide funding for sustainability-linked lending,
renewable energy, green buildings and affordable housing, and facilitate ESG-format
Bond issuance.
Encourage and support 100 of our largest emitting
business customers to establish, and where
appropriate, strengthen existing low carbon
transition plans, by 2021.
•We have met our target to engage with 100 of our largest emitting business
customers to support them to establish, or strengthen, low carbon transition plans.
•The engagement has provided us with a ‘baseline’ for how our customers are
responding to climate-risk. In February this year we assessed our customers’ plans
and grouped them into categories ranging from ‘advanced’, to ‘no public plans’.
•Since then we have prioritised our engagement with customers in three key
categories, i.e. those with: underdeveloped plans or ‘starting out’; no public plans;
and businesses that operate in sectors where climate risks are emerging faster.
•We will continue our engagement with customers, seeking improvements to their plans
and reviewing their biodiversity commitments, as part of our new 2022 ESG target.
Develop an enhanced climate risk management
framework that strengthens our governance and is
responsive to climate change, by end 2022.
•Risk subject matter experts are working across Divisions to enhance our climate
risk governance and strategy. Their initial focus is to ensure we are compliant with
all current or emerging regulation, by completing a ‘gap’ analysis of all climate
regulation (including data gaps) in the markets where ANZ operates.
•Methodologies have been developed and are being piloted with the Project Finance
portfolio to guide the evaluation of physical and transition risk. These same guiding
principles will inform customer engagement and be used to upskill ANZ staff.
Reduce the direct impact of our business activities
on the environment
2
by:
•reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 24% by 2025
and by 35% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)
3
•increasing renewable energy use to 100% by 2025
•reducing potable water consumption by
25% by 2025 (against a 2017 baseline)
•reducing waste to landfill by 30% by 2025
(against a 2017 baseline)
•reducing paper consumption (office and
customer paper use only) by 60% by 2025
(against 2015 baseline).
•Scope 1 and 2 emissions have decreased by 47% since 2015.
•Global renewable electricity usage increased to 36% in 2021.
•Water consumption has decreased by 63% since 2017.
•Waste to landfill has decreased by 65% since 2017.
•Paper consumption has decreased 64% since 2015.
2. Environmental reporting year is 1 July to 30 June, in line with the Australian regulatory reporting year. 3. This target was submitted to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) for informal review, and SBTI provided written confirmation that it may be
considered and communicated as science-based. We prepared our target using the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) methodology, however this does not include emissions arising from our financing activities (Scope 3).
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
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INCLUSION
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HOUSING
Improving the availability of suitable and affordable housing options for all Australians and New Zealanders.
TargetsPerformanceStatusRelevant UN SDGs
Fund and facilitate AU$10 billion of investment
by 2030 to deliver more affordable, accessible and
sustainable homes to buy and rent. (Australia/
New Zealand)
•Since October 2020, we have funded and facilitated AU$1.29 billion and
NZ$150 million of investment to deliver more affordable, accessible
and sustainable homes to buy and rent.
Support more customers into healthier homes
4
with
our Healthy Home Loan Package and Interest-free
Insulation Loans – through a 2%
5
increase of funds
under management and a 4%
6
increase in customer
numbers by 2025. (New Zealand)
•Since October 2020, we have supported 1,065 households into healthier homes
through our Healthy Home Loan Package (36 households) and our Interest-free
Insulation Loans (1,029 households).
4. This target has been expanded to support our Healthy Home Loans Package and Interest-free Loans Initiative, and establish a measureable baseline for this target. 5. Off a FY2021 baseline. 6. Off a FY2021 baseline.
FAIR AND RESPONSIBLE BANKING
Keeping pace with the expectations of our customers, employees and the community,
behaving fairly and responsibly and maintaining high standards of conduct.
TargetsPerformanceStatusRelevant UN SDGs
Develop and commence
implementation of a new
Customer Vulnerability Framework
to improve the support we
provide to customers experiencing
vulnerability, by end 2021.
(Australia)
Implementation of our Customer Vulnerability Framework continues, including:
•implementing inclusive design principles in our product management framework, ensuring
our products are accessible, inclusive and do not cause harm;
•extending the pilot of our independent interpreter service to our Customer Protection team,
improving our ability to assist customers from non-English speaking backgrounds;
•increased proactive engagement with a range of community stakeholders to ensure our
approach is well informed.
Design and commence
implementation of a human rights
grievance mechanism, using the
UN Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights, by end 2021.
•Final design framework for the human rights grievance mechanism (GM) has been approved
by ERBC and Board EESG Committee.
•Implementation of the GM has commenced, including governance, embedding into policy
and process, training, disclosures and communications.
•The GM will be made public in Q1 2022 after a final external stakeholder information session.
Public reporting will commence in mid to late 2022.
Achieve the 17 actions in our
Reconciliation Action Plan,
by end 2024.
7
(Australia)
•Our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) will receive official endorsement from Reconciliation Australia by
the end of October 2021. This endorsement will not include any changes to the commitments made.
•The RAP will be launched in early 2022
8
.
7. This target was altered reflect the language included in the RAP, following feedback from Reconciliation Australia. 8. Calendar year.
OVERVIEW
Our reporting suite
2021 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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INFORMATION
ASSURANCE
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Australia
A quarterly snapshot of the personal
financial wellbeing of Australians
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on financial wellbeing
has been felt disproportionately in Australia by people with
lower financial wellbeing, with increases in the proportion
of people both ‘Struggling’ and ‘Getting By’, while the
’No Worries’ and ‘Doing OK’ segments shrunk substantially.
All Australian states and territories recorded lower scores
in overall financial wellbeing year-on-year, with the largest
decline in Victoria (down 7.4%) and WA experiencing the
smallest decline in financial wellbeing (down 1.5%).
New Zealand
Checking the pulse of financial wellbeing
for New Zealanders every six months
The New Zealand FWBI recorded an increase in financial
wellbeing in the nine months after the onset of the pandemic,
from 62.4 in March 2020 to 63.4 in December 2020.
While most New Zealanders were ‘Doing OK’ (48.7%) in
December 2020, the overall improvement in financial
wellbeing resulted in a decrease in the proportion of people
either ‘Struggling’ or ‘Getting By’ from 27.7% in March 2020
to 25.8% in December 2020.
EVOLVING THE MODEL OF FINANCIAL
WELLBEING – INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT
LEADERSHIP
While the ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing Indicator
enables a rolling snapshot, our more substantial financial
wellbeing research (published triennially) has been
continuing in Australia and New Zealand. In 2021, we have
built on the established Kempson et al conceptual model
of financial wellbeing used in our 2017 survey, with external
input from steering committees in Australia and New Zealand.
Key opinion leaders, academics and consumer advocates
have supported us in interrogating and developing the
model of financial wellbeing to better understand the influence
of factors such as money management behaviour, socio-
economic factors and psychological elements like future focus
and confidence. The new survey results will be launched in
November 2021 and the report made available at anz.com/cs.
ANZ’s commitment to financial wellbeing
is long-standing and spans all areas of
our business – we are striving to support
our customers to make the most of their
money and to improve their financial
wellbeing into the future.
We recognise the importance of financial wellbeing across
the whole population in sustaining a healthy and inclusive
economy. Beyond providing core banking services, we can
play a key role in the community by leading thinking about the
‘drivers’ of financial wellbeing and applying insights from our
research to our financial education programs, Saver Plus and
MoneyMinded. These programs involve close collaboration
with partners from the community and government sectors.
TRACKING FINANCIAL WELLBEING IN OUR
REGION – THE ANZ ROY MORGAN FINANCIAL
WELLBEING INDICATOR
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant and widespread
impact on the economy and the wellbeing of individuals.
Our ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing Indicator (FWBI) is
applied in both Australia and New Zealand, based on data
gathered through the Roy Morgan Single Source survey.
Improving financial wellbeing
Respondents in Australia and New Zealand are divided
into four segments, described in our 2017 ANZ Financial
Wellbeing Survey:
No worries – Demonstrating financial behaviours (such as
active savings and not borrowing for everyday expenses)
that contribute positively to financial wellbeing. High levels
of confidence in managing money and substantial amounts
in savings, investments and superannuation.
Doing OK – Describing their current financial situation
as ‘fair’ or ‘good’ and are reasonably confident about their
financial situation over the next 12 months.
Getting by – Generally describing their financial situation
as ‘bad’, less confident in their money management skills
and their ability to control their financial future.
Struggling – Often describing their current financial
situation as ‘bad’, having little or no savings and finding
it a constant struggle to meet bills and credit payments.
Very few are confident about their financial situation over
the next 12 months.
In late 2020, our community partner the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) appointed the second ANZ Tony Nicholson
Research Fellow. Dr Emily Porter, a social researcher with a PhD in the effect of recessions on youth employment, has
been working on the Financial Lives in Uncertain Times study, drawing on the Roy Morgan Single Source Survey data
to better understand patterns of financial wellbeing, disadvantage and risk.
“Where people are struggling to make ends meet, it becomes impossible to build savings, leaving people without
a financial buffer for a rainy day or sixth lockdown as we’ve seen occur recently,” said Emily.
“In the longer term, we hope this research will drive systemic change, allowing more Australians to build economic
security and increase their resilience to shocks in an increasingly uncertain world.”
The ANZ Tony Nicholson Fellowship is named after the Brotherhood’s former Executive Director, who led the not-for-
profit for 13 years. We fund the fellowship as part of our partnership with BSL, and in recognition of Mr Nicholson’s
many years of leadership in advocating for disadvantaged people throughout Australia.
HIGHLIGHT
Understanding patterns of financial wellbeing for vulnerable Australians
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FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
Improving
financial wellbeing
Community
investment
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
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CASE STUDY
Kimi’s story
Kimi, the sole guardian of her high school-
aged siblings, joined Saver Plus to learn how
to save so she could purchase a laptop for her
sister to use at school. She created a budget
as part of the program and started putting
aside $25 a fortnight.
“I was really excited as I didn’t even miss the money
and yet I could see the savings account growing.
I never thought I had control to be able to do this
before,” says Kimi. “Growing up, no one in my family
taught me about how to manage money, all I knew
was as soon as you got it, it was spent! Before Saver
Plus I have never used a budget but now I track my
expenses regularly.”
“I learnt so many tools about budgeting effectively
and planning for the future in the MoneyMinded
financial education workshops. I can’t wait to pass
this knowledge onto my siblings. I’m already
supporting my sister with her goal to save for
her first car.”
“I want to save money to have an emergency fund for
myself, so I am never desperate for money and have
a backup plan when I get unexpected expenses. No
one in my family has ever purchased their own home
before, so my long-term goal is to save and eventually
buy my own apartment or house to live in."
“When you set a goal, you can
achieve great things.”
SAVER PLUS
Earlier this year Saver Plus, our matched savings and financial
education program, developed in partnership with BSL,
reached a significant milestone. Since 2003, Saver Plus has
enabled more than 50,000 lower income Australians to save
around $26 million for education costs, with ANZ providing
matching of $21 million.
Saver Plus participants open an ANZ savings account, set
a savings goal and make deposits regularly over 10 months
while also attending MoneyMinded financial education
sessions. Upon reaching their goal, savings are matched by
ANZ dollar for dollar, up to $500, which must be spent on
education. Research has shown that many participants go
on to establish a lasting savings habit that sees them achieve
their financial goals and improve their financial wellbeing.
Our Saver Plus partners are essential to reaching and
supporting individuals and families across Australia. BSL
and ANZ have worked with The Smith Family, Berry Street
and The Benevolent Society to build and improve Saver Plus
over the past 18 years, supported by many other local
community delivery agencies.
In the 6 years to 30 June 2021, Saver Plus has recruited 21,721
participants (an average of 3,620 per year). In recognition of
this ongoing impact, in 2021 the Australian Government
announced a further three years of support for our cross-sector
partnership. Along with ANZ, the Government will provide
BSL and other community organisations with funding to enable
Saver Plus to be delivered to over 16,000 additional Australians
from 2021–2024.
The experience of repeated lockdowns throughout the
COVID-19 pandemic required the Saver Plus partners to
make a rapid shift to accessible, online program elements
for participants who were not able to attend face-to-face
sessions. The success of that shift has led to the permanent
incorporation of virtual participation into an already highly
effective program.
Saver Plus participant, John, from Wollongong, NSW.
A special milestone
of 50,000 savers
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FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
Improving
financial wellbeing
Community
investment
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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SUPPORTING OUR CUSTOMERS TO BUILD
THEIR FINANCIAL WELLBEING
We continue to help our customers save through the
'set a savings goal' feature in the ANZ App in Australia. In-app
progress displays and notifications help our customers better
manage their money, encouraging them to stay on track and
celebrate milestones along the way.
Since the introduction of the 'set a savings goal' feature
in 2019:
•Over 530,000 goals have been set by over 310,000
customers in the ANZ App (on average customers set
1.27 goals each).
•Over 40 million in-app notifications have been sent to
over 2.1 million customers.
•Customers with a goal have a savings balance two times
that of a customer without a goal and save more than
two times faster than they did before setting a goal.
While we did not meet our target of 250,000 goals set for
the year, a number of initiatives are in train to support more
customers to set and maintain a savings habit. We are:
•developing data models to assist in identifying customers
who are likely to respond positively to contact from ANZ
encouraging them to set a savings goal
•enhancing activity across digital channels and through
direct marketing to assist in maintaining customer
engagement with their savings progress, and better
targeting customers with the potential to save who
are not actively doing so.
Our Financial Wellbeing Program at anz.com/financialwellbeing
continues to help people understand their financial literacy
and transform their attitudes and behaviours towards money.
The program draws on our financial wellbeing research and
long-standing MoneyMinded financial education program and
comprises six self-guided steps towards financial wellbeing.
Since its launch in early 2020, the Financial Wellbeing Program
has helped nearly 1.25 million people in Australia and New
Zealand get on top of their money, including a very popular
article hub which aided in supporting customers through the
difficult COVID-19 environment with topics like ‘Plan, don’t
panic: budgeting in a crisis’ and ‘How to save $10K for a rainy
day’. In this time, over 164,000 people have used the calculator
to get their Financial Wellbeing Score.
Building on the program, in January 2021 we introduced
the ANZ Financial Wellbeing Challenge in Australia. The
free, six week virtual ‘bootcamp’ coaches people to become
more financially fit through practical tips and weekly money
challenges, sent straight to their inbox. Participation in the
Challenge starts with access to the Financial Wellbeing
Calculator, assisting people to better understand their financial
situation (the calculator provides them with a financial
wellbeing score out of 100). Customers can then choose a more
intensive course exploring either saving or investing. Since its
launch, over 21,000 people have signed up to the Challenge.
MONEYMINDED: SUPPORTING FINANCIAL
WELLBEING ACROSS OUR REGION
MoneyMinded is ANZ’s flagship financial education program,
supporting adults with low levels of financial literacy and
those on lower incomes to build their financial skills,
knowledge and confidence. The program is delivered by
community organisations in Australia and New Zealand, and
a mix of community organisations and ANZ employees in
15 markets across Asia and the Pacific region.
An estimated 64,011 people participated in MoneyMinded,
including MoneyBusiness, in 2021.
The flexibility of MoneyMinded enables a large and diverse
network of accredited coaches to use the program to meet
the specific needs of their clients. Over many years, the
program has been successful in supporting people engaged
with family, mental health, youth, migrant, disability, drug and
alcohol and other community services.
With face-to-face learning limited in many communities due
to COVID-19 restrictions, more MoneyMinded coaches are
delivering the program remotely. Lack of access or confidence
to use technology remains a challenge for the continued
rollout of the program.
In early 2021, ANZ launched the updated MoneyMinded
program, enabling more community professionals to become
accredited MoneyMinded coaches, and access program
content and resources online for the first time. MoneyMinded
coaches are now able to create and save their own
customised digital session plans, and access new resources
such as prompt cards, animations and over 200 interactive
handouts which form a part of the new digital toolkit.
The MoneyMinded Coach training is delivered through
ANZ’s MoneyMinded partners in Australia; Berry Street,
BSL and The Smith Family.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AUSTRALIAN MONEYMINDED PARTICIPANTS
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ZEALAND AND ASIA PACIFIC REGION MONEYMINDED PARTICIPANTS
68.4%31.6%42.6%48.1%17.2%
are
female
are
male
are
sole parents
are
unemployed
have Aboriginal or
Torres Strait Islander
heritage
45.9%54.1%10.2%50.4%n/a
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CASE STUDY
MONEYBUSINESS – Australia
MoneyBusiness was developed by ANZ in
partnership with the Australian Government
in 2005, following our research which showed
that financial exclusion was a significant
problem for First Nations people, particularly
those living in remote communities.
A comprehensive set of workshop materials was
developed in consultation with local First Nations
communities and community workers, who ensured
the information was culturally appropriate and relevant
to the target audience. Since then, MoneyBusiness has
been delivered extensively throughout Western
Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia and
other locations through ANZ, its community partners
and the Australian Government. Over 84,660
participants have been reached through the program.
“The majority of our clients have very little
or no education when it comes to their
finances... The (MoneyBusiness) programs are
educating our clients on how to manage their
finances, how to use finances properly and to
be aware of scams and money lenders.”
MoneyBusiness facilitator
We are currently updating the MoneyBusiness program
following consultation with a range of First Nations
stakeholders. Updates include refreshed content and
training, new resources, a new brand identity, and the
digitisation of program content, making the program
easier to access, use and customise to better meet the
needs of participants.
CASE STUDY
Bengaluru
MoneyMinded was delivered in Bengaluru to more than 2,570 people in 2021.
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the MoneyMinded sessions were delivered virtually
to participants. In total, 102 sessions were delivered in five different languages.
“It was very helpful to learn about how
to save money, achieve financial goals,
get success, get motivated, and learn from
others' stories. It was very inspirational...”
MoneyMinded participant
Of the >2,570 people who participated in the virtual
MoneyMinded sessions, 85 participants were from
the transgender community. MoneyMinded has been
integrated into a training program for the transgender
community though ANZ’s partnership with PeriFerry.
PeriFerry is a social enterprise that creates employment
and upskilling opportunities for the transgender
community in India. The ‘hire ready’ program focuses
on building participants’ skills when applying for jobs
and improving their financial wellbeing.
A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH TO
BUILDING FINANCIAL WELLBEING
WITH MONEYMINDED
Since 2002, the success of MoneyMinded has
been largely dependent on our partnerships
with community organisations and individuals
who are equipped to work with us to refine
the program content and delivery model.
In addition to long-standing partnerships in Australia,
New Zealand and across Asia and the Pacific, we have a target
to establish seven new partnerships by the end of 2023 to
expand the reach and improve the impact of MoneyMinded
within vulnerable communities.
Since October 2020, three significant new MoneyMinded
partnerships have commenced across the region:
•in New Zealand, we are working with Fruition Horticulture
Bay of Plenty (FHBoP), a registered education provider
supporting clients in the horticultural industry with
independent advice and services. Subject to COVID-19
border restrictions, together with FHBoP we are aiming to
deliver MoneyMinded to over 1,000 Seasonal Employees
every year
•we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
the Reserve Bank of Fiji, to help Fijians better manage
their funds and build their financial wellbeing through
MoneyMinded
•we have partnered with Powerpac, an approved provider
of the Australian Government’s Pacific Labour Scheme to
deliver MoneyMinded to Pacific seasonal workers arriving
in Australia.
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PACIFIC CHAMPIONS
IN FINANCIAL WELLBEING
Every country in our Pacific network has its own unique set
of economic and social challenges. Additionally, the economic
impact of COVID-19 has meant that many people (including
ANZ staff ) have been faced with changes to their household
income, reduction in working hours or loss of employment.
The MoneyMinded program in the Pacific supports people to
refocus and reset their financial goals and identify challenges
they may be facing – including obligations to family and
community that may be based on deep cultural traditions
and are particularly acute during a pandemic.
Central to this support are a number of MoneyMinded
champions – trusted and respected ANZ team members who
run MoneyMinded sessions in the broader community, and
who also encourage their ANZ colleagues to focus on their
own financial wellbeing so they can better meet the needs
of our customers.
MOBILE BANKING IN THE PACIFIC
Last year we undertook a review of the use and performance of our ANZ goMoney App in the Pacific.
The review revealed that the service was no longer viable due to declining use (there were 25,066 customers
using goMoney at end FY20) and a high number of dormant/unclaimed accounts for non-bank customers.
goMoney was therefore decommissioned at the end of November 2020 and our customers in the Pacific
were encouraged to transfer to the new ANZ Pacific App that offers similar features.
Prior to decommissioning, ANZ Solomon Islands were the primary users of goMoney. Since the
decommissioning of goMoney, the number of ANZ Pacific App customers in the Solomon Islands has
grown by 156% and the number of value transactions has tripled.
There are now more than 47,900 active ANZ Pacific App customers across seven countries – Fiji, Samoa,
Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Kiribati.
“Being a MoneyMinded champion means
I have the privilege and responsibility to
empower my community with MoneyMinded.
I hope they can look back on their financial
achievements and attribute it to what they have
learnt from attending MoneyMinded; that they
are able to take control back and make informed
decisions about what they want to achieve in
their lives through better planning and
management of the resources they have.”
Turoa Vatoko | Vanuatu
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Cash
$26,974,480
CONTRIBUTION BY TYPE
1
Management costs
$4,034,359
Time
$2,564,492
Forgone revenue
$106,040,643
In kind
$41,540
Total
$139,655,514
Since 2005, we have measured the dollar value of our community investment in accordance
with the Business for Societal Impact Framework (formerly known as London Benchmarking
Group), a global standard for measuring and managing social impact.
In 2021, our community investment was $139.7 million. This is largely due to the significant
decrease in volunteering as a result of restrictions on movement and physical distancing
throughout the pandemic. We facilitated more than $17.8 million in donations to community
organisations through our employees, customers, shareholders, other partners and the general
public through our digital giving platform, Shout for Good.
Employees
$1,699,418
Shareholders
(including dividend charity donation
program and forgone dividends)
$288,512
Shout for Good
$8 , 374,751
Customer donations
(including through internet banking)
$947,956
Other partners
$6,489,399
Community investment
We invest significantly in the communities in which we operate and play a role in
supporting their capacity and resilience. Throughout the year we have continued to work
closely with our community partners to ensure we are supporting our customers and
community in a respectful, fair and appropriate way during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. Cash: gross monetary amount paid in support of a community organisation/project. Time: cost to the company of the paid working hours contributed by employees
to a community organisation or activity. In-kind services: other non-cash resources to community activities (e.g. company products or services or corporate resources).
Management costs: costs incurred in making contributions, such as salaries and overheads. Forgone revenue: the cost of providing low or fee-free accounts to a range of
customers such as government benefit recipients, not-for-profit organisations, students and the elderly. International transfer fees were waived for funds sent from Australia
and New Zealand to the Pacific to support communities impacted by COVID-19.
Approximately $7 million of our
community investment total (around
23% of our cash, time and in-kind
contributions) contributed to programs
and initiatives that support women and
girls. We recognise that women’s social
and economic empowerment is critical
to achieving gender equality.
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GIVING
Our workplace giving program enables employees in
Australia to make contributions to around 30 charity
partners through regular or once-off pre-tax payroll
deductions. Donations are ‘double matched’ – for every
dollar donated by an employee (up to $5,000 per
employee in a tax year), ANZ donates two dollars.
Our employees in New Zealand and Fiji can also donate
through payroll to their respective staff foundations
(charitable trusts that provide small grants) and ANZ
double matches donations.
In 2021, together with our employees, we donated
$3,197,038 to charitable organisations in Australia,
New Zealand and Fiji.
COMMUNITY GRANTS
In 2021, we provided $2 million through
our community grants programs, impacting
approximately 447,457 people and their
communities.
Staff foundations
Our staff foundations in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji are
charitable trusts providing grants to local community
organisations and projects advancing financial wellbeing,
housing and environmental sustainability. The foundations
are jointly funded by workplace giving donations and ANZ
double-matching employee contributions.
The ANZ Community Foundation, which offers grants of
up to $30,000, provided 23 grants to organisations, totalling
more than $417,300.
In New Zealand, the Staff Foundation provides grants of up to
NZ$25,000 to New Zealand charities. This year, the Foundation
distributed 103 grants to organisations, totalling more than
NZ$1.2 million.
The ANZ Fiji Staff Foundation supports local charities working
in remote communities, including those providing funding to
support COVID-19 relief efforts, education and environmental
projects. This year FJ$45,700 was donated to fund nine
different community projects.
