ANZ 2022 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 2022
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ANZ 2022 ESG Supplement
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) today released its 2022 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
WE’RE CONTINUING TO
SHAPE A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE
AND COMMUNITIES THRIVE
ANZ 2022
ESG SUPPLEMENT
Approved for distribution by ANZ’s Continuous Disclosure Committee, 2 November 2022
Front cover: (L-R) Kristy Abbott – Talent and Culture; Suraj Pariema – Property; Arthur Lalios – Australia Commercial;
Louise Taylor – Australia Commercial at ANZ Centre, Melbourne. Inside cover: ANZ Centre, Melbourne.
Contents
Overview 2
Our 2022 reporting suite 2
2022 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
Environmental sustainability 16
Our approach to climate change 16
Sustainable finance 22
Reducing our environmental footprint 25
Financial wellbeing 28
Improving financial wellbeing 28
Community investment 37
Housing 41
Improving the availability and
affordability of homes 41
Fair and responsible banking 45
Improving conduct and culture 45
Supporting customers in need
of extra care 47
Improving customer experience 52
Collaborating securely to
drive innovation 53
Financial crime 55
Responsible business lending 57
Managing ESG risks in our supply chain 60
Our approach to human rights 62
Employee wellbeing, and inclusion 64
Employee engagement, wellbeing,
learning and development 64
Workplace diversity and inclusion 69
UN Reporting Framework 75
UN SDG alignment with ESG targets 75
UN Principles for Responsible
Banking Self-assessment 81
Explanatory notes 95
KPMG Assurance opinion 96
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ANZ 2022 ESG Supplement
About this Environment, Social and
Governance (ESG) Supplement
This report provides stakeholders with
more detailed information on Australia and
New Zealand Banking Group
1
Limited’s 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 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 2022 ESG data pack available
at anz.com/annualreport.
This report has been prepared in accordance
with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2016
Standards: Comprehensive option. A complete
GRI Index is available in our 2022 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 96–97.
KPMG has also provided limited assurance over
ESG content within our Annual Report and
Annual Review.
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See pages 242–243 in the
Annual Report for a copy of KPMG’s opinion.
This report covers all ANZ operations over
which, unless otherwise stated, we have
control for the financial year commencing
on 1 October 2021 and ending 30 September
2022. 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
2022 Annual Report available at anz.com/
annualreport. In preparing pages 1–62
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 2022 Corporate Governance Statement
discloses how we have complied with
the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
Corporate Governance Council’s
‘Corporate Governance Principles and
Recommendations – 4th edition’ and is
available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
Our 2022 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.
Our 2022
reporting
suite
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 2022 Annual Review comprises pages 1–62, 242–243 and 251–252 of the 2022 Annual Report and a Remuneration Overview.
2022 Annual Report
anz.com/
annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement
anz.com/
annualreport
2022 Climate-related
Financial Disclosures
anz.com/
annualreport
2022 Corporate
Governance Statement
anz.com/
corporategovernance
2022 ESG Data Pack
anz.com/
annualreport
2022 Voluntary Tax
Transparency Report
anz.com/
annualreport
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Image: ANZ Centre, Melbourne.
DISCLAIMER & IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The material in the ESG Supplement contains
general background information about the
Bank’s activities current as at 26 October 2022. It is
information given in summary form and does not
purport to be complete. It is not intended to be and
should not be relied upon as advice to investors or
potential investors and does not take into account the
investment objectives, financial situation or needs of
any particular investor. These should be considered,
with or without professional advice when deciding
if an investment is appropriate. The ESG Supplement
may contain forward-looking statements or opinions
including statements regarding our intent, belief or
current expectations with respect to ANZ’s business
operations, market conditions, results of operations
and financial condition, capital adequacy, specific
provisions and risk management practices. When
used in the ESG Supplement, the words ‘forecast’,
‘estimate’, ‘project’, ‘intend’, ‘anticipate’, ‘believe’,
‘e x p e c t ’, ‘may ’, ‘p ro b ab ili t y ’, ‘r isk ’, ‘w ill ’, ‘s e ek ’, ‘wo ul d ’,
‘could’, ‘should’ and similar expressions, as they relate
to ANZ and its management, are intended to identify
forward-looking statements or opinions. Those
statements: are usually predictive in character; or may
be affected by inaccurate assumptions or unknown
risks and uncertainties; or may differ materially from
results ultimately achieved. As such, these statements
should not be relied upon when making investment
decisions. These statements only speak as at the date
of publication and no representation is made as to
their correctness on or after this date. Forward-looking
statements constitute ‘forward-looking statements’
for the purposes of the United States Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. ANZ does not undertake
any obligation to publicly release the result of any
revisions to these forward-looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances after the date here of
to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
2
Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
1. On average, across Australia and New Zealand. 2. In Australia and New Zealand. 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).
4. Via our Good Energy Home loan top up. 5. In Australia. 6. 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)).
2022
ESG performance
snapshot
$40.04B
funded and facilitated
in sustainable solutions
since 2019
51%
reduction in Scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas emissions
against a 2015 baseline
Supported nearly
1.5M
customers to save regularly
1
More than
58,000
participants in our financial
education programs
3
Over
$4.4B
funded and facilitated to deliver
more affordable, accessible and
sustainable homes to buy and
rent since 2018
2
Supported more than
1,300
customers to reduce the
environmental impact of their
home in New Zealand
4
More than
5,000
employees trained to identify
and support customers in
need of extra care
5
Spent
$12.7M
with 32 Indigenous
businesses in Australia
84%
employee engagement
35.9%
of women in leadership
6
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
3
Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
About our business
We provide banking and financial
products and services to around 8.5
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 customers across Australia through our
branch network, ATMs, digital and mobile
banking applications including ANZ Plus.
Commercial – serves commercial and private
banking customers across Australia through
our business centres, digital and mobile
banking applications.
Institutional – serves institutional and
business customers across Transaction
Banking, Loans and Specialised Finance
and Markets.
New Zealand – serves retail and commercial
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 139 years.
Corporate Centre – functions of the business
servicing the organisation including Risk,
Finance, Communications and Public Affairs,
Internal Audit, and Talent and Culture.
Our purpose and strategy
Our purpose is to shape a world where
people and communities thrive.
It explains ‘why’ we exist and drives everything
we do at ANZ, including the choices we
make each day about those we serve and
how we operate.
We bring our purpose to life through our
strategy; to improve the financial wellbeing
and sustainability of customers through
excellent services, tools and insights that
engage and retain them, and help positively
change their behaviour.
Through our purpose we have elevated areas
facing significant societal challenges aligned
with our strategy and our reach which include
commitments to:
•Improving the financial wellbeing of our
people, customers and communities by
helping them make the most of their
money throughout their lives;
•Supporting household, business
and financial practices that improve
environmental sustainability; and
•Improving the availability of suitable and
affordable housing options for all Australians
and New Zealanders.
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, as
well as addressing issues identified through
our annual materiality assessment.
Integrating ESG and purpose into our
strategy has created an opportunity for us
to better serve our customers and generate
long-term shareholder value.
Our values
Our values shape how we deliver our
purpose-led strategy. They 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.
Integrity
Collaboration
Accountability
Respect
Excellence
Our values are
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 supported 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 81–94.
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
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. A delegations of authority
framework clearly outlines those matters
delegated to our Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
and other members of senior management.
In addition, a number of formally established
management committees deal with particular
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 informed by the
work of Evelyn Halls – our Customer Fairness
Officer – who reports directly to our Chief
Executive Officer (CEO). This is a crucial role
that was first established in 2016 to help us
more consistently deliver fair and responsible
banking to our retail and small business
customers in Australia.
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 36–40 of our 2022 Annual
Report available at anz.com/annualreport.
For further detail on our governance
framework see our 2022 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,
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 at least
quarterly and more frequently if deemed
necessary. Meetings typically open 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 some
of the key matters considered by the
Board and its Committees during the
year is outlined in our 2022 Annual
Report on page 30 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
participates as an observer every
second meeting.
The Committee is a leadership
and decision-making body to
advance ANZ’s purpose and 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 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 this year at the EESG Committee and ERBC included:
‘how we bank’ – our ESG focus areas, customers requiring extra care, scams and accessibility,
our new Reconciliation Action Plan and First Nations Voice to parliament, and
‘who we bank’ – through industry sector reviews, human rights policy and modern slavery,
climate change policy, biodiversity and sensitive wholesale transactions.
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Image: ANZ Centre, Melbourne.
Through our annual materiality assessment, we engage with
internal and external stakeholders to inform our identification of,
and responses to, 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.
We use the results to inform our strategy,
ESG targets, group remuneration scorecard
and external reporting.
External views were sought through
interviews with institutional investors,
consumer and environmental NGOs, and
our community partners on a broad range
of ESG issues.
This year, our materiality assessment again
highlights the importance of continuing to
act on climate change. Greenwashing was
identified as an emerging topic. A number of
stakeholders also identified biodiversity as
increasingly important.
The importance of information security
has increased, commensurate to the scale and
sophistication of scams targeting individuals.
This is part of a broader theme of payments
system safety. Innovation and technology
is recognised as foundational to providing
customers with a digitally connected
experience, while also ensuring the
responsible use of emerging technologies.
Customer experience is determined by
the products we offer customers and the
value they deliver, and ensuring we have
empathetic and helpful processes for when
things go wrong, such as managing
complaints and for customers in financial
difficulty. This is particularly important given
the emerging impact of macroeconomic
conditions on the cost of living and housing
affordability.
As staff return to workplaces, employee
capability and wellbeing, including mental
health, was viewed as essential to maintain
an engaged and resilient workforce.
These insights were presented to our
executive Ethics and Responsible Business
Committee and Board Ethics, Environment,
Social and Governance Committee and
helped inform the development of our
public ESG targets and group scorecard.
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
pages6–8of our 2021 ESG Supplement
available at anz.com/annualreport):
•our Key Material Risks (refer to pages
36–40 of our 2022 Annual Report available
at anz.com/annualreport)
•our strategy, values and Code of
Conduct (refer to pages 12–13 of our
2022 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 2022 Global Risks Report
•the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
For clarity, ‘cyber security and data privacy’
was renamed ‘information security’ to better
capture the increasing threat of scams
targeting individuals. Information security
is intended to also cover data privacy.
What matters most
to our stakeholders
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
6
Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Our top 5 material issues, ranked by stakeholders
Description of issueLocation of disclosureRelevant 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.
2022 Annual Review, pages 16–17 and 38
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 16–27
2022 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
available at anz.com/annualreport prior
to our Annual General Meeting
Information securityPolicies and processes in place to protect our systems, data
and customers against scams and cyber attacks. Includes customer
access to personal data.
2022 Annual Review, pages 15 and 37–38
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 53–56
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.
2022 Annual Review, pages 18–25
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 30 and 32
Customer experienceDelivering value and improved customer experience through
appropriate financial products and services for all customers,
small business and personal.
2022 Annual Review, pages 18–25
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 32 and 47–52
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.
2022 Annual Review, page 15
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 64–74
Other strategic priorities
Description of issueLocation of disclosureRelevant UN SDGs
Financial wellbeingPromoting and enabling access to safe and affordable products and
services, particularly for lower-income consumers and customers in
need of extra care. Work with cross-sector partners to help customers,
employees and the broader community meet current financial
commitments and needs, and improve their financial resilience.
2022 Annual Review, pages 14–15 and
18–19 available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement,
pages 28–36 and 47–50
HousingAvailability of suitable and affordable housing options for
all Australians and New Zealanders.
2022 Annual Review, pages 14–15, 18–19 and
24–25 available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 41–44
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ESG Supplement
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Other strategic priorities continued
Description of issueLocation of disclosureRelevant UN SDGs
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.
2022 Annual Review, pages 36–39
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement,
pages 45–52 and 57–59
Other issues (not ranked)
Anti-money laundering
and terrorism financing
Compliance with international sanctions, anti-money
laundering and terrorism financing requirements.
2022 Annual Review, page 37
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 55–56
Banking regulationRegulation of the banking sector, including policy and compliance
requirements relating to consumer protection, risk management and
capital adequacy.
2022 Annual Review, pages 36–42
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, page 52
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.
2022 Annual Review, pages 11, 16-17 and
38 available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, page 21
2022 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
available at anz.com/annualreport prior
to our Annual General Meeting
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.
2022 Annual Review, pages 26–35
available at anz.com/annualreport
2022 ESG Supplement, page 5
2022 Corporate Governance
Statement available at
anz.com/corporategovernance
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.
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 62–63
Investing in the
community
Supporting the communities in which we operate through workplace
giving and volunteering; and recovery from natural disasters.
2022 ESG Supplement, pages 37–40
ANZ 2022
ESG Supplement
8
Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Stakeholder
engagement
Customers
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,
and individual in-depth interviews
•‘Voice of Customer’ platform capturing
feedback on customers’ experience with ANZ
•Conversations with our Complaints
Resolution Centre, Extra Care Hub and
related functions
•Social media
Key issues raised
•Increasing interest rates and how it
impacts cost of living pressures
•Conduct and culture
•Products, fees and charges
•Customer service
•ANZ’s digital propositions and the
ANZ Plus app launch
•Agreement to acquire Suncorp Bank
•Information security, scams and data privacy
•Societal challenges (e.g. housing affordability
and natural disasters)
How we responded
Our response to the issues raised by
customers can be found on pages 9–10
of this document and pages 18–25 of the
2022 Annual Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
Employees
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
•Future-proofing the workforce
•Flexible working arrangements and return
to the office
•Business strategy and priorities
•Professional growth and development
•‘Speak up’ culture
•Our purpose and ESG focus areas
•Indigenous Voice to Parliament
•Diversity and inclusion
•Proposed Non-Operating Holding
Company structure
• Remuneration and reward; performance
management
How we responded
Our response to the issues raised by
employees can be found on pages 45–46
and 64–74 of this document
Government and regulators
How we engaged with them
•Meetings with political stakeholders,
public officials and regulators
•Submissions to Parliamentary committee
inquiries and government and regulatory
consultations
Key issues raised
AUSTRALIA
•Initiatives concerning financial crime,
including scam prevention, and cyber
security
•ANZ’s commercial activities, including the
announced agreement to acquire Suncorp
Bank and the creation of a Non-Operating
Holding Company structure
•Reform to the Privacy Act 1988
•Measures ANZ has in place to engage with,
and provide support to, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander customers
•Regional banking challenges (e.g. how
banks are transitioning services and delivery
models and the impacts on accessibility)
•The Australian Law Reform Commission’s
review of financial services laws
•Regulation of digital crypto asset service
providers including brokers, dealers,
exchanges and markets
•Climate disclosure
•The policy agenda resulting from the
Royal Commission into Misconduct in the
Banking, Superannuation and Financial
Services Industry, including the proposed
compensation scheme of last resort
•The review into the quality of financial advice
NEW ZEALAND
•Regulatory issues including responsible
consumer lending, merchant service fees,
the future of money, deposit compensation,
conduct of financial institutions and
prudential supervision
•Public policy development on issues
including accessibility of banking services,
climate-related financial disclosures,
retirement savings, housing and macro-
prudential tools, modern slavery, digital
identity and the consumer data right
•Economic analysis and outlook provided
by ANZ Research
How we responded
We seek to listen to and engage
constructively with government, regulators
and policy makers, including participation
in government consultations and
parliamentary inquiries.
An overview of the work underway in
response to issues raised is outlined on pages
16–21, 48 and 53–56 of this document and
pages 10–11, 18–25 and 30 of the Annual
Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
One of the ways we help create long-term value and deliver on our business strategy is through a collaborative
and proactive approach to building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
With the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic lingering in some markets, a focus on rising rate environments
and cost of living pressures dominated 2022. To demonstrate trustworthiness and build on existing confidence,
we have communicated openly, embedding stakeholder engagement in our policies, processes and operations.
Outlined below are the key issues raised by our stakeholders throughout the year and how we responded.
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Shareholders
How we engaged with them
•Interim and full-year results briefings,
and quarterly updates
•ESG investor briefings, strategy and
other market updates
•Annual General Meeting
•Disclosure documents, including results
announcements, investor presentations,
external reporting suite and ASX lodgements
Key issues raised
•Approach to managing the bank and
supporting stakeholders through a
challenging economic environment
•Opportunities and challenges associated
with current and future operating conditions
•ANZ’s strategic focus, business priorities and
competitive advantage
•Financial performance, including
the contribution from our divisions
•Supporting our large emitting customers
build their climate change response
•Focus on cost management, productivity,
investment spend and priorities
•Capital and balance sheet management,
portfolio credit quality, liquidity and
funding positions
•Proposed Non-Operating Holding
Company structure
•Dividends
•ESG approach, commitments and progress
How we responded
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 addition to the engagements above, we held
two climate-focused investor roundtables and
our fifth annual ESG investor briefing.
Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
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
•Cost of living pressures
•Customer and community support due to
geopolitical unrest, floods and other natural
disasters in Australia, New Zealand and
affected locations such as Tonga
•Family violence and support for customers
and communities, including financial
wellbeing initiatives for women and children;
and children's rights
•Indigenous social and economic
development
•Unemployment and social and economic
participation
•Emerging humanitarian issues for refugees
and support of new arrivals in Australia to
avoid adverse labour practices, including
modern slavery
•Financial wellbeing in the community
including digital literacy and inclusion
•Homelessness in Australia
•Customers requiring extra care, hardship
programs and consumer protection
•Conduct and culture
•Remediation and compensation schemes
•Regulatory reform in financial services
•Climate change policies, carbon risk
management and biodiversity
•Human rights grievance mechanisms
•Impact of COVID-19 including capacity
of community sector organisations to
continue providing effective services
How we responded
Our response to the issues raised by NGOs
can be found on pages 28–36, 40, 43, 47–50,
62–63 and 74 of this document and pages
10–11, 18–25 and 30 of the 2022 Annual Report
available at anz.com/annualreport. Our 2022
Climate-related Financial Disclosures will be
released prior to our Annual General Meeting
and made available at anz.com/annualreport.
Industry associations
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.
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
•engage with consumer representatives
to discuss issues affecting customers
•participate in the ABA Climate Risk and
Modern Slavery Working Group which aims
to develop an industry position on the
practical response to climate change and
modern slavery
Key issues raised
•Review of the Banking Code of Practice
•Information security, scams and data privacy
•Climate change policy and approach to
climate risks and opportunities, climate-
related financial disclosures
•Modern slavery
How we responded
We seek to contribute constructively to
public policy formation and understand the
perspectives of our community’s elected
representatives, policymakers and regulators.
We contribute to policy on business,
economic, social and environmental issues
affecting our customers and shareholders.
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. More
information can be found on page 40 of
this document.
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
ESG Targets for 2022
The following targets will be introduced in 2023,
to extend work underway in our focus areas.
Housing
TargetsRelevant UN SDGs
Support more customers into healthier homes through discounted lending of NZ$300m funds under
management and 12,000 households by end 2025. (New Zealand).
2
Financial wellbeing
TargetsRelevant UN SDGs
Have 30% or more of ANZ Plus Save customers set a savings goal by end 2023.
Environmental sustainability
3
TargetsRelevant UN SDGs
Reduce the direct impact of our business activities on the environment by:
•Reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions 85% by 2025 and 90% by 2030 (against 2015 baseline);
•Increasing renewable electricity to 100% by 2025;
4
•Reducing water consumption by 40% by 2025 (against 2017 baseline);
•Reducing waste to landfill by 40% by 2025 (against 2017 baseline); and
•Reducing paper consumption (both office and customer paper use) by 70% by 2025
(against 2015 baseline).
The above refined targets increase our environmental sustainability footprint ambitions and performance in line
with our purpose, while balancing the expected ‘normalisation’ of consumption associated with staff returning
to workplaces. The modelling of the new targets took into account future remote working arrangements,
proposed efficiency projects, planned portfolio consolidation and an increase in renewable electricity usage.
Refer to page 25 for further details.
Improve the management of climate change risks through the following activities by end 2023:
•preparing a set of risk standards based on regulatory obligations, to be applied across all countries
and territories where ANZ operates;
•extending our Climate Change Risk Assessment methodology beyond our Project Finance business
starting with Institutional customers in higher emitting sectors such as resources and energy; and
•developing a data strategy to inform our approach to sourcing and integrating climate data into sectoral
transition pathways, scenario analysis, stress testing and analytics. This will include learning from the
New Zealand climate risk program.
1. Unless otherwise noted, targets are Group-wide and
cover the financial year 1 October 2021 – 30 September
2022.
2. The target consists of drawdown funds under
management, is cumulative and includes the following
products that have been provided since 1 October 2020:
Healthy Home Loan Package Interest-free Insulation Loans
(n.b. product rolled off July 2022) and Good Energy Home
Loan.
3. Environmental reporting year is 1 July to 30 June,
in line with the Australian regulatory reporting year.
4. Set in 2019, no change from 2021 target.
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.
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.
Our ESG targets
2022 ESG targets performance
1
Refined target set
37%
26%
Achieved
37%
Partially achieved
or in progress
NEW AND REFINED
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Financial wellbeing
GO TO SECTION
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 1.3 million customers to save regularly,
by end 2022. (Australia and New Zealand)
Since October 2021, we have supported nearly 1.5 million customers to save regularly,
including through:
•Delivery of Your Money Report into ANZ App and Internet Banking (Australia);
•Saver Plus, ANZ’s matched savings program delivered in conjunction with
community partners (Australia); and
•Delivery of a savings campaign that encouraged active savings habits of regular
deposits into customers savings accounts (New Zealand).
Publish Adult Financial Wellbeing Research to
inform our product design and financial literacy
program delivery, by end 2022.
•The triennial Adult Financial Wellbeing Survey and related communications
were published in December 2021.
•We continue to share survey insights with key internal stakeholders (e.g. Financial
Wellbeing Leads Group and Accessibility Steering Committee) and external
stakeholders (e.g. industry associations and community sector).
Establish seven new partnerships to expand the
reach and improve the impact of MoneyMinded for
disadvantaged communities, by end 2023.
•Since October 2020 we have established six new MoneyMinded Partners:
Fruition Horticulture Bay of Plenty (NZ), Regent Training Centre (NZ), the Reserve
Bank of Fiji (Fiji), Powerpac (Australia/Pacific), Dili Institute of Technology (Timor-
Leste) and USP Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership Programme (Fiji).
•We continue to explore new partnership options in Australia, New Zealand, and
across Asia and the Pacific.
2022 ESG targets performance summary
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Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Environmental sustainability
GO TO SECTION
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 $40.04 billion towards the
target, of which $25.79 billion is funded and $14.24 billion is facilitated.
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.
•61 customers now have 'well developed' or ‘advanced’ plans versus 42 in
September 2021.
•Our engagement with our largest emitting customers on biodiversity has been
positive. We are seeing increased customer awareness of biodiversity and an
increasing willingness to improve holistic management approaches, such as putting
in place governance and strengthening how they measure their impacts on nature.
•Currently customers are less progressed in setting targets and disclosure around
biodiversity compared with developing low carbon transition plans. However,
we expect progress to continue in line with developments in the Taskforce on
Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
Develop an enhanced climate risk management
framework that strengthens our governance and
is responsive to climate change, by end 2022.
•We have continued to improve our management of climate risks within our risk
management framework through workstreams focused on regulatory monitoring,
policy and processes, risk appetite, data and analytics through:
–Reviewing and assessing current and emerging regulatory requirements across the
jurisdictions in which we operate;
–Refining our Risk Appetite Statements for Institutional and including climate risk in
lending criteria documents in the Australia Retail, Commercial and New Zealand
portfolios; and
–Participating in the Australia Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Climate
Vulnerability Assessment, which assessed the potential impact of physical and
transition risks to parts of our Australian mortgages and business lending portfolios.
While progress has been made against this target, climate risk management is an
emerging component of risk. Throughout 2022 we have identified further steps that
we can undertake to improve the management of climate risk. Refer to page 18 for
our refined climate risk management 2023 target.
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
5. Environmental reporting year is 1 July to 30 June, in line with the Australian regulatory reporting year. 6. Self-generated renewable electricity, direct procurement from offsite grid connected generators e.g. Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
and default delivered renewable electricity from the grid, supported by credible attributes in accordance with RE100 technical guidelines.
7. 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).
Environmental sustainability continued
GO TO SECTION
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability.
TargetsPerformanceStatusRelevant UN SDGs
Reduce the direct impact of our business activities
on the environment
5
by:
•reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 24% by
2025 and by 35% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)
•Scope 1 and 2 emissions have decreased by 51% since 2015.
•increasing renewable energy use to 100%
by 2025
6
•39% of energy consumption associated with our operations is from
existing renewable energy projects.
•reducing potable water consumption by 25%
by 2025 (against a 2017 baseline
7
)
•Water consumption has decreased by 61% since 2017.
•reducing waste to landfill by 30% by 2025
(against a 2017 baseline)
•Waste to landfill has decreased by 75% since 2017.
•reducing paper consumption (office and
customer paper use only) by 60% by 2025
(against 2015 baseline).
•Paper consumption has decreased 69% since 2015.
The COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably changed the way we do business, making it necessary to refine our 2025 and 2030 environmental
sustainability footprint targets to align with more flexible working arrangements for employees, refer to page 11 for our refined targets and
page 25 for more information.
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Fair and responsible banking
GO TO SECTION
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
Implement ANZ’s new Customer Extra Care
Framework, including enhanced training of 5,000
employees to build their capabilities with respect
to identifying, supporting and referring impacted
customers, by end 2022 (Australia).
