ANZ 2024 ESG Documents
ANZ Group Holdings Limited
9/833 Collins Street Docklands Victoria 3008 Australia
ABN 16 659 510 791
8 November 2024
Market Announcements Office
ASX Limited
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ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ANZ) today released its 2024 ESG Supplement.
It has been approved for distribution by ANZ’s Ethics, Environment, Social and Governance Committee.
Yours faithfully
Simon Pordage
Company Secretary
ANZ Group Holdings Limited
Approved for distribution by ANZ’s Ethics, Environment, Social & Governance Committee
2024
ESG Supplement
At ANZ, our purpose is to shape a world
where people and communities thrive.
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 ESG approach is focused on responding to our six most material ESG issues:
Environmental
sustainability
Financial wellbeing
Housing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Ethics, conduct
and culture
Contents
Overview and governance 4
Our 2024 reporting suite 4
Disclaimer and important notices 6
CEO’s message 7
About our business 8
ESG governance and risk management 9
What matters most to our stakeholders 12
Stakeholder engagement 15
Our ESG targets and performance 18
Ethics, conduct and culture 23
Managing non-financial risk at ANZ 23
Improving conduct and culture 24
Our shared culture at ANZ 26
Environmental sustainability 27
Our Climate and Environment Strategy 27
Supporting our customers’ transition
through financing 28
Housing 29
Financial wellbeing 32
Supporting financial wellbeing 32
Financial education programs 34
Information security 37
Scams 37
Cyber security 39
Data protection and privacy 41
Responsible customer engagement 42
Meeting customer expectations 42
Supporting customers in need of extra care 43
Supporting customers in financial hardship 45
Resolving customer complaints fairly 47
Digital banking experience 48
Helping our customers thrive with ANZ Plus 48
Banking in the Pacific 49
Regulation and risk management 50
Financial crime 50
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption 51
Social and environmental risk management 52
Equator Principles 55
Managing ESG risks and opportunities in
our supply chain 56
Thriving communities 57
Community investment 57
Human rights 59
Our approach to human rights 59
Diversity and inclusion 61
Contributing to reconciliation in Australia 61
Leading change in Aotearoa New Zealand
– ANZ’s commitment to Māori 62
Our approach to accessibility and inclusion 63
Workplace diversity and inclusion 64
Achieving gender balance in our business 65
Our focus on gender pay equality 66
Participation of under-represented groups
in our workforce 67
Employee experience 68
Wellbeing and engagement 68
Attracting and retaining employees 69
Learning and development 70
Explanatory notes 72
Explanatory notes 72
Glossary of terms 73
Assurance opinion 75
Acknowledgement of Country and Traditional Owners
ANZ acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout
Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, skies and
waterways. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
cultures, and to Elders past and present.
Whakatauākī, ANZ New Zealand’s Proverb
Tākiri-ā-Rangi The expansive universe above
Tākiri-ā-Nuku The beauty of the proceeding lands below
Tākiri te Awatea A new dawn beckons
Kia Puāwai ki te Ao A blossoming to the world
Te Kare ā-Roto e With ripples of compassion and hope for all.
Our 2024 reporting suite
2024 Annual Report
anz.com.au/annualreport
2024 ESG Supplement
anz.com.au/esgreport
2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack
anz.com.au/esgreport
2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
anz.com.au/esgreport
Modern Slavery Statement
anz.com.au/esgreport
2024 Corporate Governance Statement
anz.com.au/annualreport
2024 Voluntary Tax Transparency Report
anz.com.au/annualreport
About this report
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 (NGOs)
and the community.
Our 2024 Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) Supplement complements our 2024
Annual Report and provides stakeholders with
detailed information on ANZ Group Holdings
Limited (ANZ GHL) ABN 16 659 510 791 and its
subsidiaries’ (referred to as “ANZ” or “the Group” or
“our” or “we”) ESG performance and challenges.
This report is structured in two 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 ESG issues; our
stakeholder engagement and our ESG targets.
• The second section outlines our management of
material ESG issues aligning with our focus areas
of ethics, conduct and culture; environmental
sustainability; housing; financial wellbeing;
information security; and responsible customer
engagement, as well as other ESG issues that
are of interest to our investors and stakeholders.
Key companion documents
We expect our ESG reporting approach to
evolve with the implementation of the Australian
Accounting Standards Board’s (AASB) Australian
Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS).
Currently the two key companion disclosure
documents are:
• Our 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack
which includes our comparative performance
data, and Reporting Framework Indexes
including: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the
United Nations Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights and self-assessment against
the United Nations Principles for Responsible
Banking (Principles).
• Our 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures, which describes our Climate
Change Commitment and how we have been
supporting our customers to date. This lays
the foundation for us to deliver on our five year
Climate and Environment Strategy, approved
in October 2024 to support an effective and
orderly transition in coming years. The Climate-
related Financial Disclosures is prepared in
accordance with the Task Force on Climate-
related Financial Disclosures 2021 (TCFD)
Framework. ANZ joined the Net-Zero Banking
Alliance (NZBA) in 2021 and the Climate-related
Financial Disclosures sets out how we are taking
action as part of this commitment.
Additional information can also be found in ANZ’s
Social and Environmental Sustainability Target
Methodology available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
Important things to note when
reading this report
Words that appear like ‘this’ are explained in
the glossary of terms on pages 73-74. The
Disclaimer and Important Notices section on
page 6 contains important information that
should be read together with this report.
Boundaries
This report covers ANZ operations over
which, unless otherwise stated, we have
control for the financial year commencing on
1 October 2023 and ending 30 September
2024, referred to as “2024” throughout the
report, unless otherwise stated. Where data
is still maturing and may only be for a part of
our operations, the data boundary will be noted.
Monetary amounts in this document are reported
in Australian dollars, unless otherwise stated.
On 31 July 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the
shares in SBGH Limited, the immediate holding
company of Suncorp Bank. The information reported
for the year ending 30 September 2024 does not
include Suncorp Bank for the period since ownership,
unless otherwise stated. Disclosures and data relating
to Suncorp Bank will be included in our 2025 reporting.
The processes, approaches and policies described
in this report may vary in application across ANZ’s
operations, for example, to reflect specific legal
requirements of the jurisdictions in which ANZ
operates.
Frameworks
ANZ has prepared this report in accordance with the
GRI Universal Standards 2021. A GRI Index is available
in our 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack. We
have also considered aspects of the Sustainability
Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards.
Assurance
KPMG has performed limited assurance with
respect to:
• ANZ’s ESG Supplement and the ESG Data and
Frameworks Pack, in accordance with the GRI
Universal Standards 2021, ANZ’s Social and
Environmental Sustainability Target Methodology,
and Management’s basis of reporting included in
the Explanatory Notes. KPMG’s independent limited
assurance report is on pages 75-76.
• ANZ’s self-assessment against the United Nations
Environment Programme Finance Initiative Principles
for Responsible Banking Framework. KPMG’s
independent limited assurance report in relation to
the self-assessment, is available in the ESG Data
and Frameworks Pack.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
4ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
Further, KPMG performs limited assurance over the
disclosures in the ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures, and reasonable assurance over global
operational GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) (location-
based), global operational Scope 3 GHG emissions
(location-based) and global Scope 1, 2 and 3
emissions (market-based). KPMG’s limited assurance
report can be located on pages 117-119 of the
Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
Our broader reporting suite
ANZ has been a member of the United Nations
Global Compact (UNGC) since 2010. As part of our
membership, ANZ submits an annual Communication
on Progress outlining our progress against the
Ten Principles of the UNGC in the areas of human
rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
This is available at the UNGC website located at
unglobalcompact.org/.
ANZ is subject to the Australian Modern Slavery Act
2018 (Cth) and the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery
Act 2015. Our Modern Slavery Statement (when
released) will set out actions taken to identify, assess
and manage modern slavery risks in our operations
and supply chain during 2024. Our 2024 Modern
Slavery Statement will be available at anz.com.au/
esgreport in March 2025.
Our 2024 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’.
Our 2024 Voluntary Tax Transparency Report
discloses how we meet the requirements of the
Australian Board of Tax, Voluntary Tax Transparency
Code (TTC) including setting out our tax governance
framework and compliance with the tax laws and
obligations in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
We are continually seeking to improve our reporting
suite and welcome feedback on our ESG and Climate
reporting. Please address any questions, comments
or suggestions to esg@anz.com.
Cautionary statement on inclusion
The SDGs are a collection of 17 non-legally binding, interlinked global goals produced by the UN for
countries and governments. The SDGs are included to show how our strategy supports the SDGs.
ANZ makes no representation, warranty, or assurance of any kind, express or implied, and takes no
responsibility or liability as to whether ANZ’s strategy furthers the objective or achieves the purpose of
the indicated SDG.
Further information on the SDGs can be found at un.org/sustainabledevelopment/. The content of
this publication has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the
United Nations or its officials or Member States.
Sustainable Development Goals
ANZ supports the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and we believe
that business has an important role to play in
their achievement. Our current ESG targets
strive to support all 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 (located on page 18 and set out
in our UN Principles for Responsible Banking
Self-Assessment available at anz.com.au/
esgreport) that address our most significant
positive and negative impacts, aligned with the
SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
We have reported our progress towards
implementing the Principles using the
Reporting and Self-assessment Index,
available in our 2024 ESG Data and
Frameworks Pack.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
5ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
The material in this report contains
general background information about
the Group’s activities current as at
7 November 2024. It is information given
in summary form and does not purport
to be complete. It has a sustainability
focus and does not reflect the totality
of the Group’s business activities. For a
more complete overview of the Group’s
business, see the ANZ Annual Report
available at anz.com/shareholder/centre/.
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.
Forward-looking statements
This report may contain forward-looking
statements or opinions including statements
regarding our intent, belief or current
expectations with respect to the Group’s
business operations, market conditions, results
of operations and financial condition, capital
adequacy, sustainability objectives or targets,
specific provisions and risk management
practices. Those matters are subject to
risks and uncertainties that could cause the
actual results and financial position of the
Group to differ materially from the information
presented herein. When used in the report,
the words ‘forecast’, ‘estimate’, ‘goal’, ‘target’,
Disclaimer and important notices
‘indicator ’, ‘plan’, ‘pathway ’, ‘ambition’, ‘modelling’,
‘project’, ‘intend’, ‘anticipate’, ‘believe’, ‘expect’,
‘may ’, ‘probabilit y ’, ‘risk ’, ‘will’, ‘seek ’, ‘would’,
‘could’, ‘should’ and similar expressions, as they
relate to the Group 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.
There can be no assurance that actual outcomes
will not differ materially from any forward-looking
statements or opinions contained herein.
These statements only speak as at the date of
publication and no representation is made as to
their correctness on or after this date. No member
of the Group undertakes to publicly release the
result of any revisions to these forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances
after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
Climate-related information
This report may contain climate-related
statements, including in relation to climate-related
risks and opportunities, climate-related goals and
ambitions, climate scenarios, emissions reduction
pathways and climate projections. While the
statements were prepared in good faith, climate-
related statements are subject to significant
uncertainty, challenges and risks that may affect
their usefulness, accuracy and completeness,
including:
1. Availability and reliability of data – emissions
and climate-related data may be incomplete,
inconsistent, unreliable or unavailable (including
information from the Group’s clients), and it may
be necessary to rely on assumptions, estimates
or proxies where that is the case.
2. Uncertain methodologies and modelling –
methodologies, frameworks and standards
used for calculations of climate-related metrics,
modelling and climate data are not universally
applied, are rapidly evolving and subject to
change. This may impact the data modelling,
approaches, and targets used in preparation of
this report.
3. Complexity of calculations and estimates –
estimating financed or facilitated emissions
(including allocating emissions to banking
activities) and emissions reduction is complex
and relies on assumptions and judgments, often
made in respect of long periods of time.
4. Changes to climate-related governing frameworks
– changes to climate-related policy, laws,
regulations and market practices, standards and
developments, including those resulting from
legal proceedings and regulatory investigations.
5. Lack of consistency in definitions and climate-
science terminology subject to changes –
definitions and standards for climate-related
data and assessment frameworks used
across industries and jurisdictions may vary,
and terminology and concepts relating to
climate science and decarbonisation pathways
may evolve and change over time. These
inconsistencies and changes can also make
comparisons between different organisations’
climate targets and achievements difficult or
inappropriate.
6. Reliance on third parties for data or involvement
– the Group may need to rely on assistance,
data or other information from external data
and methodology providers or other third
parties, which may also be subject to change
and uncertainty. Additionally, action and
continuing participation of third parties, such
as stakeholders, may be required (including
financial institutions and governmental and non-
governmental organisations).
Due to these uncertainties, challenges and risks,
statements, assumptions, judgments, calculations,
estimates or proxies made or used by the
Group may turn out to be incorrect, inaccurate
or incomplete. Readers should conduct their
own independent analysis and not rely on the
information for investment decision-making.
The information in this notice should be read
with the qualifications, limitations and guidance
included throughout this report and in:
Appendix 4 ANZ Financed Emissions
Methodology included in the 2024 Climate-
related Financial Disclosures available at
anz.com.au/esgreport
Appendix 6 ANZ Operational Greenhouse
Gas Reporting and Carbon Offset Methodology
included in the 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures available at anz.com.au/esgreport
ANZ Social and Environmental Sustainability
Target Methodology available at anz.com.au/
esgreport
2024 ANZ ESG Data and Frameworks Pack
available at anz.com.au/esgreport
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
6ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
CEO’s message
Environmental, Social and
Governance (ESG) principles are
integral to our purpose, which is to
shape a world where people and
communities thrive. We deliver our
purpose by executing on our strategy,
which is focused on improving the
financial wellbeing and sustainability
of our customers.
To keep pace with the rapidly evolving external
environment and ensure we’re focused on the right
areas, we engage regularly with our stakeholders.
This ESG Supplement sets out our approach to
these areas – one of which is ethics, conduct and
culture.
We believe a strong culture is critical to meeting
community expectations and continue to be
guided by our Code of Conduct, which sets the
expected standards of behavior consistent with
our purpose. The Code supports our values
and helps us to make fair, balanced and ethical
decisions in our day-to-day work.
This year issues that arose in our Australian
Markets business have reinforced how critical it is
to ensure we have an engaged, purpose-led and
diverse culture across ANZ, built around driving
better customer outcomes.
Shayne Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
While our employee engagement score remained
industry leading in 2024, I acknowledge there
is always more to be done to embed a strong,
speak-up culture with a deep understanding of
non-financial risk. As CEO of ANZ, this is a key
priority.
Financial wellbeing and housing continue to be key
areas of focus given cost of living pressures and
deteriorating housing affordability and availability
in both Australia and New Zealand. This year, we
have funded and facilitated more than $1 billion
against our target of delivering $10 billion of more
affordable, accessible and sustainable homes
to buy and rent by the end of 2030. We have
delivered more than $6.4 billion since the target
commenced in 2018.
Our Climate and Environment Strategy adopts a
Group wide approach to financing a sustainable
transition. This is discussed in more detail in our
2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
We also work hard to stay abreast of what’s
happening in the broader economy and the impact
it’s having on our customers and the community.
Maintaining the security of customer information,
including how we support customers and keep
them safe from scams, is vitally important to our
stakeholders.
We set out how we are investing in prevention
and detection tools across the bank to keep our
customers and their data safe. We also outline
our approach to providing fair, accessible and
affordable products to customers.
This includes measures we’re taking to improve
both the experiences and outcomes for those
seeking hardship support, which is particularly
important in the current economic conditions.
This year we also undertook a review of our Ethics
and Responsible Business Committee. I chair this
committee and we want to ensure it continues to
effectively fulfill its role as the world continues to
evolve at pace.
We understand there will always be more to do
to respond to a fast-changing world, but we’re
making good progress and taking meaningful
action towards our purpose. We recognise the
importance of ESG in delivering long-term benefits
to our shareholders and that managing ESG well
delivers stronger governance outcomes, a lower
risk bank and more sustainable earnings while
helping us better serve our customers.
Finally, but importantly, during this financial year
ANZ completed the historic acquisition of Suncorp
Bank. We will incorporate our ESG reporting
on Suncorp Bank from the 2025 financial year
onwards.
Shayne Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
7ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
About our business
Australia Retail
Provides a range of banking products and services to Australian consumers.
Australia
Commercial
Provides a range of banking products and financial services to small business
owners, medium commercial customers, large commercial customers, and high
net worth individuals and family groups.
Institutional
Services global institutional and corporate customers, and governments across
Australia, New Zealand and International (including Papua New Guinea (PNG)) via
Transaction Banking, Corporate Finance and Markets business units.
New Zealand
Services retail and commercial banking customers in New Zealand and is one
of the largest New Zealand companies.
Pacific
Provides banking products and services to retail and commercial customers
(including multi-nationals) and to governments located in the Pacific region
(excluding PNG which forms part of the Institutional division).
Suncorp Bank
On 31 July 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the shares in SBGH Limited, the
immediate holding company of Suncorp Bank. The transaction was undertaken
to accelerate the growth of the Group’s retail and commercial businesses while
also improving the geographic balance of its business in Australia. The ESG
performance reported for the year ending 30 September 2024 does not include
Suncorp Bank for the period since ownership, unless otherwise stated. Disclosures
and data relating to Suncorp Bank will be included in our 2025 ESG reporting.
Group Centre
Provides support to the operating divisions, including technology, property,
risk management, financial management, treasury, strategy, marketing, human
resources, corporate affairs, and shareholder functions. It also includes minority
investments in Asia and interests in the ANZ Non-Bank Group.
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.
Integrating ESG and purpose into our strategy
has created an opportunity for us to better
serve our customers and generate long-term
shareholder value.
Through our purpose we have elevated three
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.
We provide banking and financial products and services to more
than 10 million
1
retail and business customers, across 29 markets.
Our expertise, products and services make us a bank. Our people,
purpose, values and culture make us ANZ.
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 down the expected
standards of professional behaviour and
guides us in applying our values.
Our values are: I.C.A.R.E
Integrity
Collaboration
Accountability
Respect
Excellence
We operate across a diverse business structure
1. Includes Suncorp Bank customers.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
8ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
ESG governance and risk management
Board and Executive oversight
The ANZ Group Holdings Limited Board (Board)
is responsible for oversight of the Group and
its overall governance and performance, with
specific duties as set out in its charter available
at anz.com.au/corporategovernance.
The Board, with the support of six principal
Board Committees (refer chart to the right),
is also responsible for oversight of ANZ’s
governance framework. The framework seeks
to provide effective and responsible decision
making, assisting ANZ in delivering on its
strategy and purpose. Each Board Committee
has its own charter setting out its roles and
responsibilities available at anz.com.au/
corporategovernance
.
At management level, the Group Executive
Committee (ExCo) comprises ANZ’s most senior
executives. A delegations of authority framework
outlines matters delegated from the Board to our
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and other members
of senior management. In addition, a number of
formally established management committees
deal with particular sets of ongoing issues.
The Board and key committees oversee our
ESG approach, including how we manage our
climate risks and opportunities. The committees
that represent our governance structure for the
oversight of ESG risks and opportunities are
discussed on the following pages. Our governance
approach to climate-related risks and opportunities
is discussed in more detail in our 2024 Climate-
related Financial Disclosures available at
anz.com.au/esgreport.
Board and Board Committees
ANZ’s Board
The Board is responsible for the oversight and
strategic direction of the Group.
As part of its role, the Board sets and monitors
the long-term implementation of ANZ’s strategies
and financial objectives. The Board has a
specific responsibility to oversee and assess
management’s performance in achieving strategies
and budgets approved by the Board as well as
monitoring the management of risk across ANZ.
Board skills
The ANZ Board Skills Matrix, as set out in the
2024 Corporate Governance Statement, which
is available at anz.com/corporategovernance,
outlines the key skills and experience the ANZ
Board is looking to achieve in its membership.
Included in the skills matrix is sustainability.
Our directors collectively bring a broad range of
skills, and current and prior experience which
includes having held roles across sectors such
as infrastructure, energy, mining, banking and
agriculture. For further details on the experience of
our directors refer to anz.com/annualreport.
In addition to having individuals on the Board with
a variety of technical skills and experiences, the
Board seeks to ensure that the directors operate
as a team. The Board is focused on the long-term
success of the Group. Each director has an individual
perspective which facilitates respectful and
constructive challenge of management and each
other, allowing for robust debate when navigating
complex issues.
The Skills Matrix is reviewed by the Nomination and
Board Operations Committee on a regular basis.
Principal Board
Committees
Audit Committee
Ethics, Environment,
Social and Governance
Committee
Risk Committee
Digital Business
and Technology Committee
Nomination and
Board Operations Committee
People
and Culture Committee
Board of Directors
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
9ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
For more information on our approach to climate-
related risks see our 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
Board Digital Business and
Technology Committee
The role of the Digital Business and Technology
Committee is to assist the Board in the effective
discharge of its responsibilities by providing
oversight of the Group’s digital transformation,
data, technology, technology-related innovation
and information/cyber security strategies.
Board People and Culture Committee
The Board is ultimately responsible for and
oversees ANZ Group’s Performance and
Remuneration Framework and its effective
application throughout the ANZ Group. The People
and Culture Committee’s role is to assist the Board
in its oversight of the effective operation of the
Performance and Remuneration Framework and
other Talent and Culture matters.
The People and Culture Committee has a strong
focus on the relationship between business
performance, risk management and remuneration,
aligned with our business strategy.
A joint meeting of the People and Culture,
Risk and Audit Committees is held annually to
review performance and variable remuneration
recommendations at both the Group, and CEO/
Disclosed Executive level (i.e. assessment of the ANZ
Group Scorecard and Divisional Scorecards for the
current financial year and setting the preliminary ANZ
Group Scorecard and Divisional Scorecards for the
next financial year). The Committees then submit
their recommendations to the Board for approval.
Refer to our Remuneration Report within our Annual
Report available at anz.com/annualreport.
Ethics and Responsible Business
Committee (ERBC)
The ERBC, chaired by the CEO, comprises Group
Executives and senior executives from business
divisions and Group functions.
The ERBC is a leadership and decision-making
body that exists to advance ANZ’s purpose and
seeks to ensure that ANZ operates responsibly
and achieves fair, ethical and balanced stakeholder
outcomes. The ERBC provides leadership on our
ESG risks and opportunities, monitoring progress
quarterly against ANZ’s ESG targets, which include
those related to climate.
This year, we have undertaken a review of the
ERBC to ensure the Committee continues to
effectively fulfill its role. In August 2024, the ERBC
charter was updated to reflect:
• Adjustments to the Committee’s key
responsibilities to align with restated objectives,
including relating to financial wellbeing,
affordable housing and ethical and ESG risks
and opportunities;
• Renewed Committee membership, for example,
inclusion of Group Executives from four of ANZ’s
divisions (Australia Commercial, Institutional,
New Zealand and Australia Retail); and
• The ERBC considers the key social and
environmental impacts of various industries,
customers and communities ANZ serves.
The ERBC is responsible for overseeing the
ERBC Sub-Committee for sensitive wholesale
transactions.
Board Ethics, Environment, Social and
Governance (EESG) Committee
The Board EESG Committee is responsible for
assisting the Board by providing oversight of
measures to advance ANZ’s purpose, focusing
on ethical and ESG matters.
In undertaking this role, the Board EESG
Committee is responsible for oversight, review and
approval of ANZ’s ESG approach, objectives and
performance, and public disclosures including ESG
and climate-related targets. Refer to page 18 for
more information on setting and approving targets.
The Board EESG Committee meetings typically
open with an overview of the ESG operating
environment, covering current and emerging
issues, including regulatory and parliamentary
inquiries, community sentiment, relevant
international developments and our stakeholder
engagement. Key topics that were considered in
2024 are outlined on the following page.
The Board EESG Committee also reviews the
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee
(ERBC) meeting minutes and discusses material
matters referred to it from that body.
Board Risk Committee (BRC)
The BRC oversees the implementation and
operation of the Group’s Risk Management
Framework, including climate risk, which was
elevated to a material risk in November 2023.
In undertaking this role, the BRC is responsible
for endorsing the Risk Appetite Statement. The
Risk Appetite Statement sets out the Board’s
expectations regarding the degree of risk (including
climate risk) that the Group is prepared to accept in
pursuit of its strategic objectives and business plan.
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.
ANZ’s Ethical Decision-Making
Framework
As the needs and expectations of
community, regulators and investors
evolve, we need a robust approach to
how we consider the ethical, social,
economic and environmental impacts
of decisions we make.
Our Ethical Decision-Making Framework
is a common framework used to help
deliberate complex issues – one that
enables us to consider both what we
should do and what we can do in various
scenarios.
The ERBC can draw on the Ethical
Decision-Making Framework when
considering complex ethical issues, such
as the social and environmental impacts
of the industries, customers and
transactions ANZ supports.
Board CommitteesManagement Committees
Below are the Board Committees and Management Committees that represent our governance structure for the oversight of ESG for 2024
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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Other management committees
Other management committees play a role in
the management of risks, including climate risk
and risks which are climate-related, such as
the following:
• Operational Risk Executive Committee (OREC) is
the primary senior executive management forum
responsible for overseeing the non-financial
risk profile and the related control environment
across the Group. This includes relevant climate-
related non-financial risks; and
• Credit and Markets Risk Committee (CMRC)
is the primary senior executive management
forum responsible for the oversight and control
of credit, market, insurance and other material
financial risks across the Group. This includes
relevant climate-related financial risks.
The purpose of these management committees is
to assist the BRC in the effective discharge of its
responsibilities.
OREC and CMRC have responsibility (shared with
ERBC) for oversight of climate risk. OREC and
CMRC also have responsibility for the oversight of
ANZ’s management of new and emerging risks
within their respective risk areas.
Activities undertaken by OREC and CMRC will at
times overlap with topics raised in ERBC (and vice
versa) as part of the executive oversight and risk
management required to deliver on ANZ’s purpose
and strategy.
Areas of focus by the Board EESG
Committee and management ERBC
Both committees discuss the areas of ‘how
we bank’ and ‘who we bank’. This year the
committees have considered the below topics,
including receiving briefings from internal and
external subject matter experts. These briefings
and meetings provide opportunities to support
knowledge building and capability in a range of
ESG topics including our most material issues
discussed on page 12, and for example:
Financial wellbeing
Scams
Family violence
Financial inclusion and
community programs
First Nations banking
Nature
Large Emitters Engagement Program
(LEEP)
Ethical adoption of artificial intelligence
For the climate-related areas of focus by the Board
EESG Committee and management ERBC please
see our 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
We run a regular program of CEO and senior
executive meetings with civil society leaders
including non-government organisations,
government, regulators and academics to build
knowledge of our senior executives across
ESG topics.
ESG targets, including
climate-related targets
Each year we set public targets that reflect our
ESG focus areas, support the delivery of our
business strategy and respond to our most
material ESG issues.
Progress against our ESG targets is monitored
quarterly by the ERBC and twice a year by the
Board EESG Committee. An annual review of
these targets is conducted to ensure they remain
relevant. Proposed targets are reviewed by the
ERBC and the Board EESG Committee and
approved by the Board EESG Committee.
See our ESG targets including our 2024
performance on pages 18-22. See our 2024
Climate-related Financial Disclosures for detail on
our sectoral pathways targets available at
anz.com.au/esgreport.
Executive remuneration
ANZ’s Remuneration Report within our Annual
Report, available at anz.com/annualreport, details
how performance and remuneration outcomes are
determined for our most senior leaders.
The CEO’s Short Term Variable Remuneration
(STVR) is assessed 100% on the ANZ Group
Scorecard, adjusted by the CEO Leadership
Modifier, which takes into consideration the CEO’s
leadership of: key strategic priorities aligned with
ANZ’s strategy; ANZ’s values/behaviours; and
ANZ’s risk and compliance standards.
Performance objectives are set for Disclosed
Executives through Divisional Scorecards, aligned
with the ANZ Group Scorecard. STVR outcomes
for Disclosed Executives reflect both the overall
performance of the Group and the performance
of each individual Disclosed Executive and their
relevant division.
ANZ’s Group Scorecard includes relevant
objectives and measures. For example the 2024
Group Scorecard includes:
• Delivery against Environmental, Social and
Governance (ESG) targets, such as the funding
and facilitation of at least $100 billion by the end
of 2030 in social and environmental activities,
management of climate risks via our Large
Emitters Engagement Program, and reducing the
direct impact of our business activities on the
environment.
• Attract, retain, engage and develop people with
the skills and mindset to support our business
transformation, such as through the upskilling
of employees with the ESG@ANZ Learning
Program.
• Maintain a purpose led culture, with strong
employee engagement, and improved diversity
and inclusion. A key measure includes a Diversity
and Inclusion (D&I) target (aligned to our D&I
strategy).
Divisional Scorecards also include objectives and
measures as relevant to the particular business.
Group/Divisional Scorecards are not designed to
capture all of our ESG targets – however our senior
leaders are accountable for ensuring we focus
on and seek to adhere to our commitments and
policies, with regular review and oversight by the
CAF, ERBC, and EESG.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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What matters most to our stakeholders
Each year we conduct a materiality assessment where we engage with internal and external stakeholders
to identify and assess our most material ESG issues. The results help inform our business practices – including
Group Performance Framework – ESG targets and the coverage given to key topics in our external reporting.
Our material ESG issues
We’re continuing to bring our purpose to life
through our focus on complex issues that are
important to society and our business strategy:
Our materiality assessment this year also
highlighted the ongoing importance of three
other issues:
• Ethics, conduct and culture was again raised
in stakeholder discussions this year. It includes
meeting expected standards of behaviour.
• Information security, encompassing cyber
security and financial crime, remains a top order
issue, including due to continuing customer
losses to scams.
• Responsible customer engagement (in
previous years we called this customer
experience), covering the need for ANZ, in
particular in challenging economic conditions, to
provide fair, accessible and affordable products,
as well as customer support, including for those
in financial hardship.