ANZ and Sydney Mardi Gras Community Grants
Since 2018, approximately 41 grants have been distributed to
support projects that benefit the LGBTIQ+ community, worth
a total of approximately $288,000.
ANZ Tennis Hot Shot Community Grants
Grants of $10,000 were awarded during the year to 10 tennis
clubs and venues around the country to support court
upgrades, provide shelter, and accessibility improvements.
Since 2018, approximately $700,000 in grants has been made
to 70 tennis clubs and venues.
For more information on all of our Community Grant
programs, please see anz.com.au/about-us/esg/
community/community-grants.
$2M
in community grants provided, impacting
approximately 447,457 people and their communities:
>$417,300
in grants through the
ANZ Community Foundation
FJ$45,700
donated through the
ANZ Fiji Staff Foundation
$88,000
in ANZ and Sydney Mardi
Gras Community Grants
>NZ$1.2M
in grants through the ANZ
New Zealand Staff Foundation
$100,000
in ANZ Tennis Hot Shot
Community Grants
$250,000
in ANZ Seeds of Renewal
community grants
2021 COMMUNITY GRANTS
$
Over 900 grants in Australia valued at
>$6M
(since 1988)
Over 1,300 grants in New Zealand valued at
>NZ$7.5M
(since 2000)
145 grants valued at
>FJ$945,700
(since 2006)
SINCE THEIR ESTABLISHMENT,
OUR STAFF FOUNDATIONS
HAVE PROVIDED
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VOLUNTEERING
Our Volunteer Leave Policy applies to permanent, regular and
fixed-term employees, and provides at least one day of paid
volunteer leave each year. This year, our people volunteered
54,645 hours to community organisations. This represents
more than 6,830 working days and more than $2.6 million
in value to the community. 15.5% of employees volunteered
this year, compared to 20.5% in 2020.
While COVID-19 continued to restrict in-person
opportunities, our focus on skilled volunteering
in recent years saw 38% of employees offer their
time and expertise in this way compared to
29% in 2020.
SHOUT FOR GOOD
In 2021, ANZ’s digital giving platform which supports charities
in Australia with free and innovative digital fundraising
solutions, facilitated more than $8 million in donations for over
300 charities. Shout supported charities who had to quickly
adapt their usual face-to-face fundraising initiatives due to
COVID-19 restrictions by introducing QR codes in November
2020 to facilitate donations. More than $436,400 was donated
using QR codes from more than 8,300 transactions.
Further information on Shout is available
at shoutforgood.com.
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ANZ Seeds of Renewal program
ANZ Seeds of Renewal provides grants
of up to $15,000, to help build vibrant and
sustainable communities in regional Australia.
This year, we funded $250,000 in community
grants, shared between 23 projects.
The Karrkad-Kanjdji Trust (the Trust) received a $15,000
grant to help protect local biodiversity by monitoring
vulnerable habitats in Arnhem Land. The project funded
a network of cameras to study the djabbo (northern
quoll) in order to understand the impact of the Trust’s
land management practices and programs on this
priority mammal species.
The project supports the work of 40 Indigenous
rangers, living and working on Country, who are
helping curb the decline in native biodiversity loss and
improve habitat. Rangers in West and Central Arnhem
Land use a blend of Indigenous ecological knowledge
and science to control threats and assist native species
to thrive in their natural environment.
Since 2003, the Seeds of Renewal program has
provided more than $5.3 million to over 880 community
projects across Australia. Further information on the
projects funded is available at frrr.org.au/grants/
anz-seeds-of-renewal.
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Calling on skilled expertise
During the year our National Customer Care
team shared their customer service skills and
expertise with The Smith Family.
Volunteers were involved in a data sharing project
to call parents and guardians of Learning for Life
scholarship students to obtain their consent for The
Smith Family to access school records directly from
the Department of Education (South Australia). This
would assist research and highlight better ways to
support students with their education.
ANZ volunteers collaborated with The Smith Family
to devise effective calling scripts. Eleven ANZ staff
volunteered the equivalent of 17 days over a number
of weeks – calling around 400 families. These calls led
to 100 families providing consent for data sharing on
behalf of more than 200 students in South Australia.
“ANZ’s support will enable The Smith
Family to offer families more targeted and
timely support, contributing to improved
educational outcomes for a greater number
of children and young people. The impact
of this is long-term and potentially
life-changing.”
Anne Hampshire | The Smith Family
Head of Research and Advocacy
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Supporting the community
through COVID-19
In April 2021, India experienced an unprecedented
health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ANZ
employees, customers and the community were directly
impacted. We donated $1 million to World Vision Australia’s
India COVID-19 Appeal to provide funding for more beds,
oxygen machines and hospital medical supplies in some
of the worst hit districts.
In addition, we launched an India COVID-19 Appeal
encouraging employees and customers to donate,
with ANZ matching donations dollar-for-dollar over
two months.
The campaign was initially to support World Vision
Australia, however it soon grew, with local fundraising
efforts set-up for employees to donate in-country and
support World Vision’s national offices in New Zealand,
Singapore and Hong Kong. Our people also supported
two local Indian organisations, CBM India Trust and the
Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled.
A total of approximately $1.6 million was raised (including
matched funds) by ANZ and more than 2,000 employees
and customers. The funds have been used to support
global relief efforts and provided approximately 215
hospital beds, 227 oxygen concentrators, 756 personal
protective equipment kits, and provided 3,500 families
with COVID-19 prevention and child protection messages.
Psychosocial support and counselling to people, mostly
children, has also commenced with training of over 1,300
community volunteers. In addition, our support provided
essential ration kits to 1,000 families for three months in
the areas of Karnataka and Assam.
CASE STUDY
As the largest bank in Fiji, we supported
our customers impacted by COVID-19
with hardship options including payment
deferrals, interest only and loan term
extensions. We also played a role in helping
the Fijian Government with its vaccination
program. A further FJ$60,000 was committed to
grassroots organisations across Fiji to support
communities impacted by COVID-19.
NATURAL DISASTER RELIEF AND
BUILDING RESILIENCE
We are supporting our customers and communities to
manage and recover from natural disasters. Our Disaster Relief
and Recovery Policy guides an efficient, coordinated and
proportionate response to disasters. The policy encompasses
a range of measures, including charitable donations, hardship
assistance, financial advice and employee volunteering to
assist with community rebuilding.
As part of our $50 billion sustainable solutions target, we have
committed to fund and facilitate at least $1 billion towards
disaster resilience initiatives by 2025. This includes long-term
recovery, prevention and risk mitigation initiatives.
During 2021 we activated financial relief packages for
customers in Australia affected by bushfires in Perth and
surrounding areas, cyclones Niran and Seroja in Queensland
and Western Australia respectively, and floods in New South
Wales and Victoria. In addition, we made a $50,000 donation
to the Community Rebuilding Trust Initiative, BizRebuild, a
business-led initiative developed by the Business Council of
Australia designed to respond to community needs following
disasters and emergencies.
We donated FJ$30,000 to local Fijian organisations following
the damage from Tropical Cyclone Yasa in December.
In April we donated US$50,000 to the Red Cross to support
Timor-Leste’s recovery from floods that caused severe damage
in Dili and remote towns and villages.
We also implemented our New Zealand customer assistance
package for those affected by floods in Hawke’s Bay in
November and Canterbury in June.
For more information please see
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/community/disaster-relief/.
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Our approach to climate change
We are committed to playing our part in supporting the
transition to net zero emissions by 2050.
The most important role we can play in meeting the Paris
Agreement goals is to help our customers reduce emissions
and enhance their resilience to a changing climate. We
support an orderly transition that recognises and responds
to social impacts. This aligns with our purpose to shape
a world in which people and communities thrive.
Our climate change statement outlines our approach
and commitments in support of a global transition to net
zero. We are reviewing our position. Our updated position
will be released prior to our Annual General Meeting together
with our 2021 Climate-related Financial Disclosures (our fifth
report using the recommendations of the Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)), available at
anz.com/annualreport.
CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
We are developing an enhanced climate risk management
framework that strengthens our governance and is responsive
to climate change.
Our Climate Advisory and Coordination Forum, chaired by
Mark Whelan, Group Executive Institutional, includes our
Chief Risk Officer and other executives. The forum shapes
the future direction of climate policy, disclosures and related
matters across the Group.
Subject matter experts are overseeing the development of
the climate risk management framework, across five working
groups focused on regulatory monitoring, policy governance,
risk appetite, the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority’s
Climate Vulnerability Assessment and analytics.
Our priority this year has been to ensure we
are compliant with all current or emerging
regulation. We will implement appropriate
processes to assess impacts of new and emerging
regulatory requirements to ensure compliance
with relevant obligations across the jurisdictions
in which we operate.
New technologies and markets required for the transition to
net zero emissions may require a change to risk appetite and
accordingly we are refining our Risk Appetite Statements
across the Group.
We continue to measure the carbon intensity of industry
exposures within our portfolio and are investigating
opportunities to enhance our ESG data and analytical
capabilities. Improved data and insights will allow us to define a
Group-wide strategy that will inform appetite settings, enabling
us to develop scenarios to stress test particular portfolios.
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Our approach to
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Sustainable finance
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CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
We have engaged with 100 of our largest emitting business
customers, supporting them to establish and, where
appropriate, strengthen existing transition plans.
Customers have valued our engagement on this topic, and our
perspectives. A number of customers outside of the 100 have
sought to engage with us, seeking clarity on our expectations
or requesting suggestions to improve their approach.
While our original target was aimed at supporting customers
(where applicable) to establish their plans, we recognise that
amongst the group of 100 there are now few at that stage
– rather, they are at various stages of implementation even if
they have not disclosed their plans publicly. Our focus now is
on supporting our customers’ efforts to implement or, where
a plan is less developed, strengthen their transition plans.
We consider three key elements constitute a robust low
carbon transition plan:
•governance
•targets/long-term plans; and
•disclosures that are preferably TCFD-aligned.
1
We acknowledge the need to protect and restore ecosystems and mitigate biodiversity loss.
We understand the impacts – positive and negative – that our business customers can have on biodiversity.
In line with our Social and Environmental Risk Policy, we expect our business customers to use internationally accepted
industry practices to manage social, environmental and economic impacts, including potential results on biodiversity.
We are:
•Broadening our engagement with our largest emitting
business customers to include a focus on biodiversity,
encouraging and supporting them to identify and
manage their potential impacts on biodiversity. We
are also encouraging them to establish or strengthen
their approach to biodiversity through effective Board
governance, policies and strategies, and disclosures
using recognised indicators or metrics. We will also
apply what we learn from this engagement to help us
identify and engage with other business customers that
are likely to have significant impacts on biodiversity.
•Collaborating with industry groups and customers to
identify investment opportunities that have improved
biodiversity outcomes and commercial benefit. For
example, increased yields and longer-term productive
outputs, such as soil health and flood-risk mitigation. We
welcome the establishment of the Taskforce on Nature-
related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and have joined
the TNFD Forum to support their work. We recognise
the TNFD's important role in driving widespread and
improved disclosures of biodiversity impacts.
BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Customers
CUSTOMER TRANSITION PLAN STATUS
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plans
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1. See https://news.anz.com/posts/2019/may/low-carbon-transition-plans.
Of the 100 customers we have engaged with over the
last three years, the diagram below shows how many we
have assessed as having met each of the three transition
plan elements.
Following our initial engagement, customer transition
plans were grouped into levels of maturity – advanced,
developing/intermediate, underdeveloped/starting out,
and no public plans.
Since this initial assessment, nine customers have sufficiently
improved their governance, strategies and targets or
disclosures, leading to an improved assessment. Many other
customers have also clearly demonstrated improvement since
their initial assessment. We observed a rise in the intention to
develop ‘Paris aligned’ or ‘science-based’ targets or report
under the TCFD framework, and a similar rise in interest in
engaging with ANZ on this topic.
While we consider this to be good progress, we understand
there is still much to be done. That is why we have committed
to continue supporting these larger emitting customers to
implement and, where appropriate, strengthen their low
carbon transition plans and enhance their efforts to protect
biodiversity, by end 2024. As part of this engagement we
expect that more customers will improve their plans to
a developing/intermediate, or advanced stage over the
next three years.
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PARTNERSHIPS
We have a role to play in sharing insights,
promoting collaboration across the industry
and assisting with the development of
sustainable finance industry standards.
Australian Sustainable Finance Institute
In 2021, we became a founding member of the Australian
Sustainable Finance Institute.
Eighty organisations associated with the financial sector
have, through the Institute and its predecessor organisation,
developed a roadmap to re-align Australia’s financial system
to contribute to the transition to a more resilient and
sustainable economy, consistent with the UN Sustainable
Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. The
roadmap tackles a broad suite of challenges including climate
change, biodiversity loss and economic inequality.
The institute is now focused on developing, in consultation
with its members and a number of government bodies,
a program of work to support the implementation of
the roadmap.
Toitū Tahua Centre for Sustainable Finance
In July 2021, ANZ New Zealand became a founding
member of the Toitū Tahua Centre for Sustainable Finance
(CSF), a charitable trust established under the umbrella of
the Aotearoa Circle. The Aotearoa Circle is a partnership of
public and private sector leaders, committed to the pursuit
of sustainable prosperity and reversing the decline of
New Zealand's natural resources.
The CSF will implement the Aotearoa Circle Roadmap for
Sustainable Finance, which sets out eleven priority areas
for action. The roadmap focuses efforts in three key areas:
changing mindsets, transforming the finance system and
financing the transformation.
New Zealand Sustainable Agriculture
Finance Initiative
ANZ New Zealand was a leading partner in the development
of the Sustainable Agriculture Finance Initiative, a voluntary
framework developed by the New Zealand finance sector
under the umbrella of the Aotearoa Circle, for integrating
sustainability considerations into agriculture finance decisions.
The draft guidance, launched in July 2021, maps international
definitions of sustainable agriculture practices against
domestic environmental standards used by New Zealand
farmers, to support the flow of capital to New Zealand
sustainable agriculture.
We participated in
81
sustainable finance deals with a total deal
size of $119 billion
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, compared to 39 deals
with a total deal size of $59 billion in 2020
$90B
(46 deals) from
International
$24B
(21 deals) from
Australia
$5B
(14 deals) from
New Zealand
DURING 2021
Sustainable finance
Increasing demand for sustainable finance has seen us develop and expand our products and services
to meet our customers’ needs. This year, in what we believe to be a first by an Australian bank, we
launched a framework to support customers pursuing sustainable supply chain management. The
framework incorporates a sustainability performance-linked pricing mechanism into our supply chain
finance products. We also launched several new products, including sustainability-linked derivatives
such as interest rate swaps and green and sustainability-linked guarantees.
$29 billion
(15 deals) from
Diversied Industries
$17 billion
(7 deals) from Food,
Beverages and Agriculture
$48 billion
(33 deals) from Financial
Institutions Group
$11 billion
(12 deals) from
Property and Health
$14 billion
(14 deals) from Resources,
Energy and Infrastructure
$119B
$29 billion
(15 deals) from
Diversied Industries
$17 billion
(7 deals) from Food,
Beverages and Agriculture
$48 billion
(33 deals) from Financial
Institutions Group
$11 billion
(12 deals) from
Property and Health
$14 billion
(14 deals) from Resources,
Energy and Infrastructure
$119B
1. Of the 81 sustainable finance deals we
participated in, $5.7 billion was attributed
to ANZ via our distribution capability, and
$4.8 billion via our lending capacity.
OVERVIEW
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
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INCLUSION
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PROGRESS AGAINST OUR
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TARGET
We have committed to fund and facilitate at
least $50 billion by 2025 towards sustainable
solutions for our customers, including
initiatives that help improve environmental
sustainability, support disaster resilience,
increase access to affordable housing and
promote financial wellbeing.
$1.6 billion
Energy
$2.8 billion
Green Building
$0.1 billion
Waste
$0.2 billion
Water
$0.8 billion
Transport
$4.9 billion
Sustainability-
linked Facilities
$1.3 billion
Aordable Housing
$0.4 billion
Sustainable
Development
$12.2B
FUNDED
Environmental
45%
ENVIRONMENTAL
Social
14%
Sustainability-
linked
41%
SOCIAL
SUSTAINABILITY-
LINKED
$1.1 billion
Green Buildings/
Renewable Loan
Distribution
$0.5 billion
Advisory
$8.2 billion
ESG-format
Bonds
FACILITATED
$9.8B
11%
84%
5%
1. Includes Wind/Solar/Battery/Transmission Infrastructure/Energy Transition.
2. Low carbon transportation projects such as light rail, electric vehicle
manufacturing. 3. Corporate loans to borrowers across multiple industry
sectors where terms are linked to improved performance against agreed
environmental and/or social targets that reflect the borrower’s material
sustainability risks, e.g. emissions reduction; increased renewable energy
consumption; labour-force diversity. 4. Comprises credit lines to global
development banks and agencies providing support to emerging economies.
5. Green, Social, Sustainable, Sustainability-Linked and Transition Bonds and
other ESG-related bonds within the sustainable finance market. 6. Loans
initially underwritten by ANZ and subsequently sold on to other lenders,
e.g. other banks, fund managers and super funds.
FINANCING OUR CUSTOMERS'
SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS
We are focused on identifying opportunities to
support our customers’ low carbon transition
and sustainable business activities across the
following product areas:
Green, Social, Sustainability and
Sustainability-linked Loans
Lending to deploy capital into green, social and
sustainability initiatives, where borrowers are required
to invest in qualifying green and/or social assets or
where loan terms are linked to improved performance
against agreed sustainability targets.
Highlight
In July 2021, ANZ participated in the AUD $2.2 billion
refinance of the Celsus Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) Public
Private Partnership project financing. The first Sustainability
Loan Facility for the global healthcare sector, the financing
aligns to the project’s social and green credentials, as South
Australia’s largest public hospital and largest accredited
teaching hospital, and its 4 Star Green Star – Healthcare
As-Built rating from the Green Building Council of Australia.
ANZ acted as Mandated Lead Arranger, Intercreditor Agent
and one of two Sustainability (Green and Social) Coordinators.
Green and Sustainable Infrastructure
(Project) Finance
Greenfields project financing to support the
development of long-term sustainable infrastructure,
e.g. renewable energy, light rail.
Highlight
In December 2020, ANZ provided $47.6 million in financing
for Canberra Metro Finance Pty Ltd’s electrified light rail
network in Australia’s first green loan for a public–private
partnership. The Canberra light rail project is fully powered by
the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT ) 100% renewable energy
grid and is integral to support the ACT’s commitment to
carbon neutrality by 2045. ANZ acted as Mandated Lead
Arranger and Green Loan Coordinator.
Since October 2019 we have funded and facilitated
$21.95 billion across 192 transactions including green,
social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition
loans and bonds, renewable energy and affordable housing.
$12.2 billion of transactions are on balance sheet loans and
other credit lines provided to borrowers by ANZ, whilst
$9.8 billion has been facilitated, including through advisory
services; ESG-format bonds; and loans initially underwritten
by ANZ and subsequently sold on to other lenders.
The majority of target transactions provide funding for
sustainability-linked facilities, green buildings, renewable
energy and affordable housing (45%, 23%, 13% and 11%
of funded transactions respectively), and facilitate ESG-
format Bonds issuance (84% of facilitated transactions).
OVERVIEW
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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Corporate Finance advisory services for renewables
Providing advisory services in relation to the purchase,
sale and raising of capital for renewable energy projects.
Highlight
In May 2021, ANZ acted as sole Financial Advisor for J-POWER,
one of Japan’s leading electrical power generation and
transmission companies, providing detailed valuation and
advisory services for the acquisition of a minority stake in GNX.
The acquisition assisted GNX with financing for its $750 million,
250MW Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project located in
Queensland. The Project will be one of Australia’s first pumped
hydro energy projects and is expected to create around 500
jobs in North Queensland. The Project can provide eight hours
of energy storage, enough to power 143,000 homes.
ESG-format bonds
Distribution of capital into green, social and
sustainability initiatives, e.g. green buildings, renewable
energy or where bond terms are linked to improved
performance against agreed sustainability targets.
Highlight
In February 2021, ANZ was the joint bookrunner and sole
sustainability coordinator for Surbana Jurong Private Limited’s
SG$250 million ten-year Sustainability-linked Bond. The bond
ties Surbana Jurong's sustainability targets to its bond
financing terms, whereby the issuer has committed to pay
investors a premium of the redemption amount at maturity
if it does not meet these targets.
Sustainable Supply Chain Finance
Financing that incentivises a company’s supply chain
to improve sustainability performance by offering a
lower cost of capital to suppliers where there are
improvements in their sustainability ratings.
Highlight
In January 2021, we provided US$50m in lending for Nestle’s
Sustainable Supply Chain Finance program. Suppliers for the
Nespresso Coffee line with the Rainforest Alliance Certified
(RAC) rating will receive margin benefit; if the supplier loses
its RAC rating, pricing will increase by the same amount.
ANZ/Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)
Energy Efficient Asset Finance (EEAF) Program
Financing that incentivises Australian corporate
and retail customers to invest in energy efficient and
renewable energy technologies that will help reduce
their energy costs and carbon emissions.
FY21 closed
152 deals $39.6M volume
Highlight
Since its launch in 2017, this program has helped finance more
than $225 million of investment in over 1,000 clean energy
technology deals for our corporate and agribusiness customers.
Energy efficiency remains the major asset category, with
customers seeing rapid paybacks associated with upgrades
to new and more efficient plant and machinery.
ANZ Environment Loan
Financing that incentivises New Zealand farmers to
implement environmental initiatives on their farm.
This includes advisory services to prepare farm
environment plans, water and energy conservation
projects, or the purchase of farm infrastructure to
improve environment management.
Highlight
In 2021, John and Geraldine Taylor, who have farmed sheep
and cattle for 54 years in Wellsford, took out an environment
loan to finish a riparian planting programme in the Hōteo
Catchment. The replanting is part of a long-term goal to
"do our bit to save important snapper breeding grounds
in Kaipara harbour," says John.
More than 14 years ago, the Taylors began fencing off gullies,
waterways and marginal areas to keep stock out of danger
zones. They quickly noticed the environmental benefits of the
replanting, such as reduced soil erosion and nutrient run off
and increased biodiversity in the gullies. “You have to look for
the positives and not the negatives,” says John when he
responds to naysayers.
“Back then I'd climb into a gully to rescue a lamb and ewe,
look up and wonder how I was going to get them back up,”
said John. “Now it's quick for me to whip around and check
the stock and I get to see a bigger range of species growing
in these gullies.”
“NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)
and DOC (Department of Conservation) have approached us
to come and do some water testing. It will be interesting to
see how our work has improved water quality and stopped
nutrient run off into watercourses.”
Over the years, John has worked with, and gained funding
from, councils, local boards, local business networks, and
crowdfunding to completely fence off and plant marginal land,
making it easier to farm the land and protect the environment.
“ANZ funding gave us certainty. It was easy to
obtain, a low interest rate, and it gave us surety
that we could pay on the day.”
John
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SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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As a result, we have met the majority
of our 2025 targets ahead of schedule.
Anticipating some level of ‘normalisation’ when our
employees can return to the office, we are undertaking
analysis to understand the potential impacts and how we
might maintain or improve the reductions in water, waste
and office paper. Our aim, post this review, is to set new
targets to commence from 1 July 2022.
We recognise that our people working from home are
creating waste and using electricity, gas and water that would
previously have been consumed in our offices. The impact of
Australian-based staff working from home this year equates to
12,780 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, which we offset
as a part of our Climate Active carbon neutral certification.
Our business operations
have been carbon neutral
since 2010.
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
The COVID-19 pandemic saw
approximately 95% of our
non-branch staff working from
home, significantly reducing
resource consumption across
our property portfolio and
consequently reducing our
environmental footprint.
ANZ Retreat 839 Collins Street, Docklands
OVERVIEW
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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CO
2
Our performance
1. Business travel emissions include emissions arising from air travel, taxi travel and hotel accommodation.
Due to international and
inter-state border restrictions,
business travel-related
emissions have reduced 91%,
avoiding 20,393 tonnes
of greenhouse gas emissions.
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In Australia, we were
powered by 38,975 MWh
of renewable energy
from the ANZ Murra Warra
Wind Farm turbines and
255 MWh of renewable
energy through on-site solar
arrays at the ANZ Campus in
Docklands, Melbourne and
our Melbourne data centres.
Water saving valves were
installed in all kitchen and
bathroom taps at our
Three Exchange Square
office in Hong Kong.