•Enhanced training has been provided to more than 5,000 Australian employees
through a combination of leader-led meetings and workshops to identify and
support customers in need of extra care. Topics included family violence, elder
financial abuse, interpreter services, gambling harm, supporting customers with
disability and those experiencing bereavement.
Implement ANZ’s new human rights grievance
mechanism, and publicly report on complaints
received under the mechanism, by end 2022.
•The grievance mechanism materials were made available on anz.com in
November 2021. No complaints have been received to date.
•Internal process documentation will be continually reviewed and refined.
Achieve the 17 actions in our Reconciliation
Action Plan, by end 2024.
10
(Australia)
•We made good progress against the 17 actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan,
meeting 99% of commitments that fell due within 2022.
8. Off a 2021 baseline. 9. Off a 2021 baseline. 10. This target was altered reflect the language included in the Reconciliation Action Plan, following feedback from Reconciliation Australia.
Housing
GO TO SECTION
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 2018, we have funded and facilitated over $4.4 billion to
support the delivery of more affordable, accessible and sustainable homes
to buy and rent.
Support more customers into healthier homes with
our Healthy Home Loan Package and Interest-free
Insulation Loans – through a 2%
8
increase of funds
under management and a 4%
9
increase in customer
numbers by 2025. (New Zealand)
•Since October 2020, we have supported 1,446 households into healthier homes
through our Healthy Home Loan Package (55 households) and our Interest-free
Insulation Loans (1,391 households).
•Our initial target was set using a methodology that is now outdated. A refined target
has therefore been set (see page 11), which reflects our expanded product suite
including our new Good Energy Home Loan.
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Overview
Our reporting suite
2022 ESG
performance snapshot
About our business
ESG governance
and risk management
What matters most
Stakeholder
engagement
Our ESG targets
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
We want to be the leading Australia- and New Zealand-
based bank in supporting customers' transition to net zero
emissions by 2050.
Our environmental sustainability strategy
identifies priority sectors, technologies and
financing opportunities to help achieve our
ambition. Our climate change commitment
provides the framework for our strategy and
our commitment to enable the transition by
working to align our lending portfolio to net
zero emissions by 2050. We joined the
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) in 2021,
reflecting that commitment.
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.
To achieve our environmental sustainability
strategy we are:
•directing our finance into key priority
areas, refer to page 17
•aligning our lending decisions to the Paris
Agreement goals and have disclosed
metrics and targets for our power
generation portfolio and large-scale
commercial buildings
•progressively developing metrics and
targets for key sectors, in line with our
NZBA commitment, which is aimed at
ensuring the majority of our portfolio
emissions are covered by end 2024
•funding and facilitating $50 billion of
sustainable solutions by 2025, to support
customers in their efforts to achieve
improved environmental outcomes,
including the reduction of their
greenhouse gas emissions. This year,
140 transactions worth $18.09 billion
have been completed, bringing our
progress towards our $50 billion target
to $40.04 billion since October 2019.
Refer to page22 for further details
•equipping our employees with a deeper
understanding of climate risks and
opportunities, focusing on our Institutional
bankers in key priority sectors such as
resources, energy and agribusiness
•reducing emissions from our operations,
including a target to increase renewable
energy use to 100% by 2025
1
and setting
updated targets for our environmental
footprint; refer to page25 for further
details
•implementing strategic partnerships,
for example with climate advisory and
investment firm, Pollination
•actively participating in recognised
industry associations to help shape policy
development and settings to enable the
development of taxonomy and standards
•engaging constructively with stakeholders
on our approach through ESG market
briefings, investor roundtables, civil society
engagement and other avenues
Our approach
to climate change
1. Self-generated renewable electricity, direct procurement from offsite grid connected generators e.g. Power Purchase
Agreement (PPA) and default delivered renewable electricity from the grid, supported by credible attributes in accordance
with RE100 technical guidelines.
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Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Supporting our customers to transition to net zero
Key priority areas and sectors we’ll pursue:
Supporting sustainability
in resource extraction¹,
basic materials² and
new technologies³
Banking the
electrification of
the transportation
value chain
Increasing our
support for
companies
in transitioning
energy from high
to low carbon
Enabling the
transition towards
lower emissions
buildings⁴
Assisting
sustainable food,
beverage and
commodities
practices and
supply chains
Offering solutions to,
and partnering with,
sustainability-focused
financial institutions⁵
Examples of how we are directing our
finance into key priority areas and sectors
of opportunity this year include:
We have participated in a new $1.45 billion
Green Loan for the Intellihub Group to fund
the rollout of smart meters across Australia
and New Zealand. And we financed the
first-ever EV battery manufacturing plant in
South-East Asia for HLI Green Power, a joint
venture bringing together the Hyundai
Mobis, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia
Coporation and LG Energy Solutions in Korea,
demonstrating the value of our regional
network, which is the broadest and deepest
of the Australian banks.
We have also piloted the trading of tokenised
carbon credits, using ANZ’s Australian-dollar
stablecoin. The transaction was successfully
executed with long-term customer, Victor
Smorgon Group. Finally, we have
a memorandum of understanding to
develop a carbon farming and biodiversity
project that combines native reforestation
and biomass harvesting. This project has
potential to support our customers by
contributing to supply and distribution
capabilities for high-quality carbon credits.
The project is expected to provide
opportunities for rural landowners
in the Wheatbelt community in Western
Australia, developed together with major
corporate customers INPEX and Qantas. The
diverse nature of these examples show the
breadth and growth in our environmental
sustainability capabilities across our portfolio.
Our 2022 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures will be released prior to our
Annual General Meeting (AGM). This will be
our sixth report using the Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures,
(TCFD) recommendations and will be
available at anz.com/annualreport
1. Supporting sustainable resource extraction in areas such as iron ore, lithium, nickel, cobalt, rare earths, copper and bauxite. 2. Supporting basic materials production including green steel and
low-carbon aluminium production.
3. Supporting new technology projects focused on upstream hydrogen and carbon capture use and storage. 4. Initial focus on financing high-efficiency residential
buildings and retrofits.
5. Supplying green investment options for environmental sustainability-focused funds/insurers and partnering with financial institutions to deliver alternative capital.
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Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Climate risk management
framework
We are making progress to improve
our management of climate risks to
strengthen our governance and respond
to climate change.
Our Climate Advisory Forum, chaired by
Mark Whelan, Group Executive Institutional,
includes our Chief Risk Officer and other
executives. The forum supports execution
of our climate policy, disclosures and
related matters including sustainability
opportunities across the Group.
We continue to improve our management
of climate risks through Risk workstreams
focused on regulatory monitoring, policy
governance, risk appetite, data and analytics.
This year we have been focused on:
•reviewing and assessing current and
emerging requlatory requirements across
the jurisdictions in which we operate;
•refining our Risk Appetite Statements for
Institutional and including climate risk in
lending criteria documents in the Australia
Retail, Commercial and New Zealand
portfolios;
•participating in the Australia Prudential
Regulation Authority (APRA) Climate
Vulnerability Assessment;
•implementing an additional screening
process for energy transactions, which
includes escalation requirements for
material transactions;
•adding a new climate risk topic within
our Wholesale Judgemental Credit
Requirements, which defines climate risks
to help bankers consider these risks as part
of customer credit assessments;
•digitising our Social and Environmental
Risk Screening tool used to assess
Institutional and Corporate customers,
refer to page 57for further details;
•piloting a Climate Change Risk Assessment
(CCRA) for all Project Finance credit
assessments (new transactions and
Annual Reviews). The CCRA aims to
identify and evaluate climate risks,
including Physical and Transition.
Outcomes of the assessment are included
in and inform the credit decisions; and
•engaging with industry bodies and
consultants to better understand data
that could be used to assess physical
risks across our portfolio.
APRA’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment
Earlier this year we participated
in APRA’s Climate Vulnerability
Assessment (CVA), which assessed
the potential impact of physical
and transition risks to parts of
our Australian mortgages and
business lending portfolios.
The three key objectives of the CVA were:
•to assess potential financial exposure
to climate risk;
•to understand how banks may adjust
business models and implement
management actions in response
to different scenarios; and
•to foster improvement in climate
risk management capabilities.
APRA’s CVA comprised two stress tests,
a counterparty assessment and data
quality assessment.
APRA intends to disclose the outcomes
of the CVA in late 2022.
We also participated in the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA)
Prudential Practice Guide CPG 229 Climate
Change Financial Risks self-assessment
survey, along with 63 other APRA-regulated
entities in March. The voluntary survey was
designed to provide insights into the
alignment of climate risk practices by
APRA-regulated institutions with the
expectations set out in CPG 229.
The findings recently published show that an
area for improvement for entities is metrics
and targets, with forward looking exposure
to physical and transition risk disclosures
being limited. However, APRA recognised
that climate risk is an emerging discipline
compared with other traditional risk areas
and assessing and managing climate risk is
complex and resource-intensive.
Sophisticated risk analysis will require
strategic effort and investment.
We will use the findings of the survey to
consider any potential enhancements to
our approach in applying CPG 229.
Our next steps outlined in our new
ESG target are that by 2023, we will:
prepare a set of risk standards based
on regulatory obligations, to be
applied across all countries and
territories where ANZ operates;
extend our Climate Change Risk
Assessment methodology beyond
our Project Finance business; starting
with Institutional customers in higher
emitting sectors such as resources
and energy; and
develop a data strategy to inform our
approach to sourcing and integrating
climate data into sectoral transition
pathways, scenario analysis, stress
testing and analytics. This will include
learning from the New Zealand
climate risk program.
We continue to measure the carbon intensity
of higher emitting industry exposures within
our portfolio and are intending to develop
a strategy to enhance our ESG data and
analytical capabilities further. 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.
Our 2022 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures will include further disclosures
and will be released prior to our Annual
General Meeting with further details
available at anz.com/annualreport
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ESG Supplement
18
Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Customer engagement
We committed to engage with
100 of our largest emitting business
customers, to encourage them to
strengthen their low carbon transition
plans and enhance their efforts to
protect biodiversity, by end 2024.
Last year, transition plans for 100 of our
largest emitting business customers were
grouped into levels of maturity – advanced,
well developed, underdeveloped/starting
out, and no public plans. Low-carbon
transition plans are typically re-assessed
annually, with engagement occurring
throughout the year. As part of this
engagement we expect more customers
to further improve their plans to a ‘well
developed’, or ‘advanced’ stage.
Customers continue to value our engagement
on this topic, and our perspectives. Several
customers outside of the 100 have sought to
engage with us, seeking clarity on our
expectations, or requesting suggestions to
improve their approach.
For those customers starting out, we
provide support in the form of insights
into enhanced customer practices we
have observed through our engagements.
Where customers are further advanced,
we encourage them to find ways to
strengthen their approach and provide
options for how we could potentially assist,
including setting ‘stretch’ targets linked to
improved financing terms in the form of
sustainability linked lending.
Within each industry our customers have
different starting points. Since the initial
maturity assessment in 2021, many
customers have improved their governance,
strategies and targets or disclosures, leading
to an improved level of transition planning.
This is a positive step change over a 12-month
period, as our customers continue to build
their capacity to transition. For example, while
many customers already had targets in place,
we have observed a ‘strengthening’ in
approach with a rise in the intention to
develop ‘Paris aligned’ or ‘science-based’
targets and in those intending to report
under the TCFD framework.
Discussions are typically led by our
relationship managers and can include
discussions with the Institutional Group
Executive, Chief Risk Officer and senior
executives from our customers. Where a
customer remains in the ‘no public plan’
category, or in situations where there is
a continued misalignment in approach,
we will consider the most appropriate
actions on a customer-by-customer basis.
Over the course of our engagement with
our customers, there have been instances
where we declined finance or reduced limits
to customers with less developed plans or a
misalignment in approach. These decisions
were made in line with our Climate Change
Commitment and Social and Environmental
Risk Policy.
Overall our engagement with our largest
emitting customers has progressed well this
year – we’ve completed discussions with 99
customers on their progress in enhancing
their low carbon transition plans and efforts
to protect biodiversity. 61% of customers
now have well developed or advanced plans
versus 42% in September 2021. This keeps us
on track to meet our public target for more
customers to achieve this level of maturity
in their plans by end 2024.
100 of our largest emitting business customers – by transition plan category
40
30
20
10
0
Sep 2021
Sep 2022
BACD
38
27
36
27
22
11
23
15
Since September 2021 we have upgraded
our assessment of 29 customers:
7 from B to A
13 from C to B
5 from D to C
1 from C to A
3 from D to B
Customer transition plan categories
A – Advanced B – Well developed C – Underdeveloped/starting out D – No public plans
1. We replaced six customers in 2022 due to exits or significantly reduced exposures, or due to mergers and
acquisition activities. Replacements on this list are typically from a similar sector, located in the same country or
region, a similar level of exposure and emissions and at a similar stage of their transition planning.
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Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Examples of characteristics of customers within categories:
Our 2022 Climate-related Financial Disclosures report which will provide further
detail on our customer engagement program during 2022 and will be available at
anz.com/annualreport prior to our Annual General Meeting.
Energy company –
Category A
Governance
Targets
Disclosures
CUSTOMER
•Acknowledges climate risk is a
material risk and opportunity; has
well developed plans and actions
(by reference to their governance,
targets, disclosures, and committed
to net zero emissions by 2050)
•Climate resilience is a key pillar
of its sustainability strategy
•Public goal of net zero emissions
by 2050 across its portfolios
•Strong governance in place to
manage climate risk
•TCFD-aligned reporting
Diversified industrial company –
Category B
Governance
Targets
Disclosures
CUSTOMER
•At a well developed stage with well
developed plans and actions
•Public climate change commitment;
climate issues are considered by
Sustainability Management Committee
that report to their Board
•2030 emissions reductions targets
in place
•A long-term vision of striving for
net zero by 2050
•Reports using the TCFD guidelines,
scope to improve
Large commodities company –
Category C
Governance
Targets
Disclosures
CUSTOMER
•At an underdeveloped/starting out
stage: acknowledgement, but with
limited plans and/or actions
•Sustainability and climate risk discussed
with Board Risk Committee at regular
intervals; Chairman and CEO oversee
their climate approach
•Has targets to reduce ‘emissions
intensity’ across some of its operations
•Moving towards TCFD-aligned
reporting; has a ‘TCFD index’ in its
reporting
2
Large retailer –
Category D
Governance
Targets
Disclosures
CUSTOMER
•No public plans evident; however, is
establishing an Executive Sustainability
Committee which will provide greater
oversight
•Developing sustainability projects at
a business and franchisee level
•Has engaged an external consultant to
help develop a sustainability framework
•Acknowledges the need to develop a
transition plan, though unclear at this
stage whether it will be made public
•Have not reported against TCFD
In place/met In progress
2. Others in category C may be reporting against TCFD, with uplift required in key areas such as governance, metrics and targets.
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Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Biodiversity
We acknowledge the need to protect,
restore and mitigate biodiversity loss
including as a result of species extinction or
decline, ecosystem degradation and nature
loss. We seek to understand the impacts –
positive and negative – our large business
customers can have on biodiversity. We
recognise the contribution we can make by
working with our customers to understand
risks and opportunities posed by their
operations and to manage their impacts. We
are committed to working with customers
that support social and environmental
sustainability in their approach.
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 impacts on biodiversity.
Our Land Acquisition Statement
acknowledges we will not knowingly
support customer activities that significantly
impact on culturally or environmentally
sensitive areas, including: World Heritage
Areas, wetlands on the Ramsar list,
designated national parks and conservation
areas, activities that threaten species listed in
CITES, the IUCN Red List or relevant national
legislation, activities that result in the
broad-scale conversion of intact native
forests and High Conservation Value Areas,
or activities which are in breach of agreed
international treaties and agreements.
This year we broadened our
engagement with 100 of our largest
emitting business customers to include
a focus on biodiversity, encouraging and
supporting them to identify and manage
their potential impacts and dependencies
on biodiversity – so far, we’ve engaged
with 99 customers with this in mind. We
encourage them to establish or strengthen
their approach to biodiversity through
effective Board governance, policies and
strategies, and disclosures using
recognised indicators or metrics.
Our engagement with our largest emitting
business customers on biodiversity has been
positive. We are seeing increased customer
awareness of biodiversity and an increasing
willingness to improve holistic management
approaches, for example putting in place
governance and strengthening how they
measure their impacts on nature.
We look to understand the impacts of a
customer on biodiversity, and the impacts
that biodiversity-loss may have on the
customer. Currently customers are less
progressed in setting targets and disclosure
around biodiversity compared with their
progress in developing low carbon transition
plans, though we expect progress to
continue in line with developments in
the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial
Disclosures (TNFD).
Customer engagement to date indicates a
group of leaders – some with ‘no net loss’
and others with ‘positive impact’
commitments. For example one customer
in our largest emitting customer group is
identifying and understanding the material
biodiversity issues at their operations,
including deforestation management, and
is conducting an audit of wildlife sightings
to ensure more robust measurement.
We are considering how we might
apply what we learn from our customer
engagement to identify and engage with
other large business customers likely to
have significant impacts on biodiversity.
We welcome the
establishment of the
TNFD and have joined the
TNFD Forum to support
their work. We recognise
their important role in
driving widespread and
improved disclosures of
biodiversity impacts.
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ESG Supplement
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Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
1. Of the 127 sustainable finance deals we participated in, $4.4 billion was attributed to ANZ via our distribution
capability, and $13 billion via on balance sheet loans and other credit lines.
$155B
$71 billion (38 deals) from
Diversied Industries
$22 billion
(15 deals) from Food,
Beverages and Agriculture
$24 billion (25 deals) from
Financial Institutions Group
$10 billion (22 deals)
from Property and Health
$28 billion (27 deals) from
Resources, Energy and
Infrastructure
During 2022
We participated in 127 sustainable
finance deals with a total deal
size of $155 billion
1
, compared
to 81 deals with a total deal size
of $119 billion in 2021:
$112B
(64deals) from
International
$33B
(41deals) from
Australia
$10B
(22 deals) from
New Zealand
Sustainable finance
Customer demand for sustainable finance products and
services continued to grow this year, in both transaction
volume and financing format. Sustainability-linked loan
volumes increased significantly, while green, social,
sustainability and sustainability-linked bond issuance
volumes were impacted due to prevailing challenges in
capital markets globally. Following the expansion of our
sustainable solutions product suite, we provided the bank’s
inaugural green and sustainability-linked guarantees, and
sustainability-linked derivatives for customers.
Partnerships & initiatives
We play a role in sharing research
and insights, enabling cross-industry
collaboration and supporting
development and implementation of
sustainable finance industry standards.
Australian Sustainable Finance Institute
ANZ is a founding member of the Australian
Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI), which
developed a roadmap to re-align Australia’s
financial system to enable the transition to
a more resilient and sustainable economy.
The roadmap sets out 37 recommendations
tackling a broad suite of challenges including
climate change, biodiversity loss and
economic inequality.
In 2022, the Institute made ongoing
progress towards implementing priority
recommendations. This includes establishing
the Taxonomy Technical Advisory Group and
the Taxonomy Steering Committee to begin
development of the Australian Sustainable
Finance Taxonomy. The Institute also
supports and contributes to a well-informed
Australian voice in the development and
implementation of the Taskforce for
Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
ASFI members have participated in several
workshops organised by the Australian
Government designed to educate and raise
awareness on development of the TNFD.
Toitū Tahua Centre for
Sustainable Finance
ANZ New Zealand is a founding member
of the Toitū Tahua Centre for Sustainable
Finance (CSF), established in July 2021 as a
charitable trust 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.
In 2022, the CSF began implementing the
Aotearoa Circle Roadmap for Sustainable
Finance, focusing on three key areas: changing
mindsets, transforming the finance system
and financing the transformation. It aims to
support the stakeholder engagement process
that underpins CSF. For example, one of the
most recent gatherings was the Toitu Tahua
Inclusion Summit, held in July 2022, attended
by Māori/Iwi organisations, corporates,
community organisations and government/
regulators to collectively consider new models
for increasing accessibility of services to
communities and formulate ideas for action.
Orange Bond Initiative
In 2022, ANZ joined the Orange Bond
Initiative™ as a Steering Committee member
alongside U.S. International Development
Finance Corporation, Australian Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the United
Nations Capital Development Fund, Water.org,
Shearman & Sterling and Nuveen. This
industry initiative, facilitated by Impact
Investment Exchange, aims to mobilise
capital towards gender-lens investing
through Orange Bonds. Orange Bonds relate
to a sub-segment of social bonds related to
gender (orange is the colour of SDG 5 –
Gender Equality). The Initiative’s mission is to
empower around 100 million women and
girls worldwide by unlocking US$10 billion
by 2030 to place women at the forefront of
capital markets to achieve the UN’s 17 SDGs
and build a more inclusive, climate-resilient
future. The Steering Committee will be
focusing on designing gender bond criteria
and creating an enabling ecosystem.
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ESG Supplement
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Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
1. Includes Wind/Solar/Battery/Transmission Infrastructure/Energy Transition/Energy Efficiency. 2. Low carbon transportation
projects such as light rail, electric vehicle manufacturing.
3. Corporate loans for businesses in environmental/carbon project
development which facilitate the transition to net zero or create nature positive outcomes.
4. Networks, management and
communication tools which facilitate the transition to net zero, e.g. power management, broadband.
5. 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.
6. Includes credit lines to global development banks and agencies providing support to
emerging economies, and social component of Sustainability Loans.
7. Green, Social, Sustainable, Sustainability-Linked and
Transition Bonds and other ESG-related bonds within the sustainable finance market.
8. Loans initially underwritten by ANZ and
subsequently sold on to other lenders, e.g. other banks, fund managers and super funds.
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, increase access to affordable
housing and promote financial wellbeing.
Supporting our customers and industries to transition
We are focused on identifying opportunities to support our customers’ path
to net zero emissions and enhance their resilience to a changing climate.
Examples of products we provide include:
Since October 2019 we have funded
and facilitated $40.04 billion across 332
transactions. This includes green, social,
sustainability, sustainability-linked and
transition loans and bonds, energy and
affordable housing. $25.8 billion of
transactions are on balance sheet loans and
other credit lines provided to borrowers by
ANZ, while $14.2 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, energy and affordable
housing (55%, 21%, 11% and 6% of funded
transactions respectively), and facilitate
ESG-format bond issuance (89% of
facilitated transactions).
$2.7 billion
Energy
$5.3 billion
Green Building
$0.2 billion
Waste
$0.3 billion
Water
$0.8 billion
Transport
$14.2 billion
Sustainability-
linked Facilities
$1.5 billion
Aordable Housing
$0.03 billion
Environmental
Markets
3
$0.3 billion
Information &
Communication
Technology
4
$0.5 billion
Other Social
$25.8B
Funded
Environmental
37%
ENVIRONMENTAL
Social
8%
Sustainability-
linked
55%
SOCIAL
SUSTAINABILITY-
LINKED
$1.1 billion
Green Buildings/Renewable Loan
Distribution
$0.5 billion
Advisory
$12.6 billion
ESG-format Bonds
Facilitated
$14.2B
8%
89%
3%
$1.1 billion
Green Buildings/Renewable Loan
Distribution
$0.5 billion
Advisory
$12.6 billion
ESG-format Bonds
Facilitated
$14.2B
8%
89%
3%
Green, Social and Sustainability Loans
Lending to deploy capital into green, social
and sustainability initiatives, where borrowers
are required to use the proceeds of a loan to
invest in qualifying green and/or social assets.
HIGHLIGHT
In November 2021, ANZ participated in
a new $1.45 billion Green Loan for the
Intellihub Group to fund the rollout of smart
meters across Australia and New Zealand.
Smart electricity meters facilitate reduced
energy use and increased energy efficiency to
support businesses and households to better
manage their energy use. The uptake of
renewable and distributed energy is also
critical to achieving a decarbonised electricity
network. This Green Loan is the first to receive
Electrical Grids and Storage Certification
under the Climate Bonds Standard. ANZ
acted as Joint Arranger and Sole Green
Loan Coordinator.
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wellbeing
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responsible
banking
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framework
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opinion
Sustainability-Linked Loans
Lending which incentivises the borrower’s
achievement of ambitious, predetermined
sustainability performance targets.
HIGHLIGHT
In August 2022, ANZ participated in the
US$1.35 billion refinance of Brambles’ bank
facilities, representing the borrower’s
inaugural Sustainability-Linked revolving
credit facility. In 2020, Brambles announced its
2025 Vision and Sustainability Targets: Planet
Positive, Business Positive and Communities
Positive, which were used to form the targets
in the Sustainability-Linked revolving credit
facility. ANZ acted as Joint Sustainability
Coordinator, Joint Documentation
Coordinator, Bookrunner and Mandate
Lead Arranger.
Green and Sustainable Infrastructure
(Project) Finance
Project financing to support the development
of long-term sustainable infrastructure, e.g.
renewable energy, schools and transport.
HIGHLIGHT
In June 2022, ANZ participated in the $250
million refinancing of the TESA Education
consortium’s South Australian Schools Public
Private Partnership Project to establish best
practice school infrastructure across South
Australia and contribute to the state’s
economic growth. Two new birth-to-year
12 schools are being delivered in outer
metropolitan areas to accommodate 1,675
students, including 100 special school
students and a 75-place children’s centre, plus
more than 200 teaching and support staff.
The consortium compromises of Tetris Capital,
Sarah Constructions, ISS Services Australia and
DIF Capital Partners with financing structured
as a Sustainability Loan. The school project
met the requirements of both an eligible
green and eligible social project and ANZ
acted as the Sole Sustainability Coordinator.
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 predetermined sustainability
performance targets.