These six issues are consistent with our 2023
assessment.
Our assessment process
External views were sought on a broad range
of ESG issues through stakeholder surveys in
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, and
interviews in Australia with institutional investors,
consumer and environmental non-government
organisations, and our community partners. The
survey this year included a more granular list of
topics, which were then aggregated into the issues
set out on pages 13-14).
Our approach included using a double materiality
analysis, asking stakeholders to consider in what
areas ANZ has the most impact (positive and
negative) on the economy, environment and
people (including their human rights), as well as the
impact these issues may have on the bank’s ability
to create value through its financial or operating
performance.
In developing our list of topics and deciding
which issues were most material, we considered
the following:
• Our purpose, strategy, values and Code of
Conduct (refer to pages 24 and 26)
• Our Material Risks (refer to page 30 of our
2024 Annual Report available at
anz.com.au/annualreport)
• Recent regulatory developments,
including developments in sustainability
reporting standards
• Industry research and trends
• Investor reports and priorities
• Peer review
• Media review and analysis
• The United Nations Principles for
Responsible Banking
• The United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
1
Our assessment approach is in accordance with
the GRI Standard G3: Material Topics 2021 and
considers the Sustainability Accounting Standards
Board (SASB) Conceptual Framework 2017. Refer
also to our 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack
available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
We expect our broader ESG reporting approach
to evolve with the implementation of the AASB
Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards.
Environmental sustainability remains
one of the highest priority issues
identified by our stakeholders, in terms
of both risks and opportunities.
Financial wellbeing continues to be a
key issue in light of current economic
conditions.
Housing was also identified by many
of our stakeholders as of particular
importance, noting the challenges
associated with the cost of living and
housing affordability and availability in
Australia and New Zealand.
1. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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1. The survey this year included a more granular list of topics, which were then aggregated into the issues set out in this table. Sub-topics within an individual issue were not necessarily identified as ‘material’ in their own right. 2. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
Our most material ESG issues (not ranked)
Description of issue
1
Location of disclosureRelated UN SDGs
2
Environmental
sustainability
Climate change; nature including biodiversity; circular economy;
ANZ’s own emissions.
2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures available at
anz.com.au/esgreport
2024 ESG Supplement pages 27-28 (summary only)
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Financial wellbeingCustomer and community financial wellbeing.2024 ESG Supplement pages 32-36
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
HousingHousing access, affordability and sustainability.2024 ESG Supplement pages 29-31
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Ethics, conduct and
culture
Corporate values, conduct and culture; and
corporate governance.
2024 ESG Supplement pages 23-26
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Information securityFinancial crime prevention (including fraud and scams);
cyber security and data management (including privacy
and security).
2024 ESG Supplement pages 37-41
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Responsible customer
engagement
Responsible marketing, sales and lending practices; fair,
accessible and affordable products and services; customer
support (e.g. hardship), experience and satisfaction.
2024 ESG Supplement pages 42-47
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
13ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
Other ESG issues (not ranked)
Description of issue
1
Location of disclosureRelated UN SDGs
2
Digital banking
experience
Digital innovation and emerging technology, including artificial
intelligence.
2024 ESG Supplement pages 48-49
2024 Annual Report page 16 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Diversity and inclusionDiversity, equity and inclusion; First Nations rights, advancement
and integration (e.g. of Te Ao Māori).
2024 ESG Supplement pages 61-67
Employee experienceWorkforce planning, attraction and retention, including remuneration;
employee support (e.g. health, safety, wellbeing and engagement).
2024 ESG Supplement pages 68-71
Human rightsHuman rights and modern slavery; supply chain management and
procurement that is sustainable, responsible and diverse.
2024 ESG Supplement pages 59-60
Regulation and risk
management
Regulatory compliance; anti-money laundering (AML),
counter-terrorism financing (CTF), anti-bribery, anti-corruption
(ABAC); financial system risk and resilience.
2024 ESG Supplement pages 50-56
2024 Annual Report pages 26-28 available at
anz.com.au/annualreport
Thriving communitiesCommunity engagement, investment and contribution.2024 ESG Supplement pages 57-58
1. The survey this year included a more granular list of topics, which were then aggregated into the issues set out in this table. Sub-topics within an individual issue were not necessarily identified as ‘material’ in their own right. 2. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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Stakeholder engagement
Customers
Key issues raised
• Increasing interest rates and how they impact
cost of living pressures
• Conduct and culture
• Products, fees and charges
• Customer service including access to branches
in regional Australia
• ANZ’s digital propositions including ANZ Plus
• Agreement to acquire Suncorp Bank by ANZ
• Information security, scams and data privacy
• Societal challenges including housing
affordability and natural disasters
• Digital inclusion
• Supporting our customers’ transition to net-zero
• Macroeconomic, geopolitical and localised
issues impacting customers
How we responded
Examples of our response to a number of the
issues raised by customers can be found on pages
42-47 of this document.
Employees
How we engaged
• Branch staff and relationship managers, product
partners and senior managers for specific
customer support (in-person and via calls,
emails and letters)
• ANZ’s online customer research community
• Live chat and notifications on anz.com and the
ANZ Apps
• 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
team, Extra Care Hub and related functions
• Social media
• Research and economics forums and insights
• ‘5-in-5 with ANZ’ podcast
• Customer and sponsorship events and
delegations
How we engaged
• Annual ‘My Voice’ survey and regular ‘pulse’
surveys
• Risk culture survey
• Financial wellbeing webinars
• Reconciliation Action Plan barometer survey
• Interactive webcasts with ANZ’s CEO, Executive
Committee and other internal and external guest
speakers
• Direct people leader communication, including
in-person leadership conferences
• Internal communications channels, including
email, intranet and Viva Engage
• Meetings with unions representing ANZ
employees
• Workplace mental health review
• Divisional roadshows for employees
Key issues raised
• Attracting, building and retaining workforce
capability
• Business strategy and priorities including the
acquisition of Suncorp Bank by ANZ
• Professional growth and development
• Change and transformation
• The impact of artificial intelligence and
technology
• Our purpose and material ESG focus areas,
and how ANZ is responding
• Diversity and inclusion
• Flexible working arrangements
• Remuneration and reward; performance
management
• ‘Speak up’ culture
• Wellbeing
How we responded
Examples of our response to a number of the
issues raised by employees can be found on
pages 64-71 of this document.
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.
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
examples of how we responded.
See our Stakeholder Engagement
Policy Summary available at
anz.com.au/about-us/esg/policies-
practices/
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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• The environment and energy, including climate-
related financial disclosures, the regulation
of ‘greenwashing’, support for hydrogen and
sustainable financing
• Payments, including the regulation of payments
and the provision of cheques
New Zealand
• Regulatory issues including responsible
consumer lending, the consumer data right,
AML/CTF laws, environmental planning
reforms for agribusinesses, merchant service
fees, deposit compensation and prudential
supervision
• Public policy development on issues including
competition in retail banking, accessibility of
banking services, climate resilience and climate-
related financial disclosures, scams, housing,
macroprudential tools and payments
• Economic analysis and outlook provided by
ANZ Research
How we responded
We listen to and seek to 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 a number of issues raised is outlined on
pages 50-56 of this document and the 2024
Climate-related Financial Disclosures available
at anz.com.au/esgreport.
Shareholders
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. This year, we held our
seventh annual ESG investor briefing.
Examples of our response to a number of the
issues raised by shareholders can be found on
pages 12-14 of this document and pages 12-30
of the 2024 Annual Report available at anz.com.
au/annualreport.
Government and regulators
How we engaged
• Meetings with members of Parliament, public
officials and regulators
• Submissions to and appearances before
Parliamentary committee inquiries and
government and regulatory consultations
Key issues raised
Australia
• Cost of living pressures, including the impact
of interest rates on our customers and the
economy
• Conduct of ANZ
• Review of industry approaches to identifying and
supporting home loan customers experiencing
financial hardship
• Physical banking services, including branches
in regional areas and the distribution of cash
• The acquisition of Suncorp Bank by ANZ,
including the governmental approvals and
measures needed for this
• The prevention and response to crime, including
government and industry responses to scams,
reforms to Anti-Money Laundering/Counter
Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) laws, financial
abuse, and cyber security
• Technology and privacy, including artificial
intelligence, the Consumer Data Right, reforms
to Australia’s privacy laws and digital identity
• The provision of credit and financial advice,
including the Personal Property Securities
Register, comprehensive credit reporting and
advice regulation
• International relations, including cross-border
trade, Australian engagement with the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations and
banking services in the Pacific
How we engaged
• Disclosures including results announcements,
investor presentations, external reporting suite
and ASX lodgements
• Shareholder engagement program including
ANZ’s shareholder centre website updates,
written communication and shareholder
discussions
• Interim and full-year results briefings
• ESG investor briefings, strategy and other
market updates
• Annual General Meeting
Key issues raised
• Operating conditions and how ANZ is navigating
the environment and supporting customers
• ANZ’s purpose, strategic focus, business
priorities and competitive advantage
• Financial performance, including key drivers and
returns relative to prior periods and the broader
banking sector
• Balance sheet management, including capital,
liquidity and funding positions
• Shareholder returns, share price trends and
dividends
• Risk management, including credit quality trends
and operational risk (including cyber risk)
• The acquisition of Suncorp Bank by ANZ
• Progress on ANZ’s digital initiatives
• Material ESG focus areas, and how ANZ is
responding
• Remuneration and rewards
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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Non-Government
Organisations (NGOs)Industry associations
How we responded
We seek to contribute constructively to
public policy formation and to understand
the perspectives of our communities elected
representatives, policymakers and regulators.
We contribute to discussions on the development
of policies on business, economic, social and
environmental issues affecting our customers and
shareholders.
We work in a collaborative and open way as
members of associations that have similar interests
and approaches to ours. 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.
Examples of our response to a number of the
issues raised by industry associations can be
found on pages 37-42 of this document, and
pages 38-39 of our 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
In 2024, our key membership
payments included:
Australian Banking Association $2,580,387
Business Council of Australia $104,500
New Zealand Banking Association
NZ$729,596
Business New Zealand NZ$43,700
How we engaged
• 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
• Support for customers, employees and
communities impacted by family violence and
financial abuse
• First Nations social and economic development
• Homelessness in Australia and New Zealand
• Customers requiring extra care, hardship
programs and consumer protection
• Conduct and culture
• Climate change policies, climate risks and
opportunities, and nature
• Digital inclusion and capability
• Natural disaster support
• Mental health issues related to financial stress
How we responded
Examples of our response to a number of the
issues raised by NGOs can be found on pages
57-58 of this document and pages 33-35 and
41-51 of our 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures available at anz.com.au/esgreport.
How we engaged
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 Banking
Association (NZBA), 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 committee inquiries and
government consultations
• Engage with consumer representatives to
discuss issues affecting customers
• Participate in relevant ABA and NZBA working
groups
Key issues raised
• Review of the Banking Code of Practice
• Information security, scams, artificial intelligence
and data privacy
• The distribution of cash in Australia and
branches
• Climate change policy, climate risks and
opportunities, climate-related financial
disclosures
• The Consumer Data Right and digital identity
• Financial crime and financial abuse and
vulnerability
• Housing, including responding to Government
initiatives and consultations
Overview and governance
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
CEO’s message
About our business
ESG governance and
risk management
What matters most
to our stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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We continue to work on and progress our public ESG targets that reflect
some of our most material ESG issues. Our ESG targets also support the
delivery of our business practices, and our purpose, to shape a world
where people and communities thrive.
Progress against our ESG targets is reviewed by the Ethics and Responsible Business Committee
quarterly and twice a year by the Board Ethics, Environment, Social and Governance Committee.
An annual review of these targets is conducted to ensure they remain relevant.
2024 target performance status
Our material ESG issues
This year we have partially achieved, or made
good progress against our eight ESG targets:
Details of our targets and performance
in 2024 are set out on the following pages.
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Financial wellbeing
Responsible customer engagement
Housing
Information security
Four of the targets have been revised for 2025.
has been partially achieved
and has now concluded, and
1
are in progress and
continuing, but
7
sub-target is off track.
1
Details of our material ESG issues and how
we identify and assess these are set out on
pages 12-14. Our targets focus on those
material issues which help bring our purpose
to life – environmental sustainability, financial
wellbeing and housing.
Our ESG targets and performance
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Our ESG targets and
performance
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
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Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
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2024 ESG targets performance summary
1. From a baseline of approximately 2.4 million customers as at 30 September 2023 2. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5. 3. Saver Plus. 4. Eight out of 10 months saving (as per Saver Plus program), measured by participant survey data. 5. Refer to the Cautionary
statement on inclusion on page 5. 6. Q1 FY24 includes transactions validated as eligible for inclusion in the target from 23/09/2023. Q4 FY24 progress included transactions allocated towards the target validated as eligible up to 21/09/2024. A small number of transactions lodged after
21/09/2024 and before 30/09/2024 were also validated and included. Refer also to the ANZ Social and Environmental Sustainability Target Methodology available at anz.com/esgreport. 7. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
2024 Ta rg e t2024 Performance2025 Ta rg e tStatusMaterial Issues
Encourage our customers to build and maintain financial resilience
with the aim of having at least 2.5 million customers
1
with a financial
buffer of approximately 6 weeks’ expenses by end 2026. (Australia/
New Zealand)
At the end of 2024, 2,587,441 customers in Australia and New
Zealand had a financial buffer of approximately 6 weeks’ expenses.
We expect the number of customers with this financial buffer to vary
over time as customers respond to economic circumstances.
No change for 2025
Related UN SDGs
2
Pilot a savings program
3
for people on lower incomes in Fiji and
Vanuatu by end 2025, with at least 80% of participants having
demonstrated a savings habit
4
upon completion. (Pacific)
We have commenced the savings program pilot in Fiji in July 2024 and
in Vanuatu in October 2024. The pilots will run for 12 months in each
country, with the Fiji pilot expected to conclude in June 2025 and the
Vanuatu pilot expected to conclude in September 2025.
No change for 2025
Related UN SDGs
5
Fund and facilitate at least $100 billion by end 2030, including
$15 billion in 2024, in social and environmental activities through
customer transactions and direct investments by ANZ. This
includes initiatives that aim to help lower carbon emissions, protect
nature, increase access to affordable housing and promote
financial wellbeing.
Since 1 April 2023, we have funded and facilitated approximately
$38.96 billion, across 226 transactions, of which $20.23 billion is
funded and $18.73 billion is facilitated. This includes $30.17 billion
allocated towards the target in 2024
6
, exceeding our $15 billion 2024
sub-target.
Fund and facilitate at least $100 billion
by end 2030, including $18.5 billion
in 2025, in social and environmental
activities through customer transactions
and direct investments by ANZ. This
includes initiatives that aim to help
lower carbon emissions, protect nature,
increase access to affordable housing
and promote financial wellbeing.
Related UN SDGs
7
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1. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5. 2. Environmental reporting year is 1 July – 30 June, in line with the Australian regulatory reporting year. 3. Using a market-based method for Scope 2 calculations. Refer to the ANZ Operational Greenhouse Emissions Gas Reporting
and Carbon Offset Methodology in Appendix 6 of the Climate-related Financial Disclosures. 4. 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. 5. Power Purchase Agreement. 6. Total potable water consumed from ANZ’s global properties. From 2021 includes global water consumption values, 2018 – 2020 values represent water consumption in our
Australian commercial offices (>10,000m
2
) excluding 347 Kent Street which was sold in the 2020 reporting year. 7. Total waste to landfill generated from ANZ’s global properties. From 2021 includes global waste consumption values, 2018 – 2020 values include Australia and New Zealand only.
8. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
2024 Ta rg e t2024 Performance2025 Ta rg e tStatusMaterial Issues
Enhance our management of climate risks and opportunities by
intensifying our engagement with our largest emitting business
customers. We will expect and encourage them to strengthen their
low carbon transition plans, by:
• focusing our engagement and raised expectations on our 100
largest emitting business customers with the aim that by end 2025,
compared to their starting point more customers achieve a ‘well
developed’ or ‘advanced’ rating for their low carbon transition plans;
• extending the use of our Climate Change Risk Assessment
methodology so that by end 2024 it has been used to support
our engagement with the revised list of our 100 largest
emitting business customers.
We extended the use of Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)
methodology to our 100 largest emitting business customers who
were also engaged and assessed for their transition plan maturity.
Enhance our management of climate
risks and opportunities by intensifying
our engagement with our largest
emitting business customers. We
will expect and encourage them to
strengthen their low carbon transition
plans, by focusing our engagement and
raised expectations on our 100 largest
emitting business customers with the
aim that by end 2025, compared to
their starting point more customers are
assessed as being in a ‘mature’ phase of
their low carbon transition plans.
Related UN SDGs
1
Reduce the direct impact of our business activities on the
environment
2
by:
No change for 2025
• Reducing combined scope 1 and 2 emissions 85% by
2025 and 90% by 2030 (against 2015 baseline);
3
• Our combined scope 1 and 2 emissions have decreased by 80%
since 2015.
• Being powered by the equivalent of 100% renewable
electricity by 2025;
4
• 57% of electricity consumption associated with our operations
came from renewable sources in 2024. Shortfall due to wind turbine
faults from our PPA
5
and lack of renewable energy schemes in our
international locations.
• Reducing water consumption
6
by 40% by 2025
(against 2017 baseline);
• Our global water consumption has decreased by 59% since
2 0 1 7.
• Reducing waste to landfill
7
by 40% by 2025
(against 2017 baseline);
• Our waste to landfill generated by global operations has decreased
by 75% since 2017.
• Reducing paper consumption (both office and ANZ originated
customer paper use) by 70% by 2025 (against 2015 baseline).
• Our paper consumption has decreased by 74% since 2015.
Related UN SDGs
8
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performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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2024 Ta rg e t2024 Performance2025 TargetStatusMaterial Issues
Fund and facilitate at least $10 billion of investment by end 2030,
including $750 million in 2024, to deliver homes to buy and rent that
are more affordable, accessible or sustainable
1
.
Since October 2018, we have funded and facilitated approximately
$6.48 billion to support the delivery of more affordable, accessible
or sustainable homes to buy and rent.
This includes $1.18 billion allocated towards the target in 2024
2
,
exceeding our $750 million 2024 sub-target.
Fund and facilitate at least $10 billion
of investment by end 2030, including
$750 million in 2025, to deliver homes
to buy and rent that are more affordable,
accessible or sustainable
3
.
Related UN SDGs
4
Helping New Zealand homeowners improve the sustainability of their
homes and/or reduce their transport emissions through discounted
lending of at least NZ$670m in aggregate to at least 16,000
households by end 2025. (New Zealand)
Since October 2020 we have supported 16,221 households
into healthier homes and NZ$647.2 million lending through:
• Our Healthy Home Loan package
• Our Good Energy Home Loan Top Up
• Interest-free Insulation Loans
5
As at the end of September 2024, we have achieved:
• 96% of our lending target
• 101% of our household target
As our 2024 target was almost achieved, one year ahead of schedule,
it has been revised to maintain ambition.
Helping New Zealand homeowners
improve the sustainability of their
homes and/or reduce their transport
emissions through discounted lending
of at least NZ$825m in aggregate to at
least 19,700 households by end 2025.
(New Zealand)
Related UN SDGs
6
1. Eligible housing transactions that also meet the eligibility criteria for the social and environmental target to achieve $100 billion by end 2030 may contribute towards both targets. 2. Q4 FY23 performance included transactions allocated towards the target validated as eligible up to
22/09/2023. FY24 YTD includes transactions validated as eligible for inclusion in the target from 23/09/2023 to 21/09/2024. A small number of transactions lodged after 21/09/2024 and before 30/09/2024 were also validated and included. 3. Eligible housing transactions that also meet the
eligibility criteria for the social and environmental target to achieve $100 billion by end 2030 may contribute towards both targets. 4. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5. 5. Product discontinued in July 2022. 6. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
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performance
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Regulation and risk management
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Achieve the 17 actions in our Reconciliation Action Plan, by end 2024.
(Australia)
We made significant progress across all 17 actions, comprising 100
deliverables, achieving 16 actions, and 98
1
out of 100 deliverables.
The two deliverables not fully achieved, and our performance against
them, are:
• 2% of all external hires in Australia are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander employees (we achieved 1.8% in 2024).
• Maintain a retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
employees that is equal to non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
employees in Australia (we achieved 84.9% for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander employees compared to 88.4% for non-Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander employees in 2024).
These deliverables were both under the same action – “Improve
employment outcomes by increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders recruitment, retention, and professional development.” There
are specific actions in the First Nations Recruitment, Retention and
Professional Development Strategy aimed at further improving these
recruitment and retention rates.
Concludes in 2024
Related UN SDGs
2
1. We achieved our deliverable to provide at least six MoneyBusiness facilitator training sessions to community workers and financial counsellors working in remote communities each year on an averaged basis. 2. Refer to the Cautionary statement on inclusion on page 5.
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Managing non-financial risk at ANZ
Non-Financial Risk Management
at ANZ
Following the Royal Commission, ANZ commenced
a major program to strengthen NFR management
across the Bank, including greater standardisation
of risk tolerance, processes and reporting. In
practice, NFR refers to the risks that we face from
managing our operations, our processes and
systems as well as how we conduct ourselves.
In 2022 the ANZ Board elevated its review
of progress and accountability for the NFR
program. At the time, steps included reinforcing
the Executive Committee’s accountability and
upgrading the technology platform underpinning
the new program. The Board also appointed an
independent external expert to monitor and report
on progress.
As of late 2023-24, the program was making
good progress and meeting key milestones, while
staff using the new systems were reporting an
improved NFR capability.
However, events associated with the Markets
business in the Institutional Division (see next
section) highlighted the need for an ongoing uplift
in ANZ’s NFR processes and drew a response from
APRA including a risk capital overlay.
In addition to ensuring delivery of the existing NFR
program, the Board is also requiring further focus
from Management on strengthening risk culture
and embedding the new NFR processes across
the bank.
The Board considers the final delivery of the NFR
program, combined with the additional focus on
embedding NFR controls, will provide the required
outcome. We will continue to report on our
progress to shareholders and regulators.
While the bank has a track record of
prudently managing financial risk, we are still
building capability in the management of
non-financial risk (NFR).
This has been emphasised by the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
requiring ANZ to hold an additional
operational risk capital overlay, due to
concerns about our progress in this space,
including issues within our Markets business.
We have made progress in the delivery of our
NFR program, I.AM Amplified, however it is clear
there is more to do and ongoing vigilance is
required.
This will continue to be a significant focus in
2025. The actions we are taking on NFR and the
Board’s response on the specific matters arising
within the Markets business is outlined here.
Institutional Division, Markets Issues
During the year, concerns were raised regarding
an Australian Government bond issuance in 2023
where ANZ was the Duration Manager and a Joint
Lead Manager. There were also conduct and data
issues identified within our Markets business.
The Board has direct oversight of the issue and
taken a number of actions, including:
• Assessing reports from independent experts
in financial markets appointed to analyse
trading activity.
• Engaging external legal advisors, independent
of Management, to ensure rigorous and thorough
outcomes from the expert reviews.
• Establishing a sub-committee of directors with
relevant experience, chaired by ANZ Chairman,
Paul O’Sullivan, to evaluate and test technical
issues on ongoing basis.
• Commissioning Oliver Wyman, in consultation
with APRA, to undertake a thorough independent
review of culture and controls within the
Markets business.
While some of these reviews remain ongoing,
the Board has ensured accountability and
consequences are enforced where relevant,
particularly for the conduct and data matters.
Consequences for the Executive Committee are
detailed in the Remuneration Report and include:
• A reduction in the Risk Modifier which
reduced the outcome of the Group Scorecard
and impacted variable remuneration for
all employees.
• Collective accountability for the entire Executive
Committee regarding NFR matters, resulting in
a reduction in 2024 STVR and a reduction in
2025 Long Term Variable Remuneration (LTVR)
restricted rights to be granted in November/
December 2024.
• An additional STVR impact for Executives with
greater overall accountability for the Markets and
NFR matters.
Given the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission’s (ASIC) review of these matters is
ongoing, the Board has the discretion to freeze
or reduce future vesting of equity to accountable
Executives and is satisfied that the quantum of
outstanding equity is sufficient.
We are committed to
listening and learning from
our mistakes to keep the
needs of our customers as
our priority and to ensure that
we uphold the behaviors
expected of us as a bank.
We acknowledge that this year there have
been some examples of where we have
failed our customers. The actions we are
taking in these specific circumstances are
outlined on page 42.
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Ethics, conduct and culture
Managing non-financial risk at ANZ
Improving conduct and culture
Our shared culture at ANZ
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Improving conduct and culture
Our Code requires all employees and contractors
to comply with the law as well as our policies and
procedures. It is supported by a suite of policies
reviewed regularly to reflect legislative changes
and to ensure they remain fit for purpose
1
. We
expect our partners (such as suppliers, service
providers and other relevant third parties) to adopt
and maintain conduct and ethics principles similar
to those outlined in our Code (and its supporting
policies) and our Supplier Code of Practice.
All employees and contractors are required
to complete ANZ Essentials training courses
within two months of commencing with ANZ
and then on a regular basis. Courses include
training on ‘Living the Code’, ‘Equal Opportunity
Essentials’ (including anti-discrimination and
sexual harassment), ‘Financial Crime Essentials’
(including Anti-Money Laundering), ‘Operational
Risk’, ‘Security Essentials’ (including 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.
In 2024, the mandatory learning course
compliance rate across the enterprise was 99.73%.
Individuals who fail to complete this training or
other mandatory learning requirements within
Code of Conduct
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 (PRR).
Our Group Performance 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 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 1,400 employee relations
cases involving alleged breaches of our Code,
with 488 resulting in a formal consequence
or the employee leaving ANZ (down from 501
in 2023). Breaches ranged from compliance/
procedural breaches (20.7%) through to general
unacceptable behaviour (38.5%), email/systems
misuse (10.5%), attendance issues (17.4%),
fraud/theft (5.5%), conflict of interest (3.7%), and
breaches of our Equal Opportunity, Bullying and
Harassment Policy (3.7%).
Outcomes following investigations of breaches
this year included 306 warnings, 88 terminations
and 94 employees otherwise leaving ANZ.
1. A copy of our Code of Conduct and the full list of policies are available at anz.com.au/corporategovernance.
Alleged breaches of ANZ Code
of Conduct
Our Code of Conduct sets expected
standards of behaviour and guides us in
applying our values.
This includes:
being ethical and professional
acting with integrity
treating everyone with dignity and respect
managing conflicts of interest
protecting privacy and confidentiality
complying with our Code, policies and
the law; and
calling out unacceptable behaviour and
standing up for what is right.
Compliance/procedural breaches
General unacceptable behaviour
Email/systems misuse
Aendance issues
Fraud/the
Conflict of interest
Breaches of our Equal Opportunity,
Bullying and Harassment Policy
20.7%
38.5%
10.5%
17.4%
5.5%
3.7%
3.7%
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Improving conduct and culture
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Regulation and risk management
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Empowering our people to speak up
ANZ’s Whistleblower Policy and Program is a key
component of our strong and effective conduct
risk management and corporate governance
framework. We apply Australian whistleblower
regulations across the markets in which we
operate. Additional jurisdiction-specific regulations
imposing higher or contrary obligations are
captured in schedules within 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
organisation. Information received through the
whistleblower channel helps to identify misconduct
that may not otherwise be detected and to act on
issues which do not support our purpose, values
and expected behaviours.
There were 222 new reports made through the
Whistleblower Program this year (up from 170
in 2023) demonstrating a continued willingness
of individuals to speak up to raise misconduct
concerns.
Our focus this year was on continuing to build
awareness and confidence in the Program,
strengthening governance and risk management
frameworks, and the timely management of
whistleblower matters.
Key initiatives included:
• 216 awareness sessions delivered to business
units, by Group Integrity (210 in 2023)
• Targeted jurisdiction and business specific
awareness sessions were also run, designed
to build trust in the process and program, and
promote speak up channels;
• An awareness campaign to mark World
Whistleblower Day in July 2024, was run across
the jurisdictions we operate in; and
• Hosting a virtual panel discussion involving
senior executives and an external expert guest
speaker on the importance of whistleblowing
and the protection of whistleblowers.
A Group-wide employee survey indicated
continued high levels of awareness and confidence
in the Program, and reporter protections, across
the organisation. Survey insights enabled
opportunities to build ongoing awareness and
trust in the Program and process, and to tailor
communication initiatives.
All employees and contingent workers are
required to undertake annual mandatory learning
on their obligations and responsibilities under
the Whistleblower Policy. Role-specific training
for Whistleblower Investigators, Whistleblower
Protection Officers, and eligible recipients of
whistleblower reports (including Executive
Committee members and Board members) was
delivered to seek to ensure they understand
their obligations under applicable laws and how
to appropriately handle, and where applicable,
investigate reports. For more information about
mandatory learning see page 70.
Whistleblower investigation outcomes
2024 Whistleblower Program themes and
allegations include:
• Code of Conduct and other policy breaches
• Bullying
• Harassment
• Discrimination
• Conflicts of interest
• Fraud (internal and external)
• Maintaining safe work environments
• Privacy and confidentiality breaches
Recommended actions and outcomes from
investigated reports include:
• Formal warnings
• Termination of employment
• Review and remediation of policy, process and
procedures
• Coaching and informal counselling
• Improved oversight
• Additional training
• Communications reinforcing expected standards
of behaviour
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Managing non-financial risk at ANZ
Improving conduct and culture
Our shared culture at ANZ
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
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Our shared culture at ANZ
At ANZ, we define culture as what’s valued,
what’s expected and how things get done.
Our culture enables the achievement of
ANZ’s purpose, to shape a world where
people and communities thrive, and
strategy, to improve the sustainability and
financial wellbeing of customers.