80 tonnes of waste
was diverted from
landfill during partial
refurbishment of our
head office in Docklands.
Internal risk or legislative
requirements, together
with pre-existing habits
related to printing out
documents, are key reasons
for continued paper use.
Our global property
footprint decreased due to
consolidation, including the
closure of our 111 Parramatta
Road office and relocation of
employees into the more
energy efficient 242 Pitt Street
building in the Sydney CBD.
This move will avoid
750 tonnes of greenhouse
gas emissions annually.
The consumption of this
renewable energy has
avoided approximately
38,400 tonnes of
greenhouse gas emissions.
Traditional steam cleaning
of carpets and furniture
across our portfolio was
replaced with low moisture
cleaning. This will save over
75,000 litres of water per
annum at our head office
in Docklands alone.
New recycling stations at
major Australian offices
enable staff to easily
recycle batteries, mobile
phones, printer cartridges,
clothing and soft plastics
brought in from home.
GHG Emissions Renewable EnergyWaterWastePaper
Scope 1 and 2 emissions
have decreased by
47%
tracking ahead of the
required reduction to meet
our 2025 and 2030 targets.
In 2021, our operations
were powered by
36%
renewable electricity.
Office water consumption
decreased by
63%
since 2017.
Waste to landfill has
decreased by
65%
since 2017.
Paper consumption has
reduced by
64%
since 2015.
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ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
WELLBEING AND
INCLUSION
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Sustainable building design
We have developed a new fit-out methodology for
use in the design of branch refurbishments and
relocations, focused on the following three principles:
Modularity – materials and components used can
be re-used or relocated over and over again
Recyclable/compostable – materials and
components used are recyclable or compostable
when they reach the end of their useful lifecycle
Locally sourced – reduces the carbon footprint of the
base materials or components and provides visibility
on the environmental and social (E&S) credentials of
the products we use. Non-local products will only be
used when rigorous assessment against E&S criteria
has been undertaken.
CASE STUDY
Our Green Ambassador Program supports our people to live more sustainably.
This year we held our inaugural Green Ambassador Summit, a virtual event providing a professional learning and
development experience for our Green Ambassador volunteers. Approximately 600 attendees heard from business
and community leaders on the latest sustainability insights.
Some of the initiatives our Green Ambassadors have worked on this year include:
•Virtual paper bag-making sessions, where hundreds of volunteers from our Bengaluru service centres made
approximately 90,000 paper bags using old newspapers. The bags were distributed to local vendors to promote
recycling and reduce their reliance on plastic.
•Promotion of the #EarthHour campaign, where staff switched off lights and electronic appliances for one hour in
support of the environment. In Manila, 247 staff participated at home, and non-essential lights were turned off
in Service Centres, avoiding approximately 100 kWh of energy.
•A move to digital mailboxes, led by teams in Vietnam and Hong Kong, to reduce reliance on paper and minimise
digital waste. Staff in our Hanoi office reduced their paper consumption by 42% in the first month of the campaign.
As a signatory to the Climate Leaders Coalition, we are playing our part to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions in New Zealand. In addition to reducing our own footprint, we are supporting
our people and our suppliers to reduce their emissions too.
For our people, we provide end-of-trip facilities to encourage employees to cycle or walk/run
to work, support flexible working arrangements and hold environmental sustainability information sessions.
In partnership with Sustainable Coastlines, our staff, customers and other businesses volunteer in annual planting
activities throughout New Zealand. The programme includes education and awareness raising of environmental issues
and helps our staff and communities understand the importance of biodiversity. We also engage staff in beach cleaning
activities in summer.
We are committed to working with our suppliers to reduce their emissions. In 2020, we surveyed our top 100 suppliers
by spend in New Zealand to understand what they are already doing and identify potential areas of improvement to
work with them on. For further details on the outcomes of this engagement, refer to page 50.
CLIMATE LEADERS COALITION
GREEN AMBASSADORS
OVERVIEW
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
HUMAN RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE
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INCLUSION
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Improving the availability
and affordability of homes
We are committed to helping improve the availability of
suitable and affordable housing options for all Australians
and New Zealanders.
Our work supports the delivery of housing across
the continuum including:
› increasing the supply of social and affordable housing
› investing in emerging markets such as build to rent,
specialist disability accommodation and land lease housing
› backing new housing models to scale including
build-to-rent-to-own.
Through our community investment initiatives,
we are also working with our partners to help alleviate
homelessness.
We have a role in helping to improve the availability and
affordability of housing, including support for innovative
housing delivery models across the private, public and
not-for-profit sectors, through research and market expertise,
and through our partnerships with community organisations.
HOUSING INSIGHTS
During the year we engaged with industry stakeholders
to ensure we remain directly linked to the housing policy
agenda, offering both public policy and market expertise to
support government, customers and the community with
relevant insights to inform their decision-making.
In particular, our ongoing work with CoreLogic (a provider
of property data and analytics) delivers housing affordability
research and in-depth market analysis for the Australian and
New Zealand housing market. Our research on the continued
impact of COVID-19 on the housing market has shown that
affordability has worsened across all States and Territories this
year, as house prices and rents rise faster than incomes.
Housing affordability deteriorated against all measures in
2021 – value to income, serviceability, years to save a deposit
and rental affordability. In addition, average loan sizes have
increased. Average first home buyer loans reached a record
high of $456,000 in June, with no signs of average loan size
easing. New ‘upgrader’ loans are also far higher this year, at
an average of $671,000 in June.
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Improving the
availability and
affordability
of homes
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Land Lease Communities – helping more
people into affordable housing
Land Lease Communities (“LLC”) are an emerging
growth market in retirement living, offering an
affordable housing option for the over 55’s market.
LLC’s vary from traditional seniors’ living accommodation
in that residents purchase the home and lease the land.
This reduces the upfront capital required to purchase the
home and instead allows residents to make a rental
payment to the LLC operator. These payments are typically
underpinned by government entitlements, including the
pension and Commonwealth rental assistance.
The demand for LLC is increasing, driven by Australia’s
ageing population and housing affordability issues.
Demographers predict that Australia’s population of over
50's will double by 2050, with around half of retirees
expected to receive a government pension on retirement.
Entering a LLC is an affordable retirement option, with
homes typically priced at between 40 to 80% of the median
house price. LLCs also allow for an equity release from the
sale of a family home – as residents do not acquire land,
no stamp duty is payable.
LLCs have the further benefit of offering low maintenance
homes, with community facilities such as swimming pools
and bowling greens that allow for engagement with
other residents.
ANZ is the leading financier to the LLC sector in Australia,
with approximately $1.0 billion in committed facilities.
Through our clients we maintain banking relationships
with approximately 20,000 Land Lease homes, making
up approximately 40% of the LLC sector in Australia.
CASE STUDY
In August 2021, we participated in the financing of
a national LLC operator, Serenitas, with a $125 million
five-year transaction. This financing will assist in Serenitas’s
LLC expansion across the eastern seaboard – it currently
has 18 communities with 2,900 occupied sites and a
further 1,700 sites in its pipeline.
Investment in this sector aligns with our sustainable
solutions and housing targets, by providing affordable
housing to seniors. Our work with LLCs will continue to
increase the supply of purpose built, affordable housing
for the over 55’s market.
BRINGING MORE HOMES TO MARKET
We have a target to fund and facilitate
$10 billion of investment by 2030 to deliver
more affordable, accessible and sustainable
homes to buy and rent. (Australia/
New Zealand)
•Since 2018 we have funded and facilitated
approximately $3.87 billion towards the $10 billion target,
with $1.43 billion of investment in the past 12 months.
•Key initiatives delivered in 2021 include:
–joint arranger of all five bond issuances for the
Commonwealth’s National Housing Finance and
Investment Corporation (NHFIC) over the last three years
totaling approximately $2 billion. The capital raised allows
NHFIC to provide low cost, long-term loans to registered
community housing providers to support the provision
of more social and affordable housing
–lead financier to the Land Lease Community sector,
designed to deliver affordable seniors housing
–lead commercial financier of $226 million in committed
facilities in the Specialist Disability Accommodation sector
–advocating for institutional investment in long-term rental
housing through the backing of a range of ‘build-to-hold’
and ‘build-to-rent’ projects.
OVERVIEW
FINANCIAL
WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
Improving the
availability and
affordability
of homes
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RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
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COMMITTED TO AFFORDABLE AND
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN NEW ZEALAND
This year we committed to support Community Finance,
a platform that brings together investors with New Zealand
based Community Housing Providers to build affordable
homes. As part of this support, we were the first major bank
in New Zealand to commit to The Aotearoa Pledge to raise
NZ$100 million for the construction of new affordable
housing in 2021, via the issue of community finance bonds.
We continued to support Kāinga Ora (Homes and
Communities) as the joint lending manager on an additional
bond issuance, which contributed NZ$600 million to be used
to help fund government investment in new and upgraded
social housing.
We continue to support minimum housing standards in
New Zealand through our Healthy Homes products:
•The ANZ Healthy Home Loan package, offering discounts
on home loan interest rates and other benefits for energy
efficient homes. Customers can apply for the package if
they are buying, building, renovating, or already own a
home with a 6 Homestar rating or higher.
•Interest-free home loan top ups are available for the
installation of insulation and were expanded to include
heat pumps this year.
•Since October 2020, we have supported 1,065 households
into healthier homes through our Healthy Home Loan
Package (36 households) and our interest-free Insulation
Loans (1,029 households).
We have also maintained our partnership with the
New Zealand Green Building Council to support our Healthy
Home products. This includes support for HomeFit which
is a free online tool to check the health, comfort, energy
efficiency and safety of New Zealand homes. It can be used
by New Zealanders to check how healthy a prospective home
is, or advise on how they can improve the health of their
current home.
PARTNERING WITH THE
HOMELESSNESS SECTOR
We continue to build on our community partnerships to
support organisations working in the homelessness sector
to deliver housing and support those most in need. This
year, around 16% of the total funds distributed by our
workplace giving program, and the ANZ Community
Foundation and Seeds of Renewal grants programs, went
towards projects seeking to alleviate homelessness and
provide housing supports.
ANZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
HOUSING GRANTS
This year, the ANZ Community Foundation provided a number
of grants to not-for-profit organisations to support programs
providing appropriate housing for Australians experiencing
vulnerability and at risk of homelessness, including:
•A project run by National Homeless Collective Limited in
Melbourne, to provide support and financial assistance to
women and children fleeing domestic violence. The grant
has been used to implement a two-week rent in advance
scheme to provide essential financial assistance for access
to private market housing.
•The “Same Landlord Different Tenant” initiative run by the
St John’s Crisis Centre to improve access to safe housing
for individuals and families fleeing domestic violence in
the greater Gold Coast community. The grant allows for St
Johns to rent out an apartment on behalf of an individual
or family in need of housing. Once the tenant is financially
back on their feet and can maintain the property, the lease
is transferred into their name.
•The KARI After Care Program, an initiative by the KARI
Foundation in Sydney, to provide support and increase
opportunities and skills amongst young Indigenous
Australians living in Out-of-Home Care. The program allows
young people aged 17 to 25 years to enter into shared
accommodation with a private bedroom equipped with
furniture and all the other home essentials needed to live
independently. While staying in the program, they will be
supported by an After Care worker. Supports include help
with life skills such as cooking, budgeting and cleaning,
and assistance to find opportunities for further education
and employment.
Helping break the cycle
of homelessness
In June, 20 ANZ staff joined other leaders from
business, community and government in the annual
Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Our staff raised $71,400 for
the St Vincent de Paul Society during the campaign,
sleeping rough for a night to raise funds for those
in need and raising awareness of the growing
homelessness crisis.
The sleepout was a virtual event again this year in
Victoria, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Rather than
sleeping out together in the city, participants were in
cars, backyards and other places – more accurately
mirroring the homelessness situation in Australia.
Gerard Florian, Group Executive Technology at ANZ,
participated for the second time. “I learnt a lot about
this crisis in my first sleep out,” he says. “I met a mother
who found herself without suitable shelter for herself
and her young family. I heard stories from men and
women – some with young kids, others grandparents
– all of whom faced the real prospect of being ‘under
the stars’ – but not by choice.”
Also among the participants was ANZ District Manager
Claude Piscioneri, who completed his tenth sleepout
this year for Vinnies and ANZ. This is the 16th
consecutive year ANZ has supported the sleepout.
CASE STUDY
•A project run by Society Melbourne, an organisation
dedicated to tackling youth homelessness in Melbourne.
The project seeks to improve the financial literacy skills of
young people experiencing homelessness. In partnership
with ANZ and the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the six-
month project introduced a financial literacy module to
Society Melbourne's home.plate program. Home.plate
provides paid hospitality training to young people who
are at risk of, or who have experienced, homelessness.
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WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
Improving the
availability and
affordability
of homes
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
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a focus on frequent, meaningful and consistent
contact with our people to keep information flowing
freely, increasing senior leader presence in Group-wide
calls, town halls, and Yammer (our social network).
Our Internal Audit group has continued to conduct culture
reviews throughout the year, supporting teams to understand
their own culture and their impact on ANZ’s aspirational and
risk culture. The results of these reviews, 19 in 2021, are used to
develop action plans to help tackle identified challenges and
drive a positive shift towards our desired culture. Further detail
is provided on page 29 of the Annual Report, available
at anz.com/annualreport.
We have continued to strengthen and embed the
Accountability and Consequence Framework. Further
detail is provided on page 30 of the Annual Report.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Our Code describes how we work at ANZ. It sets expected
standards of behaviour and guides us in applying our values.
Our Code explicitly requires all employees and contractors
to be ethical and professional, act with integrity, protect
competition and the competitive process, treat everyone
with dignity and respect, manage conflicts of interest, protect
privacy and confidentiality, and also call out unacceptable
behaviour and stand up for what is right. Our Code requires
all employees and contractors to comply with the law as well
as all of our policies and procedures.
Our desired culture is underpinned by our purpose, values
and Code of Conduct (Code), and is focused on delivering
great customer outcomes, making things simpler and
always learning.
We have seen an improvement in our ‘speak up’ culture over
the last few years as a result of targeted and sustained efforts.
We know this is fundamental to our risk culture and for us to
be an innovative and inclusive organisation. We must bring
the right people together, and listen to and challenge each
other constructively, if we want to deliver on our strategy.
81%
80%
of people feel that when they
speak up their ideas, opinions
and concerns are heard
78% in April 2021 | 79% in April 2020
of people feel they can raise issues
and concerns in ANZ without fear of
reprisal or negative consequences
73% in April 2021 | 74% April 2020
Speak up ‘champions’ throughout the bank provide an avenue
for employees to raise concerns. This can range from a quick
chat before using one of the other speak up channels, such
as our whistleblower program, through to end-to-end
confidential support and guidance. We have also maintained
1. A copy of our Code of Conduct and the full list of policies is available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
Improving conduct and culture
We are creating an environment where employees are motivated
and empowered to do the right thing and challenge constructively
when they see something wrong.
The Code is supported by a suite of policies that are reviewed
regularly to ensure they reflect any legislative changes and
remain fit for purpose.
1
We expect our banking partners
(such as suppliers, service providers and other relevant third
parties) to adopt and maintain conduct and ethics principles
similar to those outlined in the Code and supporting policies.
All employees and contractors are required to complete
training courses within two months of commencing with
ANZ and then on an annual basis. The courses include training
on ‘Living the Code’, ‘Equal Opportunity Essentials’ (includes
anti-discrimination and sexual harassment), ‘Compliance
Essentials’ (includes Anti-Money Laundering and Operational
Risk Essentials), ‘Security Essentials’ (includes information and
cyber security) and Privacy, Competition Law and Consumer
Protection. The Living the Code course reinforces the
importance of our values, and seeks a declaration of compliance
with the Code. By completing the course, participants are
confirming they understand the Code’s principles and have
complied with them over the last 12 months.
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customers
Improving customer
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In 2021, 99.97% of our employees and contractors completed
the training. Individuals who fail to complete this training or
other mandatory learning requirements within 30 days of
the due date are (in the absence of genuinely exceptional
circumstances) ineligible for any salary increase or incentive
as part of our annual remuneration review.
Our performance management framework includes an
annual assessment against two distinct components: ‘How’
employees have demonstrated our desired behaviours as
well as ‘What’ outcomes they have achieved. Performance
management guides and other materials are updated
regularly and made available to all employees on our intranet.
This guidance includes clearly articulated impacts to
performance and remuneration outcomes in our annual
performance and remuneration review for employees who do
not meet expected standards of performance or behaviour.
In 2021, there were 1,435 employee relations cases involving
alleged breaches of our Code, with 573 resulting in a formal
consequence or the employee leaving ANZ, up from 569 in
2020. Breaches ranged from compliance/procedural breaches
(44%) through to general unacceptable behaviour (31%),
email/systems misuse (11%), attendance issues (5%), fraud/
theft (4%), conflict of interest (3%), and breaches of our Equal
Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy (2%).
Outcomes
following investigations of breaches this year included 114
terminations, 381 warnings and 78 employees otherwise
leaving ANZ.
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WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY
The Whistleblower Policy and Program is a core component
of ANZ’s strong and effective risk management and corporate
governance framework. We apply Australian whistleblower
regulations across our operations. Additional country-specific
regulations imposing higher or contrary regulatory/legal
obligations are captured in Country Schedules to the Policy.
The Whistleblower Program is one of many channels
encouraging and empowering our people to speak up and
raise misconduct concerns, freely and without fear of reprisal.
The Policy and Program provide strong protections for
individuals who disclose wrongdoing and play a pivotal role
in maintaining the integrity of the bank. The information
received through the Whistleblower channel helps us
uncover misconduct that may not otherwise be detected
and to act on issues which do not support our ethical
organisational culture.
157 new Whistleblower
reports were made in 2021
While new report volumes varied by month across
the year, year-on-year new report volumes are static
(157 reports in 2020), demonstrating a continued
willingness of individuals to raise concerns.
Throughout the year, various initiatives designed to enhance
the effectiveness of the program have been undertaken.
These include improving Whistleblower case management
processes via the establishment of a Whistleblower case
review panel, and continuing work to build an internal
Whistleblower community of key stakeholders who share
learnings and further develop subject matter expertise.
In 2021 the Whistleblower Program focused on:
•raising employee awareness about how they can raise
misconduct concerns
•building trust in the Whistleblower channel.
Communication initiatives designed to inspire action and
encourage new behaviours were rolled out. These included
communications from senior leaders to help frame key
messages, drive organisational support and build employees’
confidence to call out misconduct. In addition, our Group
Integrity team delivered 116 awareness sessions to various
business units. An employee survey to test awareness of,
and confidence in, the Whistleblower Program is planned
for the end of the year.
All employees and contingent workers are required to
undertake annual mandatory training on their obligations
and responsibilities under the Whistleblower Policy.
Employees who have a designated role as a Whistleblower
Investigator (over 50 employees across the organisation)
received role specific virtual face-to-face training. The training
reinforces obligations under applicable Whistleblower laws
and guides investigators on how to appropriately handle and
investigate reports. Role specific training for eligible recipients
of Whistleblower reports (including Board and Executive
Committee members) was delivered to ensure all eligible
recipients understand obligations under applicable laws
and how to appropriately handle reports.
WHISTLEBLOWER INVESTIGATION OUTCOMES
In 2021, the Whistleblower Program received reports covering
a broad range of allegations including: financial crime (money
laundering and bribery and corruption); modern slavery; fraud
(internal and external); conflicts of interest; unsafe work
practices; sexual harassment; improper business practices
impacting customers; and bullying.
77% of investigated reports led to recommended actions
(up 11% from 2020), including formal warnings and
termination of employment. This is a strong indication the
Whistleblower Program is operating as an effective channel
to raise misconduct concerns and drive action in response
to staff ‘speaking up’.
In addition to staff disciplinary actions, substantiated and
unsubstantiated matters resulted in recommendations for
other management action including: policy and other
documentary review; coaching and informal counselling;
training; procedural remediation recommendations; and
recommendations to issue communications reinforcing
expected standards of behaviour.
2. Employees are listed in all categories which are relevant, meaning one employee may be listed in multiple categories.
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Improving customer
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Supporting customers experiencing vulnerability
ANZ is committed to supporting customers experiencing vulnerability and ensuring our
products and services are accessible and inclusive to all people. Our commitment aligns to
our strategic focus on improving financial wellbeing and the expectations of our regulators,
customers and the community.
CUSTOMER VULNERABILITY STRATEGY
This year we appointed a Customer Vulnerability Lead in
Australia to develop and oversee initiatives supporting our
customer vulnerability strategy.
The strategy focuses on:
•strengthening frontline capability to identify and
respond to customer vulnerability, including clear referral
pathways for specialist advice and case management
•embedding accessibility and vulnerability into our
product lifecycle and channels
•enhancing the use of our data to identify potential
vulnerability and limit harm (for example, power of
attorney abuse)
•identifying opportunities to engage, and partner with,
community sector organisations to better understand
and respond to issues affecting customers experiencing
vulnerability.
Our strategy will assist us to make decisions about where
we will focus our effort and resources to maximise impact.
See page 14 for an update on progress against our
target of commencing implementation of a new
Customer Vulnerability Framework to underpin
delivery of our strategy, by the end 2021.
REFERRAL PROGRAMS
Customers may be experiencing multiple vulnerabilities – for
example, a customer may be experiencing financial hardship
as a result of financial abuse, unemployment or reduced
income. Accessing support in the form of financial counselling
for a person experiencing vulnerability can be a key step
towards improving financial wellbeing and economic stability.
Economic dependency can also keep a person locked
into, or cause them to return to, an abusive relationship. In
circumstances where a relationship has ended, a person may
be left with debt or may experience ongoing economic abuse.
Independent financial counselling and specialist support can
help a person on the path towards economic independence.
We have processes in place to refer customers experiencing
vulnerability to a number of partners to receive appropriate
assistance including:
CareRing – run by Uniting, this program provides
a centralised, single point of contact connecting customers
to a coordinated range of support services, including housing
support, social workers, drug and alcohol services, home
energy assessments and employment services. We have
referred 420 customers to CareRing this year. Clients of the
CareRing program can also be referred to our MoneyMinded
program to develop their basic budgeting skills.
Through the CareRing service ANZ continues to provide a
specific program for those in need of immediate financial
assistance to escape domestic violence. Since the program
commenced, we have assisted 39 customers to access this
support, providing a combined total of almost $51,000 to
assist them on their journey to recovery.
In 2021 we referred 420 customers
to the CareRing program.
Way Forward Debt Solutions – funded initially by donations
from Australia’s four major banks, Way Forward is a registered
charity providing free debt management services to assist
people in financial difficulty to return to financial stability.
Debt solutions are provided through two key services:
•advocating on the client’s behalf to establish affordable
arrangements with their creditors
•management of debt repayments via one regular payment
by the client to Way Forward, which is subsequently
distributed to creditors.
This year, we referred 60 customer accounts with current
funds under management of over $3.8 million. We support
Way Forward as an alternative to fee-for-service debt
management firms.
Fitted for Work – this year we commenced a pilot to refer
customers to Fitted for Work (FFW ), an independent Australian
based not-for-profit organisation which supports unemployed
female customers to improve their employment prospects.
FFW is focused on providing the practical skills, knowledge and
confidence to become job ready – this could include help with
developing a resume, writing a cover letter and the provision of
appropriate work clothes. Employees within our hardship team
are trained to identify unemployment triggers and refer
customers to FFW. The pilot commenced in the last quarter
of this year with 99 women referred to FFW.
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ABUSE THROUGH PAYMENT DESCRIPTIONS
We recognise that ‘technology facilitated abuse’ is a growing
problem, particularly in the context of family and domestic
violence, and is an issue of industry and public concern.
This is where digital payment channels are used as alternate
messaging services to send abuse and threats via the
description and reference fields in payment transactions.
We do not tolerate the use of our platforms for perpetrating
abuse and use automated controls to restrict customers
from using specific profanities for outbound transactions.
This year we commenced work on establishing capability to
detect abusive inbound and outbound payment messages
via data analytics.
CASE STUDY
Supporting customers with limited English
In the past we have used multilingual staff to
interpret conversations with customers who have
limited English. However, this approach
sometimes resulted in delays due to the time
taken to identify appropriately skilled staff.
In October 2020 we commenced a pilot in our Australian
Contact Centre with an independent interpreter service.
It resulted in significantly improved customer response
times and access to a broader range of languages via
qualified interpreters.