HIGHLIGHT
In April 2022, Australian broadband
infrastructure provider NBN Co successfully
issued its first green bond with an $800
million five-year issue, the largest green bond
by an Australian corporate at the time and the
first green bond in the information,
communication and technology sector.
Proceeds from the bond will be used to
finance new or existing projects aligned to the
International Capital Market Association’s
Green Bond Principles around energy
efficiency and renewable energy.
Underpinning the offering was NBN Co’s
Sustainability Bond Framework and Towards-
Zero Carbon Ambition including a three-year
roadmap to reduce energy consumption,
purchasing 100 per cent renewable energy
from December 2025, using electric or hybrid
vehicles by 2030 and setting a Science-Based
Target. ANZ acted as Joint Lead Manager and
Joint Sustainability Coordinator.
Sustainability-Linked Derivatives
Derivatives which include a pricing
component tied to the sustainability targets
of an underlying sustainability-linked bond
or loan. This includes swaps, forwards, cross
currency swaps, interest rate and foreign
exchange options executed alongside
sustainability-linked bonds or sustainability-
linked loans.
HIGHLIGHT
In February/March 2022, Auckland Council
refinanced a NZ$200 million facility into a
Sustainability-Linked Loan, accompanied
by a Sustainability-Linked Derivative. The
sustainability performance targets used for
both instruments included increasing the
number of low emissions buses in Auckland
Transport’s bus fleet, reducing the Council’s
greenhouse gas emissions and supporting
Māori- and Pasifika-owned businesses and
social enterprises in Auckland – by
strengthening the Council’s social
procurement model. ANZ acted as the
Sole Sustainability Coordinator.
ANZ/Clean Energy Finance Corporation
(CEFC) Energy Efficient Asset Finance
(EEAF) Program
Financing to incentivise Australian commercial
and agribusiness customers to invest in
energy efficient and renewable energy
technologies to reduce energy costs and
carbon emissions.
2022: closed 15 deals, $16.8M volume
HIGHLIGHT
In August 2022, ANZ extended its $200 million
funding program with the Clean Energy
Finance Corporation (CEFC) to help ANZ
business customers transition to net zero
emissions. Under the partnership, ANZ and
the CEFC will each contribute 0.25 per cent
toward a 0.5 per cent discount to eligible
customers for loans up to $5 million to invest
in eligible energy efficient related assets and
projects. Since its launch in 2017, this program
has helped finance more than $242 million of
investment in over 1,017 clean energy
technology deals for our commercial and
agribusiness customers.
Sustainable initiatives in
New Zealand
In New Zealand we also offer products
to support our business and retail
customers’ low carbon transition:
•Good Energy Home Loan top up:
available for retail customers to upgrade
homes with solar panels, heating and
insulation, double glazing, ventilation
systems and rainwater tanks. It can
also be used for electric and hybrid
vehicles, and electric vehicle chargers.
Refer to page 43 for further details on
the number of customers taking up the
product since its launch in July 2022.
•Healthy Home Loan Package: offers
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.
Refer to page 43 for further details
on the number of customers taking
up the product.
•Business Green Loan: available
for business customers to finance
(or refinance) renewable energy
initiatives, green buildings, native
planting, sustainable land and water
use to make a positive environmental
impact. Launched in late August 2022,
businesses are able to borrow up to
NZ$3 million at a special floating rate
of 3.85% per annum – a 1.5 percentage
point discount on the Business Term
Loan floating base rate.
The loan is currently the only advertised
green loan product in the market
available to business customers and
linked to the Loan Market Association's
Green Loan Principles.
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ESG Supplement
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Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
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opinion
1. Self-generated renewable electricity, direct
procurement from offsite grid connected generators
e.g. Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and default
delivered renewable electricity from the grid,
supported by credible attributes in accordance
with RE100 technical guidelines.
Reducing our
environmental footprint
Emissions reductions continued in 2022 due to property
consolidation and ongoing flexible working arrangements for
our non-branch staff. Our aspiration is to limit consumption
to less than pre-pandemic levels on a per-capita basis as staff
gradually return to the office.
Beyond our centralised operational footprint,
we also looked to reduce emissions by
engaging our people to reduce their
personal emissions while working flexibly.
A personal carbon footprint calculator was
developed in partnership with external
provider, Trace, and has been used by
almost 500 staff at ANZ.
The below outlines our new ambitious targets
CO
2
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reducing Scope 1 and 2
(market-based) emissions 85%
by 2025 and 90% by 2030
(against a 2015 baseline).
Renewable Energy
Increasing renewable electricity
use to 100% by 2025.
1
Water
Reducing potable water
consumption by 40% by 2025
(against a 2017 baseline).
Waste
Reducing waste to landfill by 40%
by 2025 (against a 2017 baseline).
Paper
Reducing paper consumption
(office and customer paper use only)
by 70% by 2025 (against a 2015 baseline).
2025 and 2030 new environmental
footprint targets
The COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably
changed the way ANZ does business,
making it necessary to reset our 2025 and
2030 environmental sustainability footprint
targets to align with more flexible working
arrangements for employees. This reset
complements the previously approved
100% Renewable Energy Target and our
commitment to maintain carbon neutrality.
The new targets increase our environmental
sustainability ambitions and performance in
line with our purpose, while balancing the
expected ‘normalisation’ of consumption
associated with staff returning to workplaces.
The modelling of the new targets took into
account future remote working
arrangements, proposed efficiency projects,
planned portfolio consolidation and an
increase in renewable electricity usage.
Image: ANZ London office.
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Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
CO
2
GHG Emissions Renewable EnergyWaterWastePaper
Our global emissions footprint
decreased due to:
Temporary closure of some
commercial sites impacted by
COVID-19 staff restrictions.
Ongoing consolidation of
both retail and commercial
properties, including the exit of
55 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Energy efficiency projects
including:
• Building management
system and lighting upgrade at
833 Collins Street, Melbourne.
•Data centre server optimisation
project.
40,000 MWh of renewable energy
was supplied to Australian
operations through the ANZ
Murra Warra wind farm and 670
MWh of rooftop solar at the ANZ
Campus in Docklands, Melbourne.
Efforts to source renewable
electricity for global operations
continued with the renewal of
a solar leasing agreement in Fiji
and the signing of a new power
purchasing agreement in India to
come into effect in July 2025.
Although good progress has
been made against the overall
target, this year water usage has
slightly increased due to an
increase in staff returning to
workplaces.
On-going maintenance programs
enable us to improve detection
and rectification of leaks in a
timely manner.
This year we partnered with
SUEZ and a decade’s worth
of used uniforms were collected
and processed into engineered
fuel – an alternative to coal for
SUEZ’s cement kilns, resulting in
20 tonnes of used garments
avoiding landfill.
A commingled recycling pilot at
20 Queensland retail branches
created opportunities for new
recycling streams in larger
business centres.
Over 30 ANZ staff from across
the bank collaborated to explore
how different business units
can reduce office and customer
paper use with two projects
prioritised, namely:
•Digitisation of customer
requested prints across
New Zealand’s retail branch
network – expected to save a
considerable amount of paper.
•A reduction of daily branch
reporting across the Australian
branch network – saving
approximately 1.4 million
sheets of paper from being
printed.
Scope 1 and 2 emissions
have decreased by
51%
against a 2015 baseline,
tracking ahead of the required
reduction to meet our 2025
and 2030 targets.
In 2022,
39%
of our electricity
consumption came from
renewable sources.
Our global water
consumption decreased by
61%
tracking ahead of
the target.
Waste to landfill generated
by global operations has
reduced by
75%
since 2017, tracking ahead
of the target.
Paper consumption
has reduced by
69%
since 2015, tracking ahead
of the target.
Performance against targets
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1. Environmental reporting year is 1 July to 30 June, in line with the Australian regulatory reporting year. Refer to page 25 for new 2025 and 2030 targets.
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Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Sustainable building design
We continue to improve our office
and retail branches through energy
efficiency, water saving and waste
initiatives.
London office refurbishment
Sustainability was at the centre of the
relocation of ANZ’s London office and
part of every decision made. A new
workplace was created based around
three pillars of sustainable design to
deliver great value to building users
and the community:
01. Environment
An energy efficient workplace, minimising
embodied and operational carbon, waste
and water to help ANZ deliver on
Environmental Sustainability targets.
02. Health & wellbeing
Support for ANZ employees by creating
a healthy workplace where physical and
mental health is valued and enhanced,
as well as building a strong connection
with the wider community.
03. Inclusivity
Creation of an environment which
is inclusive and accessible for ANZ
employees and visitors alike.
Breathe branch design
Breathe Architecture Studio worked with
ANZ Retail to produce a new branch
design; built using low carbon footprint,
sustainable materials and finishes, with
almost every material or component able
to be re-used, recycled or composted. The
new design aims to use as many materials
and supplies from local sources. In
partnership with Anixter and 2by2, ANZ’s
Technology team has also developed a
new solution to allow branch technology
infrastructure to be disassembled,
relocated, and reused as part of embracing
and building our circular economy. Stores
and Pop-up outlets for ANZ Plus banking
products are also making use of the same
sustainable design principles.
ANZ’s commitment to environmental
sustainability initiatives via our “ANZ
Breathe” retail branch designs was
recognised by the Allan and Beth
Coldicutt Award for Sustainable
Architecture in the 2022 Victorian
Architecture Awards.
Australian operations
continue to be certified
as carbon-neutral under
the Climate Active
certification.
Sustainable staff initiatives
Green Ambassador Summit
Our Green Ambassador program,
launched in 2018, empowers our
people to live sustainably through
education and by providing
pathways to act.
This year, we held our second Green
Ambassador Summit, a professional
learning and development opportunity for
employees to build sustainable capabilities,
mindsets and culture. Over the month
of August, more than 1,500 participants
attended virtual panel discussions,
workshops and in-person tours, and heard
from business and community leaders on
the latest sustainability insights.
Additional Green Ambassador initiatives
from this year include:
•Australian Green Ambassadors entered
into a one-year partnership with the
Australian Microplastic Assessment Project
and Earthwatch to deliver eight volunteer
experiences for 400 employees across
the country. ANZ employees were invited
to become a ‘scientist for the day’ and
contribute to the authentic data collection
of microplastics along Australian coastlines,
while also helping to rid beaches of plastic
waste. More than 2,800 pieces of waste
have been diverted from polluting our
waterways and oceans to-date.
•Employees were invited to participate in
World Environment Day by spending time
in nature regenerating the environment.
•Green Ambassadors in Vietnam invited
employees and their families from our
Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City offices to an
event at which 260 trees were planted.
Sustainable initiatives in
New Zealand
This year, we released a series of insight
papers and webinars in partnership with
climate advisory firm Toitū Envirocare to
help small and medium sized businesses
understand their emissions, set reduction
targets and identify initiatives to achieve
them. We are also growing the knowledge
and expertise of our staff. Our education
series ‘Carbon 101’ provided over 500
business bankers with insights into why
sustainability and carbon emissions
management are an important part
of every business’ strategy.
In partnership with Sustainable Coastlines,
staff volunteered in annual planting activities
across New Zealand. The program includes
education and awareness raising of
environmental issues and helps staff and
communities understand the importance
of biodiversity.
ANZ New Zealand is also a participating
provider in the Government Investment in
Decarbonising Industry Private Finance Pilot
to help businesses seek funding for approved
projects to accelerate the decarbonisation of
industrial process heat. We have also been a
signatory of the Climate Leaders Coalition
(CLC) since 2019 including the new 2022
Statement of Ambition which reflects
signatories’ desire to be climate leaders
as science and policy evolves.
Image: ANZ Breathe branch.
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Environmental
sustainability
Our approach to
climate change
Sustainable finance
Reducing our
environmental
footprint
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Improving
financial
wellbeing
Financial wellbeing is the extent to which someone
is able to meet all their current commitments and needs
comfortably and has the financial resilience to maintain
this in the future.
ANZ recognises the importance of financial
wellbeing across the whole population in
sustaining a healthy and inclusive economy.
Beyond providing core banking services, we
play a key role in leading research into what
is influencing financial wellbeing in Australia
and New Zealand. Insights from our research
are shared publicly so they can be used by
government, community and corporate
sectors to inform their work, and we use
these insights to inform our products and
services, as well as our financial education
programs, Saver Plus and MoneyMinded.
These programs involve close collaboration
with partners from the community and
government sectors.
2021 Financial Wellbeing Survey
ANZ has been exploring the financial literacy,
capability, attitudes and behaviours of
Australian adults for 20 years. The 2021
Financial Wellbeing Survey is the seventh
iteration of the series in Australia since the
first national survey in 2002. More than 5,000
individuals across Australia and New Zealand
participated in the 2021 survey which built
on the established Kempson et al.
conceptual model of financial wellbeing
used in our 2017 survey, with updated
analysis to improve the understanding of
what is influencing the financial wellbeing
of Australians and New Zealanders.
External steering committees in Australia
and New Zealand comprising key opinion
leaders, academics and consumer advocates
supported us in interrogating and
developing the model of financial wellbeing
to better understand the influence of
socio-economic factors, financial behaviours
and psychological elements like future focus,
frugality and confidence.
While socio-economic factors had the largest
impact on financial wellbeing, financial
behaviours such as saving, spending and
investing continue to have a major impact
on financial wellbeing, and play an important
role in building the financial resilience
needed to lessen the impact of socio-
economic disruptions.
Survey reports can be found at
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/financial-
wellbeing/
¢
$
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Respondents in Australia and New Zealand
are divided into four segments
Challenging economic environment
The 2021 Financial Wellbeing Survey research
was conducted in May and June 2021 during
a period of the pandemic where optimism
was relatively high, cases of COVID-19 in the
community were low and restrictions were
minimal. A year on, ANZ has been able to
track the financial wellbeing of Australians
during changing economic conditions with
the ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing
Indicator. The latest release compared May
2022 results with December 2021. The
update points to a downturn in financial
wellbeing in Australia.
This led to an increase in the size of the
struggling segment and the decline in
financial wellbeing was more evident in
households with an income of less than
$100,000 per year (down 1.8%). This group
also experienced declining ability to ‘meet
everyday commitments’. Young families,
renters, people not working full-time and
lower income households with a recent
mortgage (in the last 2 years) also
experienced greater downward pressure
on their financial wellbeing.
While all groups had falls in whether they
were ‘feeling comfortable’, young families
and lower income households with a recent
mortgage also experienced a decline in their
‘resilience’ (savings balances), and renters and
people not working full-time had reduced
ability to ‘meet everyday commitments’.
With interest rates on an upward trajectory,
the impact of falling real wages and costs
for both discretionary and non-discretionary
items growing, we expect financial wellbeing
may deteriorate further in the later part of
this year and into 2023. Refer to page 49 for
how we are assisting customers who may be
experiencing financial hardship.
Socio-economic factors and life events
are key to financial wellbeing
In both Australia and New Zealand, the
total impact of socio-economic factors
and life events on financial wellbeing was
substantially higher than our previous
analysis was able to demonstrate. Socio-
economic factors accounted for more than
half (54.5% and 54.8% respectively) of a
person’s overall financial wellbeing. Health
– both physical and mental – was the largest
socio-economic factor affecting financial
wellbeing in both Australia and New
Zealand. Other factors such as earning
potential, unemployment, life journey,
financial stability, ability to access social
support, gender, having dependents and
supporting extended family (in New
Zealand) were the most significant socio-
economic influences on financial wellbeing.
No worries – (score of >80–100) Strongly
future-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic
and frugal, contributing positively to
financial wellbeing. High levels of
confidence in managing money and
substantial amounts in savings,
investments and superannuation.
More likely to report ‘excellent’ or ‘very
good’ mental and physical health.
Doing OK – (>50–80) Describing their
current financial situation as ‘fair’ or ‘good’
and are reasonably confident about their
financial situation over the next 12
months. They are more likely to budget
or plan and to have their savings put
aside automatically.
Getting by – (>30–50) Generally
describing their financial situation
as ‘bad’, less confident in their money
management skills and their ability to
control their financial future. They are less
likely to be frugal than other segments.
Struggling – (0–30) 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. They are less optimistic or
future-oriented and have ‘poor’ mental
and physical health. Most feel anxious
about their future financial situation, do
not have any superannuation and do not
think owning a home is a realistic goal
for them.
People with high financial wellbeing
(no worries) were more likely to save
regularly, even if by only a small amount
(89% AUS; 87% NZ) than people who
were struggling (39% AUS; 29% NZ).
Almost one-fifth of Australians and
New Zealanders said they sometimes,
often or always need to borrow money
or go into debt to pay for food or
expenses because they ran short of
money. This rose to 70% of people who
were struggling in Australia and 55%
of people struggling in New Zealand.
Psychological factors also had a strong
influence on financial wellbeing.
Financial confidence and a sense of
control over our financial lives play a
significant part in improving financial
wellbeing through influencing whether
we save, spend or invest. Behaviour traits
influence financial wellbeing in different
ways; optimism affects our financial
confidence while future orientation,
impulsivity and frugality affect our
spending or saving mindset.
While overall most were doing OK,
more than one-quarter (28%) of
Australians and New Zealanders were
either struggling or just getting by,
leaving them more vulnerable to
financial shocks and the rising
cost of living.
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HIGHLIGHT
Exploring digital capability of
older Australians
ANZ worked with the University of South
Australia to explore how older Australians,
including those who are hard of hearing
or can’t see well, experience the digital
environment when conducting their
day-to-day banking activities, through a series
of telephone interviews and focus groups.
The research showed most interviewees
were comfortable using the internet
including online navigation and browsing.
Although aware of online fraud and spam,
interviewees were less sure about viruses,
phishing, cyber security and hacking.
Most interviewees did their banking online,
mainly using a laptop or tablet device (mobile
phone banking was less likely to be used).
Interviewees found online banking sites easy
to use and expressed a high level of trust in
online banking practices. Some used their
local bank branch to deposit money, resolve
problems and seek information. Where
interviewees did exclusively use their local
branch for banking, this was mainly because
of security concerns and unfamiliarity with
computers and the internet.
Accessibility to digital banking remains a
critical ongoing issue for older Australians
and must be taken into consideration with
all digital banking products and services.
We are currently reviewing our approach to
accessibility including developing ways to
continually improve our digital channels to
ensure they are accessible and inclusive for
all customers, regardless of ability or age,
to support independent, dignified and
convenient banking. The findings from this
research will contribute to our approach.
Refer to page 48 for further detail.
Mobile banking in the pacific
ANZ’s ‘banking the unbanked’ program is
a rural banking business model operating in
Fiji in partnership with the United Nations
Development Program. It delivers basic,
affordable, and reliable banking services to
remote and disadvantaged communities –
helping them to develop and prosper.
This year, we partnered with Vodaphone
to offer customers in Fiji access to money
transfer service M-PAiSA. This partnership
will help close the financial inclusion gap in
Fiji by enabling payments to regions with no
banking services or infrastructure. Customers
can transfer money to an M-PAiSA wallet even
if the recipient does not have a bank account.
Transactions clear within 15 minutes from
internet banking and the ANZ Pacific app with
no fees charged. Previously customers had to
physically line up at an M-PAiSA outlet to top
up their account. Since launching, more than
326,000 transactions have been made by
customers to M-PAiSA.
“Despite significant progress in Fiji, a large
portion of the market remains ‘unbanked’.
For customers who want to transfer funds
to family and friends in rural and outer
island areas in particular, having more
flexibility within a secure mobile banking
app that gives them access to their money,
no matter where they are, is part of our
commitment to make banking easier and
more convenient.”
Renuka Kumar
ANZ Fiji Head of Retail
There are now more than 54,000 active ANZ
Pacific App customers across seven countries
– Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tonga,
Solomon Islands and Kiribati.
The research can be found at anz.com.au/
about-us/esg/financial-wellbeing/
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Improving financial
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UN reporting
framework
Assurance
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Financial wellbeing score by
dependent status (out of 100)
Financial wellbeing across life stages
(score out of 100)
How saving and spending
behaviours impact financial
wellbeing
Struggling
57%
52%
No worries
8%
14%
Doing OK
21%
24%
Getting by
45%
44%
Overall mental and physical
health is fair or poor
Mental healthPhysical health
Financial wellbeing categories
in New Zealand
Financial wellbeing categories
in Australia
47%
Doing ok
25%
No worries
20%
Getting by
8%
Struggling
43%
Doing ok
29%
No worries
17%
Getting by
11%
Struggling
New Zealand
Australia
OVERALL
Australia average
64
OVERALL
New Zealand average
63
59
Young adults
58
Young families
64
Older families
77
Retirees
Owning a home influence
on financial wellbeing
(score out of 100)
78
Own mortgage-free
46
Mental health
fair/poor
66
Own with mortgage
49
Renting
Health influence on financial
wellbeing (score out of 100)
54
Long-term
health condition
or disability
51
Physical health
fair/poor
45
Illness in the
last 12 months
Financial wellbeing of people with
less than $1,000 in consumer debt
Financial wellbeing of people with
less than $1,000 in savings as a buffer
70
out of 100
34
out of 100
63
Couple with
children
71
Couple with
no children
46
Single parents
63
Living alone
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Supporting our customers to
build their financial wellbeing
Research highlights the important
influence savings behaviour has on overall
financial wellbeing. Since October 2021,
ANZ has supported nearly 1.5 million
customers (on average) across Australia
and New Zealand to save regularly,
contributing to our target to support
1.3 million customers to do so. In Australia,
we launched the Your Money Report,
via the ANZ App and Internet Banking,
providing personalised insights into
customer spending by category and
merchant. A ‘Spenemies’ (spend enemies)
marketing campaign was launched
alongside the report to encourage
customers to identify the spending habits
getting in the way of saving. ANZ’s Saver
Plus program also supported more than
3,400 thousand new participants to save
regularly using a Progress Saver account. In
New Zealand, ANZ encouraged customers
to set savings goals with NZ$1,000 prizes
offered to 25 winners as an incentive for
regular deposits to savings accounts.
ANZ’s commitment to financial wellbeing
is long-standing – we are striving to
support our customers to make the most
of their money and to improve their
financial wellbeing into the future.
Driving financial wellbeing
outcomes with ANZ Plus
The launch of the first ANZ Plus
digital banking proposition is the
beginning of a multi-year plan to
release improved products and
services to our customers, built on
modern systems and processes
for our people.
Financial wellbeing is at the heart of
the bank we’re building to create better
financial outcomes and resilience for our
customers. This is particularly important
as our customers navigate an economic
environment with rising interest rates
and cost of living difficulties.
The ANZ Plus digital product provides
the tools, support and insights people
need to improve their financial wellbeing.
Equipping customers with the ability to
set up multiple savings goals, and better
track their spending data means they will
be empowered to spot trends and make
better financial decisions. Future expenses
such as bills and subscriptions can also be
predicted and planned for with ANZ Plus.
The initial ANZ Plus transact and save
account product is now available to
download in the Apple App Store and
Google Play. Since the customer launch,
we have continued to deliver new
features with a focus on expanding
the payment options available for ANZ
Plus customers.
We now have more than 50,000 ANZ Plus
customers, increasing by thousands each
week and on track to reach 100,000
customers faster than any other new
bank in Australia.
At the heart of ANZ Plus are nine
financial wellbeing principles which aim
to impart knowledge, provide clarity and
empower customers to make better
financial decisions:
Spend less than you earn
$
Put money aside for a rainy day
Save regularly towards your goals
$
Protect what you can’t afford to lose
Borrow within your means
¢
$
Pay your most expensive debt first
Build towards your retirement
Invest in things that grow
$
Give back to family, friends and
the community when you can
As well as the ability to contact an ANZ Plus
Coach via the app, we are piloting two ANZ
Plus concept stores in Richmond, Victoria
and Potts Point, New South Wales.
We have also designed pop-up stores which
can be easily set up in high-traffic areas such
as university orientation weeks and shopping
centres. These stores provide customers
with an opportunity to meet with ANZ Plus
Coaches to have conversations about
their needs or attend a financial wellbeing
seminar which focuses on helping customers
improve spending habits with tips and
tricks to help them save more. Our ANZ
Plus Coaches are pivotal to the in-store
experience and to supporting our customers.
Additionally, we are working hard on a new
data-driven home loan experience, utilising
the same modern, flexible, technology
foundations we have built to support our
initial save and transact product.
Getting a better perspective
of your money
Launched via the ANZ App and Internet
Banking in October 2021, ANZ’s Your Money
Report provides personalised insights to give
customers more visibility about where their
money is going and supporting them to find
opportunities to save.
The report shows a monthly and 12-month
view of money in versus money out, by
category and merchant. The report also
links to ANZ’s Financial Wellbeing Program
to connect customers with tools and ideas
which could help them change their money
habits for the better.
Since going live, 2.1 million customers have
received notifications encouraging them to
view their report and there have been over
789,000 unique views to date.
HIGHLIGHT
Image: ANZ Plus Journey Expert Chloe Yap and
Coach Pranay Chathley.
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Characteristics of MoneyMinded participants
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1. Characteristics are from the 2022 MoneyMinded survey responses and do not include MoneyBusiness survey responses.
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND AND
ASIA PACIFIC REGION
Female76.0%51.1%
Male24.0%48.9%
Sole parents36.2%16.9%
Unemployed24.0%19.0%
Aboriginal or Torres
Strait Islander heritage
11.0%n/a
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. In addition,
this year MoneyMinded was delivered in
12 markets across Asia and the Pacific
region by community organisations and
ANZ employees.
An estimated 843,600 people have
participated in MoneyMinded, including
MoneyBusiness, since 2002.