We bring culture to life through our behaviours which
provide a common anchor for everyone at ANZ.
Our 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.
We continue to embed our behaviours across
the organisation. We have invested in uplifting
capability to help leaders drive culture, and
employees to create habits to demonstrate our
behaviours consistently. This year we launched an
initiative with a group of executive leaders to equip
them to be custodians of our purpose, strategy
and culture and work “better together” across the
enterprise to better service our customers. For
more information about how we have developed
leaders and their teams see page 70.
Measuring our culture
We measure culture by reviewing, understanding
and taking action to address the themes identified
through the following key activities:
• Annual risk culture maturity assessments
governed by our Operational Risk Executive
Committee and Board Risk Committee;
• Culture reviews conducted by our Internal Audit
team; and
• Data collected through our My Voice employee
engagement survey and our Leader 360°
behaviour assessment tool.
For more information about our My Voice
survey results and performance against external
benchmarks see page 68.
Annual Risk Culture Assessments
Our Talent and Culture, and Group Risk teams
work closely together to share insights and
create alignment between our organisational
and risk culture.
Across the year, the Group’s focus was on
embedding ANZ’s Risk Principles with targeted
training and activities supporting leaders and
teams in taking action to attain our sound risk
culture in line with the requirements of APRA
Prudential Standard CPS 220 Risk Management.
Risk culture is assessed annually, providing
insight into how well actions aimed at promoting
the importance, understanding and awareness
of risk culture have progressed. The outcomes
of the assessments support the Board to form
a view of ANZ’s risk culture.
Risk Culture Assessments consider:
• Data from our Risk Culture survey informing
our people’s perceptions of risk management
behaviours and practices;
• Risk culture metrics supported by
benchmarks; and
• The business environment and context with
a focus on how risk is considered in our
decision-making.
Outcomes of Risk Culture Assessments are
a consideration in annual Performance and
Remuneration Reviews and are used by executives,
senior leaders and people leaders to develop Risk
Culture Action Plans.
Internal Audit Culture Team:
culture reviews
Internal Audit carries out culture reviews in alignment
with the Annual Internal Audit Plan. The reviews
focused on identifying themes, root causes and
actions to drive sustainable change toward the bank’s
cultural framework – our behaviours, underpinned by
our values and the Code of Conduct. Each culture
review requires the development of a formal action
plan which has the appropriate level of oversight and
monitoring and is reassessed where appropriate to
understand cultural shift over time.
The Internal Audit culture reviews are designed
to support:
• the Board and management by providing
independent cultural insight; and
• the Board in meeting regulatory requirements such as
the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) and APRA
Prudential Standard CPS 220 Risk Management.
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Ethics, conduct and culture
Managing non-financial risk at ANZ
Improving conduct and culture
Our shared culture at ANZ
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Our Climate and Environment Strategy
To support our purpose, our five-year Climate
and Environment Strategy was approved
by the Board in October 2024. It sets out
our objective to be a trusted partner for
our customers, supporting them to adapt
and become more resilient, to a changing
environment and economy. In particular, we
aim to be a leading bank in supporting an
effective and orderly transition for our large
business customers.
To achieve our Climate and Environment Strategy
we have established three core ambitions:
• Building our capability to help customers
understand climate and nature risks;
• Transitioning our lending portfolio to net-zero
financed emissions; and
• Supporting our customers’ transition and
resilience.
These ambitions will be supported by each
division having specific focus areas, and prioritised
divisional action plans that we plan to implement
commencing 2025. In this year’s Climate-related
Financial Disclosures we set out how we have
been supporting our customers to date. This lays
the foundation for us to deliver on our objective
and support an effective and orderly transition in
coming years.
Our Climate Change Commitment supports our
Climate and Environment Strategy ambition and
will be available here prior to our AGM.
To be a trusted partner for our customers, supporting them to adapt and become more resilient, to a changing
environment and economy. In particular, we aim to be a leading bank in supporting an effective and orderly
transition for our large business customers
Objective
Financing a sustainable transition
Vision
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability
Purpose
Ambition
Building our capability
to help customers understand
climate and nature risks
Transitioning our lending portfolio to
net zero financed emissions
Supporting our customers’
transition and resilience
Divisional
focus
areas
InstitutionalCommercialRetailNew Zealand
Being a leading bank in
supporting customers to
transition, and growing our
low-emissions and nature
related opportunities
Delivering insights and
propositions to support cus-
tomers to understand and
navigate the transition
Delivering targeted
education and propositions
to support customers to
adapt to climate impacts
Supporting Aotearoa
New Zealand’s transition to a
low-emissions,
climate resilient
economy
Action
pillars
Understanding risks
and opportunities
Building capability
and capacity
Driving customer
engagement
and propositions
Collaborating with
stakeholders to support an
economy wide transition
Core
enablers
Governance and ReportingData and SystemsPeople and Culture
Our 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures,
prepared in accordance with the Task Force
on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
recommendations 2021 (TCFD) is available at
anz.com/annualreport
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Supporting our customers’ transition through financing
$100 billion social and
environmental sustainability target
This year, we made good progress
towards our target to fund and
facilitate at least $100 billion by
end 2030 in social and
environmental activities through
customer transactions and direct
investments by ANZ.
By the end of 2024, we have funded and facilitated
$38.96 biilion across 226 transactions since the
target commenced on 1 April 2023. This includes
initiatives that aim to help lower carbon emissions,
protect or restore nature, increase access to
affordable housing and promote financial wellbeing.
• Our goal for 2024 was to contribute at least
$15 billion towards our target. We exceeded
this with funding and facilitation of $30.17 billion
across 172
1
transactions, of which $16.09
billion was attributed to ANZ via on-balance
sheet loans and other credit lines, while close to
$14.08 billion was facilitated by ANZ.
• For further detail on ANZ’s approach for
assessing the eligibility of transactions for
inclusion towards the target, refer to the ANZ
Social and Environmental Sustainability Target
Methodology available at anz.com/esgreport.
The Board EESG Committee approved changes
to the Target Methodology on 22 October 2024.
Progress towards our $100 billion social and environmental sustainability target –
1 April 2023 to 30 September 2024
1% Social and Environmental
40% Environmental
2
50% Sustainability-linked
6
Funded
$20.23
billion
7
$3.73b Energy
$3.12b Green building
3
$0.12b Other social and environment
5
$10.08b Sustainably-linked
9% Social
4
$1.15b Aordable housing
$0.71b Other social
$0.78b Other environment
$0.44b Clean transport
20% Social and Environmental
43% Environmental
2
30% Sustainability-linked
6
Facilitated
$18.73
billion
$3.56b Energy
$3.24b Other environment
$3.69b Other social and environment
5
$5.63b Sustainably-linked
$1.34b Green building
3
$0.04b Clean transport
7% Social
4
$1.22b Other social
$0.02b Aordable housing
Highlight
Griffith University Student
Accommodation
During the year ANZ completed its first
greenfield on-campus Purpose Built
Student Accommodation financing
in 10 years. ANZ acted as the sole
financier for Stage Two of the Student
Accommodation Facility at Australia’s
Griffith University, developed by
Campus Living Villages (CLV). ANZ
worked closely with CLV to develop a
bespoke financing structure to support
the deal, supported CLV with provision
of interest rate hedging, and will act as
Security Trustee for the transaction.
Based in Queensland Australia, the
new student accommodation tower
at Griffith University’s Gold Coast
campus will contribute to the reduction
of housing pressure and enable more
domestic and international students
to access education and live nearby.
The project will see the construction
of an 11-storey purpose-built student
accommodation tower, adding 460
beds to the existing Griffith University
Village site, including accessible
apartments.
1. 2024 includes transactions validated as eligible for inclusion in the target from 23/09/2023. Fourth quarter 2024 progress included transactions allocated towards the target validated as eligible up to 21/09/2024.
A small number of transactions lodged after 21/09/2024 and before 30/09/2024 were also validated and included. 2. Includes renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, green buildings, and other
environmental activities. Other environmental activities include activities which cover multiple environmental categories and/or activities such as waste, sustainable water and wastewater management, and climate
change adaptation. 3. Includes construction or operation of buildings or portfolios of buildings that deliver positive environmental outcomes, which meet, or renovation or retrofitting of buildings, so that they can
meet regional, national or internationally recognised standards or certifications (e.g. under the Australian NABERS rating system). 4. Includes affordable housing and other social activities. Other social activities include
activities which cover multiple social categories and/or activities such as socioeconomic advancement and empowerment. 5. Includes activities which cover both environmental and social categories. 6. Note that for the
purposes of this reporting, sustainability-linked transactions (i.e. where the economic characteristics (e.g. pricing outcomes) of the financial instrument are linked to sustainability performance targets) are reported as a
separate category. 7. Funded $20.23b includes deals in “Waste” and “Water” which have deal values less than $0.10 billion.
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Housing remains one of our most material ESG
issues, noting the challenges associated with
the cost of living and housing affordability
and availability in Australia and New Zealand.
We are focused on helping improve the
availability of suitable and affordable
housing options for all Australians and
New Zealanders by:
Increasing the supply of new social and
affordable housing into the market;
Backing new housing models from
pilot to scale to support delivery of a
housing pipeline; and
Financing emerging markets such
as build-to-rent-to-own, specialist
disability accommodation and land
lease communities.
Bringing more homes to market
In 2018, ANZ announced a public target to
fund and facilitate $1 billion of investment
by 2023 to deliver more affordable, secure
and sustainable homes to buy and rent. In
2020, having exceeded that objective, ANZ
extended the target.
Today, ANZ’s current housing target is to
fund and facilitate at least $10 billion of
investment by end 2030 to deliver homes
to buy and rent that are more affordable,
accessible or sustainable.
Since 2018, we have already delivered
over $6.48 billion into the housing sector,
with ~$1.18 billion delivered in 2024, an
ongoing testament to our focus and the
market’s appetite.
CoreLogic market research
Our ongoing partnership with CoreLogic
research, a leading provider of property
data and analytics, delivers housing
affordability research and in-depth market
analysis for the Australian housing market.
In 2024, CoreLogic research demonstrated
the challenges being faced by both buyers
and renters in the market such as:
• Housing affordability broadly
continued to deteriorate in 2024. With
unaffordability nationally declining as
the median dwelling value to income
ratio increased to 7.9 from 7.5 a year
earlier.
• Renting also continued to be
challenging – the median income-to-
rent ratio remains above 30%.
• The median income household across
Australia (earning a gross income of
around $100,000 per year), requires a
near-record high of 10.6 years to save
a 20% deposit for a home. Servicing
a new loan on the median Australian
dwelling value for this household would
require just over half of household
income (50.3%).
• Rapid increases to the target cash
rate and subsequent mortgage rate
rises have further reduced borrowing
capacity and affordability to prospective
buyers.
Assemble project – Thompson Street, Kensington
Our target is focused on delivering more new
housing supply to market. Specifically, how
financial institutions can play their part in
changing the market to deliver more of the right
housing, in the right locations, at the right price
point for both rental and purchase.
This can be completed through the ongoing
delivery of housing supply including backing
of emerging markets, new market models and
scalable pilot projects. Investment in social and
affordable housing not only provides financial
returns to investors, but also supports both the
economy and society.
ANZ also continues to play an ongoing 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.
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Supporting an increase in supply of suitable and affordable housing
Delivering better
housing outcomes
Since 2018, ANZ has continued to focus
on supporting our customers across the
housing continuum while also maintaining
our focus on long-term supply initiatives.
Examples of customers we have
supported this year include:
Assemble – Building for the Future
One innovative model, by housing developer and
manager Assemble, is showing how the private
sector can help alleviate this need, but at the same
time draw in significant institutional investment.
Over the past decade, Assemble has developed
rent and purchase models which made it easier for
people on all income levels to buy quality houses
in central locations. This involves integrated build-
to-rent model and home-ownership pathways
via build-to-rent-to-own and build-to-sell living
options in desirable areas with good amenity in
and around capital cities.
ANZ has been working with Assemble since the
beginning of their housing journey. This year we
were pleased to see the model receiving a further
boost with industry super funds AustralianSuper
and HESTA taking a controlling stake in the, until
now, privately owned Assemble, and merging with
its fund manager Super Housing Partnerships. This
deal means that Assemble are well placed to deliver
17,000 new residences over the next 10 years.
The new Assemble structure is expected to enable
new institutional investor partners to participate
in housing investment opportunities across the
housing spectrum. Under this model Assemble
aims to provide institutional investors with
investment opportunities which generate stable,
long-term returns by investing in housing at scale
across Australia.
In 2024, we have continued our support for
Assemble through the following projects:
• Funded the completion and provided an
investment facility for the Thompson Street,
Kensington apartment complex, consisting
of 199 apartments with their partner
AustralianSuper.
• Provided development funding to construct
Ballarat Street, Brunswick for 171 build-to-
rent-to-own apartments with their partner
AustralianSuper.
• Provided ongoing construction funding for
402 Macaulay Road, Kensington for 362 build-
to-rent affordable and social apartments with
their partner HESTA.
Tetris Capital – Delivering scalable social
and affordable housing
Tetris Capital – a social infrastructure, property
developer, and investor – has demonstrated its
commitment to working together with government,
the community housing sector and ANZ to
leverage the delivery of more social and affordable
housing into the market.
This year we partnered with Tetris Capital to
provide development finance to support the
delivery of housing for people in our community
who need it most with three key projects
kickstarting in 2024.
We are providing debt to support the Victorian
Government’s Ground Lease Model 2 project. The
project sees Homes Victoria lease public land to a
consortium who will finance, design and construct
1,370 new social, affordable, specialist disability
and market rental residential dwellings across
four project sites in Victoria. The new housing
stock will replace aging properties with modern,
accessible and energy-efficient homes in South
Yarra, Prahran, Hampton East and Port Melbourne,
to be delivered by 2026. Community housing
providers will manage and maintain the sites for
40 years. Community Housing Limited (Vic) is the
lead provider with specialised support from both
Aboriginal Community Housing (Vic) Limited and
Women’s Property Initiatives. The Consortium is
led by advisor and equity sponsor Tetris Capital
and comprises Icon Constructions, Community
Housing (Vic) Ltd, and abrdn and Invesis.
• We are also providing debt alongside the
Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF)
and Housing Australia as well as a capital grant
from the National Housing Infrastructure Facility
and an upfront grant from the Queensland
Government’s Housing Investment Fund (HIF) to
support a social and affordable housing project
in Cairns.
Once completed, the project will be
Queensland’s largest social and affordable
housing precinct, comprising 490 residential
units, including 245 social housing units, 223
affordable housing units, and 22 specialist
disability apartments. The homes will be
prefabricated offsite by modular housing
supplier Modscape at factories in Helensvale
and Essendon, backed by FCC Construction
Australia. It will also be the largest modular
housing project in Australia. Construction has
commenced with the project anticipated to be
completed by the end of 2026, weather and
construction conditions permitting.
• ANZ partnered with a Tetris-led consortium
Everyone’s Place to provide development
finance to support the delivery of 483 affordable
homes across Burpengary East, Jimboomba,
Logan Reserve and Joyner in Queensland. The
development will be completed in partnership
with Metricon, KDL and community housing
provider National Affordable Housing (NAH). This
project targets suburbs where 85% of residents
earn low and moderate incomes, and of those
who rent, around 40% are under housing stress.
All homes in this development will be affordable,
with rents capped at 75% of market rates,
ensuring access to quality, spacious housing for
those most in need across the region.
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Backing growth in the Specialist
Disability Accommodation market
ANZ is a leading financier in the Specialist Disability
Accommodation (SDA) sector since 2018. We
have been supporting our key partners to continue
to grow their portfolios and geographic reach
across Australia.
This includes the Synergis Fund, which was
established in 2020 by Federation Asset
Management and Social Ventures Australia with
aims to develop SDA in Australia.
Synergis is now backed by institutional investors
with the largest equity investor being KKR, who
have recently replaced Goldman Sachs. It has a
national portfolio with completed properties –
mostly houses, villas and townhouses – in New
South Wales, Queensland and South Australia,
with homes also under construction in Victoria.
Managing Director of Synergis, Michael Lynch,
helped establish the fund in his role as the Head of
Impact Investing at Social Ventures Australia, and
has overseen its growth to be one of the largest
investors in SDA. “There is a clear opportunity to
make a real difference in this sector. To us it is all
about getting the structure right. This includes
putting people in right accommodation and
matching them with the right care.”
We have also continued to support our long-
term customer My Specialised Accommodation
Solutions through their merger with Enliven
Housing to form the Enliven Housing Group.
Together, this partnership now represents one of
the largest and most long-term investors in SDA
across Australia.
ANZ has also continued to support the ongoing
development of our long-term customer, Sana
Living, portfolio as the group continue to expand
participants opportunities for; independence,
connection to community and achievement of
individual goals.
Collectively, these key partnerships deliver
a national portfolio of specialist disability
accommodation to the market.
Affordable and sustainable
housing in New Zealand
In 2024, ANZ Bank New Zealand 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.
ANZ Bank New Zealand helps customers to do
this with the following products:
• Our Good Energy Home Loan top up is available
to existing eligible
1
home loan customers to
upgrade their homes with solar panels, heating
and insulation, double glazing, ventilation
systems and/or rainwater tanks. It can also be
used for electric and hybrid vehicles, electric
bikes, and/or electric vehicle chargers. It allows
customers to borrow up to NZ$80,000 at a
3-year fixed interest rate of 1% per annum.
• Our Healthy Home Loan Package offers interest
rate discounts and fee savings for eligible
2
customers who are buying, building, renovating
or already own a home with a 6 Homestar rating
or higher.
Since October 2020, 14,830 households have
drawn down loans across these two products, for
an aggregate amount of NZ$640.8 million.
3
As our
target was almost achieved, one year ahead of
schedule, it has been revised to maintain ambition.
For further information on this target see page 21.
1. anz.co.nz/good-energy. 2. Important information: ANZ Health Home Loan Package: anz.co.nz//healthyhomes/. 3. Funds under management.
This year, more than 18,000 New Zealanders
also took advantage of our ‘Home Loan Check-
In’, a 15-minute review with an ANZ home loan
specialist. An average of 41% of these customers
decided to act following the Check-In, including
making changes to their loan. The Check-In is
designed to support customers by helping ensure
their home loan meets their needs.
We continue to partner with the New Zealand
Green Building Council. This partnership includes
support for HomeFit – a free online tool to check
the health, comfort, energy efficiency and safety of
new homes, or advice on how New Zealanders can
improve the health of their current home.
Additional lending products offered by ANZ Bank
New Zealand to support the transition to a lower
emission economy are disclosed in the 2024
Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
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:
• Bridge It – Providing young women who have
experienced the out-of-home-care system or
homelessness with a home, a community, and
the support to thrive. ANZ provided a grant of
$17,500 for the establishment of education
and employment pathways program to support
people at risk of homelessness.
• Anglicare SA – Supporting South Australians in
times of need. ANZ provided a grant of $15,000
for a program to address the needs of vulnerable
young people moving out of state foster care.
• Anglicare WA – Providing services across the
state, working with people from all walks of life.
ANZ provided a grant of $16,000 for services
supporting children, young people, individuals,
families and communities.
• Bur-Del Co-operative Advancement Society
Limited – Providing culturally appropriate
community support, housing, services,
education and advocacy. ANZ provided a grant
of $30,000 towards an initiative to upgrade
and install 15 modern, energy efficient air-
conditioners to make the accommodation
operational year-round.
For more information on ANZ’s community
giving see pages 57-58. For more information on
how ANZ is helping to improve the availability of
suitable and affordable housing options visit
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Supporting 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 has been exploring the financial literacy,
capability, attitudes and behaviours of Australian
adults for more than 20 years. This body of
research has informed our approach to improving
the financial wellbeing of our people, customers
and communities by helping them make the most
of their money throughout their lives.
More information on how we use these insights to
inform our products and services can be found on
page 48 and our financial inclusion programs can
be found on pages 34-36.
ANZ tracks the financial wellbeing of Australians
with the ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing
Indicator, with the latest release examining data
up until June 2024.
While financial wellbeing in Australia has been
on a downward trend, the speed of the decline
has slowed. In the six months to June 2024,
financial wellbeing declined 0.9% compared to
a 1.8% decline in the six months to December
2023. Nevertheless, 20.9% of Australians were
considered ‘struggling’ with their financial
With
children
under 18
Without
children
under 18
Household income
<$100K per year
Cost of living analysis
Percentage of Australians who agree with the question “I’ve recently cut down on my spending” by
household income and dependent status
1
wellbeing (a score of less than 30 out of 100) in
June 2024, up from 19.0% year-on-year and from
14.3% in December 2021 which was prior to when
inflationary pressures started to take hold.
Earlier analysis showed cost of living pressures
with Australians finding it increasingly difficult
to meet their everyday commitments and an
increasing proportion of total respondents
agreeing that they had “recently cut down on
their spending”, from 62.5% in the 12 months
to April 2022 (immediately before the RBA first
raised the cash rate) to 71.1% in the 12 months to
March 2024. Agreement with this sentiment was
particularly evident for lower and middle-income
households with children at home. In March 2024
Financial wellbeing in Australia, monthly spot data and 12 month moving average
(Oct-14 to Jun-24)
these households were also more likely to have
reduced their spending in the last 12 months on
discretionary items such as retail, “going out” and
trips taken away from home. Households with
children, regardless of income, all experienced a
larger increase in their per capita grocery spending
in December 2023 than households without
dependents.
1. 12 months to March 2024.
81.8%68.9%
With
children
under 18
Without
children
under 18
Household income
$100K-<$200K per year
79.6%70.5%
Household income
$200K or more per year
With
children
under 18
Without
children
under 18
69.1%65.7%
More information about the Financial Wellbeing
Indicator can be found at anz.com.au/financial-
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Spotlight on supporting research
into financial wellbeing of Australian
autistic adults
In line with our Accessibility and Inclusion
Plan to raise awareness of the financial
wellbeing, attitudes and behaviours of
people with disability or long-term health
conditions, ANZ with the Australian
Cooperative Research Centre for Living with
Autism (Autism CRC) supported research
into the financial wellbeing of autistic adults
1
,
in October 2023.
The researchers surveyed autistic adults and
found almost half (46%) felt it was hard to make
ends meet. In contrast, only 32% of the general
Australian population felt this way.
The socio-economic factors influencing financial
wellbeing for autistic adults were consistent with
ANZ’s 2021 financial wellbeing survey. The
research found that income levels and how that
income was used, was a key socio-economic
factor influencing autistic people’s financial
wellbeing. 42% of all respondents revealed their
annual income was less than $25,000, with many
being below the Australian poverty line. This
constrained their ability to meet basic expenses
and to save for the future. In addition, respondents
reporting anxiety or depression symptoms had
lower financial wellbeing.
In-depth interviews were conducted with a
sample of the survey respondents who either felt
‘financially well’ or ‘financially unwell’. Many of those
in the low financial wellbeing group, felt ‘good
financial wellbeing’ was not possible for them.
They often did not have stable income to cover
day-to-day expenses, and despite wanting to be
able to work, they repeatedly reported ‘struggling
to hold down a job’. The reasons included non-
supportive environments, casual employment and
being in the wrong kind of industries.
Mental health factors were continuously raised
as an influencing factor. Many interviewees had
to make choices to protect their mental health,
including passing up promotions or working
freelance, which reduced earning capacity. Despite
these challenges, autistic adults still worked hard
to budget and save when they could.
The research findings suggest the most effective
way to improve the financial wellbeing of autistic
people would be to improve their income situation.
Autism-specific employment programs focusing
on hiring and supporting autistic employees
can go some way to improving autistic people’s
participation in the workforce. Empowering all
people to live the lives they want will create a
stronger community for everyone.
1. Published in Autism: the International Journal of Research and Practice.
More information about the Spectrum Program,
ANZ’s approach to hiring and supporting autistic
adults, can be found on page 67. Links to the
research can also be found at anz.com.au/
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MoneyMinded: supporting financial
wellbeing across our region
MoneyMinded is ANZ’s flagship financial
education program, supporting adults 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
17 markets across Asia and the Pacific
region by community organisations and
ANZ employees.
More than one million people have participated in
MoneyMinded, including MoneyBusiness, since
2002, with 118,021 participating this year. For
more information on MoneyBusiness see page 35.
The success of MoneyMinded has relied on our
partnerships with community organisations and
individuals who are best placed to deliver the
program within vulnerable and disadvantaged
communities.
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. Economic
dependency can 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. Financial education and
specialist support can help a person on the path
towards economic independence.
Since 2016, Berry Street has been training family
violence specialists in the extended MoneyMinded
program – including a range of visual resources,
prompt cards, animations, and interactive
handouts, supporting community professionals
to talk about financial abuse with their clients in
accessible ways.
“For many, access to funds and growing the
confidence to make financial decisions remains
pivotal in pursuing self-determination. Workers
participating in MoneyMinded for Family Violence
Coach training have reflected on the need for
clients to build confidence and financial capability
whilst managing multiple demands. This is where
the flexibility of MoneyMinded for Family Violence
comes into its own, with the program designed to
be pulled apart and customised to suit the client’s
needs and program context.” said one of the
MoneyMinded for Family Violence Trainers.
Characteristics of MoneyMinded participants
1
AustraliaNew ZealandAsia-Pacific
Female
73.3%62.3%41.5%
Male
25.5%3 7. 0 %58.4%
Non-binary
1.2%0.7%0.1%
Sole parents
34.0%18.8%13.3%
Unemployed
22.6%40.3%7. 5 %
Aboriginal or Torres
Strait Islander heritage
10.3%N/AN/A
“I was able to use the family violence
MoneyMinded resources with a new client right
after the training! I used the Taking the wheel
module to get the client thinking about things
she may have not considered otherwise, such
as collecting all her important documents. It was
very user friendly!” said a recently accredited
MoneyMinded for Family Violence Coach.
More than 440 MoneyMinded for Family Violence
Coaches have been accredited to use these
tailored resources with their clients.
Financial education programs
1. Characteristics are from the 2024 MoneyMinded survey responses and do not include MoneyBusiness survey responses.
Feedback from MoneyMinded coaches and
participants about the impact of MoneyMinded
is available in our annual Impact Reports at
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MoneyMinded in Australia
Community professionals working in a client facing
role within the not-for-profit sector are eligible to
attend MoneyMinded Coach training, delivered in-
person and virtually to support people accessing
the training across Australia. Accredited Coaches
are given access to a suite of both physical and
online resources they can use with their clients.
Training and resources are provided free of charge
to eligible community professionals.
Earlier this year, the MoneyMinded suite of
resources was updated to include new scams
content to help accredited coaches support
their clients to identify and protect themselves
against scams. The topics covered include
Spotting scams, Protecting yourself, Scams
support and the most common types of scams
such as Investment scams, Phishing scams and
Dating and Romance scams. A MoneyMinded
Trainer welcomed the new scams content noting
“The importance of integrating scam awareness
into financial education, especially given the
increasing prevalence of scams in the digital
age, is important for us Coaches and our clients’
financial education”.
To help improve accessibility and outcomes for
participants of MoneyMinded, the most popular
participant handouts have now been translated
from English into five additional languages for
MoneyMinded Coaches to use with their clients.
Handouts are now available in Arabic, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Farsi and Vietnamese.
A MoneyMinded Coach who uses the translated
resources said “These translations help a lot
because participants can understand the complete
message that you’re trying to teach them. I believe if
someone looks at information in their own language,
it just makes it much easier to grasp.”
MoneyMinded in Asia, the
Pacific and New Zealand
More than 22,617 people have participated in
MoneyMinded across markets in Asia, the Pacific
and New Zealand in the last 12 months.
MoneyMinded in New Zealand was revamped in
2024, with new content created in response to
the current financial environment. This includes
a greater focus on fraud and scams, as well as
adding content on topics such as buy now, pay
later products. After piloting the program with
key partners, Solomon Group and Community
Colleges, during the year, the final modules began
to be taught by MoneyMinded facilitators across
the country.
MoneyMinded was first delivered in 2012 in
Papua New Guinea and in February this year was
launched in the province of Lae. One of the ANZ
lead trainers of MoneyMinded spoke at the launch
in Lae and said “The program is built in a way that
it empowers you to be financially independent and
also helps you make informed decisions around
the way we behave with money.”
MoneyBusiness in Australia
MoneyBusiness was developed to build
the money management skills and
confidence of First Nations people and
develop a stronger savings culture.
Developed in 2005 by ANZ in partnership with
the Australian Government, it followed research
showing financial exclusion was a significant
challenge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people, particularly those living in remote
communities. More than 95,300 people are
estimated to have participated in MoneyBusiness
since 2005, with 4,910 participating this year.
MoneyBusiness coach training is delivered over
two days for community professionals working
in remote First Nations communities. Training
equips community professionals with the skills
and resources to use with their clients. A recent
attendee at MoneyBusiness coach training said
“I am excited to integrate this training into client
work on a practical level. There are some great
visual aids that can be used to make this a more
hands on experience for clients and gives us
another tool in terms of delivering education and
financial literacy to clients.”
Saver Plus
Saver Plus is a matched savings and
financial education program developed
in 2003 by ANZ and the Brotherhood
of St Laurence. 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 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 found that most participants
build long-term savings habits, helping them
to reduce financial stress and improve their
overall confidence and wellbeing.
1
Since 2023, Saver Plus has been delivered
as an online program throughout Australia;
making the program available to anyone in
Australia who meets the eligibility criteria.
Saver Plus Program Manager, Brotherhood of St Laurence
1. Refer to ‘Saver Plus at 21: Building resilience that lasts’ report (2024).
More than 4,380 Australians participated in Saver
Plus this year, totalling more than 62,000 since
2003 who have saved more than $31 million and
received more than $26 million in matched savings
from ANZ for education costs. More than 87% of
participants in the program are women
1
, 51% of all
participants are single parents and 69% saved for
their children’s education expenses.