The pilot was extended to ANZ’s Customer
Protection team in August 2021 in response to feedback
from representatives of victims of scams in a community
with limited English. Our interpreter service has helped to
overcome language barriers our customers were facing
when engaging with ANZ. Work is underway to deploy
the interpreter service more broadly in 2022.
We also offer written formats in languages other than
English, for example:
•our ATMs offer multilingual options, covering eight
languages (Hindi, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified
Chinese, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese and Italian)
•our new Customer Complaints Guide is available
at anz.com in a range of languages.
We provide customers with a range of
options to help address their circumstances
Access to redraw
and/or offset
Reducing payments
to minimum amount
Change to an interest
only period
Refinancing/consolidating debt
Temporarily reducing or
pausing repayments
Provide information in relation
to budgeting and access to our
financial literacy programs
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3
4
5
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We listen to customers to understand their situation
and can refer them to external support
National debt helpline
Independent free financial counselling.
CareRing program
Support in tackling issues facing a household,
including family and domestic violence.
Fitted for work
A program providing women with
the skill to become job ready.
Way forward debt solutions
Independent free debt advice and
help working with creditors.
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Since the start of the
pandemic, we have
significantly increased
investment in our
hardship capabilities.
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SUPPORTING CUSTOMERS IN
FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
There are times when our customers are unable to meet
their financial commitments. In some cases, the financial
difficulty is temporary and our customers just need time to
get back on track. While in others, the challenge is permanent
and customers may need extra help to review and restructure
their financial arrangements. Whatever the situation, we
work with customers to find a solution that is respectful,
fair and appropriate.
We endeavour to instil a culture of empathy and train our
staff to identify and respond appropriately to customers’
needs, assisting them through a difficult period so they
can get back on track.
In the past year we have received 112,883
1
applications for hardship assistance in Australia.
Of these, over 83,400
1
were due to on-going
disruptions of COVID-19, a reduction from 2020
when we received over 137,000 applications for
hardship assistance due to COVID-19 in Australia.
We have seen a much lower level of enquiries from customers
this year compared to 2020. A large proportion of enquiries
have been requests about the type of assistance available,
rather than applications for assistance, with the majority
coming from New South Wales.
Since the start of the pandemic, we have significantly
increased investment in our hardship capabilities. In 2020
we mobilised employees across our branch network and
operational teams to meet demand from customers seeking
hardship assistance. This cross skilling of teams has resulted in
greater flexibility across our workforce, meaning we can better
match capacity to demand as hardship applications fluctuate
in response to lockdowns.
We have also embedded hardship experts within our teams,
responsible for coaching and uplifting the capability of
hardship staff and dealing with escalated and/or complex
customer hardship requests.
Refer to page 15 of our Annual Report, available at
anz.com/annualreport for further detail of support
provided to customers impacted by COVID-19.
NEW ZEALAND
Since the conclusion of COVID-19 relief packages at the end
of March 2021, hardship volumes in New Zealand returned
to pre-COVID-19 levels with requests for assistance triggered
by illness, relationship breakdowns and redundancies.
Despite the announcement of a Level 4 lockdown across
New Zealand in August 2021, volumes for the year have
almost halved from 2020. With 4,333 applications for hardship
assistance in New Zealand, down from 8,088 in 2020.
We partner with MoneyTalks, a free financial mentoring
service offering access to over 200 financial mentors, where
we direct customers to obtain assistance with financial
budgeting advice. Customers receive a call from a trained
professional within 24 hours of a referral from ANZ.
MoneyTalks has financial mentors who are fluent in English,
Mandarin, Māori or Samoan.
SEEKING TO REDUCE PROBLEM GAMBLING
In March 2021, we introduced a ‘gambling block’ for Visa credit
and debit cards (initiated through the ANZ App or via our call
centre), which blocks gambling transactions from being made
in person, over the phone and online. The self-exclusion tool
was designed in consultation with experts and community
organisations and includes a 48-hour switch-off delay.
Over 16,240 blocks have since been enabled by our
customers in-app.
This follows the introduction, in December 2018, of a
restriction that prevents gambling transactions where a
customer’s card has been utilised beyond 85% of the account
credit limit. To date, ANZ is the only major bank to introduce
such a measure. This change was aimed at reducing harm to
potentially vulnerable customers by having credit remain
available for more essential purchases. Since implementation,
11.1% of total gambling transactions attempted have been
declined due to this control.
We also provide gambling support content
at anz.com, and training and resources for our
employees to facilitate customer conversations
about our gambling controls, financial assistance
and referrals to external support services.
We continue to engage with the Australian Banking
Association on this issue and contributed to their submission
to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and
Financial Services inquiry into ‘Regulation of the use of financial
services such as credit cards and digital wallets for online
gambling in Australia’ earlier this year.
1. Due to the upgrade of our hardship platforms in September, hardship assistance application numbers disclosed is only for 11 months being 1 October 2020 to 30 August 2021.
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and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Cyber security
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
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PROVIDING SUITABLE PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES
Our Product Suitability team is responsible for developing
and managing a number of ongoing customer contact
programs together with our Product teams. These programs
seek to improve customer outcomes and enhance financial
wellbeing by helping our customers better understand how
to get value from their products.
This year, we continued to deliver our Concession Account
Suitability and Persistent Credit Card Debt programs.
Our Concession Account Suitability program contacts
customers in receipt of eligible Centrelink or Veterans’
Affairs benefits with an offer to move to a low-cost basic bank
account. This year we have contacted 193,133 customers
with more than 6,300 taking up the offer to move to a
basic account.
Our Persistent Credit Card Debt program identifies and
contacts credit card customers who are carrying persistent
debt
1
on their card to help them pay their debt faster.
Customers are offered financial education, and the
opportunity to close their card and repay the remaining
debt at a lower interest rate. In September 2021, a simplified
process that allows customers to move to a different card
was introduced for customers who choose not to close their
card but would benefit from a card with a lower interest rate.
This year, we have contacted 7,303 customers under the
program with 1,173 customers taking up the offer.
The Persistent Credit Card Debt program was paused
between March 2020 and February 2021 to focus on
providing support to customers impacted by COVID-19.
The instalment plan offered under the program, where
customers can close their card and pay down the debt at
a reduced interest rate of 7%, is now available as a standard
option for customers experiencing hardship.
MEETING OUR DESIGN AND
DISTRIBUTION OBLIGATIONS
The new Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO) which
came into effect in Australia on 5 October 2021 are intended
to help customers obtain appropriate financial products. The
legislation requires products to be suitably designed for a
given target market and distributed in a way so as to reach
that target market. This reform provided an opportunity for
ANZ to review its products and processes to ensure a
customer-centric approach is taken in designing, marketing
and distributing our products. This aligns with the work the
Product Suitability team have been doing to enable
customers to choose products that meet their needs.
As part of our DDO program we have undertaken an in-depth
review of our products and their target markets. Additional,
ongoing monitoring of customer data is helping us
understand how products are performing for the benefit of
customers. This assists us to identify opportunities where we
can potentially improve customer outcomes and intervene
where appropriate.
We have also introduced some additional tools and process
changes to help customers select products that are likely to
meet their objectives, financial situation and needs.
BUILDING AN ACCESSIBLE
AND INCLUSIVE BANK
Our Approach to Accessibility and
Financial Inclusion outlines the key actions
we have committed to take to build a more
accessible and inclusive bank for our
customers, employees and the broader
community.
We continue to embed inclusive design across all customer
experiences and upskill our teams on accessibility through
workshops, events, training and group coaching. We have
a strong base for digital accessibility with two in-house
accessibility experts, as well as a design and development team
working to adhere to International Accessibility Guidelines.
We recently completed a review of the new ANZ App
prototype with customers who have a disability or multiple
disabilities such as blindness, cognition issues, physical
disabilities, cerebral palsy and hard of hearing. It was
important to understand the diversity and manifestations
of disabilities, and what it would be like for customers as
they interact with our App. Through the study, we discovered
accessibility and usability issues that prompted us to make
design changes to core functions in the App.
Improving customer experience
We are building a better, more accessible and inclusive bank
focused on delivering improved outcomes for our customers.
CUSTOMER REMEDIATION
We are committed to providing fair, consistent and
timely remediation to our customers when we fail to
get it right. Refer to page 24 of our Annual Report,
available at anz.com/annualreport for further details
of our customer remediation in 2021.
1. Persistent debt is defined as cards with an average balance of 80% or more of the credit limit and repayment behaviour of 2–3% of the balance over at least a 12-month period.
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Improving customer
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CASE STUDY
BUILDING DISABILITY CONFIDENCE
Sometimes the fear of saying or doing the wrong thing can be the biggest barrier when engaging with a person with
disability which can mean that some people feel uncomfortable asking the person what support they might need.
Over the last year, approximately 5,000 of our Australian branch staff completed disability confidence training, ensuring
every customer at ANZ feels welcome and included. Branch Managers were provided with a toolkit to lead open and
flexible discussions with their team on inclusive service and communication, while also building awareness of the
accessibility services ANZ offers to customers.
Created in collaboration with Get Skilled Access (GSA), a company comprising expert consultants with real life
disability experience, the training highlights the importance of universal design when it comes to providing an inclusive
customer experience.
“The hardware of universal design in branches includes physical things like automatic doors, tactile features and audio
functionality on Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs), while the software side is our interaction with customers who have
accessibility needs,” says Dylan Alcott, GSA Founder and ANZ brand ambassador. “Building our awareness and capabilities
in disability and accessibility training will support better customer service outcomes by providing seamless, barrier-free
and inclusive outcomes for all people.”
Jaimi
Jaimi, a 23-year-old woman who lives with Down Syndrome, recently moved from
her hometown in Dongara, Western Australia to Geraldton, to participate in the
Stepping Stones program at her local TAFE.
Her parents, Greg and Tammy, envisioned an independent
future for their daughter and they approached ANZ to
explore options around home ownership after
conversations with several other banks were unsuccessful.
Their goal was simple: to assist Jaimi in buying her own
unit to be able to live independently.
After seeking independent legal advice, Greg and Tammy
were able to put in place arrangements to allow them to
support Jaimi in securing a loan for a house and through
the settlement process.
Today Jaimi is an active member of the Geraldton
community and has made many new friends.
“I’m so happy with my new home,” said Jaimi. “I can
watch my TV shows in peace without my brothers
annoying me and can keep things nice and tidy.
It is fun and I like living by myself.”
“Although the process took some time and was
challenging, this is really why we do what we do,” said
Leanne Criddle, Geraldton Branch Manager. “We want
to be inclusive of everyone in the community and
make sure our processes are as accessible as possible.
Helping customers achieve their dreams is one thing,
but being a part of really changing someone’s life is
beyond rewarding.”
SUPPORTING ABORIGINAL AND TORRES
STRAIT ISLANDER CUSTOMERS
We continue to offer assistance to our Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander customers through our dedicated telephone
service. This year, we trained an additional 35 bankers to assist
our customers on the phone line. As at 30 September, the
team has answered more than 4,260 calls with an average
wait time of 59 seconds, an improvement of 3 seconds
compared to 2020.
ANZ has been an active participant this year in the ABA
working group reviewing how banks can improve the
accessibility of banking services for people in remote
Indigenous communities. The working group seeks to
build on previous industry initiatives which have included:
•An ABA Indigenous Statement of Commitment
•A scheme to provide fee free ATMs in selected
remote communities
•Flexible identification processes for opening bank
accounts and appointing a financial counsellor.
The industry is also considering how it might support financial
capability of remote Indigenous Australians through the
development of plain English guides which explain everyday
bank products and processes. This work will continue into 2022.
Our financial education program, MoneyBusiness, is designed
to support the financial wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples, refer to page 18 further details.
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Improving customer
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MEASURING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
One of the ways we measure the experience of our
customers is through our strategic Net Promoter Score (NPS).
NPS enables us to gauge whether we are meeting customer
needs and expectations and how we are performing relative
to our peers. It is measured by asking customers how likely
they are to recommend ANZ (on a 0–10 scale) and is
calculated by subtracting the percentage of detractors
(those who give a score of 0–6) from the percentage of
promoters (those who give a 9 or 10).
While our NPS has improved for our retail customers in
New Zealand, it has decreased for our retail and commercial
customers in Australia and our commercial and agricultural
customers in New Zealand. We have failed to improve our
performance relative to our peers. Our Institutional NPS has
increased in both Australia and New Zealand compared to
prior years. We are ranked a close second in Australia and
remain number one in New Zealand.
MANAGING CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
We are changing the way we manage and
think about customer complaints.
We are improving our complaints handling capabilities and
embedding a culture where complaints are valued as an
opportunity to learn, so that we can improve our products
and services and deliver better customer outcomes.
During the year, complaints awareness training was delivered
to over 16,000 staff supporting Australia Retail and Commercial
customers and over 2,900 staff supporting New Zealand
customers. The training highlighted the importance of
recording and managing complaints effectively; and sought
to ensure a consistent understanding of our approach to
resolving customer complaints with empathy and fairness.
In Australia, we deployed a new complaints recording and
management system to over 11,000 customer facing staff in
Australia Retail and Commercial. The new system provides
a central record of all customer complaints and enables our
staff to record complaints at first point of contact. Previously,
complaints were recorded once escalated to our specialist
complaint resolution team.
We established a Complaint Assist team, providing customer-
facing employees with access to complaints coaching to
support our resolution at the first point of contact.
We have also increased our systemic issues capabilities with
new roles created in each of our product and service areas
to analyse relevant complaint data. Advanced analytical
techniques, including machine learning, are used to help
proactively identify emerging issues from complaints.
A Complaint Governance Forum has been established to
provide oversight of the end-to-end complaint management
program, and complaints data and insights are regularly
reported to senior management and the Board.
Complaints management
We encourage and support our customer-facing staff to
resolve complaints on first contact. In some cases, where
additional support is required, the complaint will be escalated
(by a staff member or a customer) to our specialist complaint
resolution team, who will work with the customer to resolve
the complaint. If a customer is not satisfied with the proposed
resolution of their complaint, they can escalate their complaint
to the external Australian Financial Complaints Authority, or the
Banking Ombudsman Scheme in New Zealand.
Data relating to complaints is available
in our 2021 ESG data pack available at
anz.com/annualreport.
AUSTRALIANEW ZEALAND
Retail: scored -4.3, ranked 4th
1
(down from -1.3, ranked 3rd at end of 2020)
Commercial: scored -19.0, ranked 4th
2
(down from -17.1, ranked 4th at end of 2020)
Institutional: scored 36, ranked 2nd
3
(up from 33, ranked 1st in 2020)
Retail: scored 28.4, ranked 4th
4
(up from 27.3, ranked 4th at end of 2020)
Commercial and agricultural: scored -13.1, ranked 5th
5
(down from -11.1, ranked 5th at end of 2020)
Institutional: scored 33, ranked 1st
6
(up from 28, ranked 1st in 2020)
1. Roy Morgan Single Source, Australian population aged 14+, Main Financial Institution, six-month rolling average to Sep’20 and Sep’21. Ranking based on the four major Australian banks. 2. DBM Atlas (Business). Base: Commercial (<$100 million annual
turnover) Main Financial Institution customers. Six-month average to Sep’20 and Sep’21. Ranking based on the four major Australian banks. 3. Peter Lee Associates, 2020 – 2021 Large Corporate and Institutional Relationship Banking surveys, Australia.
4. Retail Market Monitor, Camorra Research, six-month rolling average to Sep’20 and Sep’21. Ranking based on the five major New Zealand banks. 5. Business Finance Monitor, TNS Kantar Research. Base: Commercial ($3 million – $150 million annual
turnover) and Agricultural (>500K annual turnover) customers. Four-quarter rolling average to Q3’20 and Q3’21. Ranking based on the five major New Zealand commercial/agricultural banks. 6. Peter Lee Associates Large Corporate Relationship Banking
surveys, New Zealand 2020–2021, ranked against the Top 4 competitors.
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Australia
Complaints recorded in Australia Retail and Commercial
increased by 80% from 2020, primarily driven by improvements
in capturing complaints. Despite the increased volume, the top
five complaint categories this year remained similar to 2020:
service quality accounted for 21% of complaints; channel
accessibility 19%; product fees, interest and rewards 13%;
account set up and maintenance 10%; and fraud and
scams 4%.
The percentage of total complaints resolved
within five days of receipt increased to 79%
(66% in 2020); and the percentage of complaints
resolved within 30 days of receipt increased to
94% (91% in 2020).
ANZ Customer Advocate
The volume of reviews completed by the Customer Advocate
decreased by 32% compared to 2020. In line with regulatory
expectations, this reflects a transition away from considering
individual customer complaints to a broader focus on
providing advice and guidance internally to support fair
customer outcomes.
New Zealand
Complaints recorded in New Zealand, increased by 20% from
2020, primarily driven by improved complaint capture and
management as a result of complaints awareness training.
Service issues accounted for 38% of total complaints received;
issues relating to fees 22%; and process/policy 19%. While in
previous years the most common reason for complaints
related to fees, 2021’s top issue was around ID Processes, such
as for overseas based customers unable to be verified via the
Contact Centre (in particular for those stuck overseas due to
COVID-19), or those unable to visit a local Branch with photo
ID. Transactional accounts, credit cards and home loans were
the most complained about products, with concerns centred
on fees, service issues ranging from wait times to incomplete
requests and feedback about ANZ policies/processes.
The percentage of complaints resolved within five
working days has decreased to 90% (from 91% in
2020); and the percentage of complaints resolved
within 21 calendar days of receipt remained at
96% (also 96% in 2020).
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Improving conduct
and culture
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customers
Improving customer
experience
Cyber security
Financial crime
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business lending
Supply chain
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Cyber security, data protection and privacy
CYBER SECURITY
Cyber and information security –
embracing innovation, securely
While new technologies present exciting
opportunities, the pace, scale and
sophistication of cyber-attacks continued to
increase during 2021, in large part due to the
shift to digital banking and remote working
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have a risk-based approach to managing cyber security.
By using threat intelligence and analysing changes in our
operating environment we are able to respond dynamically
to a variety of situations.
Our Chief Information Security Officer is responsible for
establishing and maintaining the bank’s security strategy and
program, ensuring we protect the confidentiality, integrity and
availability of our systems and data, and our customers’ data.
Our security strategy reinforces that protecting the bank
against cyber threats is the responsibility of everyone at
ANZ. The strategy is driven by three objectives: securing our
foundations, embedding security across the organisation, and
embracing innovation to enable better customer experiences
and business growth. Our security policy and standards guide
us with respect to specific security requirements.
Investing in cyber security initiatives has allowed us to
adapt to a rapidly changing environment and maintain an
information security capability that is commensurate with
the size and extent of cyber threats. We are focused on:
•having the necessary foundations to protect our systems
and data (for example, we have implemented more
advanced technologies across all ANZ computers), enabling
us to prevent, detect, respond and recover quickly to limit
damage in the event of an outside attack
•building security into everything we do, with members of
the security team working closely with other information
technology teams
•investing in automation so we can direct our efforts
to proactive, preventative defence
•growing our workforce and investing in the skills of our
people so we can continue to respond effectively to an
increasingly sophisticated threat landscape
•forming strategic partnerships with government, industry
bodies, suppliers and community organisations that enable
us to build capacity and our system’s resilience.
We maintain a 24/7 sophisticated internal
Security Operations Centre, analysing millions
of data events (including unusual or infrequently
seen activities identified by our security teams)
every day to help keep the bank, its staff and
customers, safe online.
Staff education
Our people are a key security control. They provide the first
line of defence – detecting and reporting malicious emails,
suspicious phone calls, anomalous activity on the network,
or poor security behaviours. As well as a range of technical
measures, education is a key part of fostering a security-
centric culture within the bank and, more broadly, across
the community.
Annual mandatory training for all staff, and increased phishing
drills and incident response exercises, ensure we are prepared
for cyber and information security events. We provide training
and materials so staff are able to have more informed
conversations with customers about cyber security.
We track the effectiveness of our staff education programs
and cyber security initiatives through an ANZ specific security
behaviour index.
The security behavioural index is used to help everyone
at ANZ understand, track and improve key areas of cyber
security risk. It monitors several data points, including the
number of phishing click throughs by staff, and number of
data loss protection events (for example, where restricted
information is sent to non-ANZ email accounts) across our
businesses. The data points represent key risk areas, crucial
to protecting the bank.
Customer and community campaigns
Regular customer focused campaigns, such as ‘Safer Internet
Day’, demonstrate our commitment to government and
industry initiatives to improve the community’s
understanding of cyber security. We monitor social media and
use customer feedback to help us determine which issues to
prioritise in our education campaigns and resources.
For our Institutional and small business banking customers,
we have developed threat intelligence newsletters and a
‘Simplifying Cyber for Business’ guide. The guide shares
everyday tips that can help an organisation defend itself
against cyber threats, while still taking advantage of
technological innovations.
Together with other industry partners, we have continued to
sponsor the Australian Computing Academy’s Schools Cyber
Security Challenges, contributing to content and co-
producing cyber security modules for students and teachers
as part of the digital curriculum that is now mandatory within
Australian schools. The content also encourages students to
consider future careers in cyber security.
Security reporting and metrics
Regulators expect banks to provide a ‘highly available’
and reliable service to customers, while ensuring the risks
associated with banking systems are visible and well
understood at all levels of the organisation.
As a result of ongoing
targeted education, the
security behavioural index
has improved by 56%
over the year.
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Protecting our customers’ data privacy
In 2021, an industry-wide breach occurred (not caused by ANZ), relating to a vulnerability in a file
transfer application (FTA) of a US-based provider. This breach impacted many of the FTA provider’s
clients, including a number of Australian private and government organisations.
The vulnerability caused by the breach enabled an
unidentified threat actor to access data contained in
files transferred via the FTA.
We were made aware of the breach, as it impacted some
of our suppliers and their outsourcing arrangements (our
third and fourth parties).
While not an ANZ breach, we immediately
undertook an assessment with the parties involved
and determined that there was no impact to ANZ,
our customers and employees.
We also assisted in our suppliers’ investigations and
added additional internal security measures to further
protect our customers and employees.
CASE STUDY
DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY
Understanding what, where, how and why we collect and
use personal information are all critical parts of responsibly
managing personal information and maintaining stakeholder
trust. The privacy landscape continues to change, with an
increasing number of countries including those in which ANZ
operates adopting data privacy and protection regulations.
We are committed to keeping up to date
with our obligations and ensuring we protect
ANZ, customer and employee data.
During the year we refreshed our internal Privacy Policy.
The Policy outlines how we protect personal information
and describes the mechanisms in place to ensure personal
information in our custody or control is handled in a
compliant and ethical manner that safeguards customer
and employee privacy rights. The refreshed policy focuses
on transparency, data minimisation (limiting data collection
to only what is required to fulfil a specific purpose) and
customer privacy rights; and more closely aligns with the
global Data Event Management process. We have made
these updates to our policy in order to meet the changing
requirements of privacy and data protection obligations.
We ran an employee awareness campaign providing
employees with an overview of the refreshed policy and
associated mandatory training. We also introduced a new
support tool – a dedicated privacy helpdesk available to
all employees to assist with queries relating to privacy and
data protection.
Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Enterprise Data
Governance (EDG) team have Group-wide oversight of privacy
related risks. Our DPO provides guidance on privacy and data
protection at an enterprise level. The EDG team collaborates
with divisional and country privacy experts and legal counsel
to ensure compliance with applicable laws. The team provides
coaching, education and tools to embed privacy obligations
and awareness across operations and teams.
We are continually improving our enterprise data
breach processes to ensure that our employees
and suppliers are aware of their responsibilities.
These processes inform a centrally driven and
consistent approach to how we respond and
contain actual or potential data breaches. Our Data
Event Management process has proven to be an
efficient and effective mechanism for responding
to reported or suspected data losses.
This year, we reported three data breaches to the Office of
the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) under the
Notifiable Data Breach Scheme. These breaches were the
result of human error and not a malicious or criminal attack.
We notified the three impacted individuals, advising them
of the actions we had taken to resolve the breach and how
to contact us if they had further questions. The root cause of
these breaches was also identified and addressed, using our
Data Event Management Process.
Access to real time metrics, insights, and reporting to inform
allocation of resources and investment is key to ensuring we
manage our cyber risks.
We are evolving our threat intelligence and reporting to
ensure the Board and senior leaders have access to real time
intelligence, enabling greater focus on cyber risks and to
inform prioritisation of business decisions and investment.