Since 2002, the MoneyMinded program has
been successful in supporting and engaging
people in the community to build money
management skills at their own pace. 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.
During the last 12 months, the refreshed
MoneyMinded program continues to be
delivered to community sector professionals
in Australia by our partners Berry Street,
the Brotherhood of St Laurence and The
Smith Family. Participants who completed
MoneyMinded prior to March 2021 can
update their accreditation by completing
a short digital training module. Upon
completion, they obtain access to the
MoneyMinded hub, an online platform
which contains a financial education content
library and an interactive tool for creating
customised session plans for clients.
“Just to let you know that I received
the email regarding the new look
MoneyMinded and re-accreditation, and
I love it. It looks really versatile and user
friendly, I can’t wait for my next group.”
MoneyMinded coach
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 equipped to customise the
program content and delivery mode based
on the audience needs, and who are best
placed to deliver the program within
vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
In addition to long-standing partnerships
in Australia, New Zealand and across Asia
and the Pacific, we continue to work
towards a target of establishing seven new
partnerships by the end of 2023 to expand
the reach and impact of MoneyMinded
within these communities.
This year we established three new
MoneyMinded partnerships:
Regent Training Centre, New Zealand
– providing financial education to
support young people to gain choice
and control over their future.
The University of the South Pacific
component of the Pacific – European
Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP)
programme, Fiji (followed by Solomon
Islands, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu) –
supporting coastal communities to
better manage their earnings from
ocean, marine and coastal resources.
Dili Institute of Technology,
Timor-Leste – supporting students to
build their financial skills, knowledge
and confidence.
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Case study
MoneyMinded in Fiji
Since 2010, MoneyMinded has
been delivered across the Asia Pacific
region, including in Fiji where
seasonal workers who travel abroad
complete the workshops as part
of their pre-training program.
Participating in MoneyMinded helps
seasonal workers like Manueli maximise
their income and savings when they
return home.
Growing up, Manueli was raised by a
single father, who was a pastor. The family
struggled and moved from church to
church, never having a place of their own
to call home. In 2016, Cyclone Winston
destroyed the church house they were
living in.
That same year, Manueli was part of
a group from his village chosen to
participate in a Recognised Seasonal
Worker (RSE) program in Hawkes Bay,
New Zealand. RSE programs play a crucial
role in filling gaps in New Zealand’s
workforce while delivering economic
benefits and skills to the Pacific. Manueli
took part in MoneyMinded workshops as
part of his pre-departure briefings.
The financial education helped him
establish clear goals for the money
that he would earn while working in
New Zealand.
MoneyMinded was the first time Manueli
had ever been taught about budgeting,
saving and money skills. In particular, he
credits the vision board and module on
assertiveness as key to helping him
achieve his goals.
“I was scared I might lose my family, or
my family might lose the respect of
everyone in the village if I said no when
someone asked me for money,” Manueli
explains. “But I practiced little by little and
I got through.”
Manueli has since completed four
seasons of RSE work in Hawkes Bay,
meeting other MoneyMinded participants
from Samoa and Tonga. The group
motivates each other to stay focused on
achieving their goals. Manueli’s wife Milika
has also taken part in MoneyMinded
because they know with careful
budgeting, planning and the practical
life skills MoneyMinded offers, your life
can change.
MoneyBusiness –
Australia
MoneyBusiness was developed
by ANZ in partnership with the
Australian Government in 2005
following research which showed
financial exclusion was a significant
challenge for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people, particularly
those living in remote communities.
In 2022, ANZ completed an extensive
review of MoneyBusiness to make it easier
for community professionals to access,
use and tailor financial education for their
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
clients living in remote communities.
In September 2022, community sector
professionals attended MoneyBusiness
coach training Alice Springs, Northern
Territory. The group were introduced to
the new and updated resources which
includes new topics and a range of visual
resources. Upon completion, attendees
were given access to the new online
resources hub.
“[I like] the webpage resources that
allow us to form custom workshops.”
Training attendee
MoneyBusiness is delivered throughout
Western Australia, the Northern Territory,
South Australia and far north Queensland.
Since 2005, over 85,700 participants have
been reached through the program.
$
Image: Participants attending a MoneyBusiness program.
Case study
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Case study
MoneyMinded for family violence:
education for prevention and recovery
In 2016, ANZ introduced an extension of
MoneyMinded designed specifically for
people in the community experiencing
family violence. Over the past 18 months,
ANZ has worked with longstanding
community partner Berry Street to make
enhancements to the MoneyMinded for
family violence program.
It’s not always easy to recognise
victim survivors of abuse but they are
people we have contact with every
day in our families, workplaces and
neighbourhoods. In many cases, a person
may not immediately realise they’re
experiencing family violence as obvious
signs extend beyond physical and
emotional abuse.
One form of family violence is financial
abuse. Perpetrators of financial abuse
control their victim’s finances by taking
over access to the funds and by means of
creating debt in the victim survivor’s
name. The behaviour limits the victim
survivor’s capacity to meet basic needs,
their freedom of choice and impacts their
actions now and into the future. Berry
Street has been training family violence
specialists in the enhanced program.
“The range of information and flexibility
of the program caters to the uniqueness
of experience of clients, addressing
what is needed when it’s needed.”
MoneyMinded trainer
The program now includes a new
range of visual resources, prompt cards,
animations and interactive handouts,
supporting community professionals to
talk about financial abuse with their
clients in accessible ways.
“Being able to sit with victim survivors
and go through the budgeting tools
provided in MoneyMinded empowers
people to take control of their financial
situation and move forward with
confidence,” says a family violence
practitioner.
MoneyMinded in New Zealand –
Solomon Group
Solomon Group were the first
organisation to partner with
ANZ in New Zealand to deliver
MoneyMinded. As a Māori Private
Training Establishment (PTE) they
work with rangatahi (youth), young
mums and dads, all the way up to
70-year-old students who enrol in
their programs. Services include
youth support, vocational training
and employment support.
Stella has delivered MoneyMinded at
Solomon Group since January 2015,
delivering up to 11 workshops each year.
Regardless of each individual’s personal
circumstance, she finds MoneyMinded
has great impact on tairua (learners).
“Solomon Group loves to deliver
MoneyMinded as we have a joint vision
to see the hapori (community) prosper,”
she says. “Whether a student comes in
struggling to manage their money or
thinking they are managing well but
want to learn more, the course has great
impact not only on the individual but also
on their whānau (family) and hapori
(community) which is amazing to see.”
The prioritisation activity where learners
think about what is important, not
important or very important to them
was highlighted as a real stand-out in
the MoneyMinded workshops.
“There are always surprised faces, no
matter what the learner’s situation. For
some it brings to mind their priorities
when going shopping with their
whānau. For others it may make them
think more carefully when considering
purchasing a big-ticket item.”
MoneyMinded trainer
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MoneyMinded
in Australia
STARTTS (Service for the Treatment
and Rehabilitation of Torture and
Trauma Survivors) is a specialist,
not-for-profit organisation that
assists refugees rebuilding their
lives in Australia.
Qais, a facilitator at STARTTS, originally
completed the MoneyMinded training
in 2017 and recently renewed his
accreditation in the refreshed
MoneyMinded program. Qais’ clients
include new arrivals from the Arabic
community. Through a series of
education workshops, Qais uses
MoneyMinded content and resources
when delivering the ‘Money’
workshop. Through these sessions,
Qais has seen how important it is to
help refugees build essential skills for
managing their money.
Through the use of MoneyMinded,
Qais’ clients have learnt to track their
spending, reduce their energy usage
and switch mobile providers to
manage the rising costs of living.
Meet Gabrielle
Gabrielle, a single mum of two who
works part-time, joined Saver Plus to
learn how to save and support her
young family. She now organises her
income into ‘buckets’ and uses each
one for a specific purpose to manage
bills, savings and spending money.
“I never really budgeted, I was just looking
at what was coming up in the moment,”
she explains. “Since the program, I make
sure bills come first then savings, then
the rest.”
Gabrielle’s parents worked hard but never
taught her how to save, and she is now in
the least stable financial situation of her
life. Gabrielle participated in Saver Plus
virtually, giving her the flexibility to join
from home and save in child-care costs.
Saver Plus
Saver Plus is a matched savings and financial
education program developed by ANZ and
the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 2003.
Funded by ANZ and the Australian
Government, Saver Plus is delivered in
partnership with Berry Street, Brotherhood of
St Laurence and The Smith Family. The Saver
Plus program supports lower income earners
to build a savings habit, access financial
education support and receive matched
savings of up to $500 from ANZ to support
their own or their children’s education.
Saver Plus participants open an ANZ savings
account, set a savings goal and make
deposits regularly over 10 months while
attending MoneyMinded financial education
sessions. Research has shown many
participants go on to establish a lasting
savings habit to achieve their financial
goals and improve their financial wellbeing.
More than 53,000 Australians have
participated in Saver Plus, saving more
than $27 million and receiving more than
$21.9 million in matched savings from ANZ
for education costs. More than 90% of
participants in the program are women
1
,
half of all participants are single parents
and 80% are not working full-time.
1. Refer to "Saver Plus: pathways to wellbeing" report (2018).
“I’m learning at my lowest point so the
program really helped me in my ability to
trust myself and have faith in the future,”
she says. “From such a short amount of
time in your day, the growth, financial
power and knowledge you receive in
exchange is so valuable.”
After completing the Saver Plus program,
Gabrielle plans to use her matched
savings to pay for her children’s school
uniforms. Her aspiration is for her kids
to have financial freedom.
“If something happens to me, I want
them to be set up for the future.”
Image: Gabrielle and her children.
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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 partners to ensure we are providing support
in a respectful, fair, and appropriate way, especially as people
experience increased cost-of-living pressures and continue
adjusting to living with COVID-19.
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 2022, our community investment was
$136.4 million. In addition, we facilitated more
than $22.2 million in donations to community
organisations through our employees,
customers, shareholders, other partners and
the general public, including through our
digital giving platform Shout for Good.
Employees $1,535,291
Customer donations (including
through internet banking) $990,997
Shareholders (including dividend
charity donation program and forgone
dividends) $450,429
Other partners $6,405,452
General public (including Shout for
Good) $12,827,266
Approximately $6.5 million of our community
investment total (around 26% of our cash,
time and in-kind contributions) contributed to
programs and initiatives that support women
and girls. We recognise women’s social and
economic empowerment is critical to
achieving gender equality.
TOTAL
$136,410,657
Contribution by type
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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’
– ANZ donates two dollars for every dollar
donated by an employee (up to $5,000 per
employee in a tax year). This year, ANZ and
employee workplace giving contributions
provided more than 130,000 meals to
community partner Foodbank Australia to
help people facing food insecurity, cost of
living pressures, ongoing impacts of
COVID-19 and natural disaster events.
ANZ also double matches donations made
by employees in New Zealand and Fiji
through payroll to their respective staff
foundations (charitable trusts that provide
small grants). Together with our employees,
we donated $3,041,679 to charitable
organisations in Australia, New Zealand
and Fiji in 2022.
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 Sri Lanka and Ukraine,
and the Pacific to support communities impacted by COVID-19.
Cash
$22,488,464
Time
$2,597,390
In kind
$46,904
Management costs
$4,606,382
Forgone revenue
$106,671,517
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The Nappy Collective
Driven by increases to the cost
of living and broader social
disadvantages, many Australian
families have had to sacrifice a clean
nappy for other essential items
leading to ‘nappy stress’.
Established in 2013, The Nappy Collective
has redistributed millions of collected
nappies towards community partners
assisting families in need through
women’s crisis shelters, respite services
and community organisations supporting
disadvantaged families such as asylum
seekers and refugees. The Nappy
Collective received a $15,000 ANZ
Community Foundation grant to
redistribute 500,000 nappies to families in
need through their half-yearly collections.
ANZ Bendigo Branch Manager and
father of three Louis Meyer knows
firsthand how expensive essential items
for babies such as nappies and formula
can be. Recognising the financial pressures
some families faced, the Bendigo branch
became a ‘pop-up’ collection point for
nappies in April this year.
Approximately 2,000 nappies were
collected and distributed to local families
in need. Following the successful pilot at
the Bendigo branch, a national campaign
as part of The Nappy Collective’s ‘July
Collective Campaign’ saw 25 ANZ
branches participating as nappy
collection points – some the only
collection point in regional areas.
A total of 224,231 nappies were
donated from the community during
this campaign. ANZ’s involvement in the
campaign allowed The Nappy Collective
to raise awareness for this social issue,
encouraging new supporters to get
involved through donations and
volunteering activities.
“Every unused nappy can go to a baby
who really needs it... For us, a nappy is
not just a nappy – it’s the ability for a
family in crisis to buy something else
critical or to give their child a healthy,
clean and stable start to their day.”
Sandra Jacobs
Chair and Founder of
The Nappy Collective
$360,500
in grants through
the ANZ Community
Foundation
NZ$1.1M
in grants through
the ANZ New Zealand
Staff Foundation
FJ$93,705
donated through
the ANZ Fiji Staff
Foundation
$250,000
in ANZ Seeds
of Renewal
community grants
Over 150
grants in Fiji
valued at >FJ$1million (since 2006)
Over 1,390
grants in New Zealand
valued at >NZ$8.6 million (since 2000)
Over 925
grants in Australia
valued at >$6.3 million (since 1988)
$1.73 million in community grants
provided this year, impacting
approximately 239,500 people
and their communities:
Since their establishment, our
staff foundations have provided
Community grants
Staff foundations
The ANZ Community Foundation offers
grants of up to $30,000. In 2022, the
Foundation provided 17 grants to
organisations totalling $360,500.
New Zealand’s Staff Foundation provides
grants of up to NZ$25,000 to local charities.
This year, the Foundation distributed 93
grants to organisations totalling more than
NZ$1.1 million including the Pukorokoro
Miranda Naturalists’ Trust which received
a grant of NZ$15,950 to engage people on
the significance of the bar-tailed godwits
bird and their largest and most important
habitat at Pukorokoro. The grant will help
fund a shore guide at the Miranda Shorebird
Centre to educate visitors on how to protect
key sites from habitat threats and the impact
on biodiversity.
The ANZ Fiji Staff Foundation supports local
charities working in remote communities,
including those providing funding to
support, education and environmental
projects. This year FJ$93,705 was donated
to fund six different community projects.
For more information on all of our
Community Grant programs, please see
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/community/
community-grants
Image: Nappy collection at our Bendigo branch.
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Foster skills through volunteering
This year, ANZ’s Process Engineering
and Governance team shared their
specialised skills to assist Berry Street.
Volunteers were involved in a
strategic project to address the
decrease in foster care households
across the country.
ANZ volunteers provided more than
170 hours of skilled expertise over several
months by collaborating with Berry Street
to review their end-to-end foster care
recruitment process using Lean Six Sigma
methodology. They surveyed staff,
conducted root cause analysis, led a series
of half-day workshops and identified
process improvements. Participants
defined more than 120 ideas, prioritised
nine solutions and recommended four
key initiatives to improve the digitisation
of foster care recruitment and onboarding
process. The four initiatives were
presented to the Berry Street leadership
team and were well received.
In July this year, Berry Street launched
their Home-Based Care strategy with
a key focus aimed at improving foster
carer recruitment. The work ANZ
volunteers undertook to review and
improve business processes, and the
recommendations provided directly
informed some of the uplift Berry Street
has implemented and will continue to
be a key input as their recruitment
strategy progresses.
“It’s been an amazing experience
and their insights will directly inform
positive changes as part of our
transformation work to grow our
foster care program.”
Jenny McNaughton
Deputy CEO and Executive Director
of Services at Berry Street
ANZ Seeds of
Renewal grant 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 22 projects.
Founded in 1979, Yarredi Services
provides access to a range of services
including specialist counselling, a
therapeutic children’s wellbeing program,
crisis accommodation and have also
developed a ‘Women’s Wellbeing and
Safety Centre’ in Port Lincoln, South
Australia. Yarredi received a $5,184 grant
to create a safe environment for women
and children affected by domestic
violence.
The grant supported the purchase of
laptops and office equipment to address
the need for women to access secure and
stable technology as they took steps to
grow their financial independence and
empowerment. The laptops will also
support domestic and family violence
clients for study, remote learning, looking
for work or housing, while at the same
time providing them with education
around online safety and security.
Technology can be used to abuse or
track individuals, according to Yarredi
Executive Officer Sharyn Potts.
“It’s important our clients have
access to computers and technology
in an environment that's supportive
and informative.”
Sharyn Potts
Executive Officer at Yarredi Services
Since 2003, the ANZ Seeds of Renewal
program has provided more than $5.5
million to over 900 community projects
across Australia. Further information
on the projects funded is available at
frrr.org.au/funding/people/anz-seeds-
of-renewal.
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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.
During 2022, we activated financial relief
packages for customers in Australia affected
by storm damage across Victoria, bushfires in
Western Australia, and floods throughout
New South Wales and Queensland. We also
implemented our New Zealand customer
assistance package for those affected by
floods in Gisborne in November, and
businesses affected by floods in the
Nelson-Tasman region in August.
In January, Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga
Ha'apai volcano erupted leading to a
tsunami and significant damage to buildings
and homes. ANZ made a $50,000 donation
to the Red Cross to support the recovery and
long-term rebuilding of Tonga.
To help the flow of funds to Pacific
communities impacted by COVID-19, ANZ
has indefinitely waived transfer fees on
foreign currency international transfers from
Australia and New Zealand via ANZ Internet
Banking (AU and NZ) and ANZ goMoney (NZ)
to the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia (AU
Only), Kiribati, New Caledonia, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste,
Tonga and Vanuatu.
As a result of the conflict in Ukraine and
economic crisis in Sri Lanka this year,
ANZ also waived the IMT fees to support
customers to send funds to family and
friends in these regions.
For more information please see
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/community
Contribution to public policy
We seek to contribute constructively to
public policy formation and understand the
perspectives of our community’s elected
representatives, policymakers and regulators.
We contribute to policy on business,
economic, social and environmental issues
affecting our customers and shareholders.
We are also a member of a number of
industry associations that contribute to
public policy debate and formation.
In 2022, our key membership
payments included:
Australian Banking Association
$3,261,145
Business Council of Australia
$99,000
New Zealand Bankers’ Association
NZ$619,601
Business New Zealand NZ$46,460
Payment to the New Zealand Bankers’
Association includes our annual fee as well
as expenditure related to the trial of regional
banking hubs, contribution to an industry
partnership with a nationwide financial
capability charity, the establishment of an
industry whistle blower scheme run by the
Banking Ombudsman and industry initiatives
in response to regulatory issues.
We understand our stakeholders are
interested in the position we take on issues
such as banking accessibility, scams and
climate change, and our membership of
industry associations that develop policies
and undertake advocacy on these issues.
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.
Managing our tax affairs
We are committed to the highest standards
of tax governance and compliance with the
tax laws and obligations in the jurisdictions
in which we operate. We pay tax consistent
with our business presence and operations.
We apply the Australian Board of Taxation’s
Voluntary Tax Transparency Code and
provide the recommended disclosures.
Refer to our Voluntary Tax Transparency
Report available at anz.com/annualreport
Volunteering
Our Volunteer Leave Policy applies to
permanent, regular and fixed-term
employees, providing at least one day
of paid volunteer leave each year.
Our corporate volunteer program started
in 2001 with an initial goal to provide
50,000 volunteer hours each year to local
communities. More than two decades later,
ANZ and employees celebrated the longevity
of the program during Australia’s National
Volunteering Week in May. We are proud to
have contributed more than 1.4 million
volunteering hours since the program began,
supporting many local communities in our
various operating markets.
ANZ New Zealand received Volunteering
Auckland's 2021 Leaders of Volunteer
Engagement (LoVE) Corporate Champion
award, recognising our dedication and
commitment to promote volunteering.
This year, our people volunteered 52,443.5
hours to community organisations. This
represents more than 6,555 working days
and $2.6 million in value to the community.
13.8% of employees volunteered this year,
compared to 15.5% in 2021.
Shout for Good
In 2022, ANZ’s digital giving platform Shout
for Good, which supports charities in Australia
with free and innovative digital fundraising
solutions, facilitated approximately
$12.4 million in donations for more than
325 charities. In April, Shout launched a
dedicated auction platform to complement
their existing product suite. This new
functionality provides charities the ability to
host silent or live auctions with a one stop
fundraising solution. Further information on
Shout is available at shoutforgood.com.
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Image: Assemble Kensington resident Sophie.
We seek to play a role in helping to improve the availability
and affordability of housing. We provide 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.
We are committed to helping improve
the availability of suitable and affordable
housing options for all Australians and
New Zealanders by:
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
from pilot to scale including
build-to-rent-to-own.
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 in Australia and
New Zealand. Since 2018 we have funded
and facilitated over $4.4 billion towards the
$10 billion target, with over $350 million of
investment in the past 12 months.
Key initiatives delivered in 2022 include:
•ANZ continues to be the sole domestic
bank to support all of National Housing
Finance and Investment Corporation’s
bond issuances (totalling nearly
$2 billion) into the market. We welcome
the Australian Government’s ongoing
commitment to government guaranteed-
backed bonds as the beginning of the
journey for social and affordable housing
to be recognised as an asset class.
•Our partnerships with government agency
Kāinga Ora in New Zealand (Homes and
Communities) continued with ANZ acting
as joint lending manager on a wellbeing
bond issuance by subsidiary Housing
New Zealand. The bond contributed
NZ$800 million this year to help fund
sustainably constructed affordable,
sustainable homes.
•ANZ continues supporting emerging
asset classes:
–Leading commercial financer for Land
Lease Communities, an emerging growth
market in retirement living, offering an
affordable housing option for the over
55’s market with over $1.3 billion of
funding in place.
–Backing build-to-rent to support a
growing pipeline of secure, sustainable
rental housing with an additional focus
on project pipelines offering affordable
housing and/or partnerships with
community housing providers.
Improving the
availability and
affordability of homes
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Left image: (L-R) Assemble Managing Director Kris Daff, Kensington resident Sophie and Chief Operating Officer Emma Telfer.
Right image: (L-R) ANZ Head of Housing Strategy Caryn Kakas, Assemble Managing Director Kris Daff and Assemble Chief Operating Officer Emma Telfer.
Case study
An alternative, supported path
to home ownership
rooftop gardens and lending libraries to
foster social interaction and enrich daily
living. In addition, a financial coaching
program is offered to provide residents
with tools and support to save for a
home deposit.
Assemble is building secure social and
affordable rental apartments in suburbs
where this type of housing is needed most.
The current pipeline of build-to-rent projects
in Victoria is valued in excess of $3 billion.
We have worked with Assemble since
2018 to refine their model, providing
advice on funding options, valuation
methodology and risk management.
Our Retail business assisted Assemble to
understand consumer purchasing profiles,
retail mortgage lending parameters and
appropriate strategies to support
potential purchasers to save for their
deposit prior to the end of the lease.
Residents moved into 64 households
in the ANZ-financed pilot project in
Kensington, Victoria in August this
year with an additional 400 Assemble
Future dwellings to be delivered in
the next two years.
Assemble’s design and delivery model
also focuses on providing high quality
and sustainable homes. They positively
impact residents’ sense of wellbeing by
providing communal spaces, workshops,
Housing affordability is a challenge
faced by many people in Australia
and New Zealand, particularly
younger people and those on
lower incomes.
Assemble is an end-to-end ‘build-to-rent’
(BTR) development, investment and
community manager. The organisation’s
ambition is to challenge Australia’s
housing affordability crisis by creating
new ideas on how to generate a fairer
system. Assemble’s housing pipelines
focuses on revenue resilience rather
than market rent out-performance.
The business, which launched in 2018
with Assemble Futures Model (build-to-
rent-to-own), has had ongoing support
from ANZ through its design and
development stages. Assemble Futures
is a direct response to the crisis of home
ownership in Australian capital cities, by
addressing security of rental tenure and
the challenge of saving for a deposit. The
innovative model provides an alternate,
supportive pathway to home ownership.
Residents are enabled to rent securely
for five years, with the option to buy their
home at the end of the lease period, at
an agreed price.
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Ongoing improvements for
affordable and sustainable
housing in New Zealand
In 2022, ANZ continued to support
New Zealanders looking to combat rising
energy and fuel costs and improve the
environmental sustainability of their homes,
encouraging better housing standards for
both owner occupiers and renters through:
•Our Healthy Home Loan Package offers
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.
•The Good Energy Home Loan top up
product was launched providing a low-
interest home loan rate for customers
wanting to increase the energy efficiency
of their home. It allows customers to
borrow up to NZ$80,000 at a 3-year
fixed rate of 1% per annum to upgrade
homes with solar panels, heating and
insulation, double glazing, ventilation
systems and rainwater tanks. It can also
be used for electric and hybrid vehicles,
and EV chargers. Since July 2022, ANZ has
supported more than 1,300 customers to
reduce the environmental impact of their
home, representing NZ$60 million funds
under management.
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•Our ongoing partnership with the
New Zealand Green Building Council
includes support for HomeFit – a free
online tool to check the health, comfort,
energy efficiency and safety of new
homes, or advise on how New Zealanders
can improve the health of their
current home.
“Whatever the motivation; saving money
on your utility bills, future proofing your
home, collecting rainwater to last you
through summer, being more energy
efficient or reducing carbon emissions, this
loan removes some of the cost barrier for
people wanting to make a change.”