More information about the impact of Saver Plus
is available in our impact reports at anz.com.au/
saver-plus
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Saver Plus in the Pacific
For 2024 we set a target to pilot a savings program (Saver Plus) for people on lower
incomes in Fiji and Vanuatu by the end of 2025, with at least 80% of participants
having demonstrated a savings habit
1
upon completion. Implementation of these
two pilots is well progressed with participants in Fiji having commenced their savings
journey in 2024 and participants ready to commence saving in Vanuatu in 2025.
Case study
Meet Allegra,
a Saver Plus participant
*
Allegra is a migrant and single mother of two
young children who discovered the Saver Plus
program while she was going through her
separation from her now ex-husband. She
found that “The program aligned perfectly with
my need to manage finances better” she adds,
“because it was online, it made it so much
easier to attend with two young ones.”
Saver Plus didn’t just improve Allegra’s
financial literacy; it fundamentally changed
her perspective on money management. “It
wasn’t just about saving money,” she explains.
“It was about learning to budget effectively
and set financial goals. How to manage credit,
super contribution...” The program helped
her differentiate between needs and wants,
prioritise spending, and even negotiate better
deals with service providers.
Saver Plus participant
Launch of Saver Plus in Fiji
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49 for information on the launch of the pilot in Fiji this year.
* All identifying information has been replaced
1. Eight out of 10 months saving (as per Saver Plus program), measured by participant survey data.
Empowered with this new knowledge, she’s
now teaching her two young children to develop
conscious savings habits early on.
Allegra emphasises the importance of consistent
savings. “A big lesson I learned is that little savings
can go a long way. Never underestimate (what) the
little things can do.”
Inspired by the program, Allegra maintains the ANZ
Progress Saver account she opened to complete
Saver Plus and has also opened a dedicated
savings account to deposit an additional fixed
amount each month. “Even though it seems small,”
she explains, “it’s untouched, and it adds up over
time.”
“My biggest takeaway,” Allegra reflects, “is learning
to be proactive with my finances. I have the tools to
manage it well for myself and my children. This is a
skill I can pass on to them as well.”
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Keeping our customers’ money
safe is a priority and has been core
to our business for 196 years.
We are continually reviewing and adjusting our
capabilities to keep customers safe as new
scams emerge and cyber criminals change how
they operate. We have a focus on safeguarding
the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our
systems, services and information. This enables
operational success, business growth and financial
wellbeing for our customers. We are also focused
on educating our people and customers, so they
are aware of emerging cyber threats and important
online risks as they arise.
In recent years, the extent and pace of change
in the scams landscape has evolved significantly
as the perpetrators become increasingly
sophisticated. Cyber events and data breaches
continued to rise in 2024, affecting our customers
and the community more broadly.
While we are seeing declines in scam losses
across Australia and New Zealand, we recognise
that there is more work to be done. ANZ’s
Customer Protection Working Group, comprising
of senior executives, meet every six weeks to
discuss strategy, priorities, governance, and trends
in relation to scams.
Scams in Australia
In 2024, our people and our systems prevented
customers from losing more than $140 million
to fraud and scams and investigated more than
9,500
1
individual scams impacting retail and
commercial customers in Australia. Pleasingly, our
efforts to protect our customers against scams
has led to a reduction in losses, which is partly due
to increased friction we have put in place to slow
down the payment process for high-risk payments.
We also rely on our enhanced Falcon® technology
to detect suspicious transactions. We continue to
refine our fraud and scam detection rules to reflect
the latest data and respond to emerging trends.
We attempt to recover funds reported as scams or
fraud. However, the ability to recover funds depends
on a number of factors including how quickly it is
reported to ANZ and the speed in which funds are
transferred on by scammers. In many instances,
scammers transfer funds within minutes.
This year, ANZ implemented a number of
innovative detection and prevention measures for
ANZ Classic accounts, as part of our fight to help
protect customers and the community from scams
and other financial crimes including:
• The introduction of a dedicated team of
specialists in our customer protection team
who handle calls about fraud and scams.
• Increased personalised warning messages on
Internet Banking when a transaction or activity
is considered high risk.
• The introduction of a new Scam Scoring model
that uses artificial intelligence to complement
current security systems and boost our scam
detection.
• The introduction of a Mule Detection model
to detect mule accounts
2
and restrict
the movement of scam proceeds. Since
implementation in December 2023, the mule
detection technology has triggered more than
1,000 alerts on accounts. As a result, some of
these accounts have been closed.
For ANZ Plus customers we introduced Crypto
Protect, a tool which turns off the ability for
ANZ Plus customers to make payments to
cryptocurrency exchanges, previously used in
around half of all scams, unless customers choose
to override it. Crypto Protect is part of Scam Safe,
introduced this year, which is a suite of enhanced
controls, scam focused features and educational
content to help ANZ Plus customers better protect
themselves and their money. This includes Screen
Share Protect, which stops screen sharing while
in the ANZ Plus App, Location-Based Security,
and Risky App Detection, a feature that helps
identify the presence of installed apps that may
compromise customers’ banking. Active Call
Status is another feature which helps us detect if
a customer is on the phone with a scammer whilst
conducting banking activities. For more on ANZ
Plus see page 48.
During the year we continued to work closely
with other banks, industry sectors, government
and regulators to proactively identify and address
scam trends so that together we can stay ahead of
scammers and protect Australians from emerging
threats. This includes through the Australian
Government’s new cutting-edge intel loop, an
exchange between banks, telecommunication
companies, digital platforms and the Australian
1. Includes both ANZ Classic and ANZ Plus. 2. A money mule is someone who becomes involved in transferring stolen money.
Scams
Financial Crimes Exchange, enabling near real-time
data sharing about the latest tactics and tools
used by scammers.
We take the education of our customers and
bankers seriously. This year, ANZ has delivered
various education initiatives to improve scam
confidence and service capability for frontline
bankers and customers. This included:
• The introduction of a new scams education
module to ANZ’s flagship financial education
program, MoneyMinded, which equips
community professionals with resources to
support their clients to identify and protect
themselves from scams. Since March 2024,
more than 400 accredited coaches in Australia
have been trained. For further information on
MoneyMinded see page 34.
• New and enhanced content on ANZ’s security
hub on anz.com and associated promotional
activity to drive uptake of the resources via social
media posts, messages and alerts in ANZ’s
digital channels.
• Targeted nudges for high-risk customers,
educational events, and webinars; and
• The creation of new mandated security content
for frontline employees to support customer
engagement on security.
Our 2024 initiatives build upon the successes
of 2023, which include working with major
telecommunications companies to activate
anti-spoofing technologies such as the Do Not
Originate (DNO) service and technology to prevent
scammers from spoofing ANZ using the “ANZ”
brand in text messages.
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Scams in New Zealand
ANZ Bank New Zealand has continued to invest
in technology, education and its people to help
protect customers from fraud and scams. Despite
an 18% increase in scam and fraud cases in 2024,
our customer losses are down 2% year-on-year.
This year, ANZ Bank New Zealand implemented
a number of innovative detection and prevention
measures as part of its fight to help protect
customers and the community from scams and
other financial crimes, including:
• The evolution of ANZ Fraud Check which allows
us to immediately contact customers in the
event of suspicious activity on their card and
validate if they had initiated the transaction. First
launched in June 2023,
we now use this service
daily for over 1,100 suspicious transactions and
update our fraud monitoring systems in real-
time. In 2024, we sent over a million messages
to customers to validate if they had initiated
certain card transactions, to advise them of
suspicious activity and/or declined transactions.
• Being the first bank in New Zealand to
block transactions to some high-risk crypto
exchanges, helping protect around 2,500
customers a year from losing their money,
in December 2023
.
• Beginning to collect digital biometric information
using third party software to identify when
a fraudster is using our customers’ Internet
Banking or goMoney App.
• The first in New Zealand to launch a dynamic
security code feature for cards. Launched in
July 2024, this code appears in the goMoney
App, updates every 12 hours, and can be
used instead of the CVV on the back of a
physical ANZ Visa card, to help customers
shop safer online.
To build our customers’ capability to detect scams,
to date we have sent more than 7.7 million scam
and fraud education messages via email and the
goMoney App, supported by messages on social
media. We also launched the following advertising
campaigns during the year:
• ‘Layers of fraud protection’ campaign, to
educate customers on the tools and technology
available to them.
• Age Concern New Zealand partnership,
to support older people with their digital
literacy needs and help keep them safe from
financial scams.
This activity has resulted in ANZ Bank New Zealand
remaining the number one brand
1
in New Zealand
for the brand metric; ‘ANZ provides the tools and
information, so customers know how to keep their
money safe’.
1. Six month rolling average. McCully Research, September 2024.
We take the education of our customers and bankers
seriously. This year, ANZ has delivered various education
initiatives to improve scam confidence and service
capability for frontline bankers and customers.
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Cyber security
As attacks on systems and infrastructure
grow in complexity, speed, frequency, and
scale, so too must the speed and scale of
our response.
ANZ’s security purpose is to safeguard the
confidentiality, integrity and availability of ANZ’s
systems, services and information to enable
ANZ’s successful operation, business growth
and financial wellbeing of our customers.
Our Enterprise Security Strategy drives this
through three strategic goals:
• Embed security across ANZ to ensure a
shared responsibility for security risk
• Strengthen resilience against emerging
cyber threats; and
• Enable business transformation through
secure delivery of simple, cost effective,
trusted platforms and services.
Under each goal are a set of key focus areas,
each outlining a desired target state. The
successful delivery of each key focus area is
tracked, monitored and reported through a series
of annual key results – the ‘how we will deliver’.
Inputs to the Strategy included threat mapping,
industry benchmarking, penetration tests, emerging
threats and increasing numbers of customer fraud
and scams. It also highlights opportunities to
capitalise on evolving cloud-based technologies to
both protect ANZ and drive secure transformation.
Ongoing regulator-led penetration tests, cross
sector exercises and regulatory changes will
continue to inform regular strategy reviews. Strategy
updates are presented to the Board twice a year,
and to relevant technology and risk committees.
These updates provide progress against the
Strategy, enterprise security risks, effectiveness of
security controls, and tracking of security metrics
as well as views on the emerging threat landscape,
regulatory compliance, and benchmarking
against other organisations. An annual review of
the Strategy key focus areas and key results is
also undertaken with business stakeholders and
presented to the Board for endorsement.
Our security capability is underpinned by
threat intelligence, which strengthens our
ability to rapidly identify, manage, and respond
to increasing and emerging threats. Global
relationships with government agencies, law
enforcement and industry provide timely insights
into attacker tactics and techniques to inform our
decisions, actions and risk reduction strategies.
Our cyber security maturity has been assessed
over a number of years against the US National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Cybersecurity Framework – Identify, Protect,
Detect, Respond and Recover – and compares
favourably with organisations of a similar risk
profile. Our cyber security protection capabilities
employ a defence-in-depth model which applies
multiple layers of security controls, aligned to NIST,
to minimise the likelihood of a successful attack.
Using artificial intelligence (AI), we proactively
detect and contain active threats and restore
critical services at speed and scale to limit the
consequences of a compromise, with more than
13 billion events analysed by our Security
Operations Centre each day.
We recognise that the cyber and scam threats we
face also impact our customers, so a continued
focus on supporting the community by educating
our staff and customers on cyber and scams is
a priority. For more information on scams see
p a g e 3 7.
Fostering a security-centric culture
Educating our people
Key to educating our people is ensuring our
security operating model is understood and owned
by the entire organisation – so everyone can
play their role in keeping ANZ and our customers
secure. Clear governance processes and a
comprehensive cyber security education program
is helping to embed a strong security culture at
every level of the organisation, and minimise risks
associated with cyber attacks. Our education
program is supported by a dedicated cyber security
ambassador network, which has increased by
more than 20% since 2023, with more than 800
members across 13 divisions and 22 locations.
To help our people understand their responsibilities,
annual mandatory learning focused on cyber
security is also completed by all employees and
contractors, including targeted security training for
developers and engineers. For more information
about mandatory learning see page 70.
We continue to enhance our cyber resilience and
phishing program with more frequent and complex
simulated exercises and phishing drills across ANZ.
Informed by threat intelligence, drills aim to improve
our employees ability to detect suspicious emails.
We have also broadened the exercise program to
include both Group-wide and divisional exercises
to test cyber crisis plans and practice decision
making.
There is a continued focus to support divisions
with improving security behaviours through
security metrics and data driven insights. Security
behaviours across the Group are measured by
an ANZ-developed Security Behaviour Index
(SBI). Divisions are responsible for establishing
SBI targets in line with the Enterprise Security
Strategy security behaviour targets. Divisional
representatives work with the newly appointed 38
Cyber Champions to drive uplift in the SBI across
ANZ. ANZ’s Business Assurance teams continue
to be engaged to support remediation of security
issues and manage ANZ’s security risk posture.
Customers and third parties
Our customer security education service features
events, seminars, webinars, tips, guides, alerts
and targeted education and warnings across
digital banking, social media, and direct frontline
education. Frontline education is designed to
enhance our people’s ability to support customers
with cyber security queries. Customer facing
initiatives seek to raise awareness and empower
customers to act in the face of growing cyber and
scam events.
The Security Hub on ANZ’s website has undergone
significant uplift in 2024, with new and refreshed
content to support customer understanding of key
scam types and cyber events. These resources
have been further promoted via in-channel
education and social media. The uplift to online
resources has resulted in a 200% increase in traffic
to our Security Hub webpage from September
2023 to June 2024. Our ongoing frontline
banker and customer engagement activity has
contributed to establishing ANZ’s Institutional
bank as a clear market leader in cyber security
education, according to the most recent Coalition
Greenwhich survey
1
(formerly Peter Lee), released
in June 2024.
Third parties managing sensitive ANZ information
are also expected to meet requirements to protect
information and management systems. We have
a robust procurement management process,
including contractual obligations and a mature
security testing program in place to comply with
the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
(APRA) CPS 234 Information Security.
1. 2024 Coalition Greenwich Large Corporate and Institutional Relationship Banking survey.
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Case study
The use of AI to improve cyber security
outcomes is not new. AI has been used for
many years to help interpret and respond to
input data. Generative AI on the other hand,
presents opportunities to transform our business
as we explore ways to harness its power, and
enhance customer experiences. However, with
the overwhelming speed in which generative
AI is being integrated into our daily lives, it has
the potential to dramatically reshape our digital
landscape, so we need to move thoughtfully,
and with caution, with the aim to protect our
customers and help our communities thrive.
Given the level of organisational change
generative AI will bring, it is essential that leaders
are role models through the change. We’re
educating our leaders, assisted by the new
AI Immersion Centre at ANZ’s head office in
Melbourne, which we’ve built in partnership with
Microsoft. It is the first of its kind in banking in
Australia and New Zealand with the aim to send
3,000 leaders through the centre over the next
12 months to accelerate AI adoption, securely,
and at scale. An example of a recent partner-
based solution is the work we are doing with
Microsoft both with the AI Immersion Centre
and through use of generative AI technologies –
including Copilot for Microsoft 365 and GitHub
Copilot – to boost productivity, innovation and
customer service.
AI is also playing a key role in strengthening our
defense, enabling us to detect, respond to, and
mitigate cyber threats more effectively, process
work more efficiently, and to help us comply with
regulatory standards. Integrating AI and machine
learning is also helping us automate many of
the repetitious tasks in our Security Operations
Centre, allowing our analysts to focus their
specialised expertise on critical thinking, creative
problem solving and further innovation. To put
it in perspective, ANZ currently logs more than
13 billion events each day as part of monitoring,
detecting and responding to potential security
events and incidents across our environment. We
wouldn’t be able to manage this volume without
innovation. We expect a range of technologies
will continue to contribute to better business
outcomes. Some solutions will be provided by
our strategic partners and others built by ANZ.
As we continue to embrace generative AI, we
remain dedicated to security alongside the
innovation and technological advancement.
ANZ is not just adapting for the future; we are
actively shaping it with every step we take with
generative AI technology.
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to help our people and communities thrive
Carina Parisella, Head of Technology Workforce, Gerard Florian,
Group Executive Technology and Tim Hogarth, Chief Technology
Officer, at our AI Immersion Centre at ANZ head office, Melbourne
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Data protection and privacy
The application of data protection practices
and assessing privacy risks is key to ANZ’s
operations. It is also critical to maintaining
the trust of those who share personal
information with us.
We emphasise that within ANZ, protecting personal
information is everyone’s responsibility. Therefore, our
strategy for safeguarding this information focuses
on a wide range of processes, procedures, and
response strategies across multiple departments
and multidisciplinary teams within the bank.
As part of ANZ’s strengthening of non-financial
risk management, during the year we implemented
Privacy Risk as a key part of ANZ’s Non-Financial
Risk Framework. This change provides us with a
global perspective on the effectiveness of controls
that we need to have in place to minimise our
privacy risk in the jurisdictions we operate in. It also
includes increased oversight of privacy risk in our
service arrangements with third parties. Privacy is a
shared responsibility and we have empowered our
teams to proactively identify and address any privacy
concerns, in line with ANZ’s Speak Up culture.
We continuously provide training and events for
our people to improve awareness of good data
protection and privacy practices. We participated
in the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner’s Privacy Awareness Week in May
2024 which included a privacy expo and speaker
series, touching on relevant global privacy topics.
We also raised awareness of privacy related tools
and processes in a risk culture marketplace for
employees at our head office in Melbourne, held
data and privacy impact assessment and data
event management workshops, and uplifted and
simplified our mandatory global privacy learning,
in alignment with our Privacy Policy.
In Australia, we continue to participate in the
ongoing internal consultation on the upcoming
Australia Privacy Act Reform. Our goal is to
ensure individuals’ privacy rights are appropriately
protected, while enabling ANZ to run efficiently and
safely deliver financial products and services. To
do this we have established a dedicated program
of work ahead of the publication of the privacy
reforms and established a working group with
the objective of uplifting privacy risk management
across ANZ.
We ensure that we comply with privacy and
data protection laws of the countries in which we
operate, including requirements on cross-border
transfer of personal data. We have worked to
implement personal data protection laws of China
and Vietnam in 2024.
Our Data Event Management (DEM) process was
also enhanced this year to ensure the governance
and management of potential and actual data
breaches are performed efficiently, allowing us to
swiftly assess, contain, and mitigate risk of harm
to customers, employees, and other individuals.
This rapid approach has consistently reduced
the number of reportable incidents to privacy
commissioners and regulators.
We remain alert and responsive to external data
breaches which could include data that has been
shared by us for third party operational purposes.
Our Privacy Impact Assessment remains an
effective tool for assessing privacy risk, and it
has been added to our third-party procurement
process to limit the sharing of information externally
to only what is necessary. In the event of external
data loss, our DEM process is triggered along with
pro-active communication with the third party.
In 2024, ANZ reported one data breach to the
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
(OAIC) and notified one impacted individual under
the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme, down from
three reported data breaches in 2023.
Our goal is to ensure
individuals’ privacy rights are
appropriately protected, while
enabling ANZ to run efficiently,
and safely deliver financial
products and services.
Current updates and information including
our Privacy Policy are available at anz.com.au/
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Meeting customer expectations
We see culture as critical to meeting community
expectations – one of our most material issues is
ethics, conduct and culture and we continue to
be guided by our Code of Conduct which sets the
expected standards of behavior consistent with
our purpose. The Code of Conduct supports our
values and helps us to make fair, balanced and
ethical decisions in our day-to-day work. For more
information on our Code of Conduct see page 24.
We acknowledge that this year there have been
some examples of where we have failed our
customers and the below outlines the actions
we are taking in these specific circumstances.
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In 2024, the Banking Code Compliance
Committee (BCCC) in Australia made findings
regarding ANZ’s management of the estates
of deceased customers.
The findings related to fees and delays in acting
on instructions. A sanction was applied by the
BCCC to name ANZ on its website and in its annual
report. In relation to the issues identified in the
BCCC’s finding, we have remediated estates and
apologised for not meeting the expectations of
our customers, their families and representatives.
We have made significant improvements to
ensure that, going forward, we have the right
staff, systems, training, and processes in place to
provide the support needed by representatives
and families at this difficult time in their lives.
The BCCC have confirmed that this matter
has been closed and they have no remaining
questions.
Providing customers access to
products and services that best
suit them
We acknowledge the release of Australian
Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC)
Better banking for Indigenous consumers report
in July 2024.
We are committed to providing our First Nations
customers access to products and services
that best suit them, having already simplified the
account opening process in January 2024, to
provide greater access to concession accounts
without needing to visit a branch.
We are implementing specific changes as a result
of the review, including setting up a process to
move cohorts of eligible customers who receive
relevant concession payments to a basic account
on an opt-out basis. This includes a wider range of
customers beyond ASIC’s project cohort, to reduce
the burden on customers in the account switching
process.
As part of our response to ASIC’s findings, ANZ
has committed to making goodwill payments to
eligible customers for account keeping, dishonour
and direct debit fees incurred from 1 July 2019
until August 2024.
Responsible customer engagement
We touch many different parts of the economy in
our home markets of Australia and New Zealand –
and we work hard to stay alert to, and connected
with, what’s happening in the broader economy
and the impact it’s having on our customers and
the community. One of our most material ESG
issues of responsible customer engagement
highlights the importance of ANZ focusing on
providing fair, accessible and affordable products,
as well as customer support, including for those in
financial hardship. This is particularly important in
challenging economic conditions.
Our programs and processes aim to support
customers when needed and deliver on our
purpose to shape a world where people and
communities thrive.
Revised Banking Code of Practice
During the year ANZ continued to engage
with the Australian Banking Association
(ABA) on the review of the ABA Banking
Code of Practice. ASIC approved the
revised version of the Banking Code of
Practice in June 2024, which includes
enhancements to key protections including:
• New deceased estates provisions and
new definitions of small business and
vulnerability,
• Introducing a requirement for banks to
meet with prospective guarantors before
accepting a guarantee, and
• Requirements for banks to organise free
interpreter services where appropriate.
We are working through changes required
to meet the new obligations when the
revised Banking Code of Practice comes
into effect in February 2025.
The Banking Code of Practice is important
to our customers because it provides
consumer protections, which often go
beyond the law.
We recognise that we have failed to meet the expectations of our
customers at times. We are committed to listening and learning from
our mistakes to keep the needs of our customers as our priority and
to ensure that we uphold the behaviors expected of us as a bank.
Our approach is outlined within the following
sections.
Supporting customers in need of extra care –
see pages 43-44.
Supporting customers in financial hardship –
see pages 45-46.
Resolving customer complaints fairly –
see page 47.
This year, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) required ANZ to hold an additional
operational risk capital overlay due to concerns about non-financial risk (NFR) management,
including issues within our Markets business.
These issues require a strong response and this will be a significant ongoing focus in 2025.
The actions we are taking on NFR and the Board’s response on the specific matters arising
within the Markets business are outlined on page 23.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Supporting customers in need of extra care
We aim to recognise and respond to customers
who need extra care and support customers to gain
or maintain their financial independence. We achieve
this by focusing on product design and data
use to improve accessibility and limit harm. We
continue to strengthen our frontline capability and
undertake community and industry engagement.
Key areas of progress in 2024 include:
• Enhanced the use of data analytics to
more frequently identify potentially abusive
transactions and take prompt action, including
customer outreach capability via the Extra
Care Hub. This involves the use of a dynamic
algorithm to identify indicators of abuse
by considering factors such as the size of
transactions, patterns of behaviour and
content of payment descriptions. We have also
commenced piloting the use of data analytics to
help identify financial abuse by a person holding
a power of attorney.
• The expansion of the Extra Care Hub, our
specialist team who provide support to frontline
staff supporting customers who may be
experiencing vulnerability, with a key focus on
financial abuse, family violence and customers
where we hold concerns with cognitive capacity.
Now available for bankers in multiple frontline
teams, the Extra Care Hub supported 2,497
customers during the year.
• The launch of an Artificial Intelligence ‘monitoring
bot’ within our Message Us chat channel on the
ANZ App, which allows customers to contact
bankers and receive fast tracked support. The
bot identifies potential instances of customer
vulnerability through specific keywords and
phrases and flags this to bankers. Once triggered,
a private message (visible only to the banker) will
display within the banker’s conversation screen.
This is designed to prompt the banker to carefully
review the conversation and refer to our specialist
Extra Care Hub where appropriate.
• Implementation of a ‘quick exit’ button on our
family violence webpage. The button allows
a user to immediately be redirected to an
alternative site and hide the site they were
viewing should safety or privacy be a concern.
This builds on the information already available
to customers on this webpage regarding safe
browsing.
• ANZ has also joined the ‘Respect and Protect’
public awareness campaign which aims to
encourage all businesses to change their
product terms and conditions to make it
clear that financial abuse is an unacceptable
customer behaviour and action will be taken.
Our participation reflects our stance that bank
accounts are no place for financial abuse.
• Continued training of Australian employees
through a combination of e-learning, leader-
led guidance and workshops to identify and
support customers in need of extra care.
Partners such as the International Centre for
Missing and Exploited Children Australia (ICMEC
Australia) have provided training on online
child sexual abuse within the financial sector,
helping to build the capability of bankers to
detect, report and prevent technology related
child sexual exploitation. Similarly, community
organisation South-East Community Links
delivered a workshop to senior leaders and
product managers on the topic of Financial
Safety and ‘Safety By Design.’ We are in the
early stages of building this capability to
help ensure our products and services are
designed to help prevent financial abuse.
In March 2024, the Banking Code Compliance
Committee (BCCC) commenced a follow-
up into the Inclusivity, Accessibility and
Vulnerability Inquiry. The Inquiry is examining
compliance with obligations for inclusivity,
accessibility and vulnerability in Part 4 of
the Banking Code of Practice, with a focus
on financial abuse, access to interpreters
and third-party authorities. ANZ provided a
response to the follow-up, with the BCCC
expected to publish the outcomes of the
Inquiry in late calendar 2024.
ANZ’s Customer Advocate
The Customer Advocate’s role is to provide a
voice for our Australian customers to facilitate
and promote fair customer outcomes. The
Customer Advocate supports our customers in
a number of ways:
• Identifying opportunities to enhance products,
services, systems and processes within the
bank.
• Helping to facilitate better decision-making and
fairer outcomes for customers through the use
of insights and perspectives, including those
sought from the community.
The Customer Advocate meets regularly with
community organisations and participates actively
in industry forums to ensure our approach is
informed by best practice and lived experience.
Internally, ANZ also holds a customer advocacy
forum bi-monthly to provide end to end oversight
of customer vulnerability issues for Australia Retail
and Australia Commercial, with a key focus on
influencing fair customer outcomes and limiting
customer harm and detriment.
The Customer Advocate is also responsible for
leading ANZ’s customer vulnerability strategy
which includes a focus on strengthening our
support for customers impacted by family violence
and financial abuse, supporting our First Nations
customers particularly in remote communities,
and promoting inclusive banking for customers,
including through ANZ’s Accessibility and Inclusion
Plan outlined on page 63.
ANZ’s customer vulnerability
strategy in Australia seeks to support
customers in need of extra care,
while also ensuring our products and
services are accessible and inclusive.
This aligns to our strategic focus of
improving financial wellbeing and the
expectations of our regulators,
customers and the community.
Further information on how ANZ is supporting
customers impacted by family violence is
available at anz.com.au/family-violence-and-
financial-abuse
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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First Nations Foundation
Australia’s leading Indigenous financial literacy
organisation, First Nations Foundation, run a
family-friendly community event series each
year to educate and empower First Nations
people to take control of their financial future.
ANZ participated in the Townsville and Palm
Island events at the 2024 Financial Wellness
Week, which brings together the community
with selected industry providers, government
departments and banks. The event takes a
holistic approach to providing financial services
to the community, acting as a point of contact for
First Nations people to access a hub of financial
literacy workshops and break-out sessions.
Some of the challenges faced by our First
Nations customers include how to manage
their banking needs given remote locations.
Many customers experience issues with
meeting identification requirements and
have difficulty opening a bank account, a
fundamental part of participating fully in the
economy. The event was an opportunity
to meet with customers and third-party
representatives, such as Social Workers and
Financial Counsellors, to educate them on
preventing financial abuse, how to manage
their banking needs through the ANZ App and
enabled further awareness of ANZ’s First Nations
Customer Support Line.
Our branch network
Over the past decade, we have seen a
long-term shift in how our customers want to
bank with us with the number of customers
coming into a branch for transactions
reducing significantly.
Closing a branch is never a decision taken
lightly and we carefully consider a number of
factors. This includes long-term analysis of
how many customers are visiting a branch,
how they’re using it and what the alternative
banking options are. As part of this analysis,
we look at customer behaviour data, including
whether these customers are using ATMs,
phone or digital banking.
We understand it’s important to speak
with our customers and ensure that those
requiring assistance with their banking needs
are contacted as a priority. We also engage
with the local representatives of all levels of
government each time we close a branch.
Under the Federal Treasurers approval
conditions for purchasing Suncorp Bank, ANZ
and Suncorp Bank’s regional branches will
be maintained throughout Australia for the
next three years. There will also be no net
job losses in Australia as a direct result of the
acquisition for three years.
Supporting diverse language and
communication needs
To better support our culturally and linguistically
diverse customers, we continue to offer an at-call
interpreter service, delivered with an independent
provider, that staff can contact to assist customers
with limited English.
This year, the use of the interpreter service was
extended to support more than 9,400 customers in
190+ languages. The interpreter service is available
across all Australia Retail teams for service enquiries,
making it easier for customers to communicate over
the phone or in-person in the language of their choice.
In New Zealand, employees help to organise an
interpreter for appointments for customers who are
deaf or hard of hearing, which ANZ pays for. This
process covers appointments initiated directly with
ANZ or via interpreter provider iSign, depending on
the customer’s preference. Requests for language
interpreters are also assessed and managed to
find the best possible outcome for customers.