Our ability to manage the security of our third parties
(suppliers) and related parties continues to play a significant
role in reducing our security risks, and ensuring we comply
with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s
Information Security Standard, CPS 234.
We have increased the number of third parties subjected to
controls testing through our external supplier assessment
service. Third-party contracts have been reviewed and
updated where appropriate. We have implemented a new
online tool to monitor and govern security across our
suppliers to better understand our supply chain security risks.
We have also improved our compliance processes, including
strengthening governance and moving third-party
assessment and issues management onto an enterprise
security governance, risk and compliance platform. These
measures have helped improve our third-party security
reporting and oversight.
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FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
Improving conduct
and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Cyber security
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
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We continued to see an increase in digital
and online scams this year.
The commercialisation of crime saw a transition away from
COVID-19 specific fake websites, towards bank and other
government agency scams. This resulted in an increase of
phishing and smishing (phishing via text message) attacks,
identity theft and fraud, directed at our customers
and employees.
During 2021 our Scam Assist team investigated over 6,500
individual scams impacting our Australian Retail and
Commercial customers. The expanded use of digital and real
time payments has made it easier for criminals to move funds
quickly and easily through various accounts, and ultimately
offshore, making recall and recovery increasingly difficult.
Despite this, we were successful in recovering approximately
39% of lost funds on behalf of victims.
We maintained a strong investment focus on financial crime
data collection, monitoring and screening, with upgrades
across anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing,
sanctions and fraud platforms, improving our ability to
collaborate with external parties to fight financial crime.
Our employees and contractors undertake mandatory annual
training to ensure they understand their role in preventing
financial crime. Additional training is tailored for specific roles,
including senior management and the ANZ Board.
ANTI-BRIBERY AND ANTI-CORRUPTION (ABAC)
We place a premium on business integrity and have zero
tolerance for bribery and corruption in our business dealings.
Our Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC) Policy and
Framework sets out the principles and conduct provisions
which apply to ABAC business integrity matters applicable
to ANZ, its employees and third parties. Our commitment to
business integrity is described by way of key ABAC principles
and the practical behavioural outcomes required to
demonstrate adherence to the ABAC policy.
Capacity in our ABAC team has increased in response to
growing regulatory and social expectations to combat bribery
and corruption. We also developed specific due diligence
Financial crime
requirements to support our third-party risk program, to
ensure we maintain procedures to know our third parties and
hold them to our standards of business integrity.
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND
COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING (AML/CTF)
Our AML/CTF Program guides our approach to detecting and
deterring money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF).
Risk assessments are completed both at an enterprise and
country level to identify, mitigate and manage ML/TF risk
across the bank.
We perform due diligence on our customers and their
activities and complete an enhanced level of due diligence
where the risk is deemed to be high. We seek to identify
unusual or suspicious transactions, activities and/or
behaviours through a combination of transaction monitoring
and other methods of observation, and report suspicious
activity to the appropriate authorities.
SANCTIONS COMPLIANCE
Our sanctions compliance program guides our approach
to meeting our obligations. Sanctions risks are assessed to
identify, mitigate and manage the potential for breaches.
Customer relationships and activities posing a higher
sanctions risk are subject to enhanced due diligence
measures, monitoring and approval.
In response to ongoing tensions between key jurisdictions
and the resultant restrictions imposed on some global
entities, we have enhanced our monitoring of transactions
and strengthened our customer due diligence process. These
processes ensure we fully understand the risks supporting
each specific trade transaction in a compliant manner.
FRAUD
Our Fraud Policy sets the standards for the prevention,
detection, investigation and reporting of fraud. Processes
to support the policy include the ongoing assessment and
management of fraud risk, the use of advanced analytical and
detective systems to monitor and identify suspected fraud,
and the principles and responsibilities for investigating both
internal and external incidents.
Our financial crime policies
are available at anz.com.
CASE STUDY
Detecting and disrupting money
laundering across the AT M network
We have been working closely with AUSTRAC and law
enforcement partners to detect and disrupt money
laundering across the Australian ATM network.
The rising popularity of alternative payment channels
and platforms has seen the use of cash decrease over
the past few years. Nonetheless, suspicious cash
activity remains a significant money laundering risk.
We identified a substantial volume of anomalous
third-party cash deposit activity in Western Australia
(deposits made by persons other than the account
holder or authorised user of the account.)
An algorithm was developed and refined to detect
these unusual activities. Using it, we began internal
monitoring of anomalous third-party cash deposit
activity to detect and report suspected money
laundering across ANZ’s Smart ATM network.
We approached the Fintel Alliance to lead a new
project targeting syndicated third-party ATM activity
in Victoria. Transactional patterns similar to that of a
criminal syndicate in Western Australia were identified
in a group of customers based in Melbourne, including
one individual of interest conducting cash deposits
totalling $1 million per month through major banks’
ATMs. Further engagement with Victoria Police led to
the arrest of several key persons of interest, with law
enforcement investigations ongoing.
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Responsible
business lending
The Policy outlines the social and environmental
considerations to be taken into account by our bankers
when determining business transactions. It incorporates our
approach to human rights, including our ‘zero tolerance’ for
improper land acquisition and involuntary resettlement,
and labour rights issues such as modern slavery.
We review the Policy annually, with oversight from our
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC) to ensure it
remains fit-for-purpose. The review takes into account changes
to customer practices, international standards, emerging social
and environmental issues and stakeholder expectations.
This year’s review focused on two key areas:
1. human rights related changes, e.g. ensuring appropriate
reference to our upgraded Human Rights Statement and
new Grievance Mechanism; and
2. implementing our approach to climate change.
Educating employees on our policies and standards and
how they are applied in practice is key to effective
management of the social and environmental risks associated
with our business lending. Our training programs cover the
Policy, sensitive sector requirements and our approach to
human rights. This training is mandatory for new employees
authorised to make credit decisions for business customers.
DUE DILIGENCE
Prior to entering into a relationship with any large business
customer, relationship managers are expected to consider
the company’s management of its material social and
environmental issues. They must also have specific knowledge
of the customer’s history and approach to dealing with any
potential (or historical) impacts.
Under our credit policy we typically review our business
customers annually. This includes the consideration of
relevant issues using our social and environmental risk
screening tool. We expect our customers in all sectors to
implement appropriate stakeholder engagement strategies
and plans and we have included this consideration in the tool.
We continue to apply a strengthened due diligence for
thermal coal extraction and associated transport and power
generation customers. This year we have also applied this due
diligence to cover major oil and gas companies within our
largest 100 emitters (for further information see our separate
Climate-related Financial Disclosures to be released prior
to our Annual General Meeting and made available at
anz.com/annualreport). We also apply an enhanced human
rights due diligence for customers operating in higher-risk
geographies and sectors.
By applying enhanced due diligence, we seek to avoid human
rights infringements or other impacts. If we fail to properly
conduct due diligence we may contribute or become directly
linked to significant impacts.
Where a customer’s practices may not be consistent with our
policies, we work with them to understand the circumstances
and, where necessary, encourage them to identify specific
and time-bound improvement plans. If customers are
unwilling to adapt their practices in an appropriate timeframe,
we may decline further financing or exit the relationship.
We monitor the social and environmental risks of our business
customers through our monthly ‘Reputation Risk Radar’. We
also rely on regular dialogue between relationship managers
and their customers to alert us to issues. Notable incidents
and allegations are referred to our risk management meetings
in which ESG and credit risks are considered.
This year we examined our potential higher-risk ESG country or
sector exposures, in seeking to determine or anticipate where
issues might arise in our lending to large business customers.
Using a third-party ESG database, we identified key ESG sectors
and issues, and used that to ascertain a list of customers who
could be exposed to those issues. Each potential higher-risk
customer was reviewed by country teams.
The review took into account a range of potential issues,
including impacts on cultural heritage, environmental impacts
such as deforestation and land clearing, and governance issues
such as bribery and corruption. Following this review, we found
that our existing systems and refined Institutional strategy has
helped to reduce the risk in the portfolio. Some potential
refinements were identified, and the importance of continuing
to raise awareness amongst our frontline bankers on applying
our policies regarding these issues was highlighted. The
outcomes were discussed with our ERBC and Board Ethics,
Environment, Social and Governance (EESG) Committee.
We are also undertaking a further 'deep dive' review in
relation to cultural heritage management by our Australian
resources customers, which involves engaging with
customers to learn more about their approach. We will
consider whether our policies need to be strengthened
in 2022 following completion of that review.
Energy
Hydropower
Military
equipment
Forestry
and forests
Extractive
industries
Water
We seek to assess and manage the
impacts of our lending decisions
through the application of our Social
and Environmental Risk Policy (the
Policy) and accompanying ‘sensitive
sector’ requirements for:
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CONSIDERATION OF
EMERGING SOCIAL ISSUES
We consider current and emerging ESG issues to determine
whether we should review our policies, principles and lending
approach. The ERBC and Board EESG Committee also consider
a range of emerging social issues which, through our lending
to customers, could result in risks to the business.
This year, we focused our attention on our Human Rights
Statement and Grievance Mechanism and finalising a set of
principles in relation to animal welfare issues, including how
we will engage with our customers to ensure they align with
good practices and community and industry expectations for
how animals should be treated.
ENGAGING WITH STAKEHOLDERS ON ANIMAL WELFARE ISSUES
Following discussions with customers, industry groups,
Animals Australia (AA) and Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) we developed animal
welfare principles (to be published at anz.com) that reflect
our approach and clarify our position. These principles will
bring ANZ in line with industry standards.
While we are not aware of any specific issues within our
business, there have been campaigns for banks to cease
business with companies engaged in intensive animal
farming practices. For example, we received over 2,000
emails in 2020 and 2021 supporting AA’s position, all of
which we responded to explaining our work to consider
the issues and offering discussion with the complainants.
Our agribusiness team in Australia is also working to
improve staff awareness and understanding of animal
welfare industry standards.
The principles were developed in line with ANZ’s approach
to managing lending risk – noting that animal welfare
practices can impact the risk profile of a business.
We believe good animal welfare standards in Australian
agriculture are critical to industry sustainability and are
an important part of ANZ’s ESG commitments.
We value farming customers that treat animals with due
care and respect in relation to the physical and mental state
of an animal’s condition. We believe this reflects Australian
community standards and farmer standards of ‘doing the
right thing’, noting that industry codes and policy across
various subsectors and geographies evolve with continuing
research and expert stakeholder advocacy and feedback.
ANZ’s Animal Welfare Principles are:
1. We recognise that a thriving agribusiness sector relies
on animals as a source of food and fibre.
2. The primary responsibility and duty of care for animal
welfare and treatment lies with the owner or manager
of the animals in question; as does the obligation to
address and resolve complaints about their treatment.
3. We expect our customers to meet, and support where
possible to exceed, the minimum standards for animal
welfare established by legislation and regulation, with
a particular regard to good nutrition, a safe and
enriching environment and sound health both
physically and mentally.
4. We will support customer initiatives that improve both
animal welfare outcomes and business sustainability.
5. We expect our customers to inform ANZ, at their
earliest convenience, of any failings against legislation
or industry standards, or grievances or claims made
against them, regardless of the customer's view of the
legitimacy or accuracy of the grievance or claim.
If any external stakeholder has a concern that our
customers are not adhering to legislation or industry
standards on animal welfare, we will consider their
concerns and respond in writing.
COMPLAINT ABOUT ANZ’S FOSSIL FUEL TARGETS AND DISCLOSURES
This year we have participated in a dialogue with NGOs and three individuals who made a complaint to the
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Australian National Contact Point (NCP). The
complaint alleges ANZ’s climate change policy and practices do not adhere to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational
Enterprises (OECD Guidelines). The complaint identifies aspects of ANZ’s disclosure, investments, target-setting and
scenario analysis as not complying with the OECD Guidelines.
After considering the complaint, the NCP’s independent examiner determined divestment from all fossil fuels is not
required by the OECD Guidelines.
The NCP then facilitated a dialogue between ANZ and the parties to the complaint, focused on climate disclosures,
target setting and scenario analysis. The dialogue sought to help the parties determine whether they can come to
an agreement regarding any of these matters, consistent with the OECD Guidelines.
At the time of writing this report, the outcome of the complaint was being finalised.
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ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
HOUSING
FAIR AND
RESPONSIBLE
BANKING
Improving conduct
and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Cyber security
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
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EQUATOR PRINCIPLES
The Equator Principles (EP) is a risk management
framework for determining, assessing and managing social
and environmental risks in major projects such as mines,
windfarms and pipelines. The EP provides a minimum
standard for due diligence and monitoring to support
responsible decision-making in five financial products:
Project Finance Advisory Services; Project Finance; Project-
Related Corporate Loans; Bridge Loans; and Project-Related
Refinance and Project-Related Acquisition Finance.
We regard the EP as complementary to our sensitive sector
requirements and our Social and Environmental Risk Policy.
When determining whether a project complies with the EP,
a social and environmental due diligence report prepared
by a third-party expert is typically commissioned. Matters
examined include:
•client capacity and commitment to manage social and
environmental issues
•the scope of the transaction, including the value of the
loan and whether it is specific to a project or for general
corporate purposes
•how an Environmental Impact Assessment (if required) will
be implemented through the company’s Environmental
Management System
•the level of community concern regarding potential
impacts of the project, for example on water or land, and
effectiveness of the company’s stakeholder engagement
in response to any significant community concern.
We will not provide finance to projects where the customer
will not, or is unable to, comply with the EP.
Information on our 2021 project finance advisory
services and transactions is available in our 2021
ESG data pack available at anz.com/annualreport.
For further information, refer
to equator-principles.com.
CASE STUDY
Solar farms
In 2021, ANZ participated in the funding of the development,
construction and operation of two solar farms in NSW.
On initial assessment we determined that the projects would need to be assessed against the Equator Principles.
Both projects were categorised as Category B under the Equator Principles and so, as a part of this process, an
independent consultant was appointed to undertake an Environmental and Social Due Diligence assessment to
review all environmental and social issues that may arise during construction and operation.
No material issues were identified during the due diligence processes. We included covenants in the loan
documentation, seeking to ensure the facility would be constructed and operated in accordance with permits,
local laws, ANZ Standards and environmental and social management plans.
Infrastructure facility
In 2021, ANZ financed the acquisition of an infrastructure facility in Victoria.
Under the Equator Principles 4, an acquisition of this nature required an Equator Principles assessment.
The acquisition was deemed to be low risk from an environmental and social perspective and was categorised
as Category C under the Principles.
While technically not required under the Principles, independent technical due diligence was conducted to ensure
issues were identified and appropriately managed.
The acquisition was approved subject to conditions associated with the ongoing management of environmental
and social issues.
Wind Farm
In 2021, ANZ participated in the funding of the development,
construction and operation of an Australian greenfield wind farm.
Due to the nature of the funding, the project was identified as requiring an Equator Principles assessment in
evaluating the environmental and social risks associated with the development and operation of the project.
The project was categorised as Category B under the Equator Principles. As part of this process, an independent
consultant was appointed to undertake an Environmental and Social Due Diligence report for the benefit of the
banks who would fund the project. The consultant confirmed the Equator Principles categorisation and identified
key environmental and social risks. We also undertook a climate change risk assessment to determine potential
physical and transition climate change risks.
No material issues were identified during the due diligence process. We included covenants in the loan
documentation seeking to ensure the facility is constructed and operated in accordance with permits, local laws,
ANZ Standards, as well as environmental and social management plans.
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Managing ESG risk and
opportunities in our supply chain
We have a fair, sustainable, responsible and ethical approach
to procuring and delivering goods and services.
In 2021, we spent $4.7 billion with suppliers procuring goods
and services across the 32 markets in which we operate. The
majority of our expenditure (91%) is located in Australia and
New Zealand with key areas of spend being in technology,
group services (including travel, property and banking
services) and marketing, people and professional services.
SPEND BY COMMODITY AREA
19%
40%
41%
Group services
(incl. property)
Technology
Marketing,
people and
professional
services
2021
Suppliers, including subcontracted suppliers, are screened as
part of Group Procurement’s ongoing supplier due diligence
using a third-party tool that assesses performance against
28 ESG issues, including human rights. In 2021, we undertook
4,729 checks (up from 3,989) including all of our top 100
suppliers by spend. There were six instances where our
checks identified potential issues. On each occasion we
followed up with the supplier requesting further detail to
determine whether they had adequate measures in place to
resolve the identified issue/s. Our concerns were dealt with
by working with suppliers to understand the issue/s and their
mitigating steps. All issues were resolved to our satisfaction.
Our Supplier Code of Practice (SCOP) outlines our minimum
requirements for suppliers in relation to human rights,
workplace relations, workplace health and safety, ethical
business practices, information management and
confidentiality, accessibility, environmental management
and supplier diversity.
We endeavour to include SCOP clauses in new and renewed
contracts. In 2021, this practice lead to an increased SCOP
contractual inclusion of 83% up from 73% in 2020. Separate
contractual clauses covering Human Rights and Modern
Slavery have also been introduced for all new and renewed
contracts. We intend to review contracts for SCOP inclusion,
as they come up for renewal.
We use our best endeavours to ensure that suppliers conduct
their business in accordance with our expectations. While not
a contractual requirement, we seek an annual attestation of
adherence to the SCOP from major suppliers managed under
our Operational Contract Management Framework (OCMF).
In 2021, 81% of suppliers provided an attestation of
adherence to our SCOP (up from 45% in 2020). We also
seek attestations from a sample of suppliers each year in
countries such as India, China, the Philippines, Vietnam and
some Pacific nations. We continue to encourage suppliers
to attest to the SCOP.
We track gender diversity by seniority levels for ANZ
engagements with our primary consulting and legal service
providers. This provides us with visibility over the gender
balance of teams supporting ANZ, as well as the opportunity
to learn from the good practices of other organisations.
We work with our suppliers to select more sustainable
options such as items that are made from recycled materials
or items that are produced in a carbon neutral way. In 2020,
as a signatory to the Climate Leaders Coalition, we conducted
a survey of our top 100 suppliers by spend in New Zealand to
understand what they are already doing and identify potential
areas of improvement to work with them on. Survey data was
used to increase knowledge within the procurement and
contract management teams, empowering them to continue
to question suppliers and the business when undertaking
sourcing activity. This was achieved through education
sessions and more detailed supplier profiles. Data was also
used to facilitate discussion with suppliers on how they help
us measure and reduce our own emissions.
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CASE STUDY
The multiplier effect:
accessible procurement
In 2019 we joined the Australian Network on Disabilities
Accessible Procurement Taskforce, working with
representatives from 18 organisations to develop tools,
guidance and frameworks around purchasing
accessible goods and services.
This year, the Taskforce released the ICT Tender Tool. The
tool is an evaluation framework that can be shared with
suppliers, to determine the accessibility of information
and communications technology, programs and
services and how easily potential inaccessibility issues
can be resolved. It demonstrates what accessible goods
and services look like and provides a standardised
template for scoring and comparing tenders.
“The Taskforce is a great example of the saying,
‘a problem shared is a problem solved’. I’m really
pleased to see the first tool from the Taskforce in action,
and hope that more will come,” said Matthew Hawkins,
ANZ Procurement Lead and Chair of the Accessible
Procurement Taskforce. “We know that by changing
organisational buying behaviour, we can materially
influence outcomes for our employees, customers
and the community.”
We have embedded the tool into all requests for tender
templates covering technology spend across labour,
software, hosted services (cloud), and infrastructure. We
are now looking for opportunities to expand the tool
into other areas, including contract renewals and
business services.
In addition to this work, the Australian Network Disability
also produces an annual Inclusion and Accessibility
Index. The Index is a benchmarking tool for inclusion of
people with disability. This year it reviewed the practices
of 28 participating organisations across Australia.
ANZ was ranked in the top five performers within the
2020/21 Index and was ranked first in the Suppliers and
Partners section.
WORKING WITH OUR SUPPLIERS
Supplier payments
As a signatory to the Business Council of Australia’s Supplier
Payment Code, we are committed to paying eligible
Australian small business suppliers
1
within a maximum of
30 days of receiving a correct invoice, unless the contract
stipulates a shorter term.
Our aim is to pay as promptly as possible and, on average,
payment is made in around 17 days from receipt of the
invoice (19 days in 2020).
In Australia this year, we processed an average of 31,000
payments to suppliers per month (including purchasing
card transactions), with small business suppliers making
up approximately 5.1% of these transactions.
We are also preparing our first report under the Australian
Government’s Payment Term Reporting Scheme, due
in December.
In New Zealand, we joined a New Zealand Bankers
Association initiative to support New Zealand’s small-to-
medium businesses during COVID-19 by committing to
paying suppliers within two weeks. To date we have
processed approximately 135,000 payments (including
purchasing card transactions), with average payment
made in around 6 days from receipt of the invoice.
Supporting social enterprise
We are a member of Social Traders, an organisation helping
to create jobs for disadvantaged Australians by linking
business and government to social enterprises. This year,
we spent $3.16 million
2
with Social Enterprises (up from
$1.85 million in 2020).
In New Zealand, we are a member of Ākina, a buyer group
through which we can access a wide range of certified social
enterprise suppliers. We have increased our strategic
engagement with these suppliers and have trained staff to
identify further opportunities within their categories. We
spent over NZ$160,000 with Social Enterprises in 2021 (up
from NZ$145,000 in 2020) and have influenced our suppliers
to use Social Enterprises in their supply chain. We have
on-boarded two new Social Enterprises using our suppliers.
1. A small business supplier is defined as one with whom our spend is less than $1 million in a 12-month period. 2. Excluding sponsorship spend. Spend including sponsorships was $6.0 million.
CASE STUDY
Social enterprise – Responsible disposal via a Social
Enterprise partnership with Telstra and PonyUp for Good
Together with Telstra, we have partnered with PonyUp for Good to assist in the disposal of redundant
technology. PonyUp for Good is a social enterprise, providing e-waste sustainability services.
As part of our router upgrade program this year over
2,000 kilograms of outdated Telstra equipment was
collected from ANZ locations across Australia. As a
result of our partnership with PonyUp for Good:
•94% of this equipment by weight was able to
be reused, and the remainder was recycled
•This resulted in diverting up to 95% of the technology
from landfill, ensuring the materials contained in them
will go back into making new products
•Importantly, the re-marketing of this equipment has
generated enough funding for PonyUp for Good to
donate over 13,000 meals to SecondBite, Australia’s
biggest fresh food rescue charity who distribute meals
to more than 1,400 community food programs.
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CASE STUDY
Paying the Living Wage in New Zealand
ANZ was the second bank in New Zealand to receive the Living Wage Employer
accreditation, by Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand.
We have spent over $5.5 million with 20 Indigenous businesses in Australia this year – (up from $3.2 million in 2020).
We are a member of both Supply Nation and Kinaway (the Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce).
Following a successful trial during 2020, we worked with Winc (our Office Supplies provider) to implement the
Australian made Nallawilli 100% Recycled FSC Certified paper as the standard copy paper used within our Australian
branch network. Nallawilli are a Supply Nation Certified business and an existing supplier to ANZ.
Due to COVID-19, we were unable to hold our annual NAIDOC Week Indigenous Business marketplace in our
833 Collins Street Melbourne office. Instead, we conducted two ‘virtual marketplaces’ in November 2020 and July 2021
supporting over 30 Indigenous businesses, enabling staff to purchase their goods and services online.
PROCUREMENT WITH INDIGENOUS BUSINESSES IN AUSTRALIA
ANZ New Zealand has for many years paid its direct
employees well above the living wage. In 2021, ANZ
New Zealand made a commitment to pay the Living
Wage to all directly employed staff and over 230 indirectly
employed staff through our supply chain. This includes staff
working in security, cleaning, catering and concierge and
mailroom services.
While most of our service providers were already
paying their staff the Living Wage or above, the ANZ
procurement team worked closely with the remaining
service providers to introduce the Living Wage to all staff.
The commitment has resulted in positive
outcomes for our employees and has resulted in
lower staff turnover for our suppliers.
This quote from one of our indirectly
employed cleaning staff helps demonstrate
its impact:
“Being paid the Living Wage now means
I can buy rugby boots for my son and the
fees for him to play for our local club.”
The Living Wage in New Zealand is currently
NZ$22.75 per hour and is set annually by the Family
Centre Social Policy Research Unit, a Wellington-based
non-government organisation. The minimum wage is
currently NZ$20.00 per hour.
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1. NCP’s are responsible for promoting the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (an international standard on responsible business conduct) and providing
conciliation services to resolve complaints against multinational enterprises.