Ben Kelleher
ANZ New Zealand Managing Director
for Personal Banking
Pay off your loan faster
The 2021 Financial Wellbeing survey showed
owning a home had a positive influence on
overall financial wellbeing. In New Zealand,
there has been a focus on helping customers
understand how small changes could help
them to pay off their home loan faster. This
includes resources on our website about
getting your loan structure right, increasing
repayments, extra ways to reduce interest
and changing your repayments. Customers
also have the option to meet with an ANZ
Home Loan Coach to get help or attend a
webinar on how to pay off a home loan
faster. In 2022, we further expanded this
proposition to allow customers to increase
their regular payments by up to NZ$250 per
week without incurring fees.
1. The Good Energy Home Loan product replaced the interest-free Insulation Loans product which rolled off in July 2022. Data as at 28 Sept 2022. This product requires customers to have an ANZ Home Loan to qualify.
Supporting customers through a changing economy
ANZ continues to play an industry
leading role in supporting the
development of housing policy.
We maintain ongoing engagement
with industry stakeholders from
across the sector, offering both public
policy and market expertise to
support government, the community
and our customers.
Our ongoing partnership with
CoreLogic (a leading provider of
property data and analytics) delivers
housing affordability research and
in-depth market analysis
for the Australian housing market. In 2022,
CoreLogic research showed the rising
interest rate environment in Australia may
add pressure to some households – both
from a mortgage serviceability perspective
and rental affordability.
During the pandemic, our default response
was to keep repayments at the same level to
help Australian customers get ahead on their
mortgage, meaning we did not automatically
reduce minimum repayments as interest rates
decreased. This assisted customers to build
repayment buffers ahead of rising interest
rates in Australia. In addition, a material
proportion of customers continue to
maintain payments significantly more than
the minimum required. In September 2022,
around one in six customers were making
scheduled repayments on their home loans at
25% or more above the minimum repayment
required. Notwithstanding the rising interest
rate environment, only about 0.6% of home
loans are more than three months behind on
repayments, lower than pre-COVID levels.
We are also monitoring the housing market
closely in New Zealand as rising interest rates
and ongoing lower migration rates present
risks to demand. The drop in house prices
from record highs is set to continue
for some time but strong household
income growth and a tight labour
market should contribute to the
eventual floor. Ongoing risks remain
in terms of both uncertainties around
the impact of rising mortgage rates
on housing and how typical seasonal
patterns in the housing market will
play out over the coming year.
For information on our approach
to hardship refer to page 49.
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of homes
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and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
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Partnering with the homelessness sector
We continue to support community partner organisations working in the
homelessness sector to deliver housing and support to those most in need.
This year, around 17% of the total funds distributed by our community grants
programs went towards projects seeking to alleviate homelessness and
provide housing support in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
Case study
Shining a light for young
people in need
This year, ANZ supported non-profit
organisation the Lighthouse
Foundation which integrates trauma-
informed practice, attachment theory
and contemporary psychoanalytic
theory to create a holistic therapeutic
treatment environment for young
people impacted by neglect, abuse
and homelessness.
The ANZ Community Foundation
provided a grant of $30,000 to
Lighthouse Foundation for ongoing
therapeutic support as well as $50,000 to
the Property Industry Foundation to help
pay for the build of a new home for four
disadvantaged young people and two
live-in carers from the Lighthouse
Foundation in Clayton, Victoria. The build
was led by ANZ customer Frasers Property
Australia and ANZ staff from the Property
Finance team volunteered their time to
help put together furniture for the
bedrooms and living areas in this home.
The four young people in Clayton House
are part of the Lighthouse Foundation’s
parent and baby cohort, which typically
includes young mothers at significant risk
of homelessness.
ANZ Enterprise Finance staff also
volunteered their time and expertise at
multiple events run by the Lighthouse
Foundation to assist with donation
management and support for the
events team.
ANZ Community Foundation
housing grants
This year, the ANZ Community Foundation
provided a number of grants to not-for-profit
organisations providing appropriate housing
for Australians experiencing vulnerability and
at risk of homelessness, including:
•Taldumande Youth Services –
Providing up to 28 days of emergency
accommodation for young people who
have newly entered, or who are at-risk
of entering, the juvenile criminal justice
system. The partnership helps young
people meet bail conditions and an
prepare for their court date, rather than
being held in juvenile detention.
•Lighthouse Foundation – Providing
trauma-informed, therapeutic support
to some of Australia’s most vulnerable
young people impacted by complex
trauma, neglect abuse, mental health
issues and homelessness. Lighthouse
provides a home and critical psychological
support to help young people move
towards a brighter future.
•Wentworth Link Housing – Piloting and
delivering the Ready2Work program to
25 Link Housing social housing residents.
This program addresses barriers to
employment experienced by social
housing residents. The program provides
training to improve work readiness as
well as budgeting and financial literacy
education to further boost employability.
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UN reporting
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Image: ANZ Centre, Melbourne.
Improving
conduct and
culture
Code of conduct
Our Code 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.
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),
‘Financial Crime Essentials’ (including
Anti-Money Laundering), ‘Operational Risk’,
‘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.
This year, 99.9% 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 fixed
remuneration increase or variable
remuneration as part of our annual
performance and remuneration review.
Our performance management framework
includes an annual assessment for two
distinct components: ‘How’ employees have
demonstrated our behaviours and ‘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.
This year, there were 1,133 employee
relations cases involving alleged breaches
of our Code, with 518 resulting in a formal
consequence or the employee leaving ANZ
(down from 573 in 2021). Breaches ranged
from compliance/procedural breaches (23%)
through to general unacceptable behaviour
(36%), email/systems misuse (17%),
attendance issues (14%), fraud/theft (4%),
conflict of interest (2%), and breaches of our
Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment
Policy (3%). Outcomes following
investigations of breaches this year included
95 terminations, 322 warnings and 101
employees otherwise leaving ANZ.
1. A copy of our Code of Conduct and the full list of policies are available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
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Whistleblower Policy
The Whistleblower Policy and Program is a
key component of ANZ’s strong and effective
conduct risk management and corporate
governance framework. We apply Australian
whistleblower regulations across the markets
we operate in. Additional jurisdiction-specific
regulations imposing higher or contrary
regulatory/legal obligations are captured in
ANZ 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
misconduct and play a pivotal role in
maintaining the integrity of the bank.
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 purpose and values.
This year the program focused on
improving the governance framework, risk
management and control framework, and
improving the timely management of
whistleblower matters.
Raising employee awareness and building
trust in the Whistleblower Program also
continued to be a focus. Initiatives
to educate, shape behaviours and inspire
action included training sessions and
communication initiatives to build
awareness, confidence and trust in the
program and process. A bank-wide
employee survey tested awareness and
perceptions of confidence and trust in the
Whistleblower Program. Positive results
indicated high levels of awareness and
confidence in the program and process to
provide protection and to appropriately
handle whistleblower reports. Survey data
insights enabled opportunities to build
ongoing awareness and trust in the program
and process. In addition, our Group Integrity
team delivered 195 awareness sessions to
various business units (116 in 2021).
All employees and contingent workers are
required to undertake annual mandatory
training on their obligations and
responsibilities under the Whistleblower
Policy. As part of a broader refresh of
non-financial risk training content, updates
to the Whistleblower Essentials module are
being designed. Role-specific training for
whistleblower investigators and eligible
recipients of whistleblower reports
(including Board and Executive Committee
members) was delivered to ensure all
whistleblower investigators and eligible
recipients understand obligations under
applicable laws and how to appropriately
handle and investigate reports.
Whistleblower investigation
outcomes
In 2022, the Whistleblower Program received
reports covering a broad range of allegations
including: potential financial crime (money
laundering and bribery and corruption);
Code of Conduct and other Policy breaches,
fraud (internal and external); conflicts of
interest; unsafe work practices; sexual
harassment; privacy and confidentiality
breaches, improper business practices
impacting customers; and bullying.
While new report volumes decreased
marginally year-on-year (down 10% from
2021), the number of reports in 2022 (142)
demonstrates a continued willingness of
individuals to raise misconduct concerns.
Of investigated reports, 76% led to
recommended actions (77% in 2021),
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.
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Supporting
customers
in need of
extra care
ANZ is committed to
supporting customers in
financial hardship or in
need of extra care, 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.
We continue to make progress implementing
our strategy for customers in need of extra
care in Australia and are focused on delivering
better customer outcomes by strengthening
frontline capability and proactive external
engagement, as well as improving product
design and data use to improve accessibility
and limit harm. Key areas of progress include:
•Enhanced training has been provided to
more than 5,000 Australian employees
through a combination of leader-led
meetings and workshops to identify and
support customers in need of extra care.
Topics include family violence, elder
financial abuse, interpreter services,
gambling harm, supporting customers
with disability and those experiencing
bereavement.
•We have launched an Extra Care Hub, a
small specialist team to strengthen ANZ’s
practical support for customers, with an
initial focus on supporting customers
impacted by family violence including
making changes to banking arrangements
and assisting customers to rebuild
financial independence.
•We implemented an Inclusive Design
Assessment in our product lifecycle,
providing guidance to product
managers in the design, change and
decommissioning of products ensuring
they are as accessible and inclusive
as possible.
Abusive payment messages
Financial institutions are increasingly finding
payment text fields on banking platforms are
being used to stalk, harass or threaten others,
including people impacted by family violence.
Perpetrators may use this method to avoid
detection and police scrutiny.
ANZ is committed to identifying, investigating,
and reporting abusive behaviour and
supporting impacted customers. This year
we strengthened our approach in a number
of ways. Working with Australian Transaction
Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC),
industry partners, the Australian Banking
Association (ABA) and law enforcement, we
have leveraged shared intelligence to develop
a new way to identify instances of abuse.
We deployed a complex algorithm to help
identify indicators of potential abuse and/or
criminal harassment in payment messages.
Once identified, these threats are investigated
by a specialist team to determine the
appropriate next steps.
Our work has identified a number of
high-risk cases, some involving an imminent
threat to life and/or what appears to be
ongoing abuse. In those high-risk cases
concerns are escalated to relevant authorities
to take appropriate action and where
appropriate also to a specialist team for
customer outreach and support.
We have also taken steps to strengthen
governance of our profanity list in digital
channels which acts as preventative block
against profane words in payment messages,
including establishing daily reporting to
measure the frequency of blocked outbound
payments. We have also reviewed our terms
and conditions to ensure action can be taken
against customers where necessary.
For more information about our extension of
the MoneyMinded program to assist people
experiencing family violence see page 35.
Case study
Taking action on technology facilitated
abuse in our payment platforms
Our Financial Crime team identified a
customer had sent over 300 small
payments with concerning messages
attached to a recipient banking with
another financial institution. The case was
referred by Financial Crime to a specialist
team for review. The team contacted the
ANZ customer to reaffirm the ANZ
App was designed to facilitate banking
transactions and was not to be used as a
messaging service. Following this phone
call, the customer ceased sending
messages to the recipient.
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to drive innovation
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business lending
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Supporting diverse language and
communication needs
The 2021 Australia Census highlighted
the community is more culturally and
linguistically diverse (CALD) than ever. To
better support CALD customers, we have
piloted an at-call interpreter service, delivered
with a leading independent provider that staff
can contact to assist customers with limited
English. Overall customer experience and
response times have improved, with a broad
range of languages and a high quality of
interpretation provided.
This year, use of the interpreter service
was extended to support more than 1,500
customers in almost 50 languages. The
interpreter service is now being made
available across all Australia Retail Division
teams for service enquiries by the end of
2022, making it easier for customers to
communicate over the phone or in-person
in the language of their choice.
We also offer written formats in languages
other than English:
•ATMs offer multilingual options covering
eight languages (Hindi, Arabic, Traditional
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Greek,
Vietnamese and Italian).
•This year we published our new Customer
Complaints Guide in a range of languages
including Easy Read and Auslan format
supporting customers whose first
language is not English, people with
cognitive impairment or low language
literacy, and customers who are deaf or
hard of hearing. We have seen strong
customer use of these accessible formats,
representing more than 20% of downloads
since publication.
Providing an inclusive
banking experience
ANZ worked with the University of South
Australia to explore how older Australians
experience the digital environment when
conducting their day-today banking
activities, through a series of telephone
interviews and focus groups. Accessibility
to digital banking remains a critical ongoing
issue for older Australians. According to the
research, older Australians are embracing
online banking in line with other age groups,
but they may experience challenges due
to age related impairments such as hearing
or vision loss.
We are currently partnering with the
Australian Network on Disability on the
refresh of our Accessibility Plan, a public
set of commitments to continue to drive
a more accessible and inclusive bank for our
customers, employees and the community.
The research will help inform our new
commitments to ensure we continue to
embed inclusive design thinking in all
aspects of product and service design.
For detailed information about how
we are driving diversity and inclusion
among our staff at ANZ see the Workplace
Diversity and Inclusion section at page 69.
Supporting Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander customers
ANZ recognises that Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander customers,
particularly those living in remote
communities, may experience barriers
with doing their banking.
We continue to support these customers by:
•Providing ongoing training to build
cultural capability and awareness for staff
working on our dedicated Support Line
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
customers and in branches supporting
remote communities.
•Making it easier to contact our dedicated
Support Line for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander customers through search
engine optimisation on our website and
by implementing a new Interactive Voice
Recording to create greater clarity for
customers who contact ANZ outside
of our operating hours.
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Referral programs
Customers may need extra care for a range of reasons – for example, a
customer may be experiencing financial hardship as a result of loss from
natural disasters, family breakup or illness including permanent injury.
Accessing financial counselling can be a key step towards improving
financial wellbeing and regaining economic stability.
services. We referred 409 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. This year, we have
assisted 14 customers to access this support,
providing a combined total of almost $19,000
to assist them on their journey to recovery.
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 need of extra
care to return to financial stability through
two key services:
•advocating on a client’s behalf to
establish affordable arrangements
with their creditors
Supporting customers in financial hardship
There are times when our customers are unable to meet their financial commitments. In some cases, financial
difficulty is temporary, and our customers simply 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.
Data plays an important role in the early
identification of customers that may fall into
hardship. By using data analytics to look at
savings, credit and offset accounts we can
understand customers’ financial behaviour
and potential future outcomes.
When we do identify potential hardship,
we contact customers to offer a full review of
their financial position to see what additional
assistance may be suitable. 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.
We provide customers with a range of
options to help address their circumstances:
1
Change to an interest only period
2
Loan restructuring
3
Temporarily reducing or pausing
repayments
4
Provide information and access to
our financial literacy programs
5
Referrals to financial counselling
via the National Debt and/or small
business helpline
6
We may reduce the amount of debt
owing and, in sensitive circumstances,
consider debt forgiveness on a
case-by-case basis
•management of debt repayments via
one regular payment by a client to
Way Forward, which is subsequently
distributed to creditors
This year, we referred 88 customer
accounts with current funds under
management of over $4.9 million. We
support Way Forward as an alternative to
fee-for-service debt management firms.
Fitted for Work – Fitted for Work
(FFW ) is an independent Australian
based not-for-profit organisation which
supports unemployed women customers,
or those who identify as a woman, to
improve their employment prospects by
providing the practical skills, knowledge
and confidence to become job ready
– including developing a resume, writing a
cover letter and provisioning appropriate
work clothes. Employees within our
hardship team are trained to identify
unemployment triggers and refer
customers to FFW. Our program referred
305 customers to FFW this year. Since
inception, approximately 30% of referred
customers who have completed the FFW
program have found employment.
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 in need of extra care to
community 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
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Limiting harm from problem gambling
This year, ANZ arranged for all hardship
staff to attend “Three Sides of the Coin”
gambling awareness training. This
organisation is funded by the Victorian
Responsible Gambling Foundation and uses
storytelling, both in-person and online, to
ignite conversation, challenge stigma and
build empathy to frame gambling as a public
health concern. The awareness training aims
to uplift the capability and understanding
of staff when dealing with customers with
a gambling problem, acknowledging this
is a complex mental health concern.
Over 33,600 ‘gambling blocks’ were enabled
by customers using our self-exclusion tool for
Visa credit and debit cards (initiated through
the ANZ App or via our call centre) this year.
Designed in consultation with experts and
community organisations, the tool blocks
gambling transactions from being made
in-person, over the phone and online and
includes a 48-hour switch-off delay.
We also offer a control to prevent gambling
transactions where a customer’s card has
been utilised beyond 85% of the account
credit limit to reduce harm to customers
potentially in need of extra care by having
credit remain available for more essential
purchases. Since implementation, 10.6%
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 collaborate
with the Australian Banking Association on
this issue.
HIGHLIGHT
Australia
We use data to analyse events such as
interest rate changes, increases in living
expenses and cashflow to determine
whether these could impact a customer’s
financial position.
Despite interest rates continuing to rise
this year, our data is showing low levels of
financial stress, as suggested by our indicators.
For example, the percentage of customers
behind on loan repayments has continued
to decrease with about0.6% of home loans
more than three months behind, lower than
pre-COVID levels. This data is helping us
understand who is in a positive financial
position to meet future repayments and who
could experience financial stress in the next
12 months with forecast rate increases.
This year, we received 36,326 applications
for hardship assistance in Australia. Of these,
only 6,366 were due to ongoing disruptions
relating to COVID-19, a reduction from the
previous two years reflecting the changing
nature of the pandemic.
We invested significantly in building and
upskilling our financial hardship team during
the pandemic, to support customers through
the tough times. Our team is well positioned
to help those who may need assistance as
we enter a period of economic uncertainty
and we are ready to support customers
through periods of financial hardship.
We are using real-time transaction data to
adopt a proactive approach to identifying
and contacting customers before they
experience financial distress to discuss
how we can help them.
Hardship experts remain embedded within
our teams, responsible for coaching and
uplifting the capability of hardship staff
and dealing with escalated and/or complex
customer hardship requests. This year, our
state-based hardship hubs are piloting
face-to-face appointments with customers
who may find it difficult to complete an
application on the phone, including
customers in need of extra care, or who
are elderly or may have a disability.
New Zealand
Hardship volumes in New Zealand remain
at pre COVID-19 levels, with consistent
themes of illness, relationship break downs
and job loss/reduced hours.
Application numbers have decreased this
year, with 3,338 received this year compared
to 4,333 for last year.
Due to the current economic environment
with increased costs of living and interest rates
rising, we’re currently piloting a proactive
calling program to check-in with customers
we have identified as potentially struggling
to see if there is a way we can help.
We continue to work with MoneyTalks,
a free financial mentoring service offering
access to over 200 financial mentors across
New Zealand, 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 several languages.
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to drive innovation
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Learning from customer complaints
We have been changing the
way we manage and think about
customer complaints by improving
our capabilities, and embedding a
culture where complaints are valued
as an opportunity to learn and deliver
better customer outcomes. We strive
to deliver excellent products and
services to our customers, but if we
get things wrong we want to know,
and seek to resolve complaints with
empathy and fairness.
Australia
In 2021 we deployed a new complaint
recording and management system to over
11,000 customer-facing staff in Australia Retail
and Commercial, providing a central record of
all customer complaints and enabling staff to
record and resolve complaints at first point of
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).
Our capability to identify and analyse
complaint data for systemic issues has
increased via use of advanced analytical
techniques, including machine learning, to
help proactively identify emerging issues
from complaints.
The Australian Securities and Investment
Commission’s (ASIC) Regulatory Guide RG271
for Internal Dispute Resolution took effect in
October 2021 and outlines the maximum
timeframes for providing a response that
financial institutions must maintain for
internal complaints. ANZ meets these
obligations by having our complaint
management system set up with appropriate
timeframe controls, prioritisation towards
urgent and severe complaint types, and
active oversight through our risk and
governance forums.
A Complaint Governance Forum provides
oversight of the end-to-end complaints
management ecosystem and promotes
reduction of key complaint drivers.
Complaints data and insights are regularly
reported to senior management and
the Board.
The Customer Advocate Lead provides
advice and guidance internally as a voice
for our customers to support fair customer
outcomes and experiences. Thematic reviews
have led to additional awareness-raising for
staff of the complexities regarding Mistaken
Internet Payments and Powers of Attorney.
Complaints recorded in Australia Retail and
Commercial increased, driven by changes to
ASIC’s Regulatory Guide RG271 and the
introduction of a new complaint recording
and management system. The top five
complaint categories this year remained
similar to 2021. Channel accessibility
accounted for 26% of complaint issues;
service quality 22%; product fees, interest
and rewards 12%; account set up and
maintenance 11%; and transaction and
payments 4%.
The percentage of all complaints resolved
within 30 days of receipt increased to 98%
(94% in 2021).
New Zealand
Complaints recorded in New Zealand
decreased by 15% from 2021. Service issues
accounted for 44% of total complaints
received, with queues and wait times being
the top issue in 2022. This reflected COVID-19
impacts on staffing levels and higher than
expected customer demand for some
services. Credit cards, transactional accounts
and home loans were the products with the
most complaints. Common concerns
included account fees, wait times or delays
and requests actioned incorrectly.
The percentage of complaints resolved
within five working days has improved to 91%
(from 90% in 2021); and the percentage of
complaints resolved within 30 calendar days
of receipt remained at 97% (97% in 2021).
In New Zealand we have made it easier for
customers to understand our complaint
process by introducing complaint guides in
multiple languages, adding a complaints
section to our goMoney banking app and
more clearly promoting the Banking
Ombudsman Scheme’s services. We are
currently building a modern complaint
capture and management system similar to
Australia with implementation expected in
2023. The new system will make it easier for
our staff to capture and resolve problems
and will produce richer data outputs leading
to more targeted improvements of our
products, services and processes.
Data relating to complaints is available
in our 2022 ESG data pack available at
anz.com/annualreport
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sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Improving conduct
and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Collaborating securely
to drive innovation
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
Our approach to
human rights
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Improving 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).
Meeting our Design and
Distribution Obligations
The Design and Distribution Obligations
(DDO) came into effect in Australia in
October 2021. Intended to help customers
obtain appropriate financial products, the
legislation requires products to be designed
for a given target market and distributed
to reach customers in that target market,
ensuring products are continuing to meet
the needs of our customers.
As part of our DDO program, we have
undertaken an in-depth review of our products
and processes to ensure a customer-centric
approach to designing, marketing and
distributing our products. Additionally, ongoing
monitoring of customer data is helping us
understand how products are performing in
the hands of our customers, identifying
opportunities to 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, needs and financial situation.
1. Roy Morgan Single Source, Australian population aged 14+, Main Financial Institution, six-month rolling average to Sep’21 and Sep'22. 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’21 and Sep'22. Ranking based on the four major
Australian banks.
3. Peter Lee Associates, 2021–2022 Large Corporate and Institutional Relationship Banking surveys, Australia. Ranking based on the four major Australian banks. 4. Retail
Market Monitor, Camorra Research, six-month rolling average to Sep’21 and Sep'22.
5. Business Finance Monitor, Kantar Research. Base: Commercial ($3 million – $150 million annual turnover)
and Agricultural (>500K annual turnover) customers. Four-quarter rolling average to Q3’21 and Q2'22.
6. Peter Lee Associates, Large Corporate Relationship Banking Survey, New Zealand 2022.
AUSTRALIA
Retail: scored -3.3, ranked 4th
1
(up from -4.3, ranked 4th at end of 2021)
Commercial: scored -24.6, ranked 4th
2
(down from -19.0, ranked 4th at end of 2021)
Institutional: scored 40, ranked 2nd
3
(up from 36, ranked 2nd in 2021)
NEW ZEALAND
Retail: scored 13.7, ranked 4th
4
(down from 28.4, ranked 4th at end of 2021)
Commercial and Agricultural:
scored -15, ranked 5th
5
(down from -13.1, ranked 5th at end of 2021)
Institutional: scored 30, ranked 1st
6
(down from 33, ranked 1st in 2021)
Risk Governance
Oversight Committee
Our Risk Governance Oversight
Committee (formerly the Royal
Commission and Self-Assessment
Oversight Group) monitors
progress with our Risk Governance
Self-Assessment (RGSA) Plan.
The Committee is chaired by our
Chief Risk Officer and provides
regular progress updates to the
Executive Committee and the
Board. We have made significant
progress across the five focus
areas in our RGSA Plan: Culture;
Governance and Accountability;
Management of Operational Risk;
Remediation; and Simplification.
While each Division manages its
operational risks we did not make
the progress we had hoped with
regard to building and embedding
a new Group wide non-financial
risk framework and the existing
capital overlay remains in place.
Improvements in this area will be
a key focus for the Board and senior
management over the next 12
months. It is important to us that
all of these actions deliver better
outcomes for our customers, our
shareholders and the community,
and the changes we have made
will endure.
Providing suitable
products and services
Our Product Suitability customer
contact 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 program,
contacting 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 contacted 97,389 customers, with
more than 1,900 taking up the offer
to move to a basic account.
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wellbeing
Housing
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responsible
banking
Improving conduct
and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Collaborating securely
to drive innovation
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
Our approach to
human rights
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
NET PROMOTER SCORE
Collaborating securely to drive innovation
Our approach to cyber defence ensures multiple layers of security controls are in place to protect and
defend the bank. This includes a 24/7 security operations centre that analyses millions of data events
each day to help keep the bank, staff and customers safe. With the sophistication of cyber threats
increasing, protective processes, systems and software prevent unauthorised access to ANZ’s systems
and information, while education programs help staff and customers stay secure online.
We maintain strong relationships and strategic
partnerships with government, industry,
community groups and law enforcement
agencies locally and internationally to
promote cyber security resilience across
jurisdictions.
The importance of resilience and shared
accountability for security and collaboration
have never been more important as we face
new opportunities and evolving threats.
ANZ’s Security Strategy
Our Security Strategy, approved by the Board
each year, outlines measurable objectives
and priorities to secure ANZ’s systems, embed
security across the organisation, and embrace
innovation to enable better customer
experiences and business growth.