We also continue to offer written formats in
languages other than English. Our ATMs in
Australia offer multilingual options covering 12
languages: English (default), Arabic, French,
German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and
Vietnamese. ATMs in New Zealand offer
multilingual options covering Te reo Māori,
Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and English.
In November 2023, we published an Easy English
Guide titled ‘Staying Safe Online’ which combines
text with imagery to simply explain scams for use
by people with low literacy, a learning disability
or who are unfamiliar with English. The Australian
Customer Complaints Guide is also available in this
format, as well as in Auslan to support customers
who are deaf or hard of hearing. We have seen
strong customer use of these accessible formats,
with more than 1,100 of downloads this year.
Supporting First Nations
customers in Australia
ANZ recognises First Nations customers, particularly
those living in remote communities, may experience
barriers to banking and financial inclusion.
We continue to support these customers through:
• ANZ’s First Nations Customer Support Line,
a dedicated team that has helped more than
13,544 customers with their banking needs,
which is 36% more than the previous year. If
required, overflow calls are taken by trained
bankers across the Customer Contact Centre.
• Raising awareness of the First Nations Customer
Support Line among community groups and the
local community, including through the 2024
Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) national
and state conferences, FCA ‘Bring Your Bills’ Day
in Dubbo, and 2024 First Nations Foundation
Financial Wellness Week events in Townsville
and Palm Island.
• Enhanced Third Party Authentication processes
which allow a Financial Counsellor, Capability
Worker or Social Worker to be present during
authentication, making banking more accessible
and easier for First Nations customers.
• Implementing a dedicated mailbox allowing
bankers in the Support Line team to process
First Nations customers ID documents to
support remote identification, delivering a more
efficient experience.
• Continue to employ First Nations bankers in the
Support Line team, accounting for 33% of the
team in 2024.
For more information about ANZ’s Reconciliation
Action Plan see page 61. For information on
MoneyBusiness, ANZ’s financial education
program for First Nations people, see page 35.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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There are times when our customers are
unable to meet their financial commitments.
In some instances, the financial difficulty
may be temporary, requiring only time to
recover and get back on track. Other cases
may be longer term or permanent, requiring
additional support and extra care to review
and restructure their financial arrangements.
In line with the broader economic environment, the
number of Australian ANZ home loan customers
in hardship has risen over the past year to around
four in every 1,000 people, and the number for
small Australian business customers is around two
in every 1,000. We expect customers in hardship
will continue to rise given the external environment.
Whatever the situation, we will work with
customers to find a solution through respectful
conversations that are fair and appropriate to that
customer’s individual circumstances.
ANZ Australia provides customers with a range
of options to help address their circumstances,
including:
• Temporarily reducing or pausing repayments.
• Changing to a period of interest only payments.
• Loan restructuring including capitalisation
(adding the late payments onto the loan).
• Providing information and access to our financial
literacy programs.
• Reducing the amount of debt owing and, in
sensitive circumstances, considering debt
forgiveness on a case-by-case basis.
• Referrals to appropriate external support
services, such as the CareRing Program with
Uniting, Fitted for Work and 1800RESPECT.
• Referrals to financial counselling via the National
Debt Helpline and/or the Small Business Debt
Helpline.
Data plays an important role in the early
identification of customers who may fall into
hardship. Analysis of savings, credit and offset
account data helps us to understand customers’
financial behaviour and potential future outcomes.
This data also helps us to identify customers
who may be receiving unemployment benefits or
experiencing a reduction of more than 10% of their
income. We proactively contact these customers,
who may be at risk of experiencing hardship, via
SMS and encourage them to engage with ANZ’s
Australian Financial Wellbeing Assist (Hardship)
team. Additionally, ANZ frontline staff are trained
to identify hardship triggers when engaging with
customers. When determining what assistance
may be suitable, we adopt a holistic approach
which takes into account all of the customer’s
lending facilities.
Improving customer outcomes
We expect hardship will continue to rise as cost-of-
living pressures persist. To support our Australian
customers, in September 2023 we commenced
a program of work to uplift the experience and
outcomes for those seeking hardship support. We
want to ensure that our hardship processes are
simple, accessible, and easy to use, and provide
sustainable outcomes suitable to each customer’s
individual circumstances. This is aligned with the
recommended actions in the Australian Securities
and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) report; 782
Hardship, hard to get help: Findings and actions to
support customers in financial hardship, published
in May 2024.
Our hardship uplift program is focused on five
key areas:
Improving policies, procedures, and
training for our people
Ensuring executive level end to end
oversight
Improving our customer communications
so they are clearer and more personalised
Evolving our customer experience through
reporting and surveys
Providing specialist support to vulnerable
customers in financial difficulty
Australia
Over the past 12 months we proactively contacted
more than 196,000 home loan customers to
check-in and helped ensure the ongoing suitability
of their loan arrangements. Assistance ranges
from proactive, early hardship offerings to simple
repayment reminders to help ensure sufficient
funds are in the payment account – these
reminders have been particularly successful
with an estimated 24% improvement in on-time
payment for those we reached out to. We have
observed elevated levels of financial stress with
our home loan customers due to cost of living
pressures and increasing interest rates. However,
this is off an historically low base and the overall
data suggests that in aggregate, customers are
holding up better than originally expected.
In Australia, accounts that were new to hardship
and received assistance
1
increased by 48%
from a total of 9,506 in 2023 to 14,031 in 2024.
Our priority is always to help our customers get
back on track. Pleasingly, over 68% of customers
who contacted us in hardship were back in good
shape
2
with their home loan within 12 months.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, the number of customers who
were new to hardship and received assistance
3
increased by 37% from 2,926 in 2023 to 4,021
in 2024. Themes of redundancy, reduced hours
of work, illness, relationship break downs, and
financial stress caused by the impact of higher
interest rates and the cost of living remained
consistent.
Following the devastating flood and cyclone
events to many North Island regions in 2023, we
continue to proactively support our customers
whilst they work through the insurance claim
process and eligibility where their property has
been designated as Category 3 under the New
Zealand Government’s Future of Severely Affected
Land Programme. ANZ’s support during this
time included repayment relief options as well as
preferential pricing to support customers through
an extended period of uncertainty, alleviating
financial pressure until informed decisions can be
made. We continue to identify impacted customers
through our hardship process.
Based on a pilot in 2022, we developed a
proactive contact program to reach out to home
loan customers identified using data analytics as
potentially in need of support, which commenced
in January 2023. In 2024 we contacted more than
250,000 home loan customers as part of the
program including outbound calls to more than
22,000 customers to discuss whether they required
assistance such as restructuring their lending.
Supporting customers in financial hardship
1. The statistic quoted uses underlying data which captures the number of accounts which are receiving hardship assistance, which include Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Small Business Banking.
Multiple customers can be a party to an account. 2. Defined as customers that are either up-to-date on their repayments or have paid out their facility in full. Results taken as the most recent six months of performance.
3. ANZ Bank New Zealand measures hardship at a customer level. For those customers who are receiving hardship assistance, this includes Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Small Business Banking.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
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Referral programs
Customers may need extra care for a range of
reasons including family breakup, illness including
permanent injury, or natural disasters. In addition
to our hardship team working with our customers,
accessing financial counselling can be a key
step towards improving financial wellbeing and
regaining economic stability.
Economic dependency can also keep a person
locked into, or cause them to return to, an abusive
relationship. In circumstances where a relationship
has ended, a person may be left with debt or may
experience ongoing economic abuse. Independent
financial counselling and specialist support can
help a person on the path towards economic
independence.
ANZ has processes in place to refer customers
in need of extra care to community partners to
receive appropriate assistance.
ANZ works with and financially supports the
following community partners in Australia:
• Way Forward Debt Solutions – a registered
charity that provides free debt management
services to assist people struggling to
manage multiple debts to establish affordable
arrangements with their creditors and assist
management of debt repayments. This year,
we referred 21 customer accounts with current
funds under management of around $6 million.
• CareRing – run by Uniting and supported
by ANZ since 2015, the CareRing program
connects customers to a coordinated
range of support services including housing
support, social workers, drug and alcohol
services, home energy assessments and
employment services. We referred 476
customers to CareRing this year. Clients of
the CareRing program can also be referred to
our MoneyMinded program to develop their
basic budgeting skills. For more information
about ANZ’s financial wellbeing programs see
pages 34-36. ANZ also provides a specific
program through CareRing for those in need
of immediate financial assistance to escape
domestic violence. This year, we have assisted
17 customers to access this support, providing
a combined total of more than $10,000 to
assist them on their journey to recovery.
• Fitted for Work – an independent Australian-
based not-for-profit organisation that supports
female-identifying jobseekers to improve
their employment prospects by developing a
résumé, writing a cover letter and provisioning
appropriate work clothes. This year, 356
hardship customers looking for work were
referred to Fitted for Work by ANZ, with 1,100
referrals made since the program began in 2022.
Since inception, approximately 25% of referred
customers who have completed the Fitted for
Work program have found employment.
ANZ New Zealand Bank works with the following
community partner in New Zealand:
• MoneyTalks – funded through the New Zealand
Ministry of Social Development’s Building
Financial Capability services, MoneyTalks
provides free financial mentoring services to
individuals and whānau who want to improve
their financial wellbeing. Since 2018, ANZ has
been referring customers who may need help
with budgeting, managing debt, or planning for
the future, with mentors able to engage with
customers via phone, email or online chat.
Case study
CareRing’s helping hand for
those in need
At the age of 45, Valerie* made the difficult
decision to end her marriage after enduring
years of control and violence from her ex-
partner. During her marriage, Valerie was able
to complete her nursing degree and start
working, contributing to the couple’s mortgage.
After separating, she increased her work
hours to continue with the mortgage and work
through a settlement to purchase a new home
for her and her child.
Concerned about her credit rating and how
that might impact her ability to obtain a
mortgage on her own, ANZ referred her to
a financial counsellor through the CareRing
Program to explore her options. The financial
counsellor became a liaison between Valerie
and ANZ, and over five months worked with
her to obtain financial hardship assistance.
Valerie also engaged a lawyer to assist with the
additional complexities of custody of her child
and the financial settlement from her divorce.
Valerie was born in a different country, where
all her family still lived, resulting in her feeling
emotionally and socially isolated. With the
support of her CareRing caseworker, she was
able to establish a safety plan that connected
her to her long-term friend and neighbour, a
women’s social group in her local community,
and support counselling for her child.
CareRing also provided vouchers for Kmart
and Big W so she could purchase clothing
and school supplies.
* All identifying information has been replaced
As a result of the support and services CareRing
provided and ANZ’s hardship assistance, Valerie
was able to establish control over decisions
affecting her and her child, accept a financial offer
from her ex-partner and sell the property they
co-owned. While Valarie had concerns regarding
her credit file, ANZ was able to help ensure this
was not a long-term constraint regarding her ANZ
lending, and she now feels confident to start again
both financially and emotionally. “You’ve been so
helpful during this stressful time and I can’t thank
you enough”, says Valerie, of the support and
services provided by CareRing.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
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Resolving customer complaints fairly
Customers can lodge a complaint with ANZ
online or with customer-facing staff for Retail
and Commercial in Australia and Personal and
Business in New Zealand, enabling the recording
and resolution of complaints at first point of
contact. In some cases, where additional support
is required, complaints are escalated internally to
specialist complaint resolution teams who work
with the customer to find a resolution.
Customers who need help making a complaint
can appoint a representative, such as a friend
or family member, and in Australia can request
an interpreter.
We will seek to resolve the complaint when we
receive it. If we need more time, our customer
resolution teams will explain why, provide an
expected date for the outcome and keep
customers informed during the process.
If a customer is not satisfied with the proposed
resolution of their complaint, they can escalate
their complaint to the Australian Financial
Complaints Authority (AFCA) or the Banking
Ombudsman Scheme (BOS) in New Zealand.
Reporting to the CEO, ANZ’s Customer
Fairness Advisor Evelyn Halls OAM, provides
guidance on customer fairness issues in
Australia to ensure a consistent and focused
approach. Evelyn is available to assist with
complex customer complaints, drawing on her
prior experience as the Lead Ombudsman,
Banking and Finance at AFCA.
Complaints data and insights are regularly
reported to senior management and the Board
at Group and in New Zealand. Complaints data is
also analysed to identify opportunities to improve
the customer experience.
Australia
This year, ANZ recorded 332,699 complaints
across a broad range of categories including
service quality, account set-up and maintenance,
channel accessibility, fees, interest and rewards,
and fraud and scams. ANZ continues to report
internal complaints data to the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
on a six-monthly basis.
The percentage of all complaints resolved within
30 days of receipt increased to 99% this year
compared to 98% in 2023.
This year, 5,676 complaints were referred
by customers to AFCA, a 5% increase since
2023. service quality and transaction disputes
complaints were the main complaint issues raised
with AFCA. See page 37 for the processes we are
putting in place to combat fraud and scams.
A Complaint Governance Forum continues to be
held bi-monthly. The purpose of the Complaint
Governance Forum is to provide oversight of
the Australia Retail and Australia Commercial
Division’s end to end customer complaint
handling with a key focus on monitoring the
performance and effectiveness of our complaint
handling processes, reviewing volumes, trends
and themes and actions being taken to address
complaint drivers.
New Zealand
Complaints recorded in New Zealand decreased
by 6% from 2023 with 35,162 recorded. We
have seen an increase in complaints seeking
an independent review of their concerns and
resolution offer, which is in line with the increase in
scams. This has led to a 1.2% increase in referrals
to our internal escalation team and, in turn, referrals
to BOS increasing by 21%. We continue to work
with BOS to improve our complaints process
so our customers have confidence that we are
adequately managing their issues.
Service issues accounted for 46% of total
complaints received, with ‘failure to act as
instructed/promised’, being the top service-related
issue in 2024. Personal transactional accounts,
credit cards and home loans were the products
with the most complaints. The most common
concerns included failure to act as instructed/
promised, service performance or responsiveness,
and fee reversal, and we’ve observed an 4%
increase in fraud related complaints.
The percentage of complaints resolved within five
working days decreased to 89%, compared to
91% in 2023; and the percentage of complaints
resolved within 30 calendar days of receipt
remained unchanged at 97% compared to 2023.
Data relating to complaints is available in our
2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack available
at anz.com.au/esgreport
.
We strive to deliver value to
customers through our
products and services, but
we want to know when we
get things wrong. If we don’t
get things right, we work with
our customers to understand
what’s happened and try to
resolve their complaint
promptly. We aim to listen and
find a solution that is fair and
reasonable.
Evelyn Halls OAM, ANZ’s Customer Fairness Advisor
For further information on how ANZ is
responding to scams and fraud see page 37-38.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer
engagement
Meeting customer expectations
Supporting customers in need
of extra care
Supporting customers in financial
hardship
Resolving customer complaints
fairly
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Helping our customers thrive with ANZ Plus
Launched in 2022, ANZ Plus – ANZ’s
digital banking service – is a new way
to bank that places our customers’
financial wellbeing at its core.
Through our digital first experiences and coach-
based support, we strive to help our customers
make financial choices that will allow them to thrive
today, tomorrow and in tough times. Underpinning
this are our nine financial wellbeing principles:
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
This year, ANZ Plus has grown to more than
848,000 customers, 47% of whom engaged with
our financial wellbeing features including savings
goals, card controls, and Round Ups.
In 2024 we released new features aligned
to ANZ Plus’ principle to help improve our
customers’ financial wellbeing:
Spend mindfully
• Joint Accounts: Customers can create a joint
account where they can track expenses and
save together.
• Card on File: Customers can see the merchants
that have stored their card details, easily compare
their spend on various subscriptions and decide
if they want to take measures to reduce these.
• Add-Ons: Customers can now access integrated
money management tools and other experiences
from third-party partners. These include the
Cashrewards Add-On, which helps customers
save money on everyday purchases from some
of Australia’s biggest brands and streamlines
the cashback process, and the Qantas Frequent
Flyer Add-On, which facilitates earning, tracking
and redeeming for travel and other purchases.
• Scam Safe: A suite of enhanced controls,
scam-focused features and educational content
to help customers better protect themselves
and their money. This includes Screen Share
Protect – which stops screen sharing while
in the ANZ Plus App, location-based security,
and risky app detection – a feature that helps
identify the presence of installed apps that may
compromise your banking, and a dedicated
Scam Safe section. ANZ Plus has also turned off
the ability to make payments to cryptocurrency
by default. This means if we identify a customer
has tried to make a payment to crypto, it will
be blocked. Of course, if a customer wishes to
make a legitimate payment to crypto, they can –
but only by disabling Crypto Protect and only up
to $10,000 a month.
1. The Net Promoter Score is measured with a single-question
survey and reported with a number ranging from -100 to +100,
where a higher score is desirable. 2. ANZ customers in Australia
and New Zealand. From a baseline of approximately 2.4 million
customers as at 30 September 2023.
For more information about our ESG
targets see pages 18-22.
For information on how we are supporting
our customers to protect themselves from
scams see page 37.
Save regularly
• Round Ups: Customers can put away a little
extra money towards their savings when they
spend with their card. Since December 2023,
ANZ Plus customers have saved more than
$10 million in spare change using Round Ups.
Borrow responsibly
• ANZ Plus Home Loan: In addition to our transact
and save products, customers can now refinance
to an ANZ Plus Home Loan. This is a digital-first,
data-driven and automated home loan product,
with offset and cash out available. Our Home Loan
Insights tab allows customers to track their home
loan repayment progress and learn about changes
they could make to pay their loan off faster.
Customers continue to rate ANZ Plus highly with a
best-in-class average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of
54
1
, and app store ratings of 4.8 in the Apple App
Store and Google Play.
Supporting financial wellbeing
We are also supporting our customers’ financial wellbeing by encouraging them to build and
maintain financial resilience with the aim of having at least 2.5 million ANZ customers
2
with a
financial buffer of approximately six weeks’ expenses by the end of 2026. At the end of 2024,
2,587,441 customers in Australia and New Zealand had a financial buffer of approximately
6 weeks’ expenses. We expect the number of customers with this financial buffer to vary over
time as customers respond to economic circumstances.
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Helping our customers thrive with
ANZ Plus
Banking in the Pacific
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Banking in the Pacific
ANZ continues its strong focus on providing
digital banking solutions to our Pacific
customers, offering better choice and
lower costs, while also improving access to
financial services for those in remote areas.
Via the ANZ Pacific App customers have access
to services like Bankmail, the bank’s secure mail
service, so they don’t need to travel to a branch to
access confidential information. Customers can
also walk into a shop and pay with a debit card and
in many places get cash out at the same time. This
is particularly helpful for those that live in the more
remote parts of the Pacific.
53% (up from 47% in 2023) of our customers
across Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Tonga,
Solomon Islands and Kiribati now use the ANZ
Pacific App, with 64% using Internet Banking (up
from 59% in 2023).
The Republic of Kiribati, on the edge of the Pacific
Rim, continues to be a leading example. It is the
most remote location in ANZ’s international network
with no direct delivery services to the country,
yet customers in the Republic of Kiribati have
embraced digital services with both their personal
and business customers adopting this technology.
The Cook Islands is another example of a smaller
island nation embracing digital banking, exceeding
their aim of customers transitioning to using
Internet Banking in the last year, bringing their total
percentage of customers using Internet Banking to
76%, from 71% in 2023.
At the same time, ANZ’s flagship financial literacy
program, MoneyMinded, continues to expand
to meet community needs. More than 50,000
Pacific Islanders have participated in this program
since 2011.
We are expanding our matched savings program,
Saver Plus, in Fiji with a pilot commencing with
71 Fijian participants this year. This is the first
time Saver Plus – which is the world’s largest and
longest running matched savings program – has
been extended beyond Australia and New Zealand.
As part of the pilot, ANZ is working with the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and UN Women Markets for Change project to
assist and enhance the socio-economic security
of female market vendors in Fiji, contributing to
broader Pacific women’s economic empowerment.
It is focused on supporting market vendors
and farmers who supply to Suva, Nausori and
Ba municipal markets, over 10 months to set
a business or education savings goal, save a
consistent monthly amount and attend 10 hours
of financial education.
Eligible participants who complete the program
will have their savings matched by ANZ, up to
FJ$500. As well as using the matched savings fund
towards school supplies like Saver Plus in Australia,
Fijian participants will also be able to use their
matched savings to grow their business.
At the launch event, UNDP’s Deputy Resident
Representative, Wei Zhang commented on the
impact of the program, saying “the Saver Plus
program will provide the participants with practical
knowledge they can apply in their daily lives, ultimately
leading to better financial management and stability.
Together, we bridge knowledge gaps, promote
economic empowerment, and make a profound
impact on the lives of female market vendors in Fiji,
enabling a more inclusive and promising future for all.”
The Saver Plus program is a critical component
of ensuring that urban and rural market vendors
in Fiji have the skills to help themselves and their
communities to achieve overall financial wellbeing.
In 2025 our focus will be on expanding the
program to Vanuatu.
EFTPOS transactions in the Republic of Kiribati
almost doubled over the past year, rising from
598,000 to 1,055,000 due to focused customer
education, reflecting a shift towards digital
consumer behaviour.
For more information on MoneyMinded
and Saver Plus see pages 34-36.
Launch of Saver Plus in Fiji
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Helping our customers thrive with
ANZ Plus
Banking in the Pacific
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Thriving communities
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Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Financial crime
We maintain a strong focus on financial
crime data collection, monitoring and
screening with ongoing upgrades
across Anti-Money Laundering/
Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/
CTF), sanctions and fraud platforms.
These upgrades also improve 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. This year, 99.85% of employees and
contractors completed the training. Additional
training is tailored for specific roles, including
senior management and Board.
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.
Anti-Money Laundering and
Counter-Terrorism Financing
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 complete customer due diligence
proportionate to the ML/TF risk posed by our
customers acquired across all channels. 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, using practices that identify, manage
and mitigate sanctions risks in all jurisdictions of
ANZ representation.
Customer relationships and activities that pose a
higher sanctions risk are subject to enhanced due
diligence measures, monitoring and approval. We
are enhancing our monitoring of transactions and
strengthening customer due diligence processes
to seek to continue to support transactions within
our risk appetite and in a manner compliant with
applicable regulatory obligations.
Details of ANZ’s Financial Crime policies including
sanctions, AML/CTF, and fraud are available on
anz.com.au/corporategovernance.
For more information about how ANZ is
supporting customers in need of extra care
see pages 43-44.
Highlight
Australian Federal Police (AFP)
and ANZ join forces to combat
child sexual abuse
ANZ actively collaborates with entities in the
law enforcement community in various public/
private partnerships including AUSTRAC’s Fintel
Alliance. These partnerships bring together
public and private sector experts from a range
of organisations involved in the fight against
money laundering, terrorism financing and other
serious crimes including, domestic violence,
child exploitation, human trafficking, fraud and
environmental crimes.
The AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child
Exploitation (ACCCE) and ANZ have joined forces
in an effort to target and disrupt potential child
sex offenders under a new agreement signed
in June 2024. The joint agreement will embed
an ANZ specialist within ACCCE to assist with
the real-time tracking of suspicious financial
transactions and movements of cash in Australia
and offshore in order to identify potential criminal
activity more quickly and effectively. The aim of
the new partnership is to formalise and facilitate
enhanced collaboration between ANZ and law
enforcement to better target and prosecute
offenders paying for or selling sexually abusive
material of children to users around the world
for profit. The partnership between the AFP
and ANZ is an important collaboration that will
help strengthen the investigative capabilities of
both agencies, working together to share real
time intelligence to dismantle child sexual abuse
networks in an efficient manner.
Separately, ANZ’s dedicated financial crime team
design specialised algorithms to detect potential
threats against the most vulnerable members
of our communities. ANZ utilises sophisticated
in-house built intelligence tools to analyse billions
of transactions from across the financial services
sector and produce actionable intelligence to
ensure perpetrators of serious crimes are swiftly
identified and brought to justice.
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Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk
management
Financial crime
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
Social and environmental risk
management
Equator Principles
Managing ESG risks and
opportunities in our supply chain
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
We conduct our business with integrity and have zero tolerance for bribery
and corruption in our business dealings. Our Anti-Bribery and Anti-
Corruption (ABAC) Business Integrity Policy sets out the principles and
conduct provisions which apply to employees, customers, and third parties.
This includes:
why it matters
knowing who we are doing business with
doing business with integrity
transparency in our relationships
ensuring employee awareness of what
constitutes good conduct
The Policy is supported by operating standards
and tools that require and enable transparency in
disclosing financial and ownership interests and to
identify social and governance risks in our third-
party relationships. To help upskill and remind our
employees of our ABAC policies and processes we
require all employees and contractors to complete
mandatory training every 12 months.
Additionally, we have non-mandatory educational
content and hold ABAC awareness sessions to
continue to promote our operating standards.
We undertake periodic risk assessments to
identify and manage bribery and corruption risks.
ANZ has multiple reporting avenues to report
bribery and corruption, including a dedicated
whistleblowing channel, which is outlined in more
detail on page 25.
We have a dedicated ABAC team focused on setting
the enterprise ABAC framework and responding to
growing regulation and social expectations to
combat bribery and corruption.
For more information about mandatory learning,
risk assessments and reporting channels, see
pages 70, 26 and 25.
We have a dedicated ABAC team focused on
setting the enterprise ABAC framework and
responding to growing regulation and social
expectations to combat bribery and corruption.
In 2024 enhancements have been made to:
• ANZ’s third party due diligence risk themes,
including ABAC, were integrated into a
central platform to enable a holistic approach
to managing third party risks and create
simplification, efficiency and risk oversight.
• Standards with respect to managing gifts and
entertainment to strengthen oversight and
approval requirements.
ANZ has a dedicated team that investigates
suspected breaches to the Policy. When
substantiated, material breaches are escalated to
our Employee Relations team for management.
Material breaches are also reported to the Board
as part of our risk appetite reporting metrics.
For further information see our Anti-Bribery
and Anti-Corruption Business Integrity Policy
available at anz.com.au/corporategovernance
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Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk
management
Financial crime
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
Social and environmental risk
management
Equator Principles
Managing ESG risks and
opportunities in our supply chain
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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Social and environmental risk management
Enhancing our Policy Framework
We regularly review our existing lending practices
and policies to ensure there is adequate
consideration of current and emerging social and
environmental issues. The ERBC considers the key
social and environmental issues that affect the
various industries, customers and communities
ANZ Group serves. The Board EESG Committee
is responsible for assisting the Board by providing
oversight of measures to advance ANZ’s purpose,
focusing on ethical and ESG matters, including
climate-related matters. For further detail on ANZ
Group’s governance structures, please see our
Corporate Governance Statement available at
anz.com/annualreport and our 2024 Climate-
related Financial Disclosures for our governance
approach to climate risk and opportunities.
ANZ Bank Group assesses and manages potential
social and environmental impacts of our lending
decisions through the application of our Social
and Environmental Risk Policy, and Social and
Environmental Risk Standard, including specific
requirements for ‘sensitive sectors’
1
(Standard).
The Social and Environmental Risk Policy and
Standard apply to ANZ Bank Group. The Social
and Environmental Risk Policy and Standard
outlines the social and environmental factors to
be taken into account by our bankers in relation
to large business customers.
2
They incorporate
our approach to human rights, including our ‘zero
tolerance’ for land acquisition and involuntary
resettlement that we consider improper, the
protection of cultural and environmental sensitive
areas, and our approach to managing climate risks.
In 2024, we conducted a review of the Social
and Environmental Risk Policy and Standard,
which included consultation with external
and internal stakeholders, and benchmarking
against industry peers and international and
national good practice. One of the outcomes of
the review was the establishment of a Climate
Risk Standard and consolidation of some of
our ‘sensitive sectors’ to reflect a more holistic
approach to the management of potential
impacts on nature. An overview of the key
changes to our ‘sensitive sectors’ are tabled
on the following page. These changes and the
new Climate Risk Standard were approved by
the ERBC and will be implemented in 2025.
The new Climate Risk Standard is a
principles-based policy that seeks to
provide a consistent approach to identifying,
assessing, and managing climate risk.
The key principles relate to:
i. Acting in accordance with our Purpose,
Code of Conduct and Climate Change
Commitment
ii. Identifying and managing climate risks in
our lending portfolios, and
iii. Monitoring and reporting of potential climate
risks and impacts to relevant forums and
committees. For further information on
how we govern climate risk, see pages
13-18 in our 2024 Climate-related Financial
Disclosures at anz.com/esgreport.
1. Available here at anz.com.au/social-and-environmental-risk-management. 2. Customers of ANZ’s Institutional division.
3. A financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in projects
(Equator Principles).
Current State
ANZ Policy
FrameworkRevised State
Social and
Environmental
Risk Policy
Policy
Principles-
based
Social and Environmental Risk Policy
Capturing Social and Environment matters, including
nature and climate risks
Social and
Environment Risk
Requirements
9 Core Requirements
Focused on
protecting human
rights, fair and ethical
outcomes, cultural
and environmental
assessments and
good governance
6 Sensitive Sectors
• Energy
• Extractive
Industries
• Forest and Forestry
• Water
• Hydroelectric
Power
• Military Equipment
Standards
Mandatory
requirements
Updated Social and
Environmental Risk
Standard
Continued focus on 9 core
requirements, including
updates to reflect a more
holistic approach to the
management of potential
impacts on nature
Consolidation to 5
Sensitive Sectors
• Energy
• Extractive Industries
• Land and Forest
Management
• Water Management
• Military Equipment
New Climate Risk
Standard
Principles based approach
to provide a consistent
approach to identifying,
assessing and managing
climate risk
Supporting
Processes
and Tools
• Social and
Environmental
Screening Tool
• Reputation Risk Radar
• Equator Principles
3
• Enhanced Human
Rights Due Diligence
• Climate Change Risk
Assessment
• Energy Transaction
Escalation Process
• Agri Viability Tool
• Climate Variability
Analysis
• ESG Information System
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Regulation and risk
management
Financial crime
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
Social and environmental risk
management
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opportunities in our supply chain
Thriving communities
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Diversity and inclusion
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Previous
sensitive sectors
Updated
sensitive sectors
Main changes to sensitive sectors
EnergyEnergy• Embedding expectations of Institutional Energy Customers.