Our approach to human rights
This year we have significantly upgraded our Human Rights Statement (Statement)
and developed a new Grievance Mechanism (Mechanism) for people whose human
rights may have been impacted by our large business lending customers.
We committed to these two actions in the 2020 Statement
of the Parties agreement following resolution of a complaint
brought against ANZ by Inclusive Development International
and Equitable Cambodia concerning a loan made to Phnom
Penh Sugar in 2014. Agreement was reached with the
assistance of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
Development (OECD) Australian National Contact Point (NCP).
1
Our work has been informed by an external multi-stakeholder
working group including civil society organisations,
academics, business representatives and customers. Their
involvement did not infer endorsement of the outcomes
of this review or other work carried out by ANZ.
OUR HUMAN RIGHTS STATEMENT
The Statement outlines our respect for international
human rights standards and includes:
› no tolerance for retaliation against
individuals or communities
› reference to climate change and
associated human rights impacts
› support for an open civic space and human
rights defenders
› scenarios where domestic laws conflict with
international human rights standards
› our process when a customer or business
relationship’s human rights practices are inconsistent
with our expectations.
International standards we respect include the International
Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental Principles
and Rights at Work, the International Bill of Human Rights
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights (UNGPs).
The UNGPs are the global standard for preventing and
addressing the risk of adverse human rights impacts
linked to business activities. They incorporate three pillars,
including governments’ duty to protect human rights and
the responsibility of businesses to respect human rights.
Our Statement is aligned with the UNGP second pillar,
including support and respect for the human rights of our
employees, customers and communities. We expect the same
from everyone who works for or with us, including business
customers, suppliers and partners.
Under the UNGP framework we respect the human rights of
our employees, carry out risk-based due diligence regarding
human rights in our business relationships, and commit
to improving our transparency and reporting. Business
customers are also expected to meet their obligations under
the UNGPs and consent to participate in our grievance
mechanism should we accept a complaint about them.
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Our commitments are embedded in our
policies and other relevant documents available
at anz.com including:
•Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy – outlining
appropriate due diligence on employees, contingent
workers and third parties.
•Approach to Accessibility and Financial Inclusion –
making our products, services, workplace and culture
supportive of people with disability and improving
outcomes for those at risk of financial exclusion.
•Climate Change Statement – responding to the social,
environmental and economic challenges of climate change.
•Diversity and Inclusion Policy – committing to a workplace
that reflects the communities in which we operate and
provides opportunities to under-represented groups.
•Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy
– committing to a workplace free from discrimination,
harassment, bullying and victimisation.
•Modern Slavery Statement – reporting how we identify,
assess and manage modern slavery risks including forced
labour, child labour and human trafficking.
•Reconciliation Action Plan – our commitment to social
and economic participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples.
•Social and Environmental Risk Policy and Screening Tool –
social and environmental standards and due diligence
for large business customers of ANZ.
•Supplier Code Of Practice – setting supplier standards
including labour rights, safe workplace and freedom
of association.
•Complaints processes – communication channels
including a Human Rights Grievance Mechanism
for communities.
Implementation of these new commitments will continue
in 2022 through our governance, policies, staff training
and disclosures.
In addition to the key standards there are others we use to identify and manage our human rights
risks across the business, including:
•International Labour Organization declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
•International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
•International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
•International Finance Corporation performance standards
•Equator Principles
•United Nations Global Compact, including the Women’s Empowerment Principles
•United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
•Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
•United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business for Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People.
ANZ’S COMMITMENT TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
GRIEVANCE MECHANISM
The UNGP third pillar refers to the need for victims of
business-related abuses to have access to remedy. We
support access to remedy through our new Grievance
Mechanism and participation in the OECD National
Contact Point NCP remediation processes.
Our Mechanism is available for people and communities
who believe their human rights have been impacted by
ANZ’s Institutional or Corporate lending customers. We
expect the scope and processes associated with the
Mechanism will evolve.
The Mechanism will help promote responsible business
conduct, including by our large business lending customers.
In establishing this Mechanism, we sought to provide
a framework through which:
•efforts can be made to resolve complaints by affected
communities about adverse human rights impacts
associated with ANZ customers
•feedback and recommendations aimed at strengthening
our due diligence processes can be provided.
The Mechanism is designed to be informal and flexible, and
we are committed to handling complaints in a way that builds
confidence in its effectiveness. As this is new we understand
the need to promote its availability, and will use any complaints
submitted as an opportunity for learning and reflection.
This step towards access to remedy for affected people
has been approved by our Ethics and Responsible Business
Committee and endorsed by our Board Ethics, Environment,
Social and Governance Committee.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
To inform the development of our Statement and Mechanism,
we spent 12 months engaging with civil society organisations,
academics, business representatives and customers.
We committed to provide stakeholders with opportunities
for multiple reviews and group discussions for the Statement
and Mechanism with no specific confidentiality requirements.
The length and format of the consultations allowed us to
demonstrate our commitment and intent to the stakeholders
informing on our multi-stakeholder working group.
Engagement will again be sought with external stakeholders in
reviews of the Mechanism in 2023 and the Statement in 2024.
We will also report on complaints submitted to the Mechanism.
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DUE DILIGENCE
Due diligence helps to proactively manage potential
and actual human rights impacts. It should focus on risks
to people, not risks to business, and is an important part
of fulfilling the UNGP second pillar, the responsibility of
businesses to respect human rights.
Our bankers conduct risk-based due diligence prior
to on-boarding new customers. ANZ’s Social and
Environmental risk screening supports ongoing due
diligence for large business customers including an
expectation that they implement appropriate stakeholder
engagement plans. Higher-risk activities are subject to
enhanced human rights due diligence and we seek
to avoid impacting on human rights.
Where a customer’s practices may not be consistent
with our policies, we work with them to understand the
circumstances and, where necessary, encourage them
to identify specific and time-bound improvement plans.
If customers are unwilling to adapt their practices in an
appropriate timeframe, we may decline further financing
or exit the relationship.
SALIENT HUMAN RIGHTS
Our salient human rights risks have been identified
according to where we could potentially cause or
contribute to the most significant negative impacts.
These include:
•safety and security of our people
•labour rights, including modern slavery
•privacy and consumer protection
•corruption and bribery
•environmental protection
•land access and rights.
Though we are unable to avoid all these risks,
we are able to reduce their likelihood and respond
appropriately. Some actions to manage these risks
are discussed throughout this report – identified
using this symbol
MODERN SLAVERY
Modern slavery
2
is estimated to affect over 40 million people
3
across the world.
The combined effort of government, law enforcement, non-government organisations
and business is required to tackle it effectively.
Material risks and key exposures
We consider modern slavery to be higher-risk in our supply
chain and our customer relationships, moderate to low-risk
for investments made by our third-party fund managers and
lower-risk with respect to our employees.
Our modern slavery program is focused on building
awareness and improving policies, processes and due
diligence. Our 2020 Modern Slavery Statement
4
identified
several areas to help us improve our program and we have
taken a number of actions this year, including:
•identifying the top five higher-risk countries and sectors,
and reviewed Institutional customers where the potential
for modern slavery is higher, to better understand how the
risk is being managed
•reviewing our Commercial agriculture portfolio for potential
for modern slavery risk (e.g. horticulture customers using
manual labour)
•using financial crime analysis and algorithms to identify
modern slavery or modern slavery-like practices amongst
suppliers and customers
•developing a Modern Slavery questionnaire to understand
how our cleaning and security suppliers minimise the
risk of forced labour, including their management of
subcontractors
•strengthening our supplier tender process by developing
a detailed set of questions in sectors where there is
potentially a higher likelihood of forced labour
•revising our procurement training to include the impacts
of modern slavery and how to minimise potential risks,
including risks associated with COVID-19 such as forced
labour (with vulnerable people searching for work) and
increased demand for certain products (e.g. personal
protection equipment)
•building five ‘e-learning' modules to develop
employee awareness of modern slavery, including
how to raise concerns
•delivering nine awareness sessions to higher-risk
country leadership teams
•reviewing cases where we may be directly
linked to modern slavery through our supplier
and customer relationships.
Impacts of COVID-19
COVID-19 has increased workers’ vulnerability to modern
slavery practices in some industry sectors including for
example, the shipping sector. Travel restrictions imposed
by governments in response to the pandemic are causing
disruption to docking, crew changes and ship inspections,
leaving seafarers vulnerable to labour exploitation.
We have engaged with key suppliers and Institutional
customers to understand how they are managing this
situation. In particular, we are keen to understand how they
are complying with the International Maritime Organisation
Framework of Protocols for Ensuring Safe Ship Crew Changes and
Travel During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To date
we have not identified any issues directly related to our
customers' or suppliers' treatment of their seafarers.
2. Serious exploitation of people through threats, coercion or deception, which undermines or deprives them of their freedom –
Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018, Guidance for Reporting Entities. 3. Global Slavery Index – 2018. 4. https://www.anz.com.au/
content/dam/anzcomau/documents/pdf/aboutus/modern-slavery-statement.pdf
Further detail on our approach to modern slavery
is provided in our 2021 Modern Slavery Statement,
to be released later this year at anz.com/cs.
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Employee engagement,
wellbeing and development
ENGAGEMENT
Our Group-wide employee engagement
survey, My Voice, is one of the primary ways
we gain a sense of how our people are feeling.
This year, we ran engagement surveys more frequently.
We included a number of new questions about workload,
productivity and ‘sense of belonging’. We also included
questions to measure:
•morale – the way people feel about the work they do and
their ability to ‘bounce back’ when things go wrong
•psychological safety – in a psychologically safe team,
people feel accepted, respected and safe to take
interpersonal risks
•employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) – how likely people
are to recommend their team or business area as a place
to work on a scale of -100 to +100 (a range of 10–30 is
considered ‘good’).
Employee engagement
81%
(2021 APRIL: 80%,
2020: 86%, 2019: 77%)
Psychological safety
77%
(2021 APRIL: 74%)
Morale
81%
(2021 APRIL: 81%)
eNPS
27. 6
(2021 APRIL: 26.2)
84%
of people feel like
they belong at ANZ
(2021 APRIL: 81%)
AUGUST 2021 SURVEY RESULTS
A sense of belonging is emerging as one of the most
critical drivers of employee engagement. This is of particular
importance currently, with very different employee
experiences across our locations as a result of the pandemic.
We will continue to focus on fostering an inclusive
environment for our employees through:
•regular communications from senior leaders, including
'weekly wraps' from some Executive Committee members
to their Divisions
•promoting information and tools to help employees do
their best work and manage their wellbeing, wherever
they are working from
•continuing to offer the Team Health Check, a team-based
wellbeing survey to enable our people to support each
other and provide a starting point for conversations
about wellbeing.
Survey data that was previously provided to leaders only was
released via a dashboard available to all employees for the first
time in 2021. Leaders were encouraged to discuss results with
their teams to identify areas for improvement they could work
on together.
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WELLBEING
As the pandemic continues, we have taken
steps to ensure employees are equipped with
practical resilience strategies to help them
prioritise health and wellbeing.
A series of webinars with external psychologists have given
employees strategies to maintain mental, social and physical
health. Sessions have included information on child and
teenage welfare, access to resources from The Resilience
Project, and webinars on how to cope during periods of
prolonged change. In addition, we have provided targeted
proactive psychological support for teams who have faced
significant challenges throughout the year, including sessions
and webinars with psychologists in various locations.
We continue to provide wellbeing support digitally via our
HealthyMe App which includes webinars, podcasts, articles
and relaxation strategies, all designed to enhance the overall
health of our people. To date, more than 8,000 employees
have downloaded this App and use it frequently. Content is
regularly updated and tailored to focus on specific challenges
as they evolve across the locations in which we operate.
This year, we developed PhysEd, a program to support
employee physical health and wellbeing while working
from home. The program includes a short series of videos
presented by physiotherapists to improve employee
understanding of the common causes of discomfort,
managing emerging symptoms and minimising the
impact of an injury. Since its launch, PhysEd has been
accessed over 1,300 times.
Our wellbeing and safety policy includes a commitment to
providing a safe working environment for all our employees.
This includes when people are injured or ill, or have
accessibility needs, and applies whether they are working
at an ANZ location or at home. Our support for employees
who are experiencing injury or illness also extends to
conditions that are not work-related.
We know that for some people, there may be times
where temporary or permanent workplace adjustments
are necessary due to disability, special requirements, illness
or injury. There are many different types of workplace
adjustments ANZ supports – just as there are many varied
accessibility needs.
Examples of the types of adjustments we put in place:
Psychological adjustments – for employees experiencing
a mental health illness or condition, tailored work role
adjustments are made to enable them to perform their role
in a safe and supportive environment. We seek guidance from
health practitioners in relation to work capacity inclusive of
hours, days, work tasks, treatment needs and any other
flexibility requirements.
Physical adjustments – this includes adjustments to spaces
around workstations and where these are located as well as
other adjustments to make buildings accessible.
Ergonomic adjustments – this might be providing
specific equipment (e.g. chairs or headsets), or environmental
changes (e.g. lighting or temperature changes) to meet
individual needs.
Technology adjustments – these include assistive
technology like screen magnification, reading software,
speech recognition and voice-to-text software.
To further support our employees experiencing injury and
illness, we have introduced an early intervention program
called RecoverWell. This program is designed to enable early
intervention of specialist support through funding of
treatment for Australian employees with work-related injuries
to assist with recovery and a sustainable return to work.
We have designed programs to support employees across the
Pacific who may be experiencing domestic violence. These
have included training, implementation of domestic violence
champions, temporary accommodation in safe houses/hotels,
special leave, emergency advancement of pay and EAP support.
All Pacific countries ran an awareness program on
International Women’s Day and during the 16 Days of
Activism against Gender-Based Violence annual campaign.
Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) continues to
support all employees and their immediate family members
to meet the challenges of work and personal life. The EAP
provides confidential free counselling and guidance for
managers and employees and critical counselling support
for significant events.
6.5% of our Australian
and 9.4% of our New Zealand
employees used our
EAP in 2021.
From 1 June 2021, ANZ became a self-insured employer
for workers’ compensation in Australia under the Federal
Workers Compensation scheme (Comcare). This allows us to
operate under one piece of legislation, instead of individual
state based self-insurance arrangements. Our workers’
compensation approach is now consistent for all Australia-
based employees with improved outcomes for employees
through increased simplicity and transparency.
Health and safety risks vary across the business, and our
wellbeing and safety plans include risk controls to account for
these differences. We encourage early reporting of incidents
and illness in order to effectively and proactively support the
wellbeing of our employees.
Data relating to our health and safety performance
in 2021 is available in our 2021 ESG data pack
available at anz.com/annualreport.
This year we have seen an increase in lost-time injuries,
with no new identifiable trends. The majority of injuries that
incurred a full day off work continue to be related to slips,
trips and falls.
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1. Measured by the Neuroscience Leadership Institute, August 2021.
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
We continue to invest in the capabilities of our people through
the provision of training and development programs. Over 1,275,000 hours
of learning were delivered through our online learning platforms in 2021,
including almost 724,000 hours of compliance training and more than
77,000 hours of self-directed learning.
Our employees have
continued to make good use of
Our Way of Learning (OWL), our
digital social learning platform,
with over 77,000 hours of
self-directed learning completed.
Our people leaders play a critical role in building team
cohesion, fostering collaboration, facilitating learning, driving
innovation and helping teams stay connected to one another.
In 2021, we continued to deliver our Leading Through Change
program, designed to support leaders and help them lead
their teams with confidence through accelerated business
change and the challenges associated with the pandemic.
More than 5,430 people leaders have completed the program.
The reported Behavioural Change Percentage
1
in both the
ability to actively adjust priorities to deliver what matters
(91%) and apply strategies to promote a collaborative
environment (83%), indicates improved leadership capability.
Development of our retail frontline bankers continues to
be a focal point. In 2021, we invested almost $2 million in
a program of work to build and enhance the following key
Retail Banker and Leader capabilities:
Customer experience – uplifting and extending
banker skills to deliver a better customer experience, in
line with our aspiration to improve the financial wellbeing
of our customers
Digital and self-service – developing banker knowledge
and skills to educate and coach our customers on use of
our digital and self-service solutions
Lending – continuing to build lender capability in
a range of technical and soft skills to support more
complex customer interactions
Leadership – improving leadership and coaching capability
in new and aspiring leaders – supporting our aspirational
culture and enabling employees to confidently ‘speak up’.
We created a Customer Self-Service Hub
providing our bankers with access to a range of
self-directed learning equipping them to educate
customers on our digital self-service solutions.
We also implemented a Lending Academy that includes
‘advanced lending’ learning modules for all accredited home
lenders. To date, 1,148 experienced lenders have completed
the Advanced Lending modules.
We are also working to transform the way we manage and
think about customer complaints. This year, we rolled out
complaints awareness training to employees who support
our Australian Retail and Commercial and New Zealand
customers (refer to page 42 for further details).
ANZ New Zealand is committed to building workforce
capability in line with its commitment to the Aotearoa
New Zealand Skills Pledge. Over 72,000 hours of learning were
delivered this year, a significant increase from 35,000 hours in
2020. While our focus has remained on reskilling our people
to move into in-demand areas, we have increased focus on
the development of leadership capabilities. We will continue
to invest in our employees’ learning and development and,
over the coming year, will launch a series of learning initiatives
aimed at the development of strategic capabilities, such as
data analytics and insights and adaptability, to help ‘future
proof ’ our workforce.
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ACHIEVING GENDER BALANCE
IN OUR BUSINESS
We continue to seek an increase in the representation of
Women in Leadership
1
(WIL) – the key to closing our gender
pay gap. In 2021, WIL increased to 35.3%, exceeding our target
of 34.4%.
Of particular note, our Institutional and Finance divisions,
two areas of the bank with traditionally low representation
of Women in Leadership, made good progress, up 2.9% and
3.9% respectively. Further, Group-wide representation of
women at the Senior Manager, Executive, and Senior
Executive levels increased by 2.1%, 1.0% and 4.6% respectively.
Our progress against our women in leadership target is
monitored monthly by the CEO and the Group Performance
and Execution Committee and is a measure in the Group
Scorecard.
Following the departure of Alexis George and Michelle Jablko,
representation of women in our Group Executive Committee
decreased to 36.4% (from 50%). We now have four women
on our 11-person Group Executive Committee: our Group
Executive Digital and Australia Transformation; CEO
New Zealand; Group Executive Talent and Culture and
Service Centres; and Group Executive Data and Automation.
Significantly, two of the key ‘line’ roles with profit and loss
accountability are held by women. This is important as, in
addition to CFO, these are the types of roles from which
the majority of CEO appointments are drawn.
2
We are building foundations for long-term sustainable
improvement in gender diversity and have introduced
initiatives, such as:
•the ‘Women in Leadership Program’ which provides aspiring
female employees in ANZ’s Finance Division an opportunity
to engage with senior leaders across the division to build
and grow their personal network and brand through
mentorship and sponsorship and to participate in focused
development initiatives
•the ‘Women in Risk Leadership Program’ which provides
emerging and established women leaders in our Risk
Function with access to strategies to overcome career
blocks, develop a strategic mindset for greater influence
and support leadership development
•the ‘Change Up Program’ to equip female employees
with the necessary skills to advance into leadership
roles across our Institutional and Australia Retail and
Commercial divisions
•the creation of a global Community of Practice group to
share knowledge and divisional experiences across the
roles accountable for increasing the representation of
women in leadership roles.
We also have a number of initiatives focused on encouraging
women back into the workforce such as the Return to Work
program in our Technology division. This program, which has
recently welcomed its second cohort, seeks to remove barriers
faced by highly skilled individuals, particularly women, when
trying to return to the workforce after a career break. Return to
Work (86% female representation in 2021), and our graduate
programs in Australia (61% female representation) and
New Zealand (56% female representation), are helping us
attract, develop and grow our pipeline of female talent for
the future.
ANZ is signatory to: the 40:40 Vision initiative which seeks
to achieve gender balance of senior leadership at ASX200
companies by 2030; and the Diversity Council Australia
#IStandForRespect campaign, a commitment to stand against
gendered harassment and violence in all its forms and to take
steps to address sexual and sex-based harassment and make
the workplace safe for everyone.
Workplace diversity and inclusion
This year we finalised our new Diversity and Inclusion strategy. It aligns with
our purpose and business strategy, and supports the diversity and inclusion
aspirations of our customers, suppliers and community.
1. Measures representation at the Senior Manager, Executive and Senior Executive levels. Includes all employees regardless of leave status but not contractors (who are included in FTE). 2. This was reinforced in the
ASX200 Census from Chief Executive Women. 3. Values are as at 30 September 2021. On 4 August 2021, ANZ announced that Christine O’Reilly will join the Board, effective 1 November 2021.
Three of our eight
Board members are women
(37.5% female representation).
3
This year, in partnership with Chief Executive Women (CEW ), we launched the CEW and ANZ Sustainability Scholarship.
The scholarship recognises the increasing importance of environmental sustainability and gives experienced female
sustainability practitioners, across the fields of environmental sustainability, corporate sustainability and sustainable
finance, the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and capabilities. Candidates can nominate the course they
wish to attend to accelerate their career in sustainability and the scholarship will cover full tuition fees up to $25,000.
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Further detail on our gender diversity targets
is available in our Corporate Governance
Statement at anz.com/corporategovernance.
A FOCUS ON GENDER PAY EQUALITY
We continue to calculate, measure and report on our gender
pay gap, using a two-pronged approach that incorporates the
following methodologies to help us better understand and
explain the underlying reasons for our gender pay gap:
1. the ‘category average’ methodology, which calculates
average salary gaps between women and men by category,
and can uncover issues such as women’s access to senior
and high-paying roles in an organisation; and
2. the ‘like-for-like’ methodology, which compares the
pay of women and men in the same or similar roles,
and can highlight bias in pay decisions.
We have maintained minimal like-for-like gap (within +/- 3%)
across each category, and improved the gap in average
salaries for most categories.
Our focus on developing female talent has resulted in greater
promotion of women, compared to men, over the past year.
When determining the appropriate level of pay, it is common
to position a newly promoted employee lower in the salary
range compared to employees with more experience in
similar roles. As an employee gains experience their salary
typically increases. The higher number of female promotions,
coupled with constrained remuneration budgets during
the past year, has contributed to the slight widening of the
like-for-like gender pay gap.
While we achieved a positive increase in the representation of
Women in Leadership, the number of women in senior roles is
still significantly lower than men. Women also continue to be
disproportionately represented in lower paying roles within
each category. This is most prevalent in the Senior Executives
and Executives categories, where female representation is
lowest. This results in our most significant category average
gap for Senior Executives (92.3%). Although this gap has
improved by 0.9% this year, we are committed to improving
female representation in these senior roles.
Within our Managers category, men continue to be
disproportionately represented in higher level manager roles.
This results in a category average gap of 93.3%.
We know from our regular gender pay equity analysis that
the key to closing our gender pay gap is resolving our
under-representation of women in senior and higher paying
roles in each category. We will continue working towards
closing the gap through various Talent and Culture initiatives
such as our ‘Women in Leadership’ and ‘Change Up’ programs,
described on page 59.
CREATING AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE
A key focus of our new Diversity and Inclusion strategy is
creating an inclusive culture and strengthening our employee
networks. We want our employee networks – which include
Abilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Cultural Diversity and
Inclusion, ForWARD Gender Equity, Faith and Pride – to feel
their voices are listened to and they are recognised for the
role they play in building a strong sense of community and
belonging. As the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved, our
networks have helped ensure we are taking an inclusive
approach to supporting our people.
We continued to celebrate important dates on the diversity
and inclusion calendar, albeit virtually this year. For example,
we celebrated International Women’s Day with a panel event,
focusing on Women in Leadership and achieving an equal
future. We also ran a virtual customer marketplace, providing
our Australian employees with the opportunity to support
female-owned businesses, that are also ANZ customers. In
celebration of International Non-Binary People’s Day, our
ForWARD (Gender Equity) and Pride (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+)) employee
networks, co-hosted our first International Non-Binary
People's Day panel discussion. The aim of the discussion
was to increase the awareness and inclusion of non-binary
identities through the sharing of lived experiences and
personal stories.
84% of our employees say they feel like they belong at ANZ.
While we are pleased with this, we know there is more we
can do to foster an inclusive culture. Actions taken this year
included updating our Corporate Wardrobe Policy to be more
inclusive of non-binary and gender diverse employees, and
removing all binary gender references. We also refreshed our
email signatures and internal brand illustrations to better
reflect the diversity of our workforce. In Australia, we
encourage our employees to include traditional place names
in their email signatures and an Acknowledgement of
Country at the start of meetings and presentations.