The strategy enables us to adapt to the rapidly
evolving threat and regulatory environment,
and strengthens our ability to be resilient
against increasing threats and recover from
security incidents through enhanced
technology, data, automation, and threat
intelligence. By providing security platforms
to enable staff, customers and partners to
connect securely anywhere, at any time, we
continue to make it safer and easier to do
business with ANZ.
Protecting the bank against cyber threats
is the responsibility of everyone at ANZ.
Governance processes, including regular
reporting to the Board, and education at
all levels of the organisation is essential to
fostering a security-centric culture within
the bank and, more broadly, within the
communities we operate in.
Information Security roles
and responsibilities
ANZ’s Security Strategy promotes the
importance of shared ownership for
information security across the organisation
by maintaining a strong security culture with
roles and responsibilities clearly defined and
understood.
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
policy and standards guide us with respect
to specific security requirements.
Our security culture, capability and behaviours
are reinforced through a comprehensive
education program to ensure staff understand
their responsibilities. Annual mandatory cyber
training is also provided for all staff including
targeted security training for developers and
engineers. Over the past 12 months, the
education program has extended to include
a network of cyber security ‘ambassadors’ from
across the bank to reinforce the importance
of positive security behaviours.
ANZ continues to evolve its comprehensive
phishing resilience and capability program,
including regular simulated exercises or drills
for all staff to help them learn how to detect
suspicious emails aiming to phish for
information. This is complemented by
ongoing review and exercising of ANZ’s
capability to respond to cyber security events.
Third parties managing sensitive ANZ
information are also expected to meet
requirements to ensure the protection of
information and management systems.
We have a mature security testing program
for all third parties managing information
and comply with the Australian Prudential
Regulation Authority’s (APRA) Information
Security Standard, CPS 234.
The effectiveness of the bank’s education
programs is monitored by ANZ’s security
behavioural index which enables us to better
understand, track and improve key areas of
cyber security risk. For example, by
monitoring the number of staff who click
on links in phishing email drills and number
of data loss protection alerts (ie. where an
attempt is made to send sensitive data to
non-ANZ email accounts) across our
businesses. The data points represent
opportunities to educate our staff which
is crucial to protecting the bank. The index
has maintained a strong position in 2022.
ANZ understands the value of sharing this
knowledge with the community as part of a
broader security ecosystem. Our relationships
with customers, community partners, industry
peers, regulators and government not only
help ensure the bank’s information and
systems are secure but contribute to building
cyber security awareness and knowledge
across the wider community.
A strong security position enables ANZ build
a better bank to adapt, evolve and flourish
over the long term. The bank recognises the
importance of embedding security in
everything we do, ensuring security culture
is set at the top, practised by everyone, and
embedded in systems and processes.
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Data protection and privacy
Understanding how and why we collect
and use data is critical to responsibly
managing personal information and
maintaining stakeholder trust across
the markets we operate in.
Our Chief Risk Officer for Data and
Technology (Data Protection Officer)
provides group-wide guidance on managing
privacy risk. At ANZ, understanding data
impacts is at the forefront of our operations
and we create systems which manage data
safety and privacy risks, by design, from the
ground up. Over the past year, there has
been increasing focus by law makers and
regulators on the need to have adequate
preventative and detective controls to
mitigate privacy and personal data
protection risk. We are continually
monitoring and responding to changes
to data protection and privacy regulations
in response to this evolving landscape.
Major changes include the European
Data Protection Board (EDPB) and United
Kingdom Information Commission Office’s
(UK ICO) recent adoption of new European
Union Standard Contractual Clauses (EU
SCCs) and UK International Data Transfer
Agreement (UK IDTA) to further strengthen
the data protection of individuals’ personal
information who reside in the EU and UK.
The EU SCCs and UK IDTA mean additional
protection of EU and UK personal data that
is transferred outside of the EU/European
Economic Area (EEA). The required control
measures are being implemented by ANZ.
Another change that ANZ has responded to
is the Thailand Personal Data Protection Act
(PDPA), which came into effect on 1 June 2022.
To meet regulatory obligations, ANZ has
implemented privacy assessments on the
personal data of customers and staff residing
in Thailand, published privacy notices, and
introduced a Thailand PDPA training course
for staff.
Our data event management processes
at ANZ focus on ensuring potential data
breaches are rapidly responded to,
mitigating risk of harm to the individual.
We ensure a root cause analysis is completed
to drive operational improvements and
prevent a reoccurrence of the same issue.
Since the rollout of the enterprise-wide data
event management processes in 2019, we
have achieved a significant increase in data
protection and privacy awareness among
ANZ staff enabling us to effectively manage
potential data breaches. Campaigns such
as ANZ Privacy Week, targeted training,
workshops and videos have contributed
to the continuous improvement and
automation of business processes. In
addition, Privacy training is a mandatory
training model required to be completed by
all staff and contractors on an annual basis.
Through these actions ANZ continues to
uphold its commitment to protect personal
data within ANZ and with our service
providers, signalling our zero tolerance
towards non-compliance of data protection
and privacy obligations.
This year, ANZ reported zero data breaches
to the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) under the Notifiable
Data Breach Scheme (three in 2021).
Our privacy policy is available at
anz.com.au/privacy/centre/policy/.
Case study
Sharing our expertise
and insights
ANZ has a sophisticated 24/7 security
operations centre that enables us to
detect, respond to and recover from
security incidents. Our cyber security
experts monitor for cyber threats external
to our environment and identify suspicious
activity within our environment. They
collaborate with an external network
of cyber security professionals locally
and internationally to share expertise,
knowledge and experience, and work
together to understand and anticipate
emerging threats and changes to the
landscape. These partnerships enable
development of shared solutions and
responses to protect the community
at an international, national, local and
individual level.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre
(ACSC) distils information gained through
such collaborations, producing a range of
public resources, issues updates and alerts
relating to cyber security events. ANZ
refers to and promotes these resources
as part of our ongoing education and
resilience program with staff, customers
and the broader community. The
information is easy to access, understand
and apply. This ensures an ongoing
cycle of updated and readily available
information for customers and the
community to keep abreast of rapidly
changing threat and regulatory
environments and how to best
protect themselves.
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wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Improving conduct
and culture
Supporting our
customers
Improving customer
experience
Collaborating securely
to drive innovation
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
Our approach to
human rights
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
Financial crime
The increase in digital and online scams continued this year, with the commercialisation of crime
transitioning away from COVID-19 specific fake websites toward 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. The rate in which we
have identified and taken down websites pretending to be ANZ has increased 178% this year.
We maintained a strong focus on financial
crime data collection, monitoring and
screening with ongoing 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 Board.
Scams
With most consumers moving to a primarily
online financial services environment they
are potentially more accessible to scammers.
Our teams are dedicated to anticipating the
changing scam environment, scanning the
dark web for phishing or fake websites, or
tracing the most recent text bot.
We have invested in technologies to
detect fraud and scams, including
behavioural biometrics which helps us
determine if we are interacting with our
customer or a scammer.
The behavioural biometrics solution analyses
a customer’s digital interaction behaviours to
look for anomalies which may suggest that
the session is being orchestrated by a third
party and not the customer. This information
will only be used to help protect against fraud
and scams and not for any other purpose.
This is a key enhancement in our detection
tools as we continue to adapt to an ever-
changing fraud and scam environment.
This year our Scam Assist team investigated
over 5,556 individual scams impacting
Australian Retail and Commercial customers.
The expanded use of digital and real-time
payments makes it potentially easier for
criminals to move funds quickly and easily
through various accounts and ultimately
offshore, making recall and recovery
increasingly difficult. We were successful in
recovering approximately 24% of lost funds
on behalf of victims.
We endeavour to improve customers
awareness of scams by delivering targeted
messages regarding protection from fraud
and scams by building a training and
education framework to continually upskill
our frontline staff on matters relating to
protecting customers.
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.
Case study
National Disability Insurance
Scheme (NDIS) Fraud
We continue to work closely with
the Australian Transaction Reports
and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
and law enforcement partners to
support vulnerable members of the
community. This year, we supported
a joint-agency investigation into
a $10 million National Disability
Insurance Scheme (NDIS) fraud
syndicate located in Western Sydney.
The investigation identified a
sophisticated network of entities
allegedly defrauding NDIS government
benefits. Facilitated through setting up
a series of corporate entities with false
director details subsequently registered
with the National Disability Insurance
Agency (NDIA) as providers of disability
services, the NDIS funding received was
used to purchase luxury items and assets
instead of going to people in need.
ANZ assisted the investigation through
identification of funds flows, analysis
and intelligence relating to the control
and operation of the bank accounts.
The investigation resulted in the arrest
of six people and the seizure of assets
worth over $2 million.
Leveraging lessons learned from
the investigations and intelligence,
ANZ developed an industry-leading
algorithm targeting red flags to detect
suspected instances of NDIS fraud.
Feedback received from the National
Disability Insurance Agency, AUSTRAC
and the Australian Federal Police
confirmed the algorithm’s value and
associated reporting in identifying
new criminal targets.
“The detailed and timely suspicious
matter reporting by ANZ was pivotal in
confirming suspected connections.”
Fintel Alliance
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wellbeing
Housing
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responsible
banking
Improving conduct
and culture
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customers
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experience
Collaborating securely
to drive innovation
Financial crime
Responsible
business lending
Supply chain
Our approach to
human rights
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
Assurance
opinion
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 through key ABAC principles and
the practical behavioural outcomes required
to demonstrate adherence to this policy.
The policy is further supported by operating
standards and enablement tools to help
demonstrate compliance.
ABAC training is mandatory for all employees,
and regular risk assessments are undertaken
to identify and manage bribery and
corruption risks. Capacity in the ABAC team
continues to increase in response to growing
regulatory and social expectations to combat
bribery and corruption. We continue to uplift
the third-party due diligence program to
ensure we hold our third parties to our
business integrity standards.
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 at both an
enterprise and country level to identify,
manage and mitigate ML/TF risk across
the organisation.
We perform risk-based due diligence on
customers and their activities. We also
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, reporting
suspicious activity to appropriate authorities.
Sanctions compliance
Our sanctions compliance program guides
our Group-wide approach to meeting our
sanctions obligations. Sanctions risks are
assessed to identify, manage and mitigate the
potential for breaches. Customer relationships
and activities that pose a higher sanctions risk
are subject to enhanced due diligence
measures, monitoring and approval.
In response to ongoing geopolitical
tensions in 2022, restrictions were imposed
on a significantly higher number of global
entities, banks and individuals with an
unprecedented increase in the complexity of
sanctions obligations. We have enhanced our
monitoring of transactions and strengthened
our customer due diligence process to
ensure we can support transactions within
our risk appetite and in a compliant manner.
Details of ANZ’s Financial Crime
policies including sanctions, anti-money
laundering and counter-terrorism financing,
anti-bribery and anti-corruption, and fraud
are available on anz.com
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to drive innovation
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business lending
Supply chain
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Responsible
business lending
We consider current and emerging ESG issues to
determine whether we should review our policies,
principles and lending approach.
Emerging social and environmental issues which, through our lending to
customers, could result in risks to the business are also considered by our
management Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC) and
Board Ethics, Environment, Social and Governance Committee (EESG)
(see page 5for further details).
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:
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 as well as labour
rights issues such as modern slavery.
We review the Policy at least every three
years, with oversight from our 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.
In 2022 we have focused on enhancing
our approach to screening customers in line
with the Policy, primarily by incorporating
our Social and Environmental Risk screening
tool into our Online Customer Profile. This
work will be completed within the first
quarter of next year, enabling us to better
collect and analyse data through our
customer screening.
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
customer'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 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. We also apply 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.
Energy
Forestry and forests
Hydroelectric power
Extractive industries
Military equipment
Water
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Collaborating securely
to drive innovation
Financial crime
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business lending
Supply chain
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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’ tool. 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.
In 2022 we continued to engage with
Australian resources customers to learn
more about their approach to cultural
heritage management, following the
review we undertook in 2021. Through our
engagement we have noted a heightened
awareness of the importance of protecting
cultural heritage.
Complaint about ANZ’s fossil fuel
targets and disclosures
During 2021 we participated in a dialogue
with an NGO and three individuals who made
a complaint to the Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Australian National Contact Point (AusNCP)
1
.
The complaint concerned aspects of ANZ’s
climate change policy and practices in
relation to fossil fuels, greenhouse gas
emissions, and climate change. The complaint
alleged that aspects of ANZ’s disclosure,
investments, target-setting and scenario
analysis breached the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises (OECD Guidelines).
The NCP 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. The parties did not reach
agreement, leaving the NCP’s Independent
Examiner to determine ANZ’s consistency
with the OECD Guidelines.
After considering the complaint, the
Examiner determined ANZ’s actions were
consistent with the OECD Guidelines.
The Final Statement is publicly available.
1. AusNCP is 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.
Implementing our animal welfare principles
In 2021 we developed animal welfare principles (available at
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/policies-practices) that reflect our approach,
bringing ANZ in line with Australian agribusiness finance industry
standards. The principles were developed in line with our overall
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 our
ESG commitments.
We value and support our farming
customers that treat animals with
due care and respect. We believe
this reflects Australian community
standards and farmer standards of
‘doing the right thing’, noting that
industry codes and policies across
various subsectors and geographies
evolve with continuing research
and expert stakeholder advocacy
and feedback.
Our agribusiness team in Australia
developed an online training module
aimed at increasing staff awareness
of our animal welfare principles and
informing them of the appropriate
channels within our business to seek
clarification and support. The training
and a short assessment will be added
in 2023 to the agribusiness banker
induction program and as
recommended training for all
regional business bankers. It will
also be available to all ANZ staff.
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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
We will not provide finance to projects where
the customer will not, or is unable to, comply
with the EP.
Information on our 2022 project finance
advisory services and transactions is available
in our 2022 ESG data pack available at
anz.com/annualreport.
Case study
Electronics manufacturing in Vietnam
ANZ has a long-standing project financing arrangement for the construction and ongoing operation of an electronics
manufacturing plant in Vietnam. The original facility was built in compliance with the Equator Principles.
In 2021, ANZ was invited to finance the expansion of the plant to accommodate increase demand and growth in production.
In assessing the expansion proposal, we deemed an additional Equator Principles Assessment necessary. The expansion was assessed
as category C under the Equator Principles with minimal or no adverse environmental and social risks and/or impacts reported.
As an Equator Principles project, the existing consultant was engaged to undertake an independent assessment and confirmed
the “C” categorisation.
The transaction was approved subject to the customer meeting local social and environmental approvals and potential future
environmental and social impacts be appropriately managed.
Solar farms in Australia
In 2021, ANZ provided project financing for three solar farms in New South Wales.
The initial Equator Principles assessment collectively categorised these projects as a “B”, with potentially limited adverse
environmental and social risks and/or impacts that are few in number, generally site-specific, largely reversible and readily
addressed through mitigation measures.
The banking group commissioned an independent expert to review the environmental and social risks associated with
the solar farms. The report confirmed the “B” categorisation, with immaterial environmental and social issues identified.
The projects were financed on the basis they would continue to meet local environmental and social laws and permits,
and any new issues would be actively managed to ensure minimal impact.
Infrastructure Project in South East Asia
In 2022, ANZ was invited to participate in the project financing of a large infrastructure project in the South East Asia.
The project was assessed against the Equator Principles and categorised as an “A”, meaning it was assessed as having high
environmental and social risks. As a category A project, comprehensive due diligence was undertaken including use of expert
consultants to prepare an independent Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) report for use by the syndicate banks.
The ESDD identified several site specific environmental and social issues, including potential loss of critical biodiversity and impact
on local communities.
High-level mitigation strategies that lacked detail were outlined by the customer. Consequently, the consultant was unable to
recommend Action Plans prior to the customer requiring financial close. ANZ was not comfortable with the potential risks and
mitigation strategies and declined to participate in the financing.
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Managing ESG risks in our supply chain
We have a fair, sustainable, responsible and ethical
approach to procuring and delivering goods and services.
In 2022, ANZ spent $5 billion with suppliers
procuring goods and services across our
32 operating markets. The majority (91%)
was spent in Australia and New Zealand on
the following commodity areas.
Suppliers, including subcontracted suppliers,
are screened as part of Group Procurement’s
ongoing supplier due diligence using a
third-party tool to assess performance
against 28 ESG issues, including human
rights. In 2022, we undertook 5,691 checks
(up from 4,729) which included our top 100
suppliers, by spend. These checks identified
potential issues in 6 instances. We followed
all instances with the supplier requesting
further detail to determine whether they had
adequate measures in place to resolve the
identified issue/s. We worked with these
suppliers to understand the issue/s and
mitigating steps, and 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 2022, this led
to an increased SCOP contractual inclusion
of 86% up from 83% in 2021. Separate
contractual clauses covering human rights
and modern slavery were introduced in 2021
for all new and renewed contracts. Contracts
are reviewed for SCOP inclusion as they
come up for renewal.
We endeavour to ensure 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 2022, 81% of suppliers provided an
attestation of adherence to our SCOP
(81% in 2021). We also seek attestations from
a sample of suppliers each year in countries
such as India, China, the Philippines, Vietnam
and some Pacific nations. This year we also
sought attestations from suppliers in Papua
New Guinea. We continue to encourage
suppliers to attest to the SCOP.
Working with our suppliers
Supplier payments
As a signatory to the Business Council
of Australia’s Supplier Payment Code, we
are committed to paying Australian small
business suppliers within a maximum of
30 days of receiving a correct invoice,
unless the contract stipulates a shorter term.
However, our aim is to pay as promptly
as possible upon approval of the invoice
and, on average, payment is made
within approximately 19 days of receipt
of the invoice.
1
In the latest Australian
Government’s Payment Term Reporting
Scheme (June) we reported payment to
92% of all small business supplier invoices
within 30 days.
We are also moving towards paying
all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
businesses upon approval of invoice
regardless of invoice size.
In New Zealand, we continued to
support the New Zealand Bankers
Association initiative to assist small-to-
medium businesses during COVID-19 by
committing to paying suppliers within 10
business days. To date, we have processed
approximately 80% of payments (excluding
purchasing card transactions) within the
10 business days target, with average
payment made within approximately
9 days of receipt of a valid invoice.
Supporting social enterprise
We are a member of Social Traders, an
organisation helping create jobs for
disadvantaged Australians by linking business
and government to social enterprises. This
year, we spent $7.9 million
2
with social
enterprises (up from $6.0 million in 2021).
In New Zealand, we are a member of Ākina,
a buyer group to access a wide range of
certified social enterprise suppliers. We spent
over NZ$211,900 with social enterprises in
2022 (up from NZ$160,000 in 2021) and
influence our suppliers to also use social
enterprises in their supply chain.
Procurement with Indigenous
businesses in Australia
We spent $12.7 million with
32 Indigenous businesses in Australia
this year – (up from $5.5 million in 2021).
We are a member of both Supply Nation
and Kinaway (the Victorian Indigenous
Chamber of Commerce).
1. In 2022, new calculation methodology implemented in accordance with Australian Government's Payment Times Reporting Scheme for small businesses. 2. Includes sponsorship spend.
Spend by commodity area
42%
Technology
38%
Group services
(incl. property)
20%
Marketing,
people and
professional
services
2022
$12.7M
2022
$5.5M
2021
$3.2M
2020
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Case study
Case study
Sit now
As part of the planning and
implementation of ANZ’s Breathe branch
design (see page27 for more details),
designers and other teams such as
occupational health and safety experts
worked in close collaboration with Winya
to develop a bespoke range of chairs,
tables and workstations, manufactured
almost entirely in Australia using local
materials and components.
Winya (which means “sit now” in
Wiradjuri dialect) are a Supply Nation
and Kinaway certified Indigenous
business with a highly differentiated
business model, designed to assist
corporates and government meet
Indigenous commitments.
Winya places and financially supports
the employment and training of
Indigenous trainees and staff within
furniture manufacturers across Australia.
Sourcing our office furniture from Winya
assists them to meet their Indigenous
employment and training goals. Winya
recently achieved the United Nations
Global Compact award for Sustainable
Development Goals for the Economic
Empowerment of Indigenous Peoples,
the first Australian business to achieve
this award.
This year we implemented a new agreement with Winc to target an
increase in the proportion of spend on sustainable products (Earthsaver™)
and Indigenous brands to 80% and 45% respectively by 2025. We also
introduced First Nations and Earthsaver™ filters on our online ordering
portal to assist our staff locate and buy these products.
Image: Winya furniture in an ANZ Breathe branch.
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Improving
our approach
to human
rights
Our Human Rights Statement
(Statement) outlines our
approach to respecting human
rights and our Grievance Mechanism
(Mechanism) supports people and
communities who believe their
human rights have been impacted
by ANZ’s Institutional or Corporate
lending customers.
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’s human
rights practices are inconsistent with
our expectations
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 Commitment –
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.
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.
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 Grievance Mechanism
and participation in the Organisation for
Economic Co-Operation and Development
(OECD) Australian National Contact Point
(AusNCP) remediation processes.
Image: ANZ Centre, Melbourne.
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ANZ Grievance Mechanism
Our Mechanism encourages 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; and
•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.
At the date of this report we had not
received any complaints to the Mechanism.
This year, we have further embedded
our Statement and Mechanism in our
governance processes, policies, staff training
and disclosures. 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.
The Statement and details of the
Grievance Mechanism are available
at anz.com
ANZ’s commitment to
International Standards
In addition to the key standards outlined
above there are others we use to identify
and manage our human rights risks across
the business, including:
•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.
Modern slavery
Modern slavery
1
is estimated to affect
50 million people
2
worldwide, with one in
four victims being children.
3
An effective
response to modern slavery requires
the combined effort of government,
law enforcement, non-government
organisations (NGOs) and business.
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
4
, 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 2021
Modern Slavery Statement
5
identified several
areas to help us improve our program and
we have taken a number of actions this
year, including:
•engaging with Institutional customers
in our top five higher-risk countries and
sectors, where the potential for modern
slavery is higher, to better understand
how the risk is being managed
•using financial crime analysis and
algorithms to identify modern slavery
or modern slavery-like practices among
suppliers and customers
•applying our strengthened supplier tender
process in sectors where there is potentially
a higher likelihood of forced labour
•raising awareness among our employees
by encouraging them to complete five
training modules on modern slavery,
including how to raise concerns
•conducting modern slavery awareness
sessions for leadership and frontline teams
in our international countries
•reviewing cases where we may be directly
linked to modern slavery through our
supplier and customer relationships
We comply with both the Australian
Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 and
the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act
2015. Further detail on our approach to
modern slavery is provided in our 2022
Modern Slavery Statement, to be released
later this year at anz.com/cs.
1. 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.
2. Global Estimates of Modern Slavery:
Forced Labour and Forced Marriage (2022).
3. Global Estimates
of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage
(2022).
4. External fund managers are used for private bank
customers in Australia. ANZ New Zealand Investments (a
subsidiary of our New Zealand business), use external and
internal fund managers.
5. anz.com.au/about-us/esg/fair-
responsible-banking/human-rights/
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.
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Employee
engagement,
wellbeing, learning
and development
Our purpose drives what we do at ANZ and our strategy has
evolved in response to our current operating environment.
Culture and behaviours helping
create the bank we’re building
ANZ’s strong and inclusive culture, built
over decades, has supported our people to
maintain a clear alignment to our strategy
and purpose while the majority of our
workforce continued to work flexibly as the
impacts of the pandemic lingered in some
geographies. Our culture supported team
connectivity and contributed towards
a high level of engagement despite a period
of significant change.
To enable our purpose and strategy, and
the Bank we’re Building, we have evolved
our culture and supporting behaviours
by introducing a new framework in
February 2022.
Drawing on the expertise of the
NeuroLeadership Institute, we tasked
a group of senior leaders with defining
the top three behaviours for our people,
prioritising those that would best:
enable our strategy and purpose
with a focus on digital and growth;
enable high performance in a
fast-evolving, hybrid world; and
support our risk culture.
Our new behaviour framework builds on and
respects our past while orienting us towards
the future and creating a common anchor
for everyone at ANZ.
Our new behaviours are:
Create opportunities by
bringing in the best ideas from
inside and outside ANZ to create
long-term value for our customers
and the bank;
Deliver what matters by
executing well on the things
that matter most; and
Succeed together by engaging
the right people, listening to and
challenging each other.
Our ICARE values have been retained as an
important foundation of our culture and,
along with the ANZ Code of Conduct, define
the non-negotiable requirements to meet
ANZ’s performance standards.
Since launch, we have embedded our
behaviours in key processes including
performance assessment, recruitment,
leadership development and our new
recognition framework. We have also created
a range of resources for people leaders to
build aligned, vibrant team cultures, allowing
them to contextualise our behaviours for
their circumstances, particularly in a hybrid
working environment.
Strategy and culture
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Measuring our culture
We measure culture by reviewing,
understanding and actioning the themes
identified through the following key metrics:
•Annual risk culture assessments
governed by our Operational Risk
Executive Committee and Board
Risk Committee
•Culture reviews conducted by
Internal Audit
•Data collected through our My Voice
survey and our new 360° behaviour
assessment tool (recently piloted for
launch in 2023) which will provide new
behaviour-framed feedback and insights
for people leaders (see page66 for details).
Annual risk culture assessments
We have continued to make considerable
progress towards promoting the importance,
understanding and awareness of our risk
culture using both quantitative and qualitative
data which considers risk outcomes. Risk
Culture assessments consider business and
risk management information which provides
insights on risk management outcomes and
how risk is being considered in our decision
making and performance reviews.