• Expanding our engagement with existing relevant customers whose thermal coal revenues exceed 35% (previously a 50% threshold) to support their diversification
plans.
Our Energy Customer Approach will be available at anz.com/esgreport prior to our AGM.
Extractive
Industries
Extractive
Industries
• Expanding our engagement with existing relevant customers whose thermal coal revenues exceed 35% (previously a 50% threshold) to support their diversification
plans.
• Incorporates our updated policy position for lending to upstream oil and gas customers, including no direct financing to new or expansion of upstream oil and gas
projects (subject to potential exceptions arising from national energy security issues in Australia or New Zealand).
Forestry and
Forests
Land and Forest
Management
Expanding beyond forests to broader land management approach by including the provisions of our previous Land Acquisition Statement. This provides more
guidance for bankers to engage with customers on positive land management activities, such as reforestation, improving grazing, soil and water management, and
suitable fertiliser use.
Hydroelectric
Power
Water
Water
Management
Merging the requirements from the previous Water and Hydroelectric Power sectors, with an increasing focus on water cycle management, water quality and availability,
demands and scarcity.
Military
Equipment
Military EquipmentMaintaining a conservative approach – seeking to minimise association with certain types of military equipment and services, except for the benefit of the Australian or
New Zealand Governments.
Updates to sensitive sectors
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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management
Financial crime
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Social and environmental risk
management
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opportunities in our supply chain
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To o l sCustomer Cohort
Social and
Environmental
Screening Tool
A tool used to facilitate qualitative risk assessments of social and environmental risks, including climate change, that may result in potential
financial and non-financial risks from our customers’ activities. It also assists bankers in the application of the Social and Environmental Policy
and the Social and Environmental Risk Standard.
This assessment is integrated into the credit process and is ordinarily performed when conducting due diligence on new-to-bank customers,
when reviewing existing customers (generally annually), prior to a material transaction, or when ANZ Bank Group becomes aware of a material
change to the customer’s activities, or a material impact has occurred.
Large business customers of ANZ Bank Group
Institutional division
Reputation Risk
Radar
A service which captures certain reports and findings of social, environmental, and significant governance incidents and allegations against
existing and prospective customers. Notable incidents and allegations are referred, where appropriate or relevant, to applicable risk management
forums in which social, environmental and credit risks are considered.
Large business customers of ANZ Bank Group
Institutional division
Equator Principles
A risk management framework that determines, assesses, and manages social and environmental risks when financing projects. It focuses on
major infrastructure and industrial projects, such as mines, windfarms, and pipelines, for which ANZ Group provides finance. For further information
on the Equator Principles see page 55.
Project Finance customers of ANZ Bank Group
Institutional division
Enhanced
Human Rights
Due Diligence
A process that seeks to understand our customers’ approach to human rights, to assess the risk implications and avoid or mitigate potential
impacts. For further information on our approach to human rights see pages 59-60.
Large business customers of ANZ Group’s
Institutional division, when identified through our
Social and Environmental Screening Tool
The below table outlines the range of tools that are utilised across different customer cohorts to support
our Social and Environmental Policy and Standards and help ANZ Bank Group to identify, assess and
manage environmental and social risks. Our 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures set out in more
detail additional tools and process that are focused on identifying, assessing, and managing climate risks.
To o l s
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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management
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Social and environmental risk
management
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Equator Principles
As an Equator Principles Financial Institution
since 2006, we seek to ensure the projects we
finance are developed in a manner that is socially
responsible and reflect sound environmental
management practices.
We commit to implementing the Equator Principles
through our internal environmental and social
policies, procedures and standards for financing
projects. The Equator Principles apply to Project
Finance, Project-Related Corporate Loans, Project-
Related Acquisition Finance, Project-Related
Refinance or Bridge Loans (each as defined in
the Equator Principles, and collectively “Project
Finance”). We will not provide Project Finance to
projects where the customer will not, or is unable
to, adopt processes aligned with the Equator
Principles where they apply.
We use the Equator Principles as a minimum
standard for due diligence and monitoring to
support responsible decision-making for Project
Finance. The Equator Principles complement our
Social and Environmental Risk Policy and related
Standards for sensitive sectors, which also apply to
Project Finance transactions. For more information
about these topics refer to pages 52-54.
If we determine that the Equator Principles apply,
we conduct initial due diligence to inform our view
of the likely Equator Principles rating. This due
diligence includes reviewing any Environmental
and Social Impact Assessment the customer
provided as part of the project approval process.
We will require a social and environmental due
diligence report (EP DD) from a third party expert
where our initial due diligence indicates a likely
Category A
1
rating (in all cases) or a Category
B
1
rating (where needed) under the Equator
Principles. The EP DD typically considers the
following issues:
• Social and environmental risks arising
from the project.
• Customer capacity to manage social
and environmental issues.
• How an Environmental and Social Impact
Assessment (if any) will be implemented
through the customer’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 customer’s
stakeholder engagement in response.
Where ANZ approves financing following the
EP DD, any issues identified in the EP DD will
commonly be addressed as conditions in the
Project Finance loan documentation. Information
on this year’s Project Finance transactions is
available in our 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks
Pack available at anz.com/esgreport.
Battery Energy Storage in
Eastern Australia
In 2024, ANZ provided project finance for the
construction, and initial operations, of a battery
storage system (“BESS”) in eastern Australia.
The project is expected to enhance grid stability
and energy security, whilst supporting the rapid
expansion of solar and wind projects in the region.
An EP DD assessment was undertaken by an
independent technical advisor as part of the
environmental impact due diligence for the project.
The BESS was classified as a Category B project
consistent with our initial assessment, underpinned
by its compliance with Australian Government
regulations as a “Designated Country” as defined
in the Equator Principles. The site is situated on
land previously used for livestock grazing.
ANZ approved the financing on the basis that
the project’s limited adverse environmental and
social risks were appropriately mitigated by the
customer’s environmental and social management
systems, alongside an ongoing requirement for
the customer to comply with environmental and
relevant laws and regulations.
Windfarm in Eastern Australia
In 2024, ANZ acted as a Mandated Lead Arranger
on a debt facility for the construction, and initial
operations, of a wind farm in eastern Australia.
As part of our due diligence process for the project,
an EP DD assessment was undertaken by an
independent technical advisor on behalf of the
lenders. The wind farm was classified as a Category
B project, with limited adverse environmental
and social risks, generally site specific and
largely reversible. The project is sited on primarily
agricultural land, however, is expected to have
limited impact on local flora and fauna species.
ANZ approved the financing on the basis that
the project’s environmental and social risks
were appropriately mitigated by the customer’s
environmental and social management systems,
alongside an ongoing requirement for the
customer to comply with environmental and
relevant laws and regulations, together with
conditions attached to regulatory approval for
the wind farm development. The project is also
required to provide regular reporting to the
lenders on its continued compliance with the
Equator Principles.
Windfarm in Eastern USA
In 2024, ANZ was invited to act as a Mandated
Lead Arranger for a windfarm project in
Maryland, USA.
ANZ undertook an initial due diligence that
ascertained that the transaction would require
environmental and social analysis to examine the
potential environmental and social risks associated
with the project. An independent advisor was
appointed to conduct EP DD.
The independent advisor recommended that given
the limited adverse economic and social risks, the
project be categorised as a Category B under the
Equator Principles.
ANZ subsequently approved the financing subject
to the borrower complying with requirements
to accept regular monitoring throughout the
construction phase, ensuring that any identified
environmental and social risks (as well as any
new issues that could potentially arise during
the construction phase) would be mitigated in
accordance with the findings of the due diligence.
1. Category A: Projects with potential significant adverse social or environmental impacts that are diverse, irreversible or unprecedented.
Category B: Projects with potential limited adverse social and environmental impacts that are few in number, generally site-specific, largely
reversible and readily addressed through mitigation measures. Category C: Projects with minimal or no social or environmental impacts.
The Equator Principles are an international risk management framework
for determining, assessing and managing social and environmental risks
in large infrastructure and industrial projects.
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Managing ESG risks and opportunities in our supply chain
In 2024, ANZ spent $5.1 billion
1
(2023:
$4.9 billion) with suppliers procuring goods
and services across 29 markets. Over 88% of
this was spent in Australia and New Zealand.
Contracted 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 across the topics of
environmental footprint, community relations,
employee relations and corporate governance. In
2024, we undertook 5,311 checks which included
our top 100 suppliers, by spend. These checks
identified potential issues in nine instances. We
requested further detail from the suppliers 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 take mitigating steps.
Our Supplier Code of Practice (SCOP) outlines our
minimum expectations for suppliers including in
relation to:
• Human rights and workplace relations.
• Occupational health and safety.
• Ethical business practices.
• Information management and confidentiality.
• Accessibility.
• Environmental management.
• Supplier diversity.
We endeavour to include SCOP clauses in
new and renewed supplier contracts with
83% of all live supply contracts including the
SCOP clauses. Since 2021 our usual practice
is to include separate contractual clauses
covering human rights and modern slavery in
ANZ standard contract templates and where
we are using the supplier’s standard contract.
For more information about our approach to
human rights see pages 59-60.
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
2
managed under our Operational
Contract Management Framework (OCMF).
In 2024, 77% of major suppliers provided an
attestation of adherence to our SCOP. We also
seek attestations from a sample of suppliers
each year in countries such as India, China, the
Philippines, Vietnam, and Pacific nations. We
continue to encourage major suppliers to attest
to the SCOP.
Improving our data collection of
operational scope 3 emissions
ANZ has set targets for 2025 and 2030 to reduce
our operational footprint. The targets aim to reduce
our operational footprint in line with our purpose
to support household, business and financial
practices that improve environmental sustainability.
In support of this, during the year we have continued
to work on expanding the number of suppliers who
provide emissions data for services supplied to ANZ.
For more information on our operational emissions
see our Climate-related Financial Disclosures
available at anz.com/esgreport.
Working with our suppliers
As a signatory to the Business Council of Australia’s
Supplier Payment Code, we are committed to
paying Australian small businesses within a
maximum of 30 days of receiving a correct invoice
or otherwise in accordance with the Code, unless
the contract stipulates a shorter term. However, our
aim is to pay small businesses, and all Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander businesses regardless of
size, as promptly as possible upon approval of the
invoice. On average, payment to small businesses
are made within approximately 15 days of receipt
of the invoice. In the latest Australian Government’s
Payment Term Reporting Scheme (June 2024) we
reported payment to 89% of all small business
supplier invoices within 30 days.
In New Zealand, we support the New Zealand
Banking Association’s initiative, which was
established to assist small-to-medium
businesses during COVID-19. To date, we have
processed approximately 81% of payments
(excluding purchasing card transactions) within
the 10 business days target, with average
payment made within approximately seven days
of receipt of a valid invoice.
Supporting supplier diversity
Since 2019 we have been a member of Social
Traders, an organisation helping to create jobs
for disadvantaged Australians by linking business
and government to social enterprises. This year,
we spent $6.6 million
3
(2023: $7.1 million) with
social enterprises.
In New Zealand, we were a member of Ākina in
2024, a buyer group to access a wide range of
certified social enterprise suppliers. We spent
NZ$64,000 with social enterprises in 2024
(2023: NZ$144,000) and seek to influence our
suppliers to also use social enterprises in their
own supply chain.
We are also a member of WEConnect
International, a global organisation seeking to
promote the use of women-owned businesses
in corporate supply chains.
Procurement with Indigenous
businesses in Australia
We spent a total of $13.4 million with 50
Indigenous businesses in Australia this year, up
from a total of $11.7 million with 46 businesses
in 2023. We are a member of both Supply Nation
and Kinaway (the Victorian Indigenous Chamber
of Commerce). Due to our work in this space,
a member of ANZ’s Procurement team was
shortlisted for the Supply Nation Supplier Diversity
Advocate of the Year award in 2024.
As part of our Stretch Reconciliation Action
Plan
4
, we have an objective to spend $6 million
with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-owned
businesses from 2021 – 2024. Over the period of
the RAP, we spent $37.8 million.
1. Numbers on this page are presented on a cash expenditure basis. 2. Supplier relationships where the contracted services are deemed to be of critical importance and/or high risk to ANZ, or which have an
active management plan due to the nature of the goods and services. 3. Includes sponsorship spend. 4. Per Reconciliation Australia’s RAP Framework, a “Stretch RAP” spans a two or three year period, and is
focused on longer-term strategies, and working towards defined measurable targets and goals.
For information on ANZ’s Reconciliation Action
Plan see page 61.
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Case study
ANZ partners with
DV Safe Phone
In November 2023, DV Safe Phone
received an ANZ Community Foundation
grant for $14,750. This grant helped
repair 200 damaged phones, which were
distributed to domestic violence survivors
via DV Safe Phone’s approved sites.
The ANZ Community Foundation provides
grants of up to $30,000 to community
organisations around Australia to fund
projects that assist local communities to
thrive. This year, ANZ and staff funded
$447,600 in community grants, shared
between 27 projects.
ANZ’s partnership with DV Safe Phone
extends to hosting collection boxes
for phones across six of our corporate
locations, providing volunteering
opportunities to staff, and contributing to
postal costs associated with donations
from phone-drop locations Australia-wide.
Community investment
We invest in the communities in which we
operate and play a role in supporting their
capacity and resilience – contributing to our
purpose to shape a world where people and
communities thrive. Throughout the year
we have continued to work closely with our
community partners to provide support for
them and their clients in a respectful, fair,
and appropriate way, especially as cost of
living pressures continue to increase.
Since 2005, we have measured the dollar value of
our community investment in accordance with the
Business for Societal Impact Framework, a widely
adopted standard for measuring and managing
corporate community investment.
In 2024, our community investment was over
$134.7 million. In addition, we facilitated more
than $18.3 million in donations to community
organisations through our employees, customers,
shareholders, other partners, and the public,
including through our digital giving platform
Shout for Good.
Approximately $5.6 million of our community
investment (around 25% 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.
More information on gender equality can be
found on page 66.
2024 contribution by type
1
Giving
Our workplace giving program enables employees
in Australia to make contributions to around 29
charity partners aligned to our focus areas of
financial wellbeing, housing and environmental
sustainability 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 our Australian
employees donated $1,617,168 to our charity
partners through workplace giving.
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 $2,957,880 to charitable
organisations in Australia, New Zealand, and
Fiji in 2024.
Cash
$18,847,730
Time
$3,673,512
Management costs
$5,565,449
In-kind
$19,706
Forgone revenue
106.6M
To t a l
134.7M
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 communities in Sri Lanka and Ukraine. This figure does not include remediation funds distributed to charity.
Community grants
$1,590,711 in community grants were
provided this year
$250,000
in ANZ Seeds of
Renewal community
grants
NZ$949,046
in ANZ Bank
New Zealand Staff
Foundation grants
FJ$44,000
in ANZ Fiji
Staff Foundation
donations
$ 4 47, 6 0 0
in ANZ Community
Foundation grants
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Highlight
Benefits for the community
and ANZ staff
ANZ Manila’s Green Ambassador team
organised many volunteering opportunities
for staff throughout the year. These initiatives
involved recycling paper bags, re-purposing
plastic waste into eco-friendly building
materials and three tree planting days through
community partners.
The Green Ambassador tree planting days
saw a total of 300 staff from the Manila Group
Capability Centre plant 500 seedlings of
various trees like Mahogany, Acacia, and Palo
Maria at an urban rainforest park in Pasig City.
The enthusiasm and dedication displayed by
all participants across the three days were truly
inspiring.
Supporting our employees to volunteer aligns
with our purpose to shape a world where
people and communities thrive. It also brings
benefits to our employees wellbeing and sense
of belonging by strengthening relationships.
Volunteering
Our Volunteer Leave Policy applies to permanent,
regular, and fixed-term employees, providing at
least one day of paid volunteer leave each year.
In 2024, our people volunteered 91,043 hours to
community organisations. This represents more
than 11,380 working days and $3,673,512 in
value to the community.
Shout for Good
This year, ANZ’s digital giving platform Shout for
Good, which supports charities in Australia with
free and innovative digital fundraising solutions,
facilitated over $18.3 million in donations for more
than 486 charities.
In 2024, Shout for Good launched Shout Occasion.
This feature allows individuals and charities to
choose a pre-set fundraiser template to suit
a special occasion, allowing them to set up a
quick and easy fundraiser that is customised
with personal photos and text. In addition, Shout
for Good introduced Tap to Pay on iPhone. This
feature allows charity supporters to turn their
iPhones into a terminal within minutes, to raise
vital funds for causes they care about. Further
information can be found at shoutforgood.com.
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.
This year, we activated financial relief packages
for customers in Australia affected by floods in
Far North Queensland caused by ex-Tropical
Cyclone Jasper. In addition, ANZ donated
$50,000 to both the Australian Red Cross and
the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
for flood recovery efforts in the Far North
Queensland region in December 2023.
In June 2024, we provided support for New
Zealand business and farming customers in Te Tai
Tokerau impacted by power outages. Northland
businesses faced challenging times as the result
of the power outages, with ongoing disruptions
to major roading networks following Cyclone
Gabrielle. Support included temporary overdraft
facilities and the ability to defer loan repayments or
moving to interest only to help ease some financial
pressure.
ANZ continues to waive international monetary
transfer fees for transfers from Australia and New
Zealand to communities in Sri Lanka and Ukraine.
Distributing remediation
funds to charity
Our remediation program seeks to put things
right for customers who may have been impacted
by errors we’ve made. While we seek to ensure
remediation payments reach those impacted,
there are some cases where that does not occur,
for example, when we cannot locate a former
customer. In most cases, when this occurs, we
distribute the remediation payment amount to
charit y.
In 2024, we distributed remediation funds to
charities throughout Australia including Berry
Street, The Smith Family, Brotherhood of
St Laurence and the Financial Counselling
Foundation. These donations funded more than 20
projects focused on delivering long-term benefits
to disadvantaged communities or those in need of
extra care across metropolitan and regional areas.
Projects funded in 2024 include:
Delivering financial literacy programs to
mothers experiencing family violence.
Community education on scams to build
digital capability and confidence.
Building digital skills and capabilities for
families to be digitally connected and feel
confident to participate in society.
For more information on how we invest in the
community, please see anz.com.au/community
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Our approach to human rights is outlined in
our Human Rights Statement (Statement). This
approach is complimented by our Human Rights
Grievance Mechanism (Mechanism) which
provides a channel for people who believe their
human rights have allegedly been impacted by an
ANZ large business lending customer
1
to raise a
grievance with ANZ.
Our approach to human rights is guided by our
Code of Conduct, our behaviours and our values,
and is informed by internationally recognised
human rights frameworks and standards including
the International Labour Organisation Declaration
on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and
the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights (UNGPs).
In 2024, we engaged with external and internal
stakeholders as part of our periodic review of the
Statement and the Mechanism. We expect to
complete our review in early 2025.
Policies, processes and standards embed our
approach to human rights, including:
Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy
as discussed on page 51
Accessibility and Inclusion Plan as
discussed on page 63
Climate Change Commitment as
discussed on page 27
Diversity and Inclusion Policy as
discussed on page 64
Equal Opportunity, Bullying and
Harassment Policy available at
anz.com/shareholder/centre/about/
corporate-governance
Modern Slavery Statement as discussed
on page 60
Reconciliation Action Plan as discussed
on page 61
Social and Environmental Risk Policy and
Standard as discussed on page 52
Supplier Code of Practice as discussed
on page 56
Complaints processes as discussed
on page 47
ANZ Human Rights Grievance
Mechanism
We support the UNGPs, including through access
to our Human Rights Grievance Mechanism.
The Mechanism considers grievances submitted
by people and communities who believe their
human rights have been impacted by an ANZ large
business lending customer.
For a grievance to be accepted into the
Mechanism, the customer must consent to both
ANZ disclosing the existence of a current or former
lending relationship to those who submitted the
grievance, and to participating in the Mechanism.
The Mechanism is designed to promote
responsible business conduct, under a
framework through which:
• Efforts can be made to resolve grievances
accepted into the Mechanism, including
through facilitating dialogue between the
affected people and the large business
lending customer; and
• Recommendations in relation to our policies
and processes can be provided.
ANZ did not receive any grievances in 2024.
A grievance submitted to the Mechanism in
2023 was closed this year due to the criteria for
acceptance not being met.
Our approach to human rights
ANZ respects human rights, including the rights of our employees, our
customers and the people in our communities. We expect the same respect
for human rights from everyone who works for or with us.
1. Current or former lending customers of ANZ’s Institutional business.
The Human Rights Grievance Mechanism
Framework and our grievance reporting is
available at anz.com.au/human-rights
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Modern slavery
Modern slavery
1
is estimated to affect 50 million
people worldwide, with one in four victims being
children
2
. An effective response to modern slavery
requires the combined effort of government, law
enforcement, non-government organisations
(NGOs) and business.
ANZ takes a Group-wide approach to managing
modern slavery risk in our operations and
supply chain.
ANZ considers that our policies and tools help
to identify, assess and manage modern slavery
risk and support our ability to seek to influence
changes in practice and behaviours at a
stakeholder level. Modern slavery risk, at a group
level, is assessed for three key workstreams and
for our people as follows:
• Supply chain – higher risk due to volume and
breadth of goods and services procured, and
our international banking presence in a number
of higher risk countries.
• Customers – higher risk due to both some of the
sectors and some countries in which we, and
our customers, operate.
• Investments – moderate to lower risk for
investments made by our third-party fund
managers and New Zealand fund managers
3
due to risk-based drivers including our overall
investment philosophy and selection of fund
managers.
• People – lower risk due to the skills required
for employment, visibility of employment
arrangements, and the location of most of
our employees
4
.
This assessment enables us to prioritise programs
of work that will have the most effective impact, as
a Group, to respond to modern slavery risk.
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 Modern Slavery Statements, with
the 2024 Statement to be available in March 2025
at anz.com/esgreport.
Salient human rights
We further seek to support the UNGPs by
identifying our salient human rights issues
according to where we could potentially cause
or contribute to the most significant negative
human rights impacts.
These issues include corruption and bribery
as well as the impacts to:
• Safety and security of our people
• Labour rights, including modern slavery
• Privacy, data protection and ethical artificial
intelligence (AI)
• Environmental protection
• Land access and use
• Indigenous rights and inclusion
Our salient human rights issues refer to broad
topics. Not all impacts relating to a salient human
rights issue will amount to a negative human
rights impact.
It may not be possible for ANZ to control or avoid
all negative impacts relating to our salient human
rights issues. However, we seek to reduce the
likelihood of negative human rights impacts arising
and, if they occur, respond appropriately in the
circumstances.
1. Serious exploitation of people through threats, coercion or deception, which are used to exploit and undermine victims or deprive them of their freedom – Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018, Guidance
for Reporting Entities (2023). 2. Walk Free, The Global Slavery Index (2023). 3. External fund managers are used for private bank customers in Australia. ANZ New Zealand Investments Limited (a subsidiary of our
New Zealand business) use external and internal fund managers. 4. Australia and New Zealand have lower prevalence and vulnerability to modern slavery according to the Global Slavery Index (2023).
Information relating to our salient human rights
issues is available in our 2024 ESG Data and
Frameworks Pack at anz.com/esgreport.
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Contributing to reconciliation in Australia
ANZ’s vision for reconciliation is an
Australia that is unified around a
shared history that celebrates and
honours the unique contribution of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples. Our Reconciliation Action
Plan (RAP) is a key component of how
we live our purpose, to shape a world
where people and communities
thrive, and we are proud that our RAP
commitments align to this purpose.
ANZ has a long history with Reconciliation Australia,
the lead body for reconciliation in Australia, being
one of Australia’s first major companies to develop
a RAP in 2007.
The conclusion of our 2021-2024 Stretch RAP
1
marks our fifth completed RAP since 2007. We
made significant progress across all 17 actions in
our 2021-2024 RAP, comprising 100 deliverables,
achieving 16 actions, and completing 98 out
of 100 deliverables. Progress against our RAP
has been guided and monitored by a Steering
Committee of senior leaders from across the
business, an external First Nations Advisor and the
Chairs of both the Ngarga Wangaddja
2
and the
ANZ Reconciliation Network.
This year, as part of our RAP we:
• Spent $13.4 million with Indigenous businesses
($37.8 million since the RAP commenced),
exceeding our objective of $6 million by 2024
(For more information on our Indigenous
business spend in 2024 see page 56).
• Implemented cultural and additional bereavement
leave entitlements to support First Nations
employees practicing Sorry Business, as well
as the option for all ANZ employees to work on
the 26 January (Australia Day) public holiday and
nominate a substitute day off.
• Implemented First Nations cultural awareness
learning as mandatory for all Australia-based
employees. The course is designed to enhance
cultural awareness and provide opportunities
to contribute towards a culturally safe and
supportive workplace.
• Delivered eight MoneyBusiness coach training
sessions to community workers and financial
counsellors working in remote communities
(22 since the RAP commenced, achieving an
average of over six sessions per year.). For more
information on MoneyBusiness see page 35.
• Designed ANZ’s new Adelaide office to connect
to Country, co-designing with local Kaurna
Elders. Each meeting room was gifted a Kaurna
language name that related to either flora or
fauna based on the view from its windows.
The two deliverables not achieved were:
• 2% of all external hires in Australia are Aboriginal
and/or Torres Strait Islander employees (1.8%
in 2024).
• Maintain a retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander employees that is equal to non-
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees
in Australia (84.9% for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander employees compared to 88.4%
for non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
employees in 2024).
There are specific actions in the First Nations
Recruitment, Retention and Professional
Development Strategy aimed at further improving
these recruitment and retention rates. More
information on outcomes of our 2021-2024 Stretch
RAP will be provided in our end of RAP report.
ANZ’s contribution to reconciliation in Australia
extends beyond what is outlined in our RAP
commitments and we are equally proud of what
else has been achieved in 2024 which includes:
• Establishing a new staff community Bulurru Yugi
(gathering place) for First Nations employees to
come together, connect and share.
• ANZ’s First Nations Employee Reference Group,
Ngarga Wangaddja, convened a National
Conference during NAIDOC Week. Members
gathered in Naarm (Melbourne) to discuss their
priorities, celebrate culture, and contribute
to the development of ANZ’s Australian First
Nations Strategy.
Moving forward we will build on the success
of our completed RAP as we develop ANZ’s
Australian First Nations Strategy. This Strategy will
weave together meaningful actions, projects and
commitments that leverage our core business
strengths, accelerate our purpose and allow us to
be more deliberate about our relationships with
First Nations in Australia.
Shelley Cable, a proud Nyoongar, joined ANZ
in January 2024 as the inaugural Head of First
Nations Strategy for Australia, a pioneering role
in corporate Australia that reports directly to
CEO Shayne Elliott. This appointment marks
a significant milestone in ANZ’s ongoing
commitment to reconciliation.
“For First Nations in Australia, this is an exciting
opportunity to advance our economic self-
determination by being included in the financial
system, cementing a rightful place in the Australian
economy and determining our own futures from a
position of economic strength.” – Shelley Cable
1. Per Reconciliation Australia’s RAP Framework, a “Stretch RAP” spans a two or three year period, and is focused on longer-term strategies, and
working towards defined measurable targets and goals. 2. Ngarga Wangaddja means ‘mob talking’ in the language of the Nurungga people, and
was the name chosen for the employee reference group formed to represent the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees at ANZ.
Local Artist Lawson Dodd was commissioned to create full
wall artwork for the Adelaide Boardroom, telling the story of his
connection to Kaurna Country
For information on how we are leading change
in Aotearoa New Zealand via ANZ Bank New
Zealand’s Tākiri-Ā-Rangi Te Ao Māori Strategy
see page 62.
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New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
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ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited (ANZ Bank New Zealand) wants to better reflect and respond to the cultural diversity
of the workforce, customer base and country. It’s time for the business world to empower Māori to create their own
economic future on their own terms. Launched in 2022, ANZ Bank New Zealand’s Tākiri-Ā-Rangi Te Ao Māori
Strategy is the roadmap for how ANZ Bank New Zealand will support this change.
Leading change in Aotearoa New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment to Māori
The strategy will be implemented until 2040
and aims to deepen ANZ’s understanding of the
values that are intrinsic to Māori, with a purpose
kia hanga i te ao e ora ai, e tipu ai te tangata me
te kāinga (to shape a world where people and
communities thrive).
This year, we have made significant progress
against these goals, including:
• ANZ Bank New Zealand Board welcomed
ANZ Group Board with a traditional pōwhiri and
recognised the new Group Board members by
gifting them with prized pounamu (greenstone)
known as Hei Toki. Hei Toki represents courage
and strong leadership.
• This year saw Te Waka-Ā-Reo, ANZ Bank New
Zealand’s own reo Māori language program,
designed to increase proficiency and confidence
in the language, launch its final level of the
program. The number of wāhanga (tutorials)
completed continue to trend upwards month by
month, with 1,330 staff actively engaged this
year. Since the launch of the program in July
2022, more than 4,561 Level 1 modules have
been completed and more than 1,060 Level 2
modules. 70 staff have completed all three levels
this year. Te Waka-Ā-Reo won a bronze award at
the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards
for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in August 2024.
• Creating the role of Kairangahau Matua –
Principal Researcher to undertake research
to improve our understanding of what ANZ
Bank New Zealand can do to make our bank
more welcoming to iwi, hapū and hapori Māori
customers. Initial research will be focused on
supporting more Māori into home ownership,
through building our understanding of Māori
housing aspirations, realities, and barriers.