Increase in Female vs Male ratioDecrease in Female vs Male ratio
PAY GAP (AUSTRALIA)
4
Category
Av. salary –
by category
YoY
change
Like-for-
like roles
YoY
change
Senior Executives 92.3% 0.9%97.5% -3.3%
Executives96.5% 0.2%97.1% -0.4%
Senior Managers96.2% -0.2%97.8% -0.5%
Managers93.3%0.5%98.2% -0.2%
Non-managers96.0% 1.3%102.0% 0.0%
4. Australia-only data. Effective date 29 June 2021. ‘Senior Executives’ are Group 1, ‘Executives’ are Group 2, ‘Senior Managers’ are Group 3, ‘Managers’ are Group 4, and
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PARTICIPATION OF UNDER-REPRESENTED
GROUPS IN OUR WORKFORCE
Promoting the participation of under-
represented groups in our workforce
contributes to our goal of creating a diverse
and inclusive workforce. We are also focused
on the engagement, retention, career
progression and development opportunities
for people across all of our diverse groups.
We have made several key appointments in Australia and
New Zealand this year to support our diversity and inclusion
objectives. These include establishing a dedicated Group
Diversity and Inclusion team and creating a new role in
New Zealand, Te Kaitohu Rautaki Māori (Head of Te Ao
Māori Strategy).
We are developing capability across our recruitment channels
to create inclusive and accessible recruitment processes,
hosting workshops on cultural awareness and delivering
Disability Confident Recruitment training with the Australian
Network on Disability.
This year, we have also developed programs and approaches to cater to mid-career and
mature aged workers – see page 33 of the Annual Report for further detail.
We continue to run a range of programs designed
to encourage greater diversity and inclusion in our
workforce, including:
Indigenous school-based and
full-time traineeships
89
participants
in 2021
Spectrum, employment
opportunities for
people with autism
7
participants
in 2021
5
TupuToa, summer internships for
Māori and Pasifika students
5
participants
in 2021
Return to Work, employment
opportunities for individuals,
particularly women, returning
to work after a career break
35
participants
in 2021
Given the Chance, six to
twelve-month work placements for
refugees and asylum seekers
47
participants
in 2021
Summer internships and
graduate programs
165
participants
in 2021
CASE STUDY
Strengthening our
Te Ao Māori strategy
This year we welcomed Karleen Everitt
as Te Kaitohu Rautaki Māori (Head of Te Ao
Māori Strategy), a newly-created role to lead
the direction of ANZ’s Te Ao Māori strategy.
Karleen, who affiliates with Te Iwi Mōrehu, Te Aupōuri,
and Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu, will work closely with our
leadership teams in New Zealand and Māori and
Pasifika Affinity Group (an employee network).
“Karleen will play a vital role providing leadership on
how ANZ can play a stronger role in building economic
participation for Māori and increasing the cultural
capabilities of ANZ as it relates to tikanga Māori,”
said ANZ New Zealand CEO, Antonia Watson.
“I’m humbled to join ANZ as the first person in this role,”
says Karlene. “It is a great responsibility as this is about
setting a very clear strategy that will create an
opportunity for intergenerational financial wellbeing
for Māori, Hapu and Iwi in partnership with ANZ.”
“The Māori economy is a growing economy and we have
seen some amazing achievements by our leaders in the
ahuwhenua (primary industry) space, iwi and hapu
(tribes and clans) development space and also for our
whanau (family) over the years. Especially in the last 20
years where Māori business really has taken a giant leap
forward in trading both nationally and internationally."
"Māori in business have a long term view that spans
generations and it is anticipated that the Te Ao Māori
Strategy will bring us closer, both as a business but also
as a nation. I am keen to shift the dial on how we at
ANZ will welcome the deep knowledge of matauranga
Māori, tikanga, reo and kawa (Māori education, culture,
language and protocol) in our own practice and culture
as the largest bank in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
5. Participants commenced the program prior to 2021.
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CASE STUDY
Luisa* and her husband Miguel* arrived in
Melbourne from Bogota, Colombia in 2017.
They had enjoyed a good life in Colombia, Luisa working
as a senior corporate lawyer and Miguel as a business
administrator in a bank. Unfortunately, they were forced to
flee friends and family after a criminal cartel that had tried
to pressure Miguel to work for them began making
repeated death threats.
Arriving in Melbourne as asylum seekers, Luisa and Miguel
had to start again – in a city where they knew no one and,
in Luisa's case, didn’t speak the language.
The first few years were tough as Luisa struggled with the
language barrier. At night she studied hard and learnt
English, and during the day she worked in a range of jobs,
including as a cleaner and babysitter. Despite applying for
corporate jobs she kept missing out and was losing
confidence in her abilities.
A chance encounter at a friend’s BBQ over summer in 2021
changed everything. Luisa met an ANZ employee who told
her about the Given the Chance program. The next day
Luisa spoke to BSL about the program, and in May she
commenced a placement with ANZ’s legal team, working
as a paralegal. Recently, Luisa's placement ended after she
accepted an offer to join the team on a two-year contract.
According to Luisa she feels like the
“luckiest migrant in the world.”
“The Given the Chance program has allowed
me to reconnect with one of the things that
I have loved the most in my life, which is the
law. Every day I wake up so happy to be
working in this incredible organisation,
with such an amazing team.”
Luisa
Reflecting on the program and the bank's long-standing
commitment to it, Ken Adams, Group General Counsel,
said, “The ability to help a migrant, to provide support
as they transition to become active members of our
community, is both a great opportunity to help someone
else, a positive contribution to our community and helps
to build a diverse team at ANZ. The feedback from the
team has been uniformly positive – they love seeing us
make a tangible impact on the community. It's completely
aligned with our purpose at ANZ.”
GIVEN THE CHANCE
Since 2007 we have worked with the
Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) to support
refugees and asylum seekers into six to
twelve-month work placements through
the Given the Chance program.
The program provides job seekers with invaluable local
experience to help them gain entry into the Australian
workforce. Given the Chance participants are highly engaged,
skilled and motivated, and make a positive contribution to
their team, the bank and their community.
To date, we have welcomed 300 participants to ANZ,
with approximately 65% going on to permanent
employment. This year we hired 47 participants, the
highest ever number of recruits to the program.
*not real names
“I no longer feel alone and isolated.
The humanity, connection and
levity of the workplace give
everyone a sense of big hopes and
dreams. It was this permanent role
that made the chance of seeing my
wife and son again a reality.”
Ramin Rastin | Sales Practices Analyst,
Australia Retail and Commercial, and former
Given the Chance participant.
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SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS
Our Reconciliation Action Plan
Our vision for reconciliation is an Australia that is unified around a shared history that
celebrates and honours the unique contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples. We acknowledge the special role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
within the community, particularly as custodians of the lands across Australia.
We are committed to:
•improving our understanding of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander cultures so that we create culturally safe and
supportive spaces for staff and customers
•showing respect by acknowledging Traditional Owners and
celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
•combating racism inside and outside ANZ through
education and advocacy.
Ngarga Wangaddja means ‘mob talking’ in the language of the
Nurungga people and is the name chosen for the employee
reference group formed to represent the voices of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander employees at ANZ.
Conceived and created by employees, Ngarga Wangaddja
consults on matters that apply exclusively to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander employees, including:
•issues or decisions that impact on identity
or experience
•role scope
•cultural safety and concepts of wellbeing
•a person’s existence as an Aboriginal.
After two years of reflection, development and consultation,
we recently commenced our 2021–2024 Stretch Reconciliation
Action Plan (RAP).
Improve our understanding of Indigenous
cultures to create culturally safe spaces,
show respect and combat racism
Build the capacity of Indigenous
businesses and organisations to enable
economic participation
Provide employment and career
progression to enable economic
participation
Improve the financial wellbeing of
individuals to develop financial resilience
In line with our purpose, we are focused on
four key areas to support Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples and communities to thrive:
Credit: Marcus Lee
A key priority has been to strengthen governance over
our RAP commitments.
We have established a RAP Steering Committee comprising
senior leaders responsible for prioritising, resourcing and
delivering against our RAP. A RAP Working Group, with
representatives from accountable areas of the business,
reports into this committee.
Progress against our commitments will be reported half-yearly
to the Ethics and Responsible Business Committee and
annually to the Board Ethics, Environment, Social and
Governance Committee.
We will report publicly on our progress against our
commitments annually.
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INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT
We provide employment opportunities to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
through Indigenous traineeships, both school-based and full-time in our Australian Branch
Network, as well as direct hiring across other areas of our Australian business.
In 2021, we employed 128 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (89 trainees and
39 direct hires) across our branches and/business centres, corporate offices and customer
contact centres.
For information on our support for Indigenous businesses see page 52.
For information on MoneyBusiness, our financial education program
tailored to Indigenous Australians, see page 18.
CASE STUDY
RAP GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
Indigenous traineeship
Once a participant in our traineeship program, Kaylee Hipwell has come full circle and now assists
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates in finding meaningful employment opportunities at ANZ.
Reconciliation
Network
Support internal
reconciliation initiatives
RAP
Working Group
Delivery and reporting
RAP
Steering Committee
Decision-making and
accountability
Board Ethics,
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Governance Committee
Oversight
Ethics and Responsible
Business Committee
Monitoring
Ngarga Wangaddja
Advice and perspective
Kaylee was 15 when she accepted a school-based
traineeship in our Macarthur Square branch in Sydney,
New South Wales. After finishing high school, she was
subsequently offered a full-time traineeship. Since then,
Kaylee has worked as a part-time Service Consultant, a
Personal Banker and a Senior Personal Banker. During her
time as a Senior Personal Banker, ANZ helped Kaylee
complete a course in Frontline Management, providing
her with the confidence to lead a team successfully and
relieve as a Branch Manager from time to time.
“I then tried my hand at a Home and Investment Lending
Associate role. Whilst I was enjoying this role in helping
customers achieve their dream of owning a home, I came
across the opportunity to apply for my current role as an
Employee Journey Expert in the Talent and Culture team,”
said Kaylee. “My role focuses on diversity and inclusion in
assisting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
to gain employment opportunities.”
“I am still finding my feet as I am very new to
the role and it’s a completely different world to
what I have been used to over the past 12 years,
but I am loving every minute of it. Everywhere
that I have worked and everything that I have
learnt has brought me to the place I am right
now. It shows that if you work hard and stay
focused the opportunities at ANZ are endless.”
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development
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This year we ranked in the top five Access and Inclusion
Index performers by the Australian Network on
Disability. The Access and Inclusion Index is Australia’s
foremost benchmarking tool for inclusion of people
with disability.
Participating in the Index is an important way for ANZ
to check our progress against the commitments in our
Accessibility Plan and show leadership and support for
best practice in disability inclusion.
ANZ was commended for its “many strong examples
of industry-leading accessibility measures across the
corporate sector in Australia and New Zealand.” This
includes our PACE mentoring program, Stepping Into
internships and our involvement in the Accessible
Procurement Taskforce.
MEASURING OUR PROGRESS
INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE
We gather insights on the diversity of our workforce through
our annual engagement survey, My Voice. This year we made
changes to the question on disability to make the purpose for
collecting this information clearer. Consequently, the number
of people identifying as having a disability increased to 4.3%
in 2021 from 3% in 2020.
We joined the IncludeAbility Forum, a national project led by
Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner which aims
to increase access to meaningful employment opportunities
for people with disability. We are also working closely with our
partner, the Australian Network on Disability, to roll out a
Disability Confident e-learning suite for our managers and
people leaders.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment and selection
processes are barrier free and accessible. Our website provides
information on how potential candidates with accessibility
needs can apply for roles and connect with our Talent and
Culture team on adjustments they may need. We continue
to ask our internal and external candidates about their
accessibility requirements, and provide ongoing professional
development to recruiters to help develop their disability
recruiting confidence.
We are also building an accessibility framework to strengthen
career pathways for blind and low-vision employees working
in our Contact Centres. The framework seeks to ensure that
accessibility testing, software integration, leader education
and environmental assessments are considered to ensure
each individual can comfortably transition to new roles.
ABILITIES NETWORK
Our Abilities Network is made up of employees keen to make
a positive difference for people with disability, including fellow
employees, our customers and in the wider community.
This year, in response to feedback received from the Australian
Network on Disability’s Accessibility and Inclusion Index, we
established a User Experience subgroup of the Abilities
Network. The subgroup provides a forum for people with
lived experience of disability at ANZ to provide collaborative,
innovative and fit-for-purpose solutions to initiatives, processes
and tools to help support accessibility and inclusion for our
people and customers.
Our Abilities Network is also the key driver for our disability
mentoring program, PACE, run together with the Australian
Network on Disability. PACE connects jobseekers with
disability to professional mentors for a 16-week supported
mentoring program. All mentors are required to undertake
disability confidence training before the program starts. In
2021, 81 pairs participated in the program. We also expanded
the reach of the program, with pilots conducted in the
Northern Territory and Tasmania.
This year we recruited 80 people
with disability across the Group into
a variety of roles, including through
our Graduate Program.
4.7% of our Graduate Program
participants identified as a person
with disability.
"Being part of ANZ’s Abilities
Network program gives me a
chance to share and comment
on what ANZ can do to support
people with disabilities.”
Kat Ramos | Engineer, ANZ Security
Advisory and Engineering
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INCLUSION
Employee
engagement,
wellbeing and
development
Diversity and inclusion
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Self-Assessment requirements
High-level summary of bank’s response
(limited assurance required for responses to highlighted items)
Reference(s)/Link(s) to
bank’s full response/relevant
information
PRINCIPLE 1: ALIGNMENT
We will align our business strategy to be consistent with and contribute to individuals’ needs and society’s goals, as expressed in the
Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement and relevant national and regional frameworks.
1.1 Describe (high-level) your bank's business
model, including the main customer segments
served, types of products and services
provided, the main sectors and types of
activities, and where relevant the technologies
financed across the main geographies in which
your bank has operations or provides products
and services.
ANZ is among the top four banks in Australia, the largest banking group in New Zealand and Pacific,
and among the top 50 banks in the world by market capitalisation.
Our history dates back over 185 years, and we operate in 32 markets globally with representation
in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, and America.
We provide a range of banking and financial products and services to around 8.7 million Retail,
Commercial and Institutional customers, and we employ around 40,000 people worldwide.
Our strategy is to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our customers.
We will do this by providing excellent services, tools and insights that engage and retain customers
and positively change their behaviour.
In particular, we want to help customers:
•Save for, buy and own a sustainable, liveable and affordable home
•Start or buy and sustainably grow their business
•Move capital and goods around the region and sustainably grow their business
About ANZ
Our Purpose and Strategy
2021 Annual Report
pages 10–11
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1.2 Describe how your bank has aligned and/or
is planning to align its strategy to be consistent
with, and contribute to, society's goals as
expressed in the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Agreement, and
relevant national and regional frameworks.
We support the Paris Agreement’s goal of transitioning to net zero emissions by 2050 and our
Climate Change Statement outlines our approach and commitments that seek to support this goal.
We are currently updating our Statement and Climate-related Financial Disclosures. These will be
released prior to our Annual General Meeting and made available on anz.com/annualreport.
In October 2021, ANZ joined the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) Net Zero
Banking Alliance – signalling a stronger commitment to align our lending portfolio with the goal of
achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
In 2020, we published our first statement responding to the Australian Modern Slavery Act’s
mandatory criteria, describing how we identify and act on key modern slavery risks in our operations
and supply chain. Our second statement will be released in December 2021.
This year we have significantly upgraded our Human Rights Statement (Statement), which outlines
our respect for international human rights standards. Our Statement includes: no tolerance for
retaliation against individuals or communities; reference to climate change and associated human
rights impacts; support for open civic space and human rights defenders; scenarios where domestic
laws conflict with international human rights standards; and our process when a customer or
business relationship’s human rights practices are inconsistent with our expectations.
We also developed a new Grievance Mechanism (Mechanism) for people whose human rights may
have been impacted by our large business lending customers. In establishing the Mechanism, we
sought to provide a framework through which: efforts can be made to resolve complaints by affected
communities about adverse human rights impacts associated with ANZ customers; and feedback
and recommendations aimed at strengthening our due diligence processes can be provided. It is
available at anz.com.
Our ESG Approach
Our ESG focus areas
Climate Change Statement
Our Purpose and Strategy
2021 Annual Report
pages 37–39
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 24–25 and 53–55
2021 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures, to be released prior
to our Annual General Meeting
and made available on
anz.com/annualreport
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Self-assessment
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PRINCIPLE 2: IMPACT AND TARGET SETTING
We will continuously increase our positive impacts while reducing the negative impacts on, and managing the risks to, people and environment
resulting from our activities, products and services. To this end, we will set and publish targets where we can have the most significant impacts.
2.1 Impact Analysis:
Show that your bank has identified the areas
in which it has its most significant (potential)
positive and negative impact through an impact
analysis that fulfils the following elements:
a. Scope: The bank’s core business areas,
products/services across the main geographies
that the bank operates in have been as
described under 1.1. have been considered
in the scope of the analysis.
b. Scale of Exposure: In identifying its areas
of most significant impact the bank has
considered where its core business/its major
activities lie in terms of industries, technologies
and geographies.
c. Context and Relevance: Your bank has taken
into account the most relevant challenges and
priorities related to sustainable development in
the countries/regions in which it operates.
d. Scale and intensity/salience of impact: In
identifying its areas of most significant impact,
the bank has considered the scale and intensity/
salience of the (potential) social, economic and
environmental impacts resulting from the bank’s
activities and provision of products and services.
(your bank should have engaged with relevant
stakeholders to help inform your analysis under
elements c) and d)).
Show that building on this analysis, the bank has
•Identified and disclosed its areas of
most significant (potential) positive and
negative impact
•Identified strategic business opportunities in
relation to the increase of positive impacts/
reduction of negative impacts
Scope:
In conducting our Impact Analysis work this year, we have identified our most significant impact
areas using aspects of the UNEP FI Principles for Responsible Banking - Impact Identification Tool.
In analysing our impact, we considered our Retail, Commercial and Institutional businesses across our
main markets of operation, Australia and New Zealand. We considered all material sectors financed
across each business.
Through our analysis we identified our most significant (potential) positive impact areas as:
•Inclusive, healthy economies
•Housing
Through our analysis we identified our most significant (potential) negative impact areas as:
•Climate change
•Resource efficiency/security
•Inclusive, healthy economies
We also conducted our annual materiality assessment, engaging with key external and internal
stakeholders to ensure our targets and commitments reflect the most significant ESG risks and
opportunities facing our business and the communities in which we operate.
Scale of exposure:
We will seek to expand our assessment to cover our 32 markets of operation and will look to
refine our portfolio-level and sectoral analysis.
Context and relevance:
Our 2021 materiality assessment incorporated in-depth interviews, focus groups and validation
sessions with a number of external and internal stakeholders. We considered stakeholder
expectations and perspectives on material ESG issues such as: fair and ethical conduct, climate
change, cyber security and data privacy, financial wellbeing, human rights, biodiversity and
customer experience.
We consider the scale and intensity/salience of our impacts through our engagement with
governments, NGOs, industry associations, shareholders, customers and employees.
Our materiality assessment
Our ESG focus areas
Our stakeholder engagement
policy
2021 Annual Report
pages 9 and 14
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 6–10
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Impact Analysis.
We have identified our most significant (potential) impact areas for our Retail, Commercial and Institutional businesses across our main markets of operation,
Australia and New Zealand in line with the Principle’s requirements. In 2022 we will look to expand our analysis to include other geographies in which we operate.
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2.2 Target Setting
Show that the bank has set and published
a minimum of two Specific, Measurable
(can be qualitative or quantitative), Achievable,
Relevant and Time-bound (SMART ) targets,
which address at least two of the identified
“areas of most significant impact”, resulting from
the bank’s activities and provision of products
and services.
Show that these targets are linked to and drive
alignment with and greater contribution to
appropriate Sustainable Development Goals,
the goals of the Paris Agreement, and other
relevant international, national or regional
frameworks. The bank should have identified
a baseline (assessed against a particular year)
and have set targets against this baseline.
Show that the bank has analysed and
acknowledged significant (potential) negative
impacts of the set targets on other dimensions
of the SDG/climate change/society’s goals and
that it has set out relevant actions to mitigate
those as far as feasible to maximize the net
positive impact of the set targets.
ANZ sets public targets annually which reflect our purpose, our ESG focus areas (financial wellbeing,
environmental sustainability, housing; and fair and responsible banking) and respond to our most
material ESG issues.
When setting our suite of ESG targets, we consider potential impacts, both positive and
negative, (informed by the impact analysis work described under requirement 2.1) and our
materiality assessment.
Our progress against our public ESG targets is reviewed by the executive Ethics and Responsible
Business Committee (ERBC) quarterly and twice a year by the Board Ethics, Environment, Social and
Governance Committee (EESG).
Last year, we released two new S.M.A.R.T ESG targets in the areas of environmental sustainability
and financial wellbeing, which are still current, with end dates of 2025 and 2023 respectively.
We considered these two targets to be the areas of most significant impact, as they align with
a number of Sustainable Development Goals and also with ANZ’s ESG focus areas:
TARGET 1
Environmental sustainability: “To fund and facilitate at least $50 billion by 2025 towards sustainable
solutions for our customers, including initiatives that help improve environmental sustainability,
support disaster resilience, increase access to affordable housing and promote financial wellbeing”
– which was updated to include a commitment to allocate $1 billion of the $50 billion towards
supporting customers and communities’ disaster recovery and resilience
Specific: to fund and facilitate $50 billion in sustainable solutions
Measureable: target amount $50 billion
Achievable: we are on track to achieve this target
Relevant: it aligns with our ESG focus area of environmental sustainability, as well as financial
wellbeing and housing
Time bound: by 2025
Note: this year we aligned the target to four additional SDGs – 1 No Poverty, 5 Gender Equality;
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, and 10 Reduced Inequalities. The inclusion of these SDGs
ensures better alignment with emerging sustainable finance product categories and captures
transactions that fund/facilitate activities relating to social outcomes, that go beyond
environmental sustainability.
Accordingly, the target aligns to the following SDGs: 1 No Poverty, 5 Gender Equality, 6 Clean Water
and Sanitation, 7 Affordable and Clean Energy, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, 9 Industry,
Innovation and Infrastructure, 10 Reduced Inequalities, 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities,
12 Responsible Consumption and Production, and 13 Climate Action.
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 11–14
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2.2 Target Setting (continued)
TARGET 2
Financial wellbeing: “To establish seven new partnerships to expand the reach and improve impact
of MoneyMinded for vulnerable people, by end 2023” – which has a focus on positive impacts for
people experiencing vulnerability
Specific: to establish seven new partnerships to expand the reach and improve impact of
MoneyMinded for vulnerable people
Measureable: target set to achieve seven partnerships
Achievable: we are on track to achieve this target
Relevant: it aligns with our ESG focus area of financial wellbeing
Time bound: by 2023
For our full suite of 2022 ESG targets – which support 12 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals – and which are approved by the Board EESG Committee, please see
pages 11–14 of this document.
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Target Setting.
We expanded our suite of ESG targets last year, with the addition of two new S.M.A.R.T targets in the areas of environmental sustainability and financial wellbeing.
These targets are still current and are in line with this Principle’s requirements.
2.3 Plans for Target Implementation
and Monitoring
Show that your bank has defined actions
and milestones to meet the set targets.
Show that your bank has put in place the
means to measure and monitor progress
against the set targets. Definitions of key
performance indicators, any changes in these
definitions, and any rebasing of baselines
should be transparent.
Progress against our ESG targets is monitored and reported quarterly to the ERBC, and
twice-yearly to the Board EESG Committee.
Each target has a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ responsible for reporting against the target and this is
overseen by the relevant Executive.
Updates on our targets are provided twice a year at our Results briefing; in our annual reporting
disclosures; at our annual ESG investor market briefing; published on anz.com; and on ANZ’s
bluenotes and news sites.
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 11–14
ESG Reporting on
our Shareholder Centre
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Plans for Target Implementation and Monitoring.
Through the disclosed accountabilities our Board and Executive Committees have for monitoring and reporting on our ESG targets, we fulfil the requirements under this principle.
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information
2.4 Progress on Implementing Targets
For each target separately:
Show that your bank has implemented the
actions it had previously defined to meet
the set target.