This year our people participated in two risk
culture surveys – one led by the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and
an internal ANZ risk culture survey. The APRA
risk culture survey and our own Risk Culture
assessments identified similar strengths and
focus areas, including appropriate reward,
recognition and consequences for risk
management outcomes. Detailed thematic
and demographic analysis of risk culture
assessment outcomes has been leveraged to
drive actions to strengthen risk culture across
the bank. This includes developing targeted
training initiatives for senior management to
reinforce our target risk culture.
Results of these assessments are overseen
by the Board and used by Executives, Senior
Leaders and People Leaders to develop
Risk Culture Action Plans. To support leaders
and employees in taking action, a Risk
Culture Toolkit has been developed to raise
awareness and support actions to embed
ANZ’s target risk culture. This includes ethical
scenarios that support embedding our target
risk culture behaviours, risk culture self-
assessment templates for use by managers,
and training materials to support leaders to
cascade and raise awareness of risk culture in
a way that is meaningful to their people.
Culture reviews
This year, Internal Audit completed eight
culture reviews focused on identifying
themes, underlying factors, root causes and
actions to drive sustainable change toward
the bank’s cultural framework – our
behaviours, underpinned by the ICARE
values and Code of Conduct. Each review
requires the business area to develop an
action plan which is monitored, evidenced
and reassessed where appropriate to
understand cultural shift over time.
The reviews highlighted an enterprise-wide
focus on further strengthening our culture,
with senior leadership sponsorship and
initiatives such as the new behaviours,
enabled by employees committed to doing
the right thing to achieve our purpose and
strategy. The Internal Audit culture reviews
are designed to support:
•the Board and management by providing
independent cultural insight
•the Board in meeting regulatory
requirements, e.g. Banking Executive
Accountability Regime and APRA
Prudential Standard CPS 220 Risk
Management.
Wellbeing and engagement
Employee wellbeing and engagement supports the future proofing of our
workforce and demonstrates the way we value our people, connected to
our purpose. Our proactive approach to wellbeing and engagement is an
important driver of talent attraction and retention at ANZ.
Supporting our employees’
wellbeing
Wellbeing continues to be an area of focus,
particularly in the context of the pandemic
and a volatile external environment. Wellbeing
programs such as our HealthyMe digital app
showed strong and consistent engagement
with more than 10,000 employees having
access to the app this year, a 10% increase on
last year. More than 80 webinars covering
mental and physical health were held during
the year for employees and people leaders.
In New Zealand, we implemented Mental
Health First Aid (New Zealand accreditation)
training for over 200 people leaders to
support employees experiencing mental
health issues. This program will be
implemented in Australia in 2023. We are
also refreshing our mandatory online
Mental Health course for all employees
and people leaders.
Our wellbeing and safety policy includes
a commitment to providing a safe working
environment for all 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. This commitment is supported by a
bank-wide health and safety management
system which encompasses local health
and safety risks, legislation and standards.
In Australia, through our RecoverWell early
intervention program, we have assisted 66
employees to return to work. In addition to
this, ANZ provides assistance to employees
to achieve better health and recovery
outcomes regardless of whether the
potential injury or illness is work-related
or not. In Australia, 256 employees have
received assistance for non-work related
illness or injury. We also continue to promote
and embed our Employee Assistance
Program (EAP) and work has commenced to
review our current psychosocial risk controls,
with this assessment to continue in 2023.
5.5% of our Australian and 9.5%
of our New Zealand employees used
our EAP in 2022
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. This year we have seen a decrease
in lost-time injuries, with the most common
causes of injuries that incurred a full day off
work related to slips, trips and falls, manual
handling and psychological injury.
Data relating to our health and safety
performance in 2022 is available in
our 2022 ESG data pack available at
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Transitioning back to the office
In 2022, we commenced our journey of
returning our people back to the office, with
the majority working in a blended mode.
The amount of time our people spend in the
workplace is determined at a team level with
blended roles guided to spend roughly half of
their time working from their ANZ workplace.
This gives teams the flexibility to experiment
and consider the events, ceremonies and
activities that work best in the workplace.
ANZ has successfully operated a distributed
workforce for many years, however the scale
and range of choices now associated with
flexible work requires more intentional
planning and management.
More than 410 employees attended a digital
‘Change Fit’ program, launched to help
employees manage their wellbeing during
this transition with training to ensure our
people are familiar with the steps being
taken to provide a COVID Safe workplace.
We also supported our people to manage
the effects of COVID-19 infection and receive
COVID-19 vaccinations. Special paid leave
continued to be available to employees who
required time away from work this year due
to COVID-19 impacts, including recovery
from infection, isolation requirements and
caring responsibilities.
We continue to provide psychological and
ergonomic support to our workforce in all
operating markets who have worked from
home for the majority of the year. This
included all leaders and employees
completing mandatory mental health
awareness learning. This has been further
supported by webinars delivered by external
psychologists. Despite a small number of
injuries occurring in the home-based work
environment, no adverse impact to overall
injury, illness or claim numbers was noted.
Speak Up culture
As part of a continued focus
on improving conduct, we are
creating an environment where
employees are motivated and
empowered to do the right thing
and challenge constructively
when they see something that
they believe is wrong.
We have seen an improvement in
our ‘speak up’ culture over the last
few years following targeted and
sustained efforts. We know this is
fundamental to our risk culture and
for us to be an innovative and
inclusive organisation.
August 2022 Survey results
Employee
engagement
84%
March 2022:
84%
Wellbeing
84%
March 2022:
80%
Inclusion
84%
March 2022:
81%
Experience
matches
expectations
90%
March 2022:
89%
Engagement
Employee engagement and experience
are key outcome metrics for our culture.
Our Group-wide engagement survey,
My Voice, continues to be one of the
primary ways we hear from our people and
understand their experience of working at
ANZ. This information allows us to tailor
solutions and interventions to ensure our
people feel recognized, stay engaged and
continue to feel a sense of belonging and
connection to the Bank.
This year, we evolved our My Voice survey
with a new, evidence-based question set
and expanded employee experience metrics,
such as specific wellbeing and inclusion
indices, a measure of peoples’ experience of
ANZ, vs their expectations as well as intent to
stay. In both March and August, a sense of
belonging emerged as one of the most
critical drivers of employee engagement.
Results from our August survey show cultural
indicators have improved and remained
strong in a largely post-COVID environment
with engagement at 84% (new index).
Most people feel their experience is meeting
or exceeding their expectations (90%).
We performed well against measures of
wellbeing (82%) and inclusion (83%) both
increasing by two percentage points since
their introduction in March. For detailed
information about how we are driving
diversity and inclusion at ANZ see page69.
Diversity measures for the ANZ workforce
can be found in the ESG data pack available
at anz.com/annualreport
Overall Speak Up Index – 83%:
86%
of people feel that in their team, it feels
safe to ask questions, make mistakes,
highlight problems and take social
risks (85% 2022 March)
83%
of people feel that when they speak
up their ideas, opinions and concerns
are heard (82% 2022 March)
80%
of people feel they can raise issues
and concerns in ANZ without fear of
reprisal or negative consequences
(79% 2022 March)
Additionally, we have continued
to strengthen and evolve our
Accountability and Consequence
Framework.
A new Speak Up index was
introduced in the August survey,
made up of three existing questions.
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Future proofing the workforce
Future proofing our workforce has been a key focus this
year with activities and initiatives underway to attract, retain
and build the right capability to enable our digital strategy
and transformation.
Attracting and retaining
employees in a competitive
employment market
High attrition rates are impacting all
employment sectors globally. This universal
trend is being driven by various external
factors, particularly the impact of COVID-19
which has shifted peoples’ expectations of
work, while closed borders exacerbate skill
shortages. Although ANZ’s attrition rate
1
of
13.9%did not exceed the previous historic
high of 15%
2
, we have increased our focus
on retention to mitigate the impact on
the workforce.
Enhanced data capture and analysis were
key to understanding attrition watchpoints
in certain segments, geographies, and
divisions, highlighting for example
challenges in our Engineering and Data
capabilities. Investigation into the root
causes informed a range of interventions to
enhance the employee experience in terms
of providing better career pathways,
enabling internal mobility, enhancing
leadership capability and amending
policies to reduce bureaucracy.
Since March 2022, the My Voice survey
has also measured our people’s intention to
stay at ANZ. In August, 13% indicated that
they had an intention to stay for less than
12 months which is in line with our latest
attrition rates. This new metric was introduced
to get a clear understanding and prediction of
retention so we can act more quickly when
retention risks are identified.
We are also investing in new technology
such as PeopleHub to automate the ability
to hear from employees at key points of the
employee lifecycle. Our immediate priorities
are to develop and deploy improved
onboarding and exit surveying. With plans
to launch in 2023, these improvements will
complement our retention data and provide
better, more timely data on why people join,
their early experience as ANZ, as well as why
they leave.
1. Voluntary turnover of employees. 2. Rolling 12-month rate in May 2017.
Strategic workforce planning
ANZ’s approach to future proofing our
workforce is underpinned by new capabilities
developed over the last three years to better
link our understanding of external driving
forces with business strategy and with our
workforce strategy development. This has
been achieved through investment in our
people, systems and processes.
In practical terms, this has included hiring
strategic workforce planning experts and
data scientists to make better sense of our
current workforce and build data models to
improve anticipation of future trends and
initiatives. Our workforce strategy and
planning processes help answer questions
such as: what sort of capabilities will our
workforce need at different stages of our
strategy execution? How will roles evolve?
How many people will we need? What
locations will they work in? How much
will the workforce cost? How is the labour
market behaving in key geographies? How
will our workforce composition reflect the
customers we serve?
Forming answers to these questions allows
us to construct plans with the right emphasis
on building from within, knowing what
capabilities in what quantities to bring in from
the outside, over the next three to five years.
Our focus includes investing in future
capabilities such as engineering, Cloud, data,
digital, customer coaching and environmental
sustainability. Importantly we remain
committed to the enduring fundamentals
of banking, including customer relationships,
credit risk, non-financial risk and delivery.
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Focusing on key strategic capability areas
Engineering, Cloud, data and security
Our focus on engineering gained
momentum in 2022 with the development
of career pathways designed to attract and
retain engineering talent, with a focus on
engineers as they rotate into critical roles in
Cloud and security. In addition to hiring 904
people into data and engineering roles, we
undertook the following initiatives:
•This year we launched our TTM+
campaigns, an evolution of our Tech
Talent Marketplace (TTM) which has been
in place in Tech for more than two years.
TTM+ builds internal talent pipelines to
increase the employability of our people
while helping meet the needs of our
future workforce. Programs run for six
months, upskilling employees in critical
capability areas such as security, Cloud
and data.
•Data Engineers have been given access
to learning support to improve their
confidence and capability in using
Cloud-based platforms.
•We delivered two Tech Learning Expos,
designed to engage and uplift capability
across our Technology domain. Over
5,000 people participated in these
learning events.
Environmental sustainability
This year we launched our Mindset 2030
Program to build the knowledge and skills
of our employees, and to better understand
our own and our customers’ environmental
sustainability risks and opportunities.
Mindset 2030 includes a dedicated
employee portal with information about
our environmental sustainability strategy,
research and publications, and how we are
financing customers to shift to low carbon
business models and operations that put
them on a path to net zero emissions. To
date, 935 people have accessed the Mindset
2030 learning program with a total of 1,955
modules completed. The portal has also
been well-accessed with 999 unique portal
visitors and a total of 2,775 portal log-ins.
Aotearoa New Zealand Skills Pledge
ANZ New Zealand is committed to
building workforce capability in line with its
commitment to the Aotearoa New Zealand
Skills Pledge, and this year we have achieved
the target of doubling our hours by 2025
(120,000). Over 121,000 hours of learning
were delivered this year, a significant increase
from 72,000 hours in 2021. Our focus
remained on skills required for the future
including digital, curiosity, adaptability, and
developing our leadership capabilities. While
we have achieved the Pledge target, we’ll
continue to invest in our employees’ learning
and development so they remain prepared
for the future.
Developing our leaders
and their teams
This year we continued to invest
in the capability development of
our people. Over 1.14 million hours
of learning were delivered through
our digital learning platforms
including almost 572,900 hours
of compliance training and more
than 407,000 hours of self-directed
learning. A further 52,000 hours
were dedicated to continuing
professional development.
Leadership capability development
continues to be a focus, ensuring
people leaders are equipped to help
teams be job-ready and future-fit,
highly motivated, engaged and able
to deliver on the bank’s strategy.
In May 2022 we launched our
new Executive Leadership Series
for senior leaders (Group 1 and 2) to
develop strategic leadership skills
and deepen their understanding of
the bank’s strategy. The program
supports senior leaders to
understand emerging trends and
threats, better equipping them to
respond to the dynamic external
environment and opportunities for
ANZ. Content curated by industry-
leading internal and external experts
takes a blended learning approach,
combining live webinars, self-paced
learning and local application.
In India, leadership development
efforts focused on supporting
female leaders build self-confidence
and resilience and equipping
emerging people leaders with the
necessary skillset to lead effectively
in volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous environments. We also
relaunched the Notable Women
program, which focuses on increasing
professional visibility and positioning
female leaders as experts in their fields.
See page 70 for more information about
this initiative.
We continue to offer leadership
development programs in other areas
of our business. In Australia, we offer the
Retail Leadership Learning Pathway, a
blended learning pathway designed to
accelerate new-to-role leaders to build
a more well-rounded business and
brand to strengthen the business
leadership pipeline.
Our new Lead@ANZ development
program (currently in pilot) is targeting
people leaders at all levels across all
divisions and is designed to equip
people leaders with exceptional skills
and confidence. The full program will
be launched in early 2023 and is
underpinned by:
•a deep understanding of the unique
challenges our leaders face
•a focus on our purpose, strategy and
culture behaviours and how leaders
can bring these to life for their teams
•building inclusive leadership skills,
which will help them to lead better
in a hybrid world and focus on the
wellbeing and engagement of
their teams
•a focus on building the specific
leadership capabilities to enable
our leaders to create opportunities,
deliver what matters and succeed
together.
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ANZ believes our diverse workforce and
inclusive culture will improve the quality of
decision-making and drive innovation, making
us a better bank for our customers. We are
making good progress against our five diversity
and inclusion strategic priorities:
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Family inclusive workplace
certification
In February this year, ANZ was certified as
a Family Inclusive Workplace in Australia by
Family Friendly Workplaces, a joint initiative
from Parents at Work and UNICEF Australia.
We are committed to improving family-
inclusive policies, practices and cultures to
support employees to meet their work,
family and wellbeing needs. This will
promote productivity, engagement and
wellbeing, and will enhance our ability to
attract and retain talent.
The certification process involved a review
of ANZ’s policies and practices and stories
from our people about their experience of
our family inclusive culture. Obtaining
certification has helped ANZ benchmark
our family inclusive policies and practices
against the National Work + Family
Standards. Subsequently, we have developed
a two-year action plan to improve family
inclusive policies, practices and culture
including to obtain regular feedback from
employees about their parental leave
experience and better supporting carers.
Case study
Kim
In 2018, manager Kim and her husband
decided to begin in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
treatment to start a family. Kim received
full support from her people leader.
During this time, an opportunity for a
more senior role arose. Although Kim was
trying to start a family, her people leader
encouraged her application and she was
successful. Kim fell pregnant a few weeks
into her new role and said she felt
“incredibly supported by ANZ” through
Gender affirmation leave
This year, we introduced Gender
Affirmation Leave for employees in Australia,
New Zealand, India, the Philippines and the
Pacific with up to six weeks’ paid leave and up
to a total of 12 months’ unpaid leave, allowing
employees to preserve their sick leave for
times when they are actually unwell.
There are many ways an individual may
affirm their gender, including:
•social affirmation: adopting the dress
and style of presentation that better aligns
with their gender identity and expression,
changing their pronouns and/or name
•medical affirmation: surgery, hormone
therapy or both, to attend medical
appointments, rest and recover from
medical procedures
•legal affirmation: legally changing their
name and/or gender marker on personal
identification documents like their
passport, birth certificate, driver’s
license or bank card
Our new Gender Affirmation Leave Policy
supports people to bring their whole selves
to work.
Create an inclusive culture and improve the experience of
our employees who represent all dimensions of diversity
Build the confidence and capability of people leaders to
lead diverse and inclusive teams
Improve the diversity of our leadership population
Strengthen and empower our employee networks
Improve accountability and governance
her IVF treatment, being able to use
parental leave, and returned to work after
nine months with no impact on her
career progression.
Image: Kim, her husband and their baby.
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A focus on gender pay equality
We continue to calculate, measure, monitor
and report on our gender pay gap using
a two-pronged approach incorporating
the following methodologies to better
understand and explain the underlying
reasons for our gender pay gap:
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
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.
number of male appointments to more
senior and higher-paying Manager roles.
We recognise this is a critical issue and
something we are actively considering.
While the category average gap at the
Senior Executive level has improved to
94.9%, we remain focused on improving
female representation at the Senior
Executive and Executive levels.
We actively monitor and review our
like-for-like gender pay gap, including
taking positive action to adjust where
necessary, particularly as part of our
annual performance and remuneration
review process.
Achieving gender balance
in our business
For complex reasons, including a competitive
labour market, we achieved a marginal
increase in the representation of Women in
Leadership to 35.9% (up 0.6 ppt from 35.3%
as at September 2021). Women in revenue-
generating leadership roles
2
increased,
however, by 2.4 ppt to 30.2%. Group-wide
representation of women at the Senior
Manager, Executive and Senior Executive
levels increased by 0.1 ppt, 1.4 ppt and
3.9 ppt respectively.
Our progress is monitored regularly
by the CEO and the Group Execution and
Performance Committee. Sustained progress
in improving representation of women in
leadership requires a multi-faceted approach.
We continue to focus on growing female
talent by providing employees with the
critical skills and experiences required to
move into senior roles, delivering several
women in leadership training programs
throughout the year. We relaunched the
Notable Women program, which focuses
on increasing professional visibility and
positioning female leaders as experts in their
fields with more than 50 of our top female
Senior Executive and Executives from across
Australia and New Zealand participating.
Women holding Key Management Personnel
(KMP
3
) positions has increased from 33.3% to
37.5%, however, remains below our target of
at least 40% women. Importantly, however,
two of our three key KMP ‘line’ roles with
profit and loss accountability – Group
Executive Australia Retail, and Group
Executive and CEO New Zealand – are
held by women.
Three of our nine Board
members are women
(33.3% female representation).
ANZ is signatory to the 40:40 Vision
initiative which seeks to achieve gender
balance of senior leadership at ASX200
companies by 2030.
1. Australia-only data. Effective date 1 July 2022. ‘Senior Executives’ is Group 1, ‘Executives’ is Group 2, ‘Senior Managers’ is Group 3, ‘Managers’ is Group 4, and ‘Non-managers’ are Groups 5 and 6 , Excludes Executive Committee,
casuals, fixed-term employees, and trainees/interns.
2. Key Management Personnel roles with profit and loss accountability. 3. ANZ Directors (whether executive directors or otherwise), and those personnel with a key responsibility
for the strategic direction and management of the Group who have Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) accountability and who report to the CEO.
The key to closing the gender pay gap
continues to be increasing the
representation of women in senior and
higher-paying roles. We have several
initiatives underway to increase the
representation of women in leadership and
build the pipeline. These include the Notable
Women and Return to Work programs.
Return to Work was developed in Group
Technology to help people (often women)
return to the workforce after a career break
and will run again next year with the
possibility of extending the program
to other areas of our business.
This year we have narrowed the gap in both
average salaries and like-for-like for most
categories. The like-for-like gap is now within
+/- 2% across each category, with the largest
improvements at the Senior Executive and
Executive levels.
The category average gap for Managers
has widened to 93.0% and is now our most
significant pay gap. This is due to a higher
Increase in Female vs Male ratioDecrease in Female vs Male ratio
Pay gap (Australia)
1
Category
Av. salary –
by category
YoY
change
Like-for-
like roles
YoY
change
Senior Executives 94.9%
2.6%98.8%1.3%
Executives97.7%
1.2%99.4%2.3%
Senior Managers96.8%
0.6%98.4%0.6%
Managers93.0%
-0.3%98.2%0.0%
Non-managers97.2%
1.2%101.3%-0.7%
Further detail on our gender diversity
targets is available in our Corporate
Governance Statement at anz.com/
corporategovernance. Our Diversity and
Inclusion Policy is available at anz.com/
corporategovernance
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Case study
PACE mentoring program
Since 2013, ANZ has been a principal
partner for the Australian Network
on Disability's 'Positive Action
towards Career Engagement' (PACE)
Mentoring program.
The program matches jobseekers
and students with disability with
experienced professionals who help their
mentee identify and reach their career
development goals and build their
confidence in a workplace environment.
The program also provides ANZ staff
with a valuable opportunity to broaden
their understanding of disability and
provide one-to-one coaching to increase
employability for up to 100 people
with disability annually.
Earlier this year, Marley Howell secured
a permanent job with ANZ as a Banking
Consultant after being mentored by
Greg Waddell an Associate Director in
ANZ’s Transaction Banking team.
Marley participated in the program
during his final semester of study at
Murdoch University and was looking to
collaborate with a mentor who could
help him secure a graduate role. Greg
and Marley met each fortnight at ANZ’s
Perth office to work through practical
tips focused on how to deliver articulate
messaging in a resume and job
interview. As a PACE mentor, Greg has
now successfully secured full-time
roles for four University Graduates.
“I’m grateful to have the opportunity to
contribute to our bank’s great purpose
by participating in this rewarding
program,” says Greg. “In addition to
helping great people secure their first
full-time role I’ve broadened my
professional network, learned how
to be more inclusive and developed
wonderful friendships like [the one I
have with] Marley.”
Employee networks:
creating an inclusive culture
Our employee networks – which include
Abilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing,
Cultural Diversity and Inclusion, ForWARD
Gender Equity, Faith, and Pride – are well
supported and recognised for the critical
role they play in our inclusive culture.
We continue to celebrate important dates on
the diversity and inclusion calendar including
International Day of People with Disability,
International Women’s Day, A Taste of
Harmony, Pride Month, International
Non-Binary People’s Day, NAIDOC Week
and more.
Strengthing our Tākiri Ā Rangi
strategy
ANZ’s Te Kaitohu Rautaki Māori (Head
of Te Ao Māori Strategy) Karleen Everitt
was welcomed to the bank in 2021 and
this year oversaw the launch of ANZ’s
Tākiri-Ā-Rangi strategy framework. Having
a Te Ao Māori Strategy in place is critical
to future organisational performance.
Tākiri-Ā-Rangi is guided by several aims
including a commitment to developing
strong relationships with Māori, hapū
and iwi across the country, improving
the financial wellbeing and sustainability
of those customers and enhancing our
own understanding of Te Ao Māori as
our company grows.
The launch of the strategy during
Matariki (Māori New Year) marked an
important step in development for
the bank, setting out a work plan and
framework to be implemented over
the next 18 years.
ANZ New Zealand has begun Te Reo
Māori (Māori language) courses for
staff, aiming to help them increase
their proficiency and confidence in
understanding and using Te Reo.
Cultural competency courses are also
being developed and processes are
being reviewed to recruit, retain and
advance more Māori staff. These
shorter-term goals, based on an
expected 2024 completion date, will
be followed by numerous initiatives
over coming decades.
Kia hanga i te ao, e ora ai, e tupu
ai te tangata me te kainga
(To shape a world where people and
communities thrive)
Image: ANZ Te Kaitohu Rautaki Māori Karleen Everitt at the Tākiri-Ā-Rangi strategy launch.
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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 engagement,
retention, career progression and development opportunities
for people across all our diverse groups.
Participation of under-represented groups in our workforce
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 and direct hires
76
participants in 2022
TupuToa, summer internships for
Māori and Pasifika students
6
participants in 2022
Given the Chance, six to twelve-month
work placements for refugees and
asylum seekers
55
participants in 2022
Spectrum, employment opportunities
for autistic people
3
participants in 2022
Return to Work
89%
of participants retained
from 2021 cohort
Summer internships and
graduate programs
231
participants in 2022
Victorian Government Digital Jobs Program
(Strategic Partnership)
12 out of 30 placements
gained permanent roles
Strengthening diversity
and inclusion focus within
recruitment process
We have continued to develop
recruitment capabilities to create
inclusive and accessible processes
for women, people with disability,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people, Māori and Pasifika people,
people from different cultural and
religious backgrounds, and people
from the LGBTIQ+ community.
We are committed to ensuring our
recruitment and selection processes are
barrier-free and accessible. We provide
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 all candidates (both internal
and external) about their accessibility
requirements and provide ongoing
professional development to recruiters to
help develop their disability-confidence.
Virtual Workplace
Preparation Program
Launched on Global Accessibility Awareness
Day, we introduced a virtual intern
experience to encourage people with
disabilities to see themselves represented
in a professional work environment like
ANZ and apply for roles. We received 954
enrolments with 131 participants completing
the program in 2022.
Summer internships and graduate
program participants in 2022
Graduates
Female 69
Male 53
Interns
Female 35
Male 34
Graduates
Female 12
Male 12
Interns
Female 10
Male 6
AUSTRALIANEW ZEALAND
84%
231
AUS 122
NZ 24
AUS 69
NZ 16
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Go Girl, Go for IT
In August 2022, ANZ hosted over
1,700 female students at Go Girl, Go
for IT – a fun, free, one day technology
conference for girls in years 5–12 across
Australia. ANZ has supported the
program for several years and is a
diamond sponsor. The event focuses on
inspiring students with role model
speakers, showcasing future technologies
and challenging preconceptions of what
a career in technology might look like.