• Branch refurbishment to incorporate our
Tākiri-Ā-Rangi strategy into the bank’s physical
network, alongside considerations of changing
customer and staff needs. We opened a newly
refurbished branch in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa
(Gisborne) and a new Te Mōro o Hato Ruka (St
Lukes) branch in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
They feature many unique design aspects,
including bilingual signage, tukutuku panel
decals, and Pacific-influenced plywood ceilings.
ANZ Bank New Zealand were awarded the Silver
Design Award at the NZ Commercial Project
Awards for the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne)
branch project.
• Te Kupenga Te Kokohi (a net to gather)
sourcing strategy seeks to increase Māori
and Pasifika representation at ANZ Bank New
Zealand across Aotearoa. When we increase
the proportion of Māori and Pasifika people
in ANZ we will have a better understanding of
cultural differences in Aotearoa and how ANZ
can support through things such as changes
to systems, processes and interaction with
customers. Our key focus this year has been
the Māori and Pasifika Program pilot in the New
Zealand Contact Centre, which enhances the
recruitment process for Māori and Pasifika
candidates. 35% of candidates hired this year
as part of this pilot are Māori or Pasifika.
• As part of Te Tohu o Matariki o ANZ, for the
third year in a row, we’ve worked with Māori
artist, Geoff Popham on a unique Visa Debit
MyPhotoCard design, and this year we’ve also
partnered with Netball New Zealand and the
Silver Ferns. Geoff and Silver Ferns, Maia Wilson,
Tiana Metuarau and Paris Lokotui, had a kōrero
(discussion) to reflect on what Matariki means to
them, which inspired the bank card designs.
Our strategy aims to:
Develop stronger relationships with
hapori Māori, iwi (tribe) and hapū (sub-
tribe) across the country, acknowledging
the growing contribution Māori
businesses make to the economy
Support indigenous financial inclusion to
improve Māori financial wellbeing
Conduct a program to enhance ANZ
Bank New Zealand’s own understanding
of Te Ao Māori (the ‘Māori world view’)
ANZ Bank New Zealand Board member, Mark Tume, welcomes
Non-Executive Director of ANZ BGL, Graham Hodges, with a hongi
Te Mōro o Hato Ruka, St Lukes branch
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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Our approach to accessibility and inclusion
ANZ seeks to support customers and ensure our products and services are accessible and
inclusive to all people. The ANZ Accessibility and Inclusion Plan 2023-2025 is registered
with the Australian Human Rights Commission and contains our 14 public commitments
that prioritise driving and embedding accessibility and inclusion across key aspects of our
business in Australia and New Zealand, for customers, employees and the community.
Key areas of progress since the launch of the refreshed plan in 2023 include:
Inclusive design
• Partnering with digital accessibility experts,
Deque, leaders in accessibility tools, services
and training. We now have monthly reports for
our websites, which give us a clear picture of
how we’re progressing with accessibility against
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and
highlighting areas to focus on to close gaps
and drive improved customer experience. For
example, we have improved the navigation on
our websites, and completed an accessibility
uplift to our tools and calculators.
• Embedding Equality Diversity and Inclusion
practices with our advertising agencies that
means people with disability are represented
in our major advertising campaigns in Australia
and New Zealand.
• Partnering with the Dylan Alcott Foundation to
launch the Shift 20 campaign. Shift 20 brings
together leading brands to boost disability
representation, inclusion, and accessibility in
marketing. We believe that together, our industry
can help shift the perception of what disability is
and what it can be – creating a more inclusive
Australia, for everyone. For more information on
the Shift 20 Initiative go to shift20.org.
• Improving the accessibility of our customer
communications on ANZ websites, including
publishing Easy Read format and plain language
documents across Australia and New Zealand.
The Easy Read documents offer a unique layout
and style presenting information that is easy
to understand for our customers who are not
familiar with English, or who have low literacy or
learning disability. The Easy Read topics include
‘How to be Safe Online’ in Australia along with a
‘Complaints Guide’ in Australia and New Zealand.
A series of plain language Terms and Conditions
in addition to Key Information documents
in other languages, have been developed in
New Zealand.
Employee experience
• Achieving Disability Confident Recruiter
Accreditation through the Australian Disability
Network. This incorporates an end to end review
of our recruitment process to remove potential
barriers to make it more accessible and inclusive
for people with disability, as well as education to
support our employees in building knowledge
and awareness of inclusive recruitment.
• More than 460 Australian and New Zealand
employees are accredited in Mental Health First
Aid. Employees are trained in responding to and
supporting our people and customers who are
experiencing difficulties with their mental health.
• Seeking to increase the representation of
people with disability in leadership by running a
Disability Leadership Program delivered by the
Disability Leadership Institute. The program is
being piloted with eight leaders across Australia
and New Zealand.
• Continuing the ANZ Spectrum Program, which
is a commitment to recognising the talents of
autistic people in shaping a workplace where
they can thrive. By providing a supportive
employment environment we hope to empower
autistic people to build greater independence
and thriving careers at ANZ and beyond.
Customer experience
• Completing a ‘Dignified Access Review’
of branches to identify opportunities to
ensure ‘best in class’ access, resulting in
specification design changes for all branches.
This will be a multi-year project, which will be
piloted in our Docklands location initially with
consideration given to sensory improvements
to aid neurodivergent staff along with
accessibility needs.
• Uplifting our Australia branch network signage
to include access to our operating hours via QR
codes and braille to make it easier for customers
to access the information.
Community and partners
• Working closely with organisations such as
the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Inclusion
Australia, the national voice for Australians with
intellectual disability, to implement a disability
employment program, Chance for All. The
program, piloted last year with eight candidates,
has become part of our employment offering
and we recruited six candidates this year.
The Plan’s four pillars consist of:
Inclusive Design We use inclusive design
principles so as many people as possible
can use our products, services and working
environments with dignity, convenience and
independence.
Employee Experience As a disability-
confident workforce, we create safe and
welcoming working environments where
people with disability can thrive. We anticipate
the needs of employees with disability and
make the necessary adjustments to support
high engagement and performance.
Customer Experience We identify and
seek to address barriers to banking to
promote equitable access for everyone in
the community. We embrace and integrate
intuitive and innovative accessibility features
into our products and services.
Community and Partners Through a
wide range of partnerships and ongoing
consultation with leading disability
organisations, changemakers, and industry
groups, we are a voice for change, raising
awareness and seeking to close social and
economic gaps for people with disability.
For more information about employee wellbeing
see page 68. More information on accessibility
and inclusion at ANZ is available at anz.com.au/
accessible-workplace
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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Case study
Neurodiversity employee network
During the global Neurodiversity Celebration
Week in March 2024, we launched our first
formal neurodiversity employee network, Wired
Differently, initiated by a group of interested
and passionate employees. Wired Differently
currently operates in Australia and New Zealand,
is mostly neurodivergent-led and aims to make
a positive difference for neurodivergent people
(and their carers), including our employees,
customers and the wider community.
Any ANZ employee can be a supporter and/
or volunteer in the neurodiversity network, to
contribute to creating a diverse and inclusive
workforce and community.
To launch the network, we invited our partner
organisations as well as neurodivergent and
like-minded organisations to a marketplace at
our head office in Melbourne. We were joined
by Aspergers Victoria, Untapped Group, Noomi,
Kaiko Fidgets and the I CAN Network.
Workplace
diversity and
inclusion
We believe the combined power
of our diverse workforce and
inclusive culture will improve the
quality of decision making and drive
innovation, making us a better bank
for our customers and helping us
to shape a world where people and
communities thrive.
We continue to make progress against
our five Diversity and Inclusion strategic
priorities:
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
Our employee networks:
creating an inclusive culture
Our employee networks play a significant role
in shaping our inclusive culture. In September
2024 we held our third Australian Employee
Networks Conference where we brought together
our network leaders from across Australia for
a day-long conference that included sessions
with the CEO and Chairman and opportunities
for professional development, recognition and
networking. The networks represent our diverse
workforce including Abilities, Reconciliation,
Mental Health, Cultural Inc, ForWARD, Pride and
our newest group, Wired Differently (see case
Equity, diversity and inclusion in
Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2024 ANZ Bank New Zealand reviewed and
refreshed their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Plan.
The driver for the refresh was to focus more on
developing and growing a workforce that reflects
the changing population and demographic profile
of Aotearoa New Zealand, and to continue to
develop a culture of inclusion where everyone can
thrive at ANZ.
The refreshed plan is oriented around the three
pillars of inclusion:
01. Inclusive Leadership
Building the capability of leaders at ANZ to
seek perspectives different from their own to
make decisions, drawing on the contributions
of diverse team members, and who are role
models for inclusion.
02. Inclusive Culture
Influencing ANZ’s culture relating to Equity,
Diversity and Inclusion driving a stronger sense of
belonging, safety and respect for all people at ANZ.
03. Inclusive Careers
Creating a more equitable lived experience for
everyone at ANZ relating to recruitment and
career progression.
We will focus on the following outcomes over the
next three years – increase the representation
of women in leadership, and building on
the Tākiri-Ā-Rangi Te Ao Māori Strategy, increase
representation of Māori and Pasifika peoples
across our workforce and in leadership.
study below). Their importance is reflected in
our fourth strategic priority with the desired
outcome that they felt listened to, empowered
and recognised for the important role they play
in building a strong sense of community and
belonging. This year we also undertook a review
of the structure, governance and operating
models of the networks with a view to achieving
greater consistency and alignment and providing
greater leadership support.
Representatives of our Abilities and Reconciliation
networks sit on the governance groups of the
Accessibility and Inclusion Plan and Reconciliation
Action Plan respectively, highlighting the
importance of their lived experience.
For more information on our Tākiri-Ā-Rangi Te Ao
Māori Strategy see page 62.
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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Achieving gender balance in our business
1. Measures proportion of women out of the entire Senior Manager, Executive, Senior Executive and Group Executive Committee populations (roles within ANZ designated as Groups 3, 2 and 1 respectively). Includes all
employees regardless of leave status but not contractors (which are included in FTE). 2. Representation of women at the Senior Manager, Executive and Senior Executive levels based on ‘revenue proximity’ field for ANZ
BGL. 3. CEO and Disclosed Executives as set out in the Remuneration Report contained within the ANZ Group Holdings Annual Report.
For 2024 we developed a new target-setting methodology for Women in Leadership
1
(WIL) that contemplates strategic contextual information and run rates of hiring,
promotion and turnover. We again exceeded our WIL target, this year by 0.5%
percentage points (ppt) to 38.8% an annual increase of 1.5 ppt. However, women in
revenue generating leadership roles
2
remained unchanged at 32.2% this year.
We continue to implement our enterprise WIL
Action Plan (2023-2025) which has a focus on
increasing the representation of WIL and ‘building
the pipeline’. This includes a sustained focus on
prioritised segments such as our Institutional and
Technology divisions, both of which have large
leadership populations – a higher proportion of
which are men.
As part of the WIL Action Plan this year:
Our WIL Sponsors, Antonia Watson (CEO, ANZ Bank New Zealand) and Mark Whelan (Group
Executive, Institutional), along with our CEO, Shayne Elliott hosted a global virtual Town Hall
for senior leaders on why gender equality and an inclusive culture matters.
We enhanced our WIL reporting mechanisms with improved data available for key stages
of the employee lifecycle including recruitment and remuneration, to better understand
opportunities for improvement and the areas where we are making progress. This included
a gender pay gap tool which is being used to improve visibility of comparative salaries and
reduce bias when setting remuneration.
We continued to roll out the co-creating inclusive cultures program across targeted
businesses which focuses on engaging men as committed allies in workplace inclusion and
co-creating measurable solutions to overcome challenges and create an inclusive culture.
Our next area of focus is furthering our work on the
identified prioritised interventions, and strengthen
foundations of policy, process and practice
stocktake under the Plan.
ANZ is signatory to the 40:40 Vision, an investor-
led initiative which aims to achieve gender balance
(40:40:20) in executive leadership teams of
ASX300 companies by 2030. As at 30 September
2024, women as Key Management Personnel
(KMP) has increased by 10 ppt (compared to
2023) and is now on target at 40%. Three of the
four KMP
3
roles with profit and loss accountability
continue to be held by women. These are our
Group Executive Australia Retail, Maile Carnegie,
Group Executive Australia Commercial, Clare
Morgan, and Group Executive and CEO, ANZ Bank
New Zealand Antonia Watson. The fourth role is
held by our Group Executive Talent and Culture,
Elisa Clements.
Further detail on our gender diversity targets
(including at the Board level) can be found in
our Corporate Governance Statement and our
Diversity and Inclusion Policy available at
anz.com.au/corporategovernance.
For more information about employee
gender breakdowns see our 2024 ESG Data
and Frameworks pack available at
anz.com.au/esgreport.
Under the Australian Workplace Gender Equality
Act 2012, ANZ is required to make annual public
filings with the Workplace Gender Equality
Agency (WGEA), disclosing its ‘Gender Equality
Indicators’. These reports are filed annually for the
12 month period ending 31 March. A copy of the
latest filing is available on ANZ’s website at
anz.com.au/gender.
Clare Morgan, Group Executive Australia Commercial
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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A focus on gender pay equality
Like the financial and insurance services
industry more broadly, at ANZ women
continue to be under-represented in
leadership and higher paying roles, although
we are making good progress to address this.
This matters because there’s a gender pay gap
across our industry and the key to closing it at
ANZ is to increase the representation of women
in leadership roles, particularly in areas that are
typically male-dominated and high-paying. For
more information about our approach to achieving
gender balance in our business see page 65.
We have actively been working towards gender
pay equality for some time and holding ourselves
to account by voluntarily disclosing gender pay
gap information.
Gender pay gap – Australia
The gender pay gap represents the difference
between the total remuneration
1
that women and
men
2
earn across all roles based in Australia.
3
This
year’s data includes our CEO’s remuneration, in line
with changes to the Australian Workplace Gender
Equality Agency (WGEA) approach.
With continued focus during the year we have
further narrowed the average gender pay gap at
ANZ. At 18.8%, (down from 19.9% in 2023), ANZ’s
average gender pay gap is higher than we would
like, however it is below the national average of
21.7% and the financial and insurance services
industry average of 26.2%.
While we recognise we still have work to do, we are
pleased with our progress in bridging the gender
pay gap each year.
Pay equity gap – Australia
The pay equity gap represents the differences in
total remuneration of women and men in the same
or similar roles based in Australia.
4
This year, we have
achieved gender pay equity parity on a median basis
(0%) and are close on an average basis (0.3%).
Average vs Median
We measure and report both average and median
pay gaps, in line with the approach WGEA takes
when publishing private sector employer gender
pay gaps. While averages can be influenced by
outlier values, the median takes the middle value in
the data set and provides a closer representation
of the earnings typical of our male and female
employees. Our gender pay gap is slightly higher
when measured based on median than when based
on average – this is because the middle point in the
data set is slightly higher than the average value,
given we have more employees in lower-graded
and lower-paying roles, and proportionally fewer
employees in more senior and higher-paying roles.
When we look at pay equity gaps, the average
gap is slightly larger than the median gap. While
we have measures in place to ensure we are
paying men and women equally for performing the
same or similar roles, some highly paid individual
contributors impact the average, especially where
there are fewer women in very senior roles.
As we report gaps based on total remuneration
1
,
our gender pay gap may fluctuate year on year. We
continue to supplement these disclosures with the
reporting of fixed remuneration
4
gender pay gaps,
broken down by job category, available in our 2024
ESG Data and Frameworks Pack available at
anz.com.au/esgreport.
Key actions to improve our gender pay gap
• Increasing the number of women in more senior
and higher-paying roles.
• Addressing the gender imbalance in junior and
lower-paid roles, noting they make up a significant
proportion of ANZ’s workforce.
• Continuing to actively monitor and review both our
gender pay gap and pay equity gap (including as
part of our annual Performance and Remuneration
Review process and by the CEO) and taking
positive action to adjust where necessary.
We expect this will require the removal of
barriers and creation of pathways to support
junior frontline female employees to progress
into higher-paying roles at the same rate as
their male counterparts.
1. Includes both fixed and variable remuneration, such as bonuses 2. Gender data reported using binary female and male categories to ensure confidentiality of our non-binary and gender diverse employees. ANZ recognises and respects diverse gender identities and is committed to
providing a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace. 3. Includes CEO, Executive Committee, permanent, casual and temporary (fixed-term) employees, and trainees/interns. Excludes ANZ Non-Bank Group, Suncorp Bank and independent contractors. Effective date 31 December 2023. Fixed
remuneration data reflects actual earnings over 12-months (grossed up to 1 FTE and annualised). Variable pay is based on FY23 outcomes. 4. Includes permanent employees. Excludes CEO, Executive Committee, casual employees, temporary (fixed-term) employees, trainees/interns, ANZ
Non-Bank Group and Suncorp Bank. Total remuneration includes fixed remuneration as at 22 September 2023 plus FY23 variable pay outcomes (grossed up to 1 FTE and annualised). 5. Includes permanent employees of ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited, excluding the New Zealand CEO.
Percentages are based on full-time equivalent average Total Pay (salary and superannuation, where it forms part of a fixed remuneration package, plus variable pay). Values are provided by ANZ on a voluntary basis and are as at 30 September of the relevant year. 6. The number of permanent
employees of ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited who identify as Māori or Pasifika is 8.7% of the total permanent employee population, including employees who have not declared an ethnicity. Employees who haven’t provided ethnicity data are not included in the ethnicity pay gap calculation.
We recognise that our ethnicity pay gap is based on less than half of our workforce and does not provide a complete picture. Values are provided by ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited employees on a voluntary basis and are as at 30 September 2023.
New Zealand Pay Gaps
ANZ Bank New Zealand also continues
to publicly report its gender pay gap,
which was 20.1% favouring men in 2023
5
and the Māori and Pasifika pay gap. The
difference between the average pay for
Māori and Pasifika and for European/
Pākehā was 21.7% in 2023 favouring
European/Pākehā employees).
6
For more information on gender balance
see the previous page.
AverageMedian
2024YoY change2024YoY change
Gender Pay Gap
3
18.8%
1.1%
21.1%
2.0%
Pay Equity Gap
4
0.3%
0.1%
0%
0.01%
Increase (in favour of Men)
Decrease (in favour of Women)
AverageMedian
Sum of pay
Sum of employees
Gender Pay Gap
is calculated by
dividing the average
remuneration for
women by the average
remuneration for men
Gender Pay Gap
is calculated by
dividing the mid-point
remuneration for women
by the mid-point
remuneration for men
Lowest
paid
Highest
paid
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
As part of our Diversity and Inclusion strategic
priority to increase the diversity of people in
leadership and as committed in our Accessibility
and Inclusion Plan, this year, for the first time,
we have offered a Disability Leadership Program
through the Disability Leadership Institute. Eight
employees are participating in the pilot across
Australia and New Zealand, designed by and
for disabled leaders to embrace disability as a
leadership asset.
This year we also achieved Disability Confident
Recruiter Organisation status with the Australian
Disability Network (discussed further on page
63) in recognition of our focus on continuously
improving our recruitment and selection processes
to ensure they are inclusive, barrier-free and
accessible. We also strive to ensure that those
that require adjustments not only feel safe but also
feel actively supported throughout the recruitment
process and beyond, for example through uplifting
our recruiters’ knowledge through ongoing training.
Indigenous traineeships
51 trainees (35 full-time and 16 school-
based), which combines practical, paid work
experience with formal study in a nationally
recognised qualification.
Summer internships and graduate
programs
242 participants were offered either 8-week
summer internship placements for university
students in their penultimate year of study
of a bachelor or post-graduate degree or
18 month graduate programs designed
for university graduates, rotating across
three different business areas, building on
participants’ knowledge and experiences.
Work experience program
This year we continued to support autistic
secondary school students with seven work
experience placements.
Spectrum Program
We have appointed 15 participants to
permanent roles at ANZ since 2018. The
Spectrum Program uses a non-traditional
recruitment process, designed to meet the
needs of autistic people.
Given the Chance
Since 2007, ANZ has partnered with the
Brotherhood of St Laurence on the Given the
Chance program to assist refugee and asylum
seekers with six to 12 month work placements,
providing them with invaluable work experience
to enter the local workforce. This year, ANZ
placed 30 participants into work placements.
More than 52% of participants from the 2023
cohort have retained ongoing careers with us.
Chance for All
This year the Chance for All program, run as a
pilot last year, became a part of the inclusion
employment program offerings. This program is
an expansion on the Given the Chance program
to include people with disability, recognising
the barriers to employment that can also
be experienced by this group. This year, six
participants commenced a placement with ANZ.
For information on ANZ’s Accessibility and
Inclusion Plan see page 63.
We want to build an inclusive culture that reflects the communities in which
we operate by investing in a diverse workforce and providing opportunities
to under-represented groups.
We also continued to run a range of employment programs this year, designed to increase
the diversity of our workforce, including:
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Contributing to reconciliation in
Australia
Leading change in Aotearoa
New Zealand – ANZ’s commitment
to Māori
Our approach to accessibility
and inclusion
Workplace diversity and inclusion
Achieving gender balance in our
business
Our focus on gender pay equality
Participation of under-represented
groups in our workforce
Employee experience
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Wellbeing
At ANZ we support our employees’ growth and
wellbeing by fostering an inclusive culture and
dynamic work environment. As part of this, we
offer programs that support the wellbeing of our
people globally, with an emphasis on physical,
mental, social and financial wellbeing.
This year, key initiatives included:
• Group-wide review of work-related factors
influencing the mental health and wellbeing of
our people. This led to the development of a
group wide workplace mental health roadmap
in June 2024 to address priority areas of focus.
• Revised training to equip employees group
wide with the skills needed to maintain safety
when exposed to inappropriate customer
behaviour or robbery events, with over 6,900
employees completing the training since it was
launched in May 2024.
• Team resources to embed the training and
support a new de-escalation model for
employees in our branches, business and
contact centres.
• Our wellbeing programs saw strong
engagement across the markets we operate in.
• 2,424 employees reached out to our Employee
Assistance Program.
• Our monthly wellbeing webinars continued
to have strong participation, with 4,357
employees attending throughout the year.
• Targeted wellbeing programs were also
delivered across various ANZ locations. For
example over 5,600 employees participated
in health awareness sessions in India.
Engagement
Our Group-wide engagement survey, My Voice,
continues to be one of the primary ways we
receive feedback from our people and understand
their experience of working at ANZ. This year we
uplifted the My Voice survey by increasing the
cadence to include a full survey in March and a
shorter, group wide pulse survey in August. Survey
data allows us to tailor solutions and interventions
to ensure our people feel recognised, stay
engaged and continue to feel a sense of belonging
and connection to the bank. At an enterprise level,
the My Voice results have recently contributed
to initiatives such as the Wellbeing roadmap and
Diversity and Inclusion planning.
Although we have seen a slight decline in our
results compared to the previous year of 87%, our
engagement score has remained stable in March
and August at 84%. This is four percentage points
above the global Finance and Insurance (F&I)
industry average and 3% below the Global Best in
Class (GBIC) benchmark (top 10% of organisations
globally). Further, 86% of respondents said they
would recommend ANZ as a great place to work
which is down from 89% last year but remains
above the F&I benchmark (80%).
Other key metrics such as ‘Wellbeing’ and
‘Inclusion’, ‘Experience versus expectations’
and ‘Intent to stay’ experienced a small drop.
Wellbeing remains two (2) points above the F&I
industry benchmark, at 80%. Results at a team
level are available for teams via a dashboard. This
enables successes to be celebrated and action
to be taken to improve the experience working
at ANZ. Since the introduction of our ‘Speak Up’
index in the August 2022 My Voice survey, our
result has remained strong at 81%. The Speak
Up index result indicates that most people at
ANZ feel that they can speak up without fear of
negative consequences – and when they speak
up, their opinions or concerns are heard. For more
information on risk culture see page 26.
Key areas for improvement identified this year
included continuing to create opportunities for
people to achieve their career goals at ANZ and
building work processes which allow us to be as
productive as possible. For more information how
we are developing our people see page 70.
Overall, we have seen a slight dip in our key
indexes in 2023, however results stabilised in the
Q4 pulse survey. We remain ahead of the external
Finance and Insurance benchmark on two of
the three key indexes where this comparison is
available.
Wellbeing and engagement
1. Includes employees and contingent workers.
August 2024 My Voice
survey results
1
Employee engagement
84%
(March 2024: 84%,
August 2023: 87%)
Inclusion
79%
(March 2024: 80%,
August 2023: 85%)
Wellbeing
80%
(March 2024: 81%,
August 2023: 83%)
Experiences matches expectations
89%
(March 2024 result, not included in
August 2024 survey, August 2023: 92%)
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Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Wellbeing and engagement
Attracting and retaining employees
Learning and development
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Highlight
Engineering Career Pathways
The Engineering Career Pathways program
was launched in November 2022 to attract and
retain engineers, by increasing engineering
capability and impact by uplifting the craft of
engineering. To date this has resulted in:
• Over 1,100 engineers have transitioned
to the program and participated in the
assessment, with approximately 1,000 more
engineers to be assessed in October 2024.
• 175 People Leaders took part in coaching
and information sessions to support their
Engineering Craft level outcome and growth
conversations with their teams.
Attracting and retaining employees
Attracting and retaining talented, adaptive
people who can drive innovation and
efficiency, is essential to realising the
Bank we’re Building.
The labour market in 2024 was softer relative to
the last two years as more job seekers entered
the market to compete for fewer vacancies.
During 2024 the employee attrition rate fell to
7.1%, down from 9.5% in 2023 and below our
pre-COVID rate of 10.6%.
In Australia, job advertisements in July 2024 fell
by 15.3% year-on-year (YoY) and applications
per ad increased 2.5% YoY
1
. In New Zealand,
for the same period, job advertisements fell by
29%
2
. However, skills such as cyber security and
data science as well as roles such as developers,
sales/account managers and specialised risk
remained in high demand across all ANZ’s
markets
3
.
To help address this, dedicated sourcing support
has focused on technology talent pools, as well
as showcasing the quality of engineering at ANZ
to further position our workplace as an attractive
place to work for top technology talent.
In our Group Capability Centres, technology,
digital and credit risk roles remain challenging
to fill given increased competition for talent.
Attracting and retaining staff in both Bengaluru,
India and Manila, Philippines was a key focus in
2024 and we are continuing to build awareness
of ANZ’s employment value proposition which
offers a supportive culture, career and learning
opportunities, and meaningful work.
1. July 2024 SEEK Australia Employment Report, issued 16 August 2024. 2. July 2024 SEEK New Zealand Employment Report, issued 20 August 2024. 3. Understanding Hiring Trends with Nakuri Job Speak Report, issued 5 April 2024.
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
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Learning and development
We equip our teams to navigate the ongoing advancement of digital
technology and the evolving landscape of the financial services
industry by investing in continuous learning and development
programs. By delivering key learning opportunities, we empower
employees to enhance their skills and adapt to new challenges.
Developing our people
The capability development of our people
continues to be a priority.
This year, over 1.81 million hours of learning
were completed via our digital learning platforms
(compared to 1.36 million in 2023), including
almost 804,865 hours of compliance training and
more than 867,439 hours of self-directed learning
(compared to 484,000 in 2023). A further 145,435
hours were invested in Continuing Professional
Development, where our customer facing
employees maintain and extend their professional
capabilities, knowledge and skills, including
keeping up to date with regulatory, technical and
other developments relevant to the provision of
financial advice. Our latest My Voice data shows
that 80% of our employees agree that they have
opportunities to learn and develop at ANZ.
We have refreshed Our Way of Learning (OWL)
platform, delivering an enhanced learning
experience which includes the opportunity to
test skills in real-time with artificial intelligence (AI)
simulations and coaching. On average, over 7,200
employees every month this year have utilised the
OWL channel to enhance their skills.
The ANZ Academy, launched in August 2024,
focuses on developing fundamental enterprise
capabilities across the areas of banking, data and
digital, and professional skills. The flexible delivery
of the ANZ Academy has seen uptake by more
than 3,500 employees since launch. Although in
its infancy, we are seeing positive capability shifts
particularly in professional skills, with one program
showing an average 7% uplift in the ability to
apply skills. The ANZ Academy is also trialling the
validation of skills externally in communication and
data interpretation, with 68 externally recognised
micro-credentials issued to employees to date.
We also continued to embed our Customer
Coaching campaign-based program which is
targeted at uplifting key capabilities across our
customer-engaging workforce. Approximately
2,200 employees, representing 34% of the target
workforce, have experienced a positive capability
uplift. One campaign focusing on building
business development capability across New
Zealand Personal and Australia Retail employees
has seen proactive customer conversations
increase by 26%.
To combat cyber security and scam threats, our
people have participated in phishing drills and
divisional desktop exercises. Frontline staff have
also been educated to enable more accurate
and consistent conversations with customers on
cyber security risk. For more information on cyber
security see page 39.
Developing our leaders
In 2024, we continued our Executive Leadership
Series, delivering one module on ESG and an
extended module on generative AI. The latter
module was attended by over 68% of executive
leaders with a Net Promoter Score nearing 75
1
and a measurable shift in Gen AI confidence,
understanding and application.
We continued delivery of the Group-wide
LEAD@ANZ learning program which targets over
8,000 people leaders across the organisation,
focusing on developing deeper understanding,
engagement, habit formation and skill building
to directly support our culture. The LEAD@ANZ
program is designed to empower people leaders
and equip them with the skills and confidence to
be an exceptional leader. Since launching in 2023,
the program has been attended by more than
75% of eligible leaders across 29 markets. Topics
covered include what it takes to be a great leader
and how to bring our purpose and strategy to life.
The ANZ Business Leaders Group (BLG) is a new
initiative introduced in December 2023 to build the
capability to lead with impact and intent, to drive
our purpose, cultural transformation and improve
the fundamental performance of the Group.
The BLG consists of 21 senior leaders who
represent 100% of our customer propositions,
customer engagement and revenue generation
businesses. The BLG has a unique opportunity
to leverage the assets and capabilities of the
ANZ Group to achieve its maximum potential
for our customers, colleagues, community
and shareholders.
This year we also commenced the roll-out of
our Operational Management Development
program to all staff within our Customer Services
Operations business. The program aims to build
consistency of operations management and
stronger leadership capability, resulting in better
customer outcomes and stronger engagement.
Implementation is supported by key standards
and tools that enable uniform customer focused
and data driven conversations. To date, 32%
of the eligible workforce have completed the
12-week program.
Our investment in learning will continue in
2025 with plans to extend and embed the ANZ
Academy; develop strategically important specialist
capabilities including product, delivery, and change
management; and continue to support our leaders
with initiatives such as our AI Immersion Centre, as
discussed on page 40.
1. The Net Promoter Score is measured with a single-question survey and reported with a number ranging from -100 to +100, where a higher score is desirable.
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
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ANZ’s ESG approach. The Insights Hub includes
dedicated tools and resources designed to better
equip employees, for example, to engage in
conversations with our customers.
A community of practice, a group of like-minded
employees with an interest in ESG, has also been
established. There are over 200 representatives
across ANZ to champion the ESG@ANZ – Mindset
2030 learning program.
At the end of 2024, more than 7,000 employees
have commenced the foundational learning
program, ESG@ANZ, Mindset 2030. As at end
of 2024, more than 3,800 employees have
completed the entire program which consists of
10 modules. In addition to the on-line learning
program, 33 speaker events/webinars on specific
ESG topics have been conducted in 2024.
The learning program was initially established to
support our Institutional division with more than
40% of our Institutional team completing the
foundational learning program in 2024.
As part of the Executive Leadership Series a
program was also delivered to senior executives
1
across ANZ, Delivering Value and Impact with
ESG, with 40% of the eligible cohort attending.
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 –
Specialised Program (new in 2024)
Customer Conversations
Carbon and Environmental Markets
Nature
Human Rights and Modern Slavery
Delivering Value and Impact with ESG
(new in 2024)
Offered to our senior executives providing
an overview of the bank’s ESG approach
and leadership’s role as well as an overview
of greenwashing and the opportunities and
risks for the energy transition
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 –
Foundational Program
ANZ’s Purpose, Strategy and Approach
to ESG
The ‘E’ in ESG – What Environmental
Sustainability means at ANZ
The ‘S’ in ESG – What Social means at ANZ
The ‘G’ in ESG – What Governance means
at ANZ
Greenwashing
ESG Governance and Risk Management
Community and Customer Transition
to Net Zero
Financing sustainability; Products and
Solutions (new in 2024)
Taking action and resources (new in 2024)
Learning Program Assessment (new
in 2024)
Building capability and capacity
We continue to build the capability and capacity
of our workforce to respond to the shifting
regulatory requirements, economic and social
pressures, expectations of stakeholders and
to meet changing customer needs. This is
key to our understanding of ESG risks and
opportunities, as well as our ability to support
our customers to build on their understanding
of those risks and opportunities.
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030
This year we expanded our in-house purpose built
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 learning program to
offer both foundational and specialised learning
programs. This is an optional online program to
support our employees to build their capabilities.
The specialised learning program aims to support
our frontline employees and product partners to be
better equipped to have purpose-aligned, strategic
discussions with our customers, to understand
their needs and support their understanding of
risks and opportunities.
The learning program is supplemented by
ESG-related webinars, speaker events and an
Insights Hub, a dedicated site for our employees to
learn more about ESG, including climate risk, and
1. Compromises persons holding roles within ANZ designated as Group 1 and Group 2.
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
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‘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 2023 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).
Explanatory
notes
Target to fund and facilitate
$10 billion in affordable, secure
and sustainable housing by 2030
across Australia and New Zealand.
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. Transactions that qualify for this target (excluding
deferred deals) contributed to the $50 billion target from 1 October 2019 to 31 March
2023, and contribute to the $100 billion target from 1 April 2023.
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Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
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This glossary contains defined terms used
throughout our 2024 ESG Supplement.
Our complete glossary of terms is available in
our 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack.
“100 largest emitting business customers”
A cohort of our LEEP customers.
“ANZ” or “the Group” or “our” or “us”
Refers to ANZ Group Holdings Limited and its
subsidiaries.
ANZ Bank Group
Means all businesses and entities owned by ANZ
Bank HoldCo, including ANZBGL and ANZ Bank
New Zealand, but excluding Suncorp Bank.
ANZ Bank New Zealand
Means ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited.
ANZ Group
Means the ANZBGL Group or the ANZGHL Group
as a whole (including all businesses), as the
context requires.
ANZ Non-Bank Group
Means ANZ ServiceCo and all businesses and
entities owned by ANZ Non-Bank HoldCo,
including ANZ’s beneficial interests in the 1835i
trusts, non-controlling interests in the Worldline
merchant acquiring joint venture, and equity
interests in Lygon, TIN and Pollination.
ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing Indicator
The ANZ Roy Morgan Financial Wellbeing Indicator
is an ongoing time-series measure of financial
wellbeing. Powered by the Roy Morgan Single
Source Survey, the ANZ Roy Morgan Financial
Wellbeing Indicator provides unique, regular
insights into Australians’ and New Zealanders’
financial wellbeing.
Biodiversity
The TNFD defines ‘biodiversity’ as “the variability
among living organisms from all sources, including,
inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic
ecosystems and the ecological complexes of
which they are part; this includes diversity within
species, between species and of ecosystems.”
Board
Means ANZGHL Board of Directors.
Climate Change Risk Assessment
A tool used to help guide customer engagement
and assess and manage climate-related risks. The
CCRA includes an assessment of our customers’
exposure to potential physical risks and transition
risks and the maturity of the customer’s transition
plan, as aligned to our Customer Transition plan
assessment framework.
Community investment
Contributions from ANZ to address a social
issue. Can be classified as time, in kind, cash,
management costs or foregone revenue.
Contingent workers
A person engaged to provide services to ANZ
under a contract for service. They are not
employed directly by ANZ, but are normally
engaged and paid via an external supplier, such
as a labour hire or payroll firm.
Customer complaints
Complaints reported are those recorded in the
Bank’s complaint systems, including complaints
escalated by customers to the Australian Financial
Complaints Authority and Banking Ombudsman
Scheme (NZ). Complaints are recorded by
employees in Australia and New Zealand.
Direct financing/direct finance
Financing that has a direct nexus to an asset,
such as limited recourse project financing or a
‘use-of-proceeds’ or ‘project-related’ corporate
loan. It does not include general corporate
purpose lending.
Employee engagement
Represents the levels of enthusiasm and
connection our workforce has with ANZ.
Employees
ANZ – A person employed by ANZ. There are
three sub-categories of employees: permanent (or
regular) employee (full time or part time); fixed term
employee (full time or part time); casual employee.
Executive
Comprises of persons holding roles within ANZ
designated as Group 2.
Executive Committee
Comprises ANZ’s most senior executives. A subset
of employees within Group 1.
Financial inclusion programs
ANZ have developed financial wellbeing
programs in consultation with community
partner organisations and government. These
programs aim to provide real social benefits to
the community by improving financial inclusion
and capability of lower income individuals. Our
programs include: MoneyBusiness, MoneyMinded
and Saver Plus.
Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap represents the difference
between the total remuneration that women and
men earn across all roles based in Australia.
Includes CEO, Executive Committee, permanent,
casual and temporary (fixed-term) employees,
and trainees/interns. Excludes independent
contractors. Effective date 31 December 2023.
Fixed remuneration data reflects actual earnings
over 12-months (grossed up to 1 FTE and
annualised). Variable pay is based on FY23
outcomes.
Hardship
Hardship typically refers to a situation where an
individual is experiencing financial difficulty, making
it challenging for them to meet their financial
obligations. This can include situations such as
loss of income, unexpected expenses, or other
personal circumstances that impact one’s ability
to repay debts or manage financial commitments.
Labelled sustainable finance
Labelled sustainable finance is existing banking
products with a specific sustainability related label
e.g. Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-
Linked.
Large Emitters Engagement Program (LEEP)
Our Large Emitters Engagement Program (LEEP).
This is our signature customer engagement
program, which provides the framework for
engaging with LEEP customers on their transition
plans.
Large business customers
The customers of ANZ Institutional division where
ANZ has a credit exposure.
Material arrangement
A Material Arrangement is one that, pursuant
to APRA Prudential Standard CPS231, has the
potential, if disrupted, to have a significant impact
on the ANZ Group to manage risk effectively.
MoneyBusiness
MoneyBusiness is an adult financial education
program that is designed to build the money
management skills and confidence of Indigenous
Australians and develop a stronger savings culture.
Glossary of terms
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Financial wellbeing
Information security
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Thriving communities
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MoneyMinded
MoneyMinded is a flexible adult financial
education program that builds knowledge,
confidence and skills to help people make
informed decisions and manage their money.
Developed in 2002, MoneyMinded is ANZ’s
flagship financial education program.
Nature
The TNFD considers ‘nature’ as the “natural
world, with an emphasis on the diversity of living
organisms (including people) and their interactions
among themselves and with their environment.”
Net-zero
Net-zero emissions in this document relates to
net-zero human-induced emissions.
Net-zero financed emissions
The state where financed emissions are
balanced by an equivalent amount of permanent
removal and storage of carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere, resulting in no net increase in global
emissions.
Non-Financial Risk Framework
The Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Framework
comprises of procedures that define how ANZ staff
should consistently and effectively identify, assess,
manage, monitor and report on Non-Financial Risk.
New to bank customer
A customer with whom ANZ has had no
meaningful lending relationship for more than
12 months. Entities or assets acquired from
existing customers are not classified as new to
bank customers. Applies to lending products only,
i.e. excludes transaction banking, credit cards,
performance guarantees, meaning that only
lending products that will help customers ‘fund’
their activities in a material way would be included.
Operational emissions
Emissions associated with the operating of the
business, excluding financed emissions. Our
operational emissions comprise our Scope 1 and
2 emissions, and certain categories of Scope
3 emissions, as explained in ANZ Operational
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting and Carbon
Offset Methodology (Appendix 6 of our 2024
Climate-related Financial Disclosures).
Paris Agreement
A legally binding international treaty on climate
change adopted at the UN Climate Change
Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015. Its
overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2°C
above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts
“to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above
pre-industrial levels”.
Paris Agreement goals/the goals of the Paris
Agreement
The main goals of the Paris Agreement, which
include: (i) limiting the global temperature increase
to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with
efforts to limit it to 1.5°C; (ii) achieving global net-
zero greenhouse gas emissions by the second half
of the century.
Risk Management Framework
ANZ has a Risk Management Framework (RMF)
to describe the system for identifying, measuring,
evaluating, monitoring, reporting, and controlling
or mitigating material risks that may affect its
ability to meet its obligations to depositors and/or
customers.
Risk principles
The behaviours and practices that are expected to
be applied to guide risk management and instil an
appropriate risk culture across the Group.
Saver Plus
Saver Plus is a matched savings and financial
education program developed in 2003 by ANZ
and the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Eligible
participants who complete the program have
their savings matched (up to $500) by ANZ
for approved education-related expenses for
themselves or their children.
Sectoral pathways
Industry-specific trajectories of emissions
reductions that indicate whether ANZ’s financing
is consistent with Paris Agreement goals.
Senior executive
Comprises of persons holding roles within ANZ
designated as Group 1. These roles typically
involve leading large businesses, geographies or
the strategy, policy or governance of business
areas (excludes Group Executive Committee).
Sensitive sectors
Activities in the following sectors: Energy, Extractive
Industries, Forestry and Forest, Hydroelectric Power,
Military Equipment; and Water.
Sustainability Linked Loan
Sustainability linked loans are a type of labelled
sustainable finance. They are any type of loan
instruments and/or contingent facilities (such as
bonding lines, guarantee lines or letters of credit)
which incentivise the borrower’s achievement
of predetermined sustainability performance
objectives.
Third-Party Risk Management Framework
The Framework provides the foundation and
arrangements that will help embed the right
behaviours, processes and practices for managing
third-party risk at ANZ. It provides a structured
approach to managing third-party risk in an
effective and consistent manner to minimise the
impact of adverse events and maximise the right
outcome for all stakeholders.
Transition plan
A climate-related transition plan is an aspect of
an entity’s overall strategy that lays out the entity’s
targets, actions or resources for its transition
towards a lower-carbon economy, including
actions such as reducing its emissions.
United Nations Guiding Principles on Business
Human Rights
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights are a set of guidelines for States and
companies to prevent, address and remedy human
rights abuses committed in business operations.
Women in leadership
Measures proportion of women out of the entire
Senior Manager, Executive and Senior Executive
populations (roles within ANZ designated as
Groups 3, 2 and 1 respectively). Includes all
employees regardless of leave status but not
contractors (which are included in FTE).
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Housing
Financial wellbeing
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to assurance
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assuranceLocation
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basis of reporting
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for the year ended 30 September 2024 is not prepared, in all material respects, in
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Basis for Conclusion
We conducted our work in accordance with
Australian Standard on Assurance Engagements
ASAE 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 2024 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.
Inherent limitations
Inherent limitations exist in all assurance
engagements due to the selective testing of
the information being examined. It is therefore
possible that fraud, or error may occur and not
be detected. Non-financial data may be subject
to more inherent limitations than financial data,
given both its nature and the methods used for
determining, calculating, and estimating such data.
The precision of different measurement techniques
may also vary. The absence of a significant body
of established practice on which to draw to
evaluate and measure non-financial information
allows for different, but acceptable, evaluation
and measurement techniques that can affect
comparability between entities and over time.
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. The material ESG issues inform the
risk-based limited assurance testing performed
on material data metrics and narrative claims
presented in the 2024 ESG Reporting;
• Interviews with relevant ANZ management
and staff concerning ANZ’s ESG frameworks
and policies for material ESG issues, and the
implementation of these across the business;
• Interviews with relevant management
responsible for developing the context (text
and data) within the 2024 ESG Reporting
to understand the approach for monitoring,
collecting and reporting;
• Comparing text and data (on a sample basis)
to be presented in the 2024 ESG Reporting to
underlying sources. This includes considering
whether all material matters are included,
whether any are excluded and whether the
reported text and data is accurately drawn from
the underlying information;
• Testing over ANZ’s 2024 ESG targets and the
disclosed progress or achievement;
• Performing a consistency check of ANZ’s ESG
Disclosures included within the Climate-related
Financial Disclosures, and Annual Report; and
• Reviewing ANZ’s assessment of the disclosures
in relation to the GRI; and
• Reading the 2024 ESG Reporting (in its entirety)
to ensure it is consistent with KPMG’s overall
knowledge of, and experience with, the ESG
performance of ANZ.
Information Subject to Assurance
ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ANZ) engaged KPMG to perform a limited
assurance engagement on the following information in the ANZ 2024 ESG
Supplement and 2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack:
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
75ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement75
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How the Standard Defines
Limited Assurance and Material
Misstatement
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.
Misstatements, including omissions, are
considered material if, individually or in
the aggregate, they could reasonably be
expected to influence relevant decisions of
the Directors of ANZ.
Use of this Assurance Report
This report has been prepared for the
Directors of ANZ for the purpose of providing
an assurance conclusion on the 2024 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.
Management’s Responsibility
Management are responsible for:
• determining that the Criteria is appropriate to
meet their needs;
• preparing and presenting the 2024 ESG
Reporting in accordance with the Criteria; and
• establishing internal controls that enable the
preparation and presentation of the 2024
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 2024 ESG Reporting
for the year ended 30 September 2024, and
to issue an assurance report that includes our
conclusion.
Our Independence and Quality
Management
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 Management 1 to
design, implement and operate a system of quality
management.
Maria Trinci
Partner
Melbourne
KPMG
Sarah Newman
Partner
Melbourne
7 November 2024
Overview and governance
Our ESG targets and performance
Ethics, conduct and culture
Environmental sustainability
Housing
Financial wellbeing
Information security
Responsible customer engagement
Digital banking experience
Regulation and risk management
Thriving communities
Human rights
Diversity and inclusion
Employee experience
Explanatory notes
Assurance opinion
76ANZ 2024 ESG Supplement
ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ANZ) ABN 16 659 510 791
anz.com.au/esgreport
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ANZ Group Holdings Limited
9/833 Collins Street Docklands Victoria 3008 Australia
ABN 16 659 510 791
8 November 2024
Market Announcements Office
ASX Limited
Level 4
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SYDNEY NSW 2000
ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ANZ) today released its 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
It has been approved for distribution by ANZ’s Ethics, Environment, Social and Governance Committee.
Yours faithfully
Simon Pordage
Company Secretary
ANZ Group Holdings Limited
2024
Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Approved for distribution by ANZ’s Ethics, Environment, Social & Governance Committee
To achieve our Climate and Environment Strategy, we have established three core ambitions:
Acknowledgement of Country and Traditional Owners
ANZ acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout
Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, skies and
waterways. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
cultures, and to Elders past and present.
Whakatauākī, ANZ New Zealand’s Proverb
Tākiri-ā-Rangi The expansive universe above
Tākiri-ā-Nuku The beauty of the proceeding lands below
Tākiri te Awatea A new dawn beckons
Kia Puāwai ki te Ao A blossoming to the world
Te Kare ā-Roto e With ripples of compassion and hope for all.
Contents
Overview
CEO’s message 3
Our 2024 reporting suite 4
Disclaimer and important notices 7
ANZ progress towards net-zero 8
About our business 9
Our Climate and
Environment Strategy 10
Transition planning 11
Governance 13
Strategy 19
Risk Management 41
Metrics and Targets 52
Our approach to
sectoral pathways 54
Energy 57
Transport 67
Manufacturing 71
Buildings 78
Agribusiness data
coverage cohort 82
Total Australian lending portfolio 83
Reducing our operational footprint 85
Appendices 87
Assurance opinion 117
Transitioning our
lending portfolio to net-zero
financed emissions
Building our capability
to help customers understand
climate and nature risks
Supporting our
customers’ transition
and resilience
Our five year Climate and Environment Strategy, approved by
the Board in October 2024, sets out our objective to be a trusted
partner for our customers, supporting them to adapt and
become more resilient, to a changing environment and economy.
In particular, we aim to be a leading bank in supporting an
effective and orderly transition for our large business customers.
Our vision is:
Financing a sustainable transition
CEO’s message
We aim to be a trusted partner for
our customers, supporting them to
adapt and become more resilient,
to a changing environment and
economy. In particular, we aim to
be a leading bank in supporting an
effective and orderly transition for
our large business customers.
We have made good progress in 2024, having
funded and facilitated $38.96 billion in social
and environmental activities since April 2023,
against our target of $100 billion by end of 2030,
while elevating climate risk as a material risk and
continuing to take steps to build capability to
understand climate and nature risks.
We also continued to transition our lending
portfolio to net-zero financed emissions by 2050,
in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement,
through our sectoral pathways and financed
emissions reduction targets.
Shayne Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
How we communicate with our customers is
absolutely critical. This has been an area of focus
since 2018, when we began to engage closely
with our large emitting business customers,
which has continued to provide us with deeper
insights into their transition plans and the
challenges they face.
This year, we have implemented a new phase of
what we now call our Large Emitters Engagement
Program (LEEP). LEEP is a multi-year, multi-cohort
customer engagement program that builds on the
experience we developed through the previous
phase of our customer engagement.
We encourage and support our LEEP customers
to continually improve their transition plans,
recognising the journey to net-zero by 2050 is not
‘set and forget’ – every improvement matters.
Our progress against how we have been
supporting our customers to date lays the
foundation for us to deliver on our Climate and
Environment Strategy in coming years, aiming
to support an effective and orderly transition.
To achieve our Climate and Environment
Strategy, we have established three core
ambitions: Building our capability to help
customers understand climate and nature risks;
transitioning our lending portfolio to
net-zero financed emissions; and supporting
our customers’ transition and resilience.
Execution is key and, while working together
closely, each division of the Bank will have specific
focus areas supported by prioritised divisional
action plans that will be implemented commencing
in 2025.
We expect the path to net-zero will look different
for different sectors: some customers may
experience increases in emissions while they
invest in new operations or businesses to enable
sustained decarbonisation. Understanding the
complexities and challenges our customers
face enables us to better engage with them
and support them to transition.
Together with our customers, we aim to
contribute to a sustainable transition while
navigating the risks and opportunities presented
by the rapidly changing landscape.
Shayne Elliott
Chief Executive Officer
Overview
CEO’s message
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
ANZ progress towards net-zero
About our business
Our Climate and Environment
Strategy
Transition planning
Governance
Strategy
Risk Management
Metrics and Targets
Appendices
Assurance opinion
3ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Our 2024 reporting suite
2024 Annual Report
anz.com/annualreport
2024 ESG Supplement
anz.com/esgreport
2024 ESG Data and Frameworks Pack
anz.com/esgreport
2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
anz.com/esgreport
Modern Slavery Statement
anz.com/esgreport
2024 Corporate Governance Statement
anz.com/annualreport
2024 Voluntary Tax Transparency Report
anz.com/annualreport
About this report
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 (NGOs)
and the community.
Our 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
complements our 2024 Annual Report and 2024
ESG Supplement and provides stakeholders
with detailed information on ANZ Group Holdings
Limited (ANZGHL) ABN 16 659 510 791 and
its subsidiaries’ (referred to as “ANZ” or “ANZ
Group” or “the Group” or “our” or “we”) progress
towards implementing our Climate Change
Commitment and how we have been supporting
our customers to date. This lays the foundation
for us to deliver on our five year Climate and
Environment Strategy, approved in October 2024
to support an effective and orderly transition in
coming years. See page 10 for further details.
ANZ has elevated three areas facing
significant societal challenges aligned with our
strategy and reach, including a commitment
to supporting household, business and
financial practices that improve environmental
sustainability. The other two focus areas facing
societal challenge, financial wellbeing and
housing, are covered in detail in our 2024 ESG
Supplement available at anz.com/esgreport.
Important things to note when
reading this report
Words that appear like ‘this’ are explained
in the Glossary of terms on pages 113-
115. The Disclaimer and Important Notices
section on page 7 contains important
information that should be read together
with this report.
Boundaries
Data and commentary within this report relate to
the financial year commencing on 1 October 2023
and ending 30 September 2024, referred to as
“2024” throughout the report, except for:
• Operational emissions are reported from
1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, in line with the
requirements of the National Greenhouse and
Energy Reporting Act 2007 (Cth). Comparisons
are for the twelve months ending 30 June 2023.
See Appendix 6 for further details.
• Financed emissions and sector-level progress
(excluding Australian residential home loans –
see below) are calculated as at 30 June 2024.
This is a change from prior years where financed
emissions were calculated as at 30 September
2023. This change was implemented to enable
time for processing and review of our financed
emissions data due to the complex and manual
nature of the calculations. See Appendix 4
for our Financed and Facilitated Emissions
Methodology for further details.
• Australian residential home loans financed
emissions are calculated at a point in time as
at 31 May 2024 and comparisons are for the
period ending 31 May 2023. This timeframe is
utilised as it is the latest available data we can
obtain from external sources to enable time
for processing and review of our Australian
residential home loan financed emissions data
due to the complex and manual nature of the
calculations.
The processes, approaches and policies described
in this report may vary in application across ANZ’s
operations, for example, to reflect specific legal
requirements of the jurisdictions in which ANZ
operates. For further information on boundaries,
sector specific boundaries, methodology and
definitions, see Appendix 6 and 7.
Monetary amounts in this document are reported
in Australian dollars, unless otherwise stated.
Throughout this report, the sum of parts within
charts and commentary may not equal totals
due to rounding.
On 31 July 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the
shares in SBGH Limited, the immediate holding
company of Suncorp Bank. The information
reported for the year ending 30 September 2024,
in this report, does not include Suncorp Bank
for the period since acquisition date. Climate
disclosures and data relating to Suncorp Bank will
be included in our 2025 reporting.
What is new in this report
• Our five year Climate and Environment Strategy – see page 10.
• Progress toward our transition plan, drawing on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
(GFANZ) recommendations and guidance – see page 11.
• Our Large Emitters Engagement Program (LEEP) – see page 29.
• Foundational steps towards strengthening our approach to climate risk – see page 41.
• Disclosure of certain of our facilitated emissions in line with Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)
guidelines updated in March 2024 – see pages 57 to 79.
Overview
CEO’s message
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
ANZ progress towards net-zero
About our business
Our Climate and Environment
Strategy
Transition planning
Governance
Strategy
Risk Management
Metrics and Targets
Appendices
Assurance opinion
4ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Frameworks
ANZ has prepared this report in accordance
with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial
Disclosures recommendations 2021 (TCFD).
Since 2017, we have disclosed our progress
according to the TCFD recommendations. Our
TCFD Index, that outlines our response to the
recommendations, can be found on page 87.
ANZ joined the NZBA in 2021 and the information
within this report sets out how we are taking action
as part of this commitment. We have also drawn
on the GFANZ requirements in developing our
transition plan which is disclosed at page 11, and
demonstrates our progress to seek to meet our
targets and commitments to transition our lending
portfolio to net-zero financed emissions by 2050
in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We continue to draw on the Taskforce on Nature-
related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework to
help inform our disclosures in this report, building
on our first steps taken last year following the
release of the TNFD in September 2023. Our
TNFD Index that outlines our response to the
recommendations can be found on page 88.
Further detail on our approach to developing
metrics, sector specific pathways and targets can
be found in the Metrics and Targets section of this
report (pages 52–86), Appendix 4 ANZ’s Financed
and Facilitated Emissions Methodology and in
ANZ’s Social and Environmental Sustainability
Target Methodology available at
anz.com/esgreport
.
Evolving reporting frameworks
We have been monitoring developments
in sustainability and climate reporting
frameworks, including:
• the International Sustainability Standards
Board’s (ISSB) IFRS S1 General Requirements
for Disclosure of Sustainability-related
Financial Information and IFRS S2 Climate-
related Disclosures;
• the Australian Accounting Standards Board’s
(AASB) Australian Sustainability Reporting
Standards (ASRS) voluntary AASB S1 General
requirements for disclosure of Sustainability-
related financial information and mandatory
AASB S2 Climate-related Disclosures,
which are broadly consistent with the ISSB
standards; and
• the New Zealand Financial Markets Conduct
Act 2013 (FMCA) and the Aotearoa New
Zealand Climate Standards (NZ CS).
In Australia, climate-related disclosures were
mandated through amendments to the
Corporations Act 2001 in September 2024.
Under the new law, the Group is required to
report in accordance with the regime from
the financial year commencing 1 October
2025. The ASRS incorporates and builds on
the framework of the TCFD. We expect our
ESG (including climate) reporting approach
to evolve with the implementation of the
ASRS and we are currently reviewing existing
technology, data, processes and capabilities
to uplift our current reporting to seek to ensure
compliance with these requirements.
Our overall focus in supporting and
accelerating a transition of our lending
portfolio to net-zero financed emissions by
2050 to date reflects where we can have
the most significant impact: we estimate
our lending to Institutional customers is
approximately 2/3 of our total financed
emissions. The requirements of mandatory
climate reporting will increase the focus on
our lending to our commercial and retail
customers, where the remaining financed
emissions arise. Refer to page 49 for further
detail on how we are preparing.
The Group has current obligations in relation
to mandatory publication of climate-
related disclosures under the New Zealand
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA).
ANZGHL
1
, ANZBGL, ANZ Bank New Zealand
Limited and ANZ New Zealand Investments
Limited are Climate Reporting Entities (CREs)
under the FMCA.
• ANZ Bank New Zealand will publish its first
mandatory climate statement for the reporting
period ended 30 September 2024, no
later than 31 January 2025. ANZ Bank New
Zealand published a voluntary climate report
for the financial year ended 30 September
2023 available at here.
• ANZ New Zealand Investments Limited has
published climate statements relating to
four of its registered managed investment
schemes in 2024, available at here. Climate
statements relating to its fifth registered
managed investment scheme are due for
lodgement by 31 January 2025.
For further details on how we are preparing for
mandatory climate disclosures, refer to page 49.
1. For the financial year ended 30 September 2024, ANZGHL is relying on the exemption in clause 6 of the Financial Markets Conduct (Climate-related Disclosures for Foreign Listed Issuers)
Exemption Notice 2024.
Overview
CEO’s message
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
ANZ progress towards net-zero
About our business
Our Climate and Environment
Strategy
Transition planning
Governance
Strategy
Risk Management
Metrics and Targets
Appendices
Assurance opinion
5ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Cautionary statement on inclusion
The SDGs are a collection of 17 non-legally binding, interlinked global goals produced by the UN
for countries and governments. The SDGs are included to show how our strategy supports the
SDGs. ANZ makes no representation, warranty, or assurance of any kind, express or implied and
takes no responsibility or liability as to whether ANZ’s strategy furthers the objectives or achieves
the purpose of the indicated SDG.
Further information on the SDGs can be found at un.org/sustainabledevelopment/. The content
of this publication has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of
the United Nations or its officials or Member States.
Sustainable Development Goals
ANZ supports the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and we believe
that business has an important role to play in
their achievement. Our current full suite of ESG
targets strive to support all of the 17 SDGs.
Our climate targets and pathways seek to
make a positive impact on the following SDGs’
1
:
In 2019, we became a founding signatory to the
UN Principles for Responsible Banking (Principles).
Under the Principles we are required to set
at least two targets (located in our 2024 ESG
Supplement and set out in our UN Principles for
Responsible Banking Self-Assessment available
at anz.com.au/esgreport) that address our most
significant positive and negative impacts, aligned
with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
We have reported our progress towards
implementing the Principles using the Reporting
and Self-assessment Index, available in our
2024 ESG Data and Frameworks pack.
1. We have included relevant climate SDGs, noting that our
$100 billion social and environmental sustainability target
discussed in this report strives to support all 17 SDGs.
Assurance
KPMG has performed limited assurance