Or explain why actions could not be
implemented/needed to be changed and
how your bank is adapting its plan to meet
its set target.
Report on your bank’s progress over the
last 12 months (up to 18 months in your first
reporting after becoming a signatory) towards
achieving each of the set targets and the
impact your progress resulted in. (where
feasible and appropriate, banks should include
quantitative disclosures)
We publicly report our progress against our ESG targets half-yearly.
For example, we are on track to meet our sustainable solutions target to fund and facilitate at least
$50 billion by 2025. Since October 2019, we have funded and facilitated $21.95 billion towards the
target, of which $12.18 billion is funded and $9.77 billion is facilitated.
Additionally, our financial wellbeing target to establish seven new partnerships is on track, with three
new partnerships formed: one with Powerpac, an approved provider of the Australian Government’s
Pacific Labour Scheme; a MoU with the Reserve Bank of Fiji; the ‘Fruition Horticulture Bay of Plenty’
(FHBoP), a registered Education Provider that provides independent advice and services to clients in
the horticultural industry in New Zealand.
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 11–14
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Progress on Implementing Targets.
We have fulfilled the requirements under this principle through our existing processes to evaluate and report on our progress against our ESG targets.
PRINCIPLE 3: CLIENTS AND CUSTOMERS
We will work responsibly with our clients and our customers to encourage sustainable practices and enable
economic activities that create shared prosperity for current and future generations.
3.1 Provide an overview of the policies and
practices your bank has in place and/or is
planning to put in place to promote
responsible relationships with its customers.
This should include high-level information on
any programmes and actions implemented
(and/or planned), their scale and, where
possible, the results thereof.
We consider relationships with our customers essential to our success and ability to create
long-term value. How we engage with our customers is embedded in our group-wide policies,
processes and operations.
We work to maintain high standards of conduct and continue to improve our culture, governance
and accountability mechanisms to help improve customer outcomes and restore community trust.
Specifically, our purpose and our ESG focus areas are key to how we seek to engage and
support customers.
Underpinning our key ESG focus areas is a commitment to ‘fair and responsible banking’ – keeping
pace with the expectations of our customers, employees and the community, behaving fairly and
responsibly and maintaining high standards of conduct.
Within the area of fair and responsible banking we have set targets to:
•Develop and commence implementation of a new Vulnerable Customer Framework to improve
the support we provide to customers experiencing vulnerability, by end 2021 (Australia).
ANZ Financial Wellbeing Hub
Financial Wellbeing
Fair and responsible banking
2021 Annual Report
pages 8, 15–25 and 34–39
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 12–14, 24–28, 37–43,
47–49 and 53–55
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3.1 (continued) •Design and commence implementation of a Human Rights Grievance Mechanism, using the UN
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, by end 2021.
•Achieve the 17 actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan, by end 2024 (Australia).
To better support customers experiencing vulnerability, we have introduced a gambling block for Visa
credit and debit cards – blocking gambling transactions from being made in person, on the phone or
online. The self-exclusion tool was designed in consultation with experts and community organisations
and includes a 48-hour switch-off delay. Over 16,240 blocks have since been enabled by our customers
in-app since March 2021.
Lastly, this year we significantly upgraded our Human Rights Statement and developed a new
Grievance Mechanism for people whose human rights may have been impacted by our large
business lending customers (meeting our target mentioned above).
3.2 Describe how your bank has worked with
and/or is planning to work with its clients and
customers to encourage sustainable practices
and enable sustainable economic activities.
This should include information on actions
planned/implemented, products and services
developed, and, where possible, the impacts
achieved.
ANZ’s Climate Change Statement outlines our commitment to support a net zero transition
and help our customers and industry to do this. As previously mentioned, we will be releasing an
updated statement prior to our Annual General Meeting.
One of the key ways we are seeking to support the transition is through our sustainable
finance products and service. In 2021 we saw record growth in this business, participating in
81 transactions, in comparison to 39 transactions in 2020. Of the 81 sustainable finance deals we
participated in, $5.7 billion was attributed to ANZ via our distribution capability, and $4.8 billion
via our lending capacity.
Another important focus for ANZ is supporting households, business and financial practices that
improve environmental sustainability.
Environmental Sustainability
Climate Change Statement
2021 Annual Report
pages 19–21 and 38–39
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 24–28
2021 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures, to be released prior
to our Annual General Meeting
and made available on
anz.com/annualreport
PRINCIPLE 4: STAKEHOLDERS
We will proactively and responsibly consult, engage and partner with relevant stakeholders to achieve society’s goals.
4.1 Describe which stakeholders (or groups/
types of stakeholders) your bank has consulted,
engaged, collaborated or partnered with for
the purpose of implementing these Principles
and improving your bank’s impacts. This should
include a high-level overview of how your bank
has identified relevant stakeholders and what
issues were addressed/results achieved.
Stakeholder engagement is embedded in our policies, processes and operations.
Through our annual materiality assessment, we engage and consult with a range of internal and
external stakeholders, including institutional investors, asset managers, ESG advisers, NGOs, consumer
advocates and financial counsellors. The purpose of these discussions is to seek their views to help
inform our identification of ESG risks and opportunities.
In addition, we take a collaborative and proactive approach to engaging with a broad range
of other stakeholders throughout the year to create long-term value and deliver on our business
strategy. These stakeholders include government, regulators, customers, shareholders, NGOs and
industry associations.
As noted above, this year we upgraded our Human Rights Statement and developed a new
Grievance Mechanism. Our approach was informed by an external multi-stakeholder working group.
We spent 12 months engaging with civil society organisations, academics, business representatives
and customers to inform the Statement and Mechanism, and engagement will again be sought with
external stakeholders in reviews of the Mechanism in 2023 and the Statement in 2024.
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 9–10 and 53–55
Our Materiality Assessment
Stakeholder engagement
Our approach to Human Rights
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PRINCIPLE 5: GOVERNANCE AND CULTURE
We will implement our commitment to these Principles through effective governance and a culture of responsible banking.
5.1 Describe the relevant governance
structures, policies and procedures your bank
has in place/is planning to put in place to
manage significant positive and negative
(potential) impacts and support effective
implementation of the Principles.
Our governance framework provides the structure for effective and responsible decision-making
within the organisation, ensuring we meet our ESG objectives.
In addition, our risk management framework and policies, internal audit function and other
established systems and procedures help us effectively mitigate ESG risks.
Specifically, our Board EESG Committee, led by ANZ’s Chairman, is responsible for oversight, review
and/or approval of matters relating to our ESG focus areas, including performance against targets.
Our Board EESG Committee endorsed ANZ becoming a signatory to the Principles for Responsible
Banking. We report on our progress to align with the Principles to this Committee at least once a year
and also to our executive ERBC, together with our quarterly ESG target updates.
2021 Corporate Governance
Statement
2021 Annual Report
page 40–50
5.2 Describe the initiatives and measures
your bank has implemented or is planning to
implement to foster a culture of responsible
banking among its employees. This should
include a high-level overview of capacity
building, inclusion in remuneration structures
and performance management and leadership
communication, amongst others.
We are developing the culture, capabilities and behaviours we need to live our purpose, values and
deliver on our strategy.
This is underpinned by our employee Code of Conduct which sets expected standards of behaviours
and guides employees in applying the Bank’s values.
The Code of Conduct is supported by a suite of policies that are reviewed regularly to ensure they
reflect any legislative changes and remain fit for purpose.
Page 11 of our Annual Report outlines ANZ’s strategy and the recent work we have undertaken to build
a better ANZ. Key to this work is a clear linkage between purpose and strategy, and we have a suite of
people, customer and reputation metrics in our Group Scorecard, with internal and external targets.
Our culture and conduct
Our employee engagement
2021 ESG Supplement
pages 35–36 and 44–46
2021 Annual Report
pages 11 and 29–33
5.3 Governance Structure for
Implementation of the Principles
Show that your bank has a governance
structure in place for the implementation
of the PRB, including:
a. target-setting and actions to achieve
targets set
b. remedial action in the event of targets or
milestones not being achieved or unexpected
negative impacts being detected.
The ERBC, chaired by the CEO, sets our ESG targets and monitors performance against
them quarterly.
The Committee comprises senior executives from business divisions and Group functions and
is a leadership and decision-making body, holding the bank accountable for its ESG work.
It governs ‘who we bank’ and ‘how we bank’, seeking to align our lending decisions and products,
services and processes with our purpose.
Governance and Risk
Management
Reporting and Performance
2021 ESG Supplement
page 5
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/ statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Governance Structure for Implementation of the Principles.
We have fulfilled the requirements under this principle through our existing governance structures, specifically our executive ERBC and Board EESG Committee.
Both of these Committees are updated on the implementation of our ESG targets and alignment to the Principles.
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Reporting and
Self-Assessment requirements
High-level summary of bank’s response
(limited assurance required for responses to highlighted items)
Reference(s)/Link(s) to
bank’s full response/relevant
information
PRINCIPLE 6: TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
We will periodically review our individual and collective implementation of these Principles and be transparent about
and accountable for our positive and negative impacts and our contribution to society’s goals.
6.1 Progress on Implementing the Principles
for Responsible Banking
Show that your bank has progressed on
implementing the six Principles over the last
12 months (up to 18 months in your first
reporting after becoming a signatory) in
addition to the setting and implementation
of targets in minimum two areas (see 2.1–2.4).
Show that your bank has considered existing
and emerging international/regional good
practices relevant for the implementation of
the six Principles for Responsible Banking.
Based on this, it has defined priorities and
ambitions to align with good practice.
Show that your bank has implemented/is
working on implementing changes in existing
practices to reflect and be in line with existing
and emerging international/regional good
practices and has made progress on its
implementation of these Principles.
Full details of progress against our ESG focus areas and targets can be found throughout this report.
In addition, here is a summary of work we have done in the last 12 months:
Alignment
•Our full range of ESG targets, against our ESG focus areas, now support 12 of the
17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
•Joined the UNEP FI Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
Impact and Target Setting
•Used the UNEPFI’s Impact Analysis Tool to help inform our impact analysis; conducted our
annual materiality assessment that also informed our analysis and target setting
Clients and Customers
•Three targets against our focus area of fair and responsible banking
•Significantly upgraded our Human Rights Statement and developed a new Grievance Mechanism
Stakeholders
•12-month engagement process with an external multi-stakeholder working group to inform
the development of our upgraded Human Rights Statement and new Grievance Mechanism
Governance and Culture
•Part of our 'Bank we are building' approach is a clearer alignment between purpose and
strategy, reflected in our Group Scorecard that contains metrics relating to people, customer
and reputation
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2021 Annual Report
pages 8, 15–25 and 29–39
Please provide your bank’s conclusion/statement if it has fulfilled the requirements regarding Progress on Implementing the Principles for Responsible Banking.
This is our second year of reporting against the Principles for Responsible Banking. We consider we have fulfilled the majority of the requirements of the Principles and
will continue to build on our commitment in the coming year.
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UN SDG alignment with ESG targets
In 2021, progress against our public ESG targets contributed to the following
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal targets.
FINANCIAL WELLBEING
Improving the financial wellbeing of our people, customers and communities by
helping them make the most of their money throughout their lives.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target1
Support 250,000 customers to build a savings habit,
by end 2021. (Australia/New Zealand)
10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
Publish Adult Financial Wellbeing Research to inform
our product design and financial literacy program delivery,
by end 2022.
17.16 – Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development
Establish seven new partnerships to expand the reach and
improve impact of MoneyMinded for people experiencing
vulnerability, by end 2023.
1.4 – Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
8.3 – Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
17.16 – Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development
1. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to https://sdgs.un.org/goals for full targets.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target1
Fund and facilitate at least AU$50 billion by 2025 towards
sustainable solutions for our customers, including initiatives
that help improve environmental sustainability, support
disaster resilience, increase access to affordable housing and
promote financial wellbeing.
1.4 – Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
1.5 – Build resilience to environmental, economic and social disasters
5.1 – End discrimination against women and girls
5.5 – Ensure full participation in leadership and decision-making
6.1 – Safe and affordable drinking water
6.2 – End open defecation and provide access to sanitation and hygiene
6.3 – Improve water quality, wastewater treatment and safe reuse
6.4 – Increase water-use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
6.5 – Implement integrated water resources management
6.6 – Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
7.1 – Universal access to modern energy
7.2 – Increase global percentage of renewable energy
7.3 – Double the improvement in energy efficiency
8.5 – Full employment and decent work with equal pay
9.1 – Develop sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructures
9.4 – Upgrade all industries and infrastructures for sustainability
9.A – Facilitate sustainable infrastructure development for developing countries
10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
1. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to https://sdgs.un.org/goals for full targets.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target1
Fund and facilitate at least AU$50 billion by 2025 towards
sustainable solutions for our customers, including initiatives
that help improve environmental sustainability, support
disaster resilience, increase access to affordable housing
and promote financial wellbeing. (continued)
11.1 – Safe and affordable housing
11.2 – Affordable and sustainable transport systems
11.3 – Inclusive and sustainable urbanisation
11.6 – Reduce the environmental impact of cities
12.2 – Sustainable management and use of natural resources
12.5 – Substantially reduce waste generation
12.8 – Promote universal understanding of sustainable lifestyles
13.1 – Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters
13.3 – Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change
Encourage and support 100 of our largest emitting business
customers to establish, and where appropriate, strengthen
existing low carbon transition plans, by 2021.
13.1 – Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters
Develop an enhanced climate risk management framework
that strengthens our governance and is responsive to climate
change, by end 2022.
13.1 – Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters
13.3 – Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change
Reduce the direct impact of our business activities on the
environment by:
•reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 24% by 2025 and by
35% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)
•increasing renewable energy use to 100% by 2025
•reducing potable water consumption by 25% by 2025
(against a 2017 baseline)
•reducing waste to landfill by 30% by 2025
(against a 2017 baseline)
•reducing paper consumption (office and customer
paper use only) by 60% by 2025 (against 2015 baseline).
6.4 – Increase water-use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
7.3 – Double the improvement in energy efficiency
12.5 – Substantially reduce waste generation
13.3 – Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change
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HOUSING
Improving the availability of suitable and affordable housing options for all Australians and New Zealanders.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target1
Fund and facilitate AU$10 billion of investment by 2030 to
deliver more affordable, accessible and sustainable homes to
buy and rent. (Australia /New Zealand)
9.1 – Develop sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructures
10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
11.1 – Safe and affordable housing
Support more customers into healthier homes with our
Healthy Home Loan Package and Interest-free Insulation
Loans – through a 2% increase of funds under management
and a 4% increase in customer numbers
by 2025. (New Zealand)
9.4 – Upgrade all industries and infrastructures for sustainability
11.1 – Safe and affordable housing
1. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to https://sdgs.un.org/goals for full targets.
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FAIR AND RESPONSIBLE BANKING
Keeping pace with the expectations of our customers, employees and the community,
behaving fairly and responsibly and maintaining high standards of conduct.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target1
Develop and commence implementation of a new Customer
Vulnerability Framework to improve the support we provide to
customers experiencing vulnerability, by end 2021. (Australia)
1.4 – Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
Design and commence implementation of a human rights
grievance mechanism, using the UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights, by end 2021.
8.7 – End modern slavery, trafficking and child labour
8.8 – Protect labour rights and promote safe working environments
Achieve the 17 actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan,
by end 2024. (Australia)
1.4 – Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
8.3 – Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
8.5 – Full employment and decent work with equal pay
10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
17.16 – Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development
1. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to https://sdgs.un.org/goals for full targets.
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Explanatory notes
Target to fund and facilitate $50 billion in sustainable
solutions by 2025 (the $50 billion target).
‘Sustainable solutions’ are defined as the products and
services provided to our customers across the markets in
which we operate, to the extent they are related to the
defined activities below.
The $50 billion target is reported as at 30 September 2021 and
is a six-year Group-wide target, from 2020 to 2025 inclusive.
It includes all eligible financing either funded or facilitated
by ANZ through its products and services, including, but not
limited to, loans, guarantees and bonds, markets products
and advisory services. It also includes all labelled sustainable
finance products including green/social/sustainability (GSS)
bonds, green loans, sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) and
labelled transition bonds/loans.
Our approach to our $50 billion target:
•draws on the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) criteria (available
on climatebonds.net/standard) and the expertise of our
internal specialist teams to guide which activities qualify
for inclusion. The CBI criteria is designed to be consistent
with the latest climate science including research from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and
International Energy Agency (IEA) and is intended for broad
guidance only;
•aligns to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), specifically SDG 1 No Poverty, 5 Gender Equality,
6 Clean Water and Sanitation, 7 Affordable and Clean Energy,
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, 9 Industry, Innovation
and Infrastructure, 10 Reduced Inequalities, 11 Sustainable
Cities and Communities, 12 Responsible Consumption and
Production, and 13 Climate Action;
•takes into account the nature of a customer’s business such
that, where only part of a customer’s operations or activities
meet the criteria, we will determine what proportion of
general purposes financing provided to that customer is
included. (General purposes financing is financing provided
for application to a customer’s general expenditure
requirements and not specifically identified projects for
example, capital or operational expenditure); and
•includes conducting an annual review of activities and
methodologies used to guide activities that qualify for the
$50 billion target. This may result in the inclusion of new
activities and any material changes will be transparently
disclosed. Changes in methodology will not be applied
retrospectively.
In 2021 we aligned the target to four additional United
Nations SDGs – 1 No Poverty, 5 Gender Equality; 8 Decent
Work and Economic Growth, and 10 Reduced Inequalities.
The inclusion of these SDGs ensures better alignment with
emerging product categories, and captures transactions that
fund/facilitate activities relating to social outcomes, that go
beyond environmental sustainability.
The $50 billion target activities specifically include, but
are not limited to:
•low-emissions transport, transport infrastructure;
•green buildings – demonstrating 5-star National Australian
Built Environment Rating System (‘NABERS’) equivalent
and 4-star NABERS rating for retrofits with minimum
2-star upgrade;
•re-forestation, sustainable forestry and agricultural practices;
•renewable energy, battery storage;
•pollution reduction and waste management;
•emerging smart technologies and industrial processes
that support resource efficiency;
•climate change adaptation measures;
•water recycling, procurement, treatment and efficiency;
•labelled sustainable finance transactions that link financial
outcomes to borrowers material ESG performance
•social and affordable housing – construction of, or
investment in, housing supply that supports positive
market change; and
•financial wellbeing transactions that advance the financial
wellbeing for our people, customers and communities.
This includes activities and transactions that support the
improvement of financial access and financial fitness within
the community.
The target includes products and services (including
refinancing) that have been provided since 1 October 2019
above a threshold of $1 million.
Target to fund and facilitate $10 billion in affordable,
secure and sustainable housing by 2030 across
Australia and New Zealand.
‘Affordable, secure and sustainable housing’ is defined as the
products and services provided to our customers in Australia
to the extent they are related to the defined activities below.
The $10 billion target is reported as at 30 September 2021 and
is a ten-year Australia and New Zealand target, from 2020 to
2030. It includes all financing either funded or facilitated by
ANZ through its products and services, including, but not
limited to, loans, guarantees and bonds, markets products and
advisory services. It also includes certain labelled sustainable
finance products such as social/sustainability bonds and
sustainability-linked loans (SLLs).
Our approach to our $10 billion target:
•aligns to United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and
Infrastructure and 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities; and
•commits to conducting an annual review of activities and
methodologies used to guide activities that qualify for the
$10 billion target. This may result in the inclusion of new
activities and any material changes will be transparently
disclosed. The inclusion of new activities will not be
applied retrospectively.
The $10 billion target activities specifically include the
construction of, or investment in, Australian housing
supply that supports positive market change, including
the following aims:
•supporting social housing for vulnerable communities;
•expanding the availability of affordable housing for
rental or purchase;
•increasing the availability of accessible housing that provides
better design to support disability and aged persons;
•delivering security of tenure for rental and/or including
the opportunity to purchase; and
•improving housing sustainability via design and features
above minimum standards.
The target includes products and services that have been
provided since 1 October 2020 above a threshold of
$1 million. This target contributes to the $50 billion target.
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Based on the evidence we obtained from
the procedures performed, we are not
aware of any material misstatements in
the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement, which
has been prepared by ANZ in accordance
with ANZ’s Basis of Reporting and the
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for the
year ended 30 September 2021.
CONCLUSION
WHAT DID KPMG’S WORK INVOLVE –
SCOPE OF WORK
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ)
engaged KPMG to perform a limited assurance engagement
in relation to the ANZ 2021 Environment, Social and
Governance (ESG) Supplement. KPMG’s scope of work
comprised limited assurance over all material text and data
claims in the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement.
The ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement covers ANZ’s global
operations for the year ended 30 September 2021 unless
otherwise indicated. The ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement is
available at anz.com/annualreport.
WHAT WAS THE REPORTING CRITERIA USED?
The ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement was prepared in accordance
with the GRI Standards published by the Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI) and Management’s Basis of Reporting,
a summary of which is included in the Explanatory
Notes section.
WHAT WAS THE BASIS FOR
KPMG’S CONCLUSION?
We conducted our work in accordance with International
Standard on Assurance Engagements ISAE 3000 (Standard).
In accordance with the Standard we have:
•used our professional judgement to plan and perform the
engagement to obtain limited assurance that we are not
aware of any material misstatements in the ANZ 2021 ESG
Supplement, whether due to fraud or error;
•considered relevant internal controls when designing our
assurance procedures, however we do not express
a conclusion on their effectiveness; and
•ensured that the engagement team possess the appropriate
knowledge, skills and professional competencies.
WHAT DID KPMG DO TO SUPPORT THE
SCOPE OF WORK – OUR PROCEDURES
Our limited assurance conclusion is based on the evidence
obtained from performing the following procedures:
•enquiries of relevant management to understand ANZ’s
process for determining material ESG issues;
•interviews with relevant management concerning ANZ's
ESG framework and policies for material ESG issues, and
the implementation of these across the business;
•interviews with relevant staff responsible for developing
the content (text and data) within the ANZ 2021 ESG
Supplement to understand the approach for management,
monitoring, collation and reporting of such information
and the accuracy, completeness and existence of reported
text and data within the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement;
•comparing text and data (on a sample basis) presented to
underlying sources. This included considering whether all
material matters had been included or excluded;
•an assessment of information reported was in accordance
with the GRI Standards Comprehensive level of disclosures;
and
•reviewing other ANZ reporting including the Annual Report
and Annual Review in its entirety to ensure it is consistent
with our knowledge obtained through our assurance
engagement.
Independent Limited Assurance Report to the Directors
of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
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WHAT IS LIMITED ASSURANCE AND
MATERIAL MISSTATEMENT
A limited assurance engagement is restricted primarily
to enquiries and analytical procedures. The procedures
performed in a limited assurance engagement vary in nature
and timing from, and are less in extent than for, a reasonable
assurance engagement. Consequently, the level of assurance
obtained in a limited assurance engagement is substantially
lower than the assurance that would have been obtained had
a reasonable assurance engagement been performed. The
Standard requires our report to be worded around what we
have not found, rather than what we have found.
Misstatements, including omissions, are considered
material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could
reasonably be expected to influence relevant decisions
of the Directors of ANZ.
USE OF THIS ASSURANCE REPORT
This report has been prepared for the Directors of ANZ
for the purpose of providing an assurance conclusion on
the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement and may not be suitable
for another purpose. We disclaim any assumption of
responsibility for any reliance on this report, to any person
other than the Directors of ANZ, or for any other purpose
than that for which it was prepared.
ANZ responsibility
ANZ is responsible for:
•determining that the criteria is appropriate to meet
their needs;
•preparing and presenting the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement
and other ESG related information in accordance with the
criteria; and
•establishing internal controls that enable the preparation
and presentation of the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement that is
free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud
or error.
KPMG is responsible for:
Our responsibility is to perform a limited assurance
engagement in relation to the ANZ 2021 ESG Supplement for
the year ended 30 September 2021, and to issue an assurance
report that includes our conclusion.
KPMG Independence and Quality Control
We have complied with our independence and other relevant
ethical requirements of the Code of Ethics for Professional
Accountants issued by the Australian Professional and Ethical
Standards Board and complied with the applicable
requirements of Australian Standard on Quality Control 1 to
maintain a comprehensive system of quality control. We have
also complied with ANZ’s Stakeholder Engagement Model for
Relationship with External Auditor (available at anz.com).
KPMG
Melbourne,
27 October 2021
Adrian King | Partner
Melbourne,
27 October 2021
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