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To keep pace with customer
demand and build home loan
application assessment capacity,
we recruited, onboarded and
trained additional employees.
Changes in our assessment processes
separated administrative tasks from
credit decisions which broadened the
potential recruitment pool to include
skilled professionals who may not have
worked in banking before.
Resource Optimisation Manager
Daniel O’Keeffe shared that recruiting
through the Given the Chance program
effectively showcased the talent,
education and experience of candidates
directly relevant for operational roles.
“Until now, these credentials may not
have been recognised by employers
such as customer relationship managers
in their home countries or mathematics
and linguistic teachers at universities,”
Daniel explained “These candidates bring
a breadth of customer servicing, life
experience and learning skills into
our teams.”
Given the Chance
Since 2007 we have worked with the
Brotherhood of St Laurence to assist refugees
and asylum seekers with opportunities to
enter the Australian workforce through the
Given the Chance program.
The program supports job seekers into six-
to 12-month work placement opportunities,
providing them with invaluable work
experience to enter the local workforce. We
have accommodated over 350 participants
across the bank in Victoria, New South Wales
and Tasmania since the program commenced.
Given the Chance participants are highly
engaged, skilled and motivated, and they
make a positive contribution to their team,
the bank and their community.
This year saw the highest number of recruits
in the program’s history, with 55 participants
hired and 14 of those gaining permanent
employment.
A Chance For All
In 2022 we strengthened our partnership
with Brotherhood of St Laurence by piloting
a new employment program A Chance for
All to offer six- to 12-month placement
opportunities for individuals with a disability.
Launched in late May, eight participants have
been placed across retail, customer service
operations and digital roles. The pilot will be
reviewed towards the end of 2022 with an
aim to add it to core offerings, advocating
for and providing job opportunities for
individuals with disabilities.
TupuToa Partnership
We hosted six Māori & Pasifika interns through our partnership with
TupuToa (an increase from five in 2021 including three who were sourced
through the TupuToa partnership). Of these, two were successful in
securing positions on our graduate program.
“It’s important for our economy and
our community that we inspire young
women to consider careers in STEM.
This aligns to ANZ’s purpose while
building a pipeline of future talent
for our Technology division.”
Carina Parisella
ANZ Head of Technology Workforce
Image: ANZ Head of Technology Workforce Carina Parisella (left) at the Go Girl, Go for IT conference.
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Supporting Indigenous Australians
This year we launched our 2021–2024
Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP),
ANZ's fifth RAP, focused on four key areas:
Improve the financial wellbeing of
individuals to develop financial
resilience
Provide employment and career
progression opportunities to enable
economic participation
Support the growth of Indigenous
businesses and organisations to enable
economic participation
Improve our understanding of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
cultures to create culturally safe and
supportive spaces, show respect and
combat racism
Our RAP governance structure has been
strengthened and formalised to support our
ability to deliver on our objectives. We have
also embedded a voice representing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
employees and an external point of view in
our RAP Steering Committee and Working
Group to challenge and guide our thinking.
We have made good progress against
the 17 actions in our RAP, delivering 99%
commitments that fell due this year.
•We launched a refreshed MoneyBusiness
program – updating content, resources
and training approach based on feedback
received from facilitators and participants
(refer to page34 for further information)
•1.98% of external hires identified as
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander against
our target of 2% by 2024
•We spent $12.7 million with 32 Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander businesses this
year, exceeding our commitments of
$6 million by 2024 and 15 Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander businesses in 2022
(refer page 60for more information)
•Nearly 600 Australia-based employees
have taken part in BlackCard face-to-face
cultural capability training, exceeding our
target of 300 employees by 2024
•We partially met our commitment to
provide at least six MoneyBusiness
facilitator training sessions to community
workers and financial counsellors working
in remote communities each year. A pause
in training due to the MoneyBusiness
refresh and COVID impacting supply
chains and materials production
meant that five sessions were provided
throughout the year with the sixth, initially
scheduled for September, postponed due
to low participant numbers.
“On behalf of the employees
of ANZ, I accept the generous
invitation of the Uluru
Statement from the Heart to
walk together for a better future.
We support the establishment
of a First Nations Voice to
parliament enshrined in the
Constitution and a Makarrata
Commission to supervise a
process of agreement-making
and truth telling. This is a fair,
practical and unifying reform.”
Shayne Elliott
March 2022
Further detail on our progress against
RAP commitments is provided in our 2022
RAP Progress Report to be released later
this year at anz.com/reconciliation
From the Heart
Our CEO Shayne Elliott accepted on
behalf of ANZ’s employees, the invitation
of the Uluru Statement from the Heart
to walk together for a better future in
March this year.
By accepting the invitation, ANZ supports
the establishment of a First Nations Voice
to parliament enshrined in the Constitution
and a Makarrata Commission to supervise
a process of agreement-making between
governments and First Nations, and
truth telling.
A First Nations Voice to parliament is a body
enshrined in the Constitution that would
enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people to provide advice to the Parliament
on policies and projects that impact their
lives. It would give the Australian
Government the opportunity to make
policies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people, rather than for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people.
We have partnered with the From the
Heart campaign to develop educational
opportunities for our staff and customers to
learn about the Uluru Statement, its history
and objectives.
“The power of ANZs support is twofold: by directly contributing to the campaign
ANZ are supporting a grassroots movement for a successful referendum on the Voice; and
just as important is the organisation’s ability to engage its people and customers on this
nationally significant issue. The strength of our campaign comes from the involvement of
Australians from all walks of life and ANZ is playing a major role in making this happen.”
Dean Parkin
Director of From the Heart
Image: Design by Marcus Lee at ANZ Knox branch.
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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 target
1
Support 1.3 million customers to save
regularly, by end 2022. (Australia and
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 disadvantaged
communities, 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
In 2022, progress against our public ESG targets contributed to the following
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal targets.
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Environmental sustainability
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability.
TargetsRelevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal target
2
Fund and facilitate at least AU$50 billion
by end 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
8.2 – Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation
8.3 – Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship,
creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises
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
9.5 – Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries
9.A – Facilitate sustainable infrastructure development for developing countries
2. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to 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 target
2
Continued10.2 – Promote universal social, economic and political inclusion
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
12.4 – Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their lifecycle, and
significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil
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
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.
12.6 – Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate
sustainability information into their reporting cycle
13.1 – Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters
15.3 – End desertification and restore degraded land
15.5 – Protect biodiversity and natural habitats
2. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to 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 target
2
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
2. We have used the abbreviated titles for each target – refer to sdgs.un.org/goals for full targets.
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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 target
3
Fund and facilitate AU$10 billion of
investment by end 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 25% increase of funds under management
and a 46% increase in customer numbers by
2025. (New Zealand)
9.4 – Upgrade all industries and infrastructures for sustainability
11.1 – Safe and affordable housing
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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 target
4
Implement ANZ’s new Customer Extra Care
Framework, including enhanced training of
5,000 employees to build their capabilities
with respect to identifying, supporting and
referring customers who are in need of extra
care, by end 2022. (Australia)
1.4 – Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
Implement ANZ’s new human rights
grievance mechanism, and publicly report
on complaints received under the
mechanism, by end 2022.
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
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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 the 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 8.5 million Retail,
Commercial and Institutional customers, and we employ around 40,000 people worldwide.
About ANZ
Our Purpose and Strategy
2022 Annual Report
pages 12–13
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.
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 help 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.
We are focused on integrating our purpose and ESG approach into our business strategy.
Our ESG approach focuses on three key areas:
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
Our ESG focus areas
Climate Change Commitment
Our Purpose and Strategy
2022 Annual Report
pages 12–25
2022 ESG Supplement
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Climate-related Financial Disclosures,
to be released prior to our Annual General
Meeting and made available on
anz.com/annualreport
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1.2 ContinuedFundamental 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, as well as addressing issues
identified through our annual materiality assessment.
We support the Paris Agreement’s goal of transitioning to net zero emissions by 2050.
Our Climate Change Commitment, updated in November 2021, summarises our climate
change approach and respective targets, including our response across four key areas:
1. Supporting our customers and industries to transition
2. Aligning our lending decisions to the Paris Agreement goals
3. Reducing emissions from our operations
4. Engaging constructively and transparently with stakeholders
In October 2021, ANZ joined the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI)
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) – signalling our commitment to align our lending portfolio
with the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
We are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with our ESG targets
supporting 12 of the 17 SDGs. Refer to pages 11–15 for detail on our performance against our
ESG Targets.
Our Human Rights Statement (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 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
Our Grievance Mechanism (Mechanism) supports people and communities who believe
their human rights have been impacted by ANZ’s Institutional or Corporate 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.
In 2022, we will publish our third Modern Slavery Statement in line with the Modern Slavery
Act 2018.
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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)).
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 area.
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:
Our main markets of operation are Australia and New Zealand, where we provide Retail,
Commercial and Institutional products. 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.
Information on our lending profile and exposures can be found in our Full Year Results Investor
Discussion Pack available at anz.com/shareholder/centre/reporting/results-announcement/
and our ESG data pack available at anz.com/annualreport. In addition, within our Climate-
related Financial Disclosures report, which will be released prior to our Annual General Meeting.
Our materiality assessment
Our ESG focus areas
Our stakeholder engagement policy
2022 Annual Report
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2.1 Continued
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
Context and relevance:
ANZ’s purpose focuses on three key areas:
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
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, as well as addressing issues
identified through our annual materiality assessment.
Our 2022 materiality assessment incorporated views from external and internal stakeholders,
including institutional investors, consumer and environment NGOs and our community
partners. The top five material issues ranked by stakeholders were:
•Climate change
•Information security
•Innovation and technology
•Customer experience
•Employee capability and wellbeing
We also considered our Key Material Risks, our strategy, values and Code of Conduct,
media analysis, recent regulatory developments, peer review, industry trends such as the
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Materiality Map and sustainability frameworks
such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Scale and intensity/salience of impact:
We consider the scale and intensity/salience of our impacts through our engagement with
governments, NGOs, industry associations, shareholders, customers and employees.
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). We publicly report our progress
against these targets twice yearly in Results briefings, in our annual reporting suite
(including our ESG Supplement, ESG Data Pack, Climate-related Financial Disclosures report)
and our ESG Investor Briefings.
Following our impact analysis, we consider the below impact areas to be the areas of most
significant impact for ANZ, as they align with a number of Sustainable Development Goals and
also with ANZ’s ESG focus areas which we have S.M.A.R.T targets for:
Impact area 1 – Environmental sustainability
We have set a number of environmental sustainability targets to help reduce our potential
negative and positive impact on climate change.
Target 1 – Sustainable Finance:
“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”.
Specific: to fund and facilitate $50 billion in sustainable solutions
Measurable: 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
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2.2 Continued
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.
Target 2 – Targets for power generation and commercial real estate:
ANZ was the first Australian bank to sign up to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and we
are committed to aligning our lending portfolio with the goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
In 2021, we set the below sector targets for power generation and commercial real estate.
We will progressively expand our coverage of key sectors up to 2024, in line with our NZBA
commitment and the evolution of globally recognised standards and methodologies.
Power Generation
We are committed to supporting the clean electrification of the world’s energy supply, setting
a target to reduce the emissions intensity of our power generation portfolio by 50% on 2020
levels by 2030.
Commercial real estate
In 2021, we set the target to reduce the emissions intensity of our Australian large-scale
commercial real estate portfolio by 60% on 2019 levels by 2030.
Specific: to reduce emissions intensity
Measurable: target to reduce emissions intensity of our power generation portfolio by 50%
on 2020 levels by 2030 and reduce the emissions intensity of our Australian large-scale
commercial real estate portfolio by 60% on 2019 levels by 2030
Achievable: we are on track to achieve these targets
Relevant: it aligns with our ESG focus area of environmental sustainability
Time bound: by 2030
Our performance against the above power generation and commercial real estate targets is
reported in our Full Year Results Investor Discussion Pack. Further detail will be made available
in our 2022 Climate-related Financial Disclosures report which will provide further detail on our
customer engagement program during 2022 and will be available at anz.com/annualreport
prior to our Annual General Meeting.
These targets align with SDG 13 Climate Action.
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2.2 Continued
Impact area 2 – Inclusive, healthy economies
Inclusive, healthy economies was identified as an area ANZ has the potential to have both
a positive and negative impact on. Financial wellbeing is an ESG focus area for us, with
a number of targets being set in this area.
ANZ recognises the importance of financial wellbeing across the whole population in
sustaining a healthy and inclusive economy. Beyond providing core banking services, we
play a key role in leading research into what is influencing financial wellbeing in Australia
and New Zealand. Insights from our research are shared publicly so they can be used by
government, community and corporate sectors to inform their work, and we use these
insights to inform our products and services, as well as our financial education programs,
Saver Plus and MoneyMinded. These programs involve close collaboration with partners
from the community and government sectors.
Refer to pages 28–36for detail on how we are contributing towards financial wellbeing.
Target 1 – MoneyMinded partnerships:
“To establish seven new partnerships to expand the reach and improve impact of
MoneyMinded for disadvantaged communities, by end 2023” – which has a focus on
positive impacts for disadvantaged communities.
Specific: to establish seven new partnerships to expand the reach and improve
impact of MoneyMinded for disadvantaged communities
Measurable: 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
This target aligns with the following SDGs: 1 No Poverty, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth,
10 Reduce Inequalities and 17 Partnerships for the Goals.
Target 2 – Supporting customers to save regularly
“Support 1.3 million customers to save regularly, by end 2022. (Australia and New Zealand)”
This target aligns with SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities.
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
pages11–15 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 this year, with the addition of two new S.M.A.R.T targets in the areas of environmental sustainability and one in the area
of financial wellbeing. These targets are still current and are in line with this Principle’s requirements.
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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 suite(including our Annual Report, ESG Supplement and Climate-related
Financial Disclosures report (which will be released prior to our Annual General Meeting,
available at anz.com/annualreport)) and at our annual ESG investor briefings. These updates
are published on anz.com; and on ANZ’s bluenotes and news sites.
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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.
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 twice-yearly, at our Results
briefings and through our annual reporting disclosures.
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 $40.04 billion
towards the target.
We are on track to meet our sector targets for power generation and commercial real estate.
Our performance against the power generation and commercial real estate targets is reported
in our Full Year Results Investor Discussion Pack.
Our financial wellbeing target to establish seven new partnerships is on track, with six
new partnerships formed since October 2020.
Our financial wellbeing target to support customers to save regularly has been
achieved in 2022.
Details on progress of our other ESG targets are included in our 2022 ESG Supplement.
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We have fulfilled the requirements under this principle through our processes to evaluate and report on our progress against our ESG targets.
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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. This is underpinned by our employee Code of Conduct which sets
expected standards of behaviours and guides employees in applying the Bank’s values.
We work to maintain high standards of conduct and continue to improve our culture,
governance and accountability mechanisms to help improve customer outcomes.
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:
•Implement ANZ’s new Customer Extra Care Framework, including enhanced training
of 5,000 employees to build their capabilities with respect to identifying, supporting
and referring impacted customers, by end 2022. (Australia)
•Implement ANZ’s new human rights grievance mechanism, and publicly report on
complaints received under the mechanism, by end 2022.
•Achieve the 17 actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan, by end 2024. (Australia)
Refer to progress of our ESG targets at pages 11–15. The detailed progress against the
17 actions in our annual Reconciliation Action Plan, will be published in December 2022.
To better support customers in need of extra care, we have a gambling block tool 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 33,600 blocks were
enabled by customers this year. We also provide gambling support content on anz.com and
provide training and resources for our employees to facilitate customer conversations about
our gambling controls, financial assistance and referrals to external support services.
Our Human Rights Statement (Statement) outlines our approach to respecting human rights
and our Grievance Mechanism (Mechanism) supports people and communities who believe
their human rights have been impacted by ANZ’s Institutional or Corporate lending customers.
At the date of this report, we had not received any complaints to the Mechanism.
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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 Commitment, updated in November 2021, outlines our commitment to
support a net zero transition and help our customers and industry to do this. Our Commitment
is centred on four key areas:
1. Supporting our customers and industries to transition
2. Aligning our lending decisions to the Paris Agreement goals
3. Reducing emissions from our operations
4. Engaging constructively and transparently with stakeholders
One of our ESG targets is to 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. Key to this are our sustainable finance products and service. In 2022 we
continued to see growth in this business, participating in 140 transactions, in comparison to
81 transactions in 2021. Since October 2019, we have funded and facilitated $40.04 billion
towards the target.
Another ESG target is to 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.
Further details around implementation and progress on this target will be in the Climate-
related Financial Disclosures report, to be released prior to our Annual General Meeting and
made available at anz.com/annualreport.
Another important focus for ANZ is supporting household, business and financial practices
that improve environmental sustainability.
ANZ continues to support New Zealanders to improve the environmental sustainability of
their homes by offering:
•Healthy Home Loan Package – which offers 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.
•Good Energy Home Loan – a top up product that was launched this year, providing
a low-interest home loan rate for customers wanting to increase the energy efficiency of
their home. It allows customers to borrow up to NZ$80,000 at a 3-year fixed rate of 1%
per annum to upgrade homes with solar panels, heating and insulation, double glazing,
ventilation systems and rainwater tanks. It can also be used for electric and hybrid vehicles,
and EV chargers.
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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 materiality assessment, we engage and consult with internal and external
stakeholders to inform our identification of ESG risks and opportunities. External views were
sought from institutional investors, consumer and environment NGOs, and our community
partners. The results of these interviews inform our strategy, ESG targets, Group Performance
Framework and external reporting.
This year’s materiality assessment identified the top 5 material issues ranked by
stakeholders as:
1. Climate change
2. Information Security
3. Innovation and technology
4. Customer experience
5. Employee capability and wellbeing
These issues complement our purpose which focuses on three key areas of:
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
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, as well as addressing issues
identified through our materiality assessment.
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. Refer to pages 9–10 for further details.
Our Human Rights Statement and Grievance Mechanism was informed by an external
multi-stakeholder working group, including civil society organisations, academics, business
representatives and customers in 2021. Engagement will again be sought with external
stakeholders in reviews of the Mechanism in 2023 and the Statement in 2024.
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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.
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. The Committee meets four times a year.
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.
In addition, our risk management framework and policies, internal audit function and other
established systems and procedures help us effectively mitigate ESG risks.
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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. 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.
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. Code of Conduct training is
mandatory for all ANZ employees and contractors.
Pages 12–13of our Annual Report outlines ANZ’s strategy and the work we are undertaking
to build a better bank. Key to this work is a clear linkage between purpose and strategy. We
have a suite of people, customer and reputation metrics in our Group Performance Framework,
with internal and external targets. Refer to our Remuneration Report within our Annual Report.
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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.
Our public ESG targets are approved and reviewed twice a year by the Board Ethics,
Environment, Social and Governance Committee (EESG) and are reviewed by the executive
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC).
The ERBC 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. 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.
As mentioned above, the Board EESG Committee meets four times a year, and is responsible
for the oversight, review and/or approval of matters relating to our ESG focus areas, including
performance against targets.
We publicly report our progress against these targets twice yearly in Results briefings, in our
annual reporting suite (ESG Supplement, ESG Data Pack, Climate-related Financial Disclosures
report) and our ESG Investor Briefings.
Management incentives for delivering our strategy and purpose are in place at the most
senior levels of the organisation including our Group Executive Committee and senior leaders.
Our Group Performance Framework incorporates whether we have strengthened our position
as a leading Sustainability bank in the region, and our performance against the S&P corporate
sustainability assessment. Refer to the Remuneration Review from page 62 of the Annual Report.
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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.
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).
In 2019, ANZ became a founding signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking.
We publish our alignment with the Principles for Responsible Banking annually, and full details
of progress against our ESG focus areas and targets can be found throughout this report.
Below is a summary of work we have completed in the last 12 months:
Alignment
•Our full range of ESG targets, against our ESG focus areas, support 12 of the
17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
•ANZ was the first Australian bank to sign up to the Net–Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)
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6.1 Continued
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.
We report against the UN Global Compact Communication on Progress, Equator Principles,
Taskforce of Climate-related Financial Disclosures, as well as a stand-alone Modern Slavery
Report. We also joined the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures Forum to
support their work.
Impact and Target Setting
•Used the UNEPFI’s Impact Analysis Tool to help inform our impact analysis; conducted
our materiality assessment that also informed our analysis and target setting
•In November 2021, we set the sector targets for power generation and commercial real
estate. We will progressively expand our coverage of key sectors up to 2024, in line with our
NZBA commitment and the evolution of globally recognised standards and methodologies
Clients and Customers
•Three targets against our focus area of fair and responsible banking
•Released our new Reconciliation Action Plan
Stakeholders
•One of the ways we help create long-term value and deliver on our business strategy is
through a collaborative and proactive approach to building and maintaining relationships
with stakeholders. Pages 9–10 outlines in detail our stakeholder engagement during the
year including our regular program of CEO and Senior Executive meetings with civil
society leaders
Governance and Culture
•Part of our Bank we're Building approach is a clearer alignment between purpose and
strategy, reflected in our Group Performance Framework that contains metrics relating to
people, customer and reputation including whether we have strengthened our position
as a leading sustainability bank in the region, and our performance against the S&P
corporate sustainability assessment. Refer to the Remuneration Review from page 62
of the Annual Report.
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 third 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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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 2022 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 labelled
sustainable finance products including green/
social/sustainability/sustainability-linked
(GSSS) bonds, green/social/sustainability
loans, sustainability-linked loans (SLLs),
sustainability-linked derviatives, green/
sustainability-linked trade products, 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.
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;
–Corporate loans for businesses
in environmental/carbon project
development which facilitate the
transition to net zero or create nature
positive outcomes;
–Networks, management and
communication tools which facilitate
the transition to net zero
•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 2022 and is a twelve-year
Australia and New Zealand target, from 2018
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 and New Zealand 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
2018 above a threshold of $1 million. This
target contributes to the $50 billion target
from 1 October 2019.
Overview
Environmental
sustainability
Financial
wellbeing
Housing
Fair and
responsible
banking
Employee wellbeing
and inclusion
UN reporting
framework
UN SDG alignment
with ESG targets
UN principles for
responsible banking
self-assessment
Explanatory notes
Assurance
opinion
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Independent
Limited
Assurance
Report to the
Directors of
Australia and
New Zealand
Banking Group
Limited
Conclusion
Based on the evidence we obtained from the procedures
performed, we are not aware of any material misstatements
in the ESG Reporting, which has been prepared by ANZ
in accordance with the GRI Standards and ANZ’s basis of
reporting for the year ended 30 September 2022.
Information subject
to assurance
Australia and New Zealand Banking
Group Limited (ANZ) engaged KPMG
to perform a limited assurance
engagement in relation to the ANZ
2022 ESG Supplement and 2022 ESG
Supplement Data Pack (“ESG Reporting”).
KPMG’s scope of work comprises limited
assurance over all material text and data
claims presented in pages 1 to 80 of the
ANZ 2022 ESG Supplement, and all
material 2022 data points presented in
the 2022 ESG Supplement Data Pack.
The ANZ 2022 ESG Supplement is
attached to this assurance report, and
the 2022 ESG Supplement Data Pack is
available at anz.com/annualreport.
The ESG Reporting covers ANZ’s global
operations for year ended 30 September
2022 unless otherwise indicated.
Criteria
The ESG Reporting is prepared in
accordance with the GRI Standards
published by the Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI), version dated 2016 and
management’s basis of reporting, a
summary of which is included in the
Explanatory Notes section in the ANZ
2022 ESG Supplement.
Basis of our 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 ESG Reporting,
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.
Summary of procedures performed
Our limited assurance conclusion is based
on the evidence obtained from performing
the following procedures:
•Enquiries with management to understand
ANZ’s process for determining material ESG
issues; and implementation of these across
the business;
•Interviews with relevant staff responsible
for developing the content (text and data)
within the ESG Reporting 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 ESG Reporting;
•Comparing text and data (on a sample
basis) presented to underlying sources. This
included considering whether all material
matters had been included or excluded;
•Identifying and testing assumptions
supporting the calculations;
•Undertaking analytical review procedures
to support the reasonableness of the data;
•Assessment of whether information
reported was in accordance with the
GRI Standards Comprehensive level of
disclosures; and
•Reviewing other ANZ reporting including
the Annual Report, Annual Review, UN
Principles for Responsible Banking Self-
Assessment, explanatory notes of the ANZ
2022 ESG Supplement and GRI Navigator
in its entirety to ensure it is consistent with
our knowledge obtained through our
assurance engagement.
ANZ 2022
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How the Standard Defines
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 Banking Group Limited
for the purpose of providing an assurance
conclusion on the ESG Reporting 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’s responsibility
•determining that the criteria is
appropriate to meet their needs;
•preparing and presenting the ESG
Reporting and other ESG related
information in accordance with the
criteria; and
•establishing internal controls that enable
the preparation and presentation of the
ESG Reporting that is free from material
misstatement, whether due to fraud
or error.
Our responsibility
Our responsibility is to perform a limited
assurance engagement in relation to the ESG
Reporting for the year ended 30 September
2022, and to issue an assurance report that
includes our conclusion.
Our independence and
quality control
We have complied with our independence
and other relevant ethical requirements of the
Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants
(including Independence Standards) 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 on anz.com).
KPMGAdrian King
Partner
KPMG Melbourne
26 October 2022
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sustainability
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and inclusion
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framework
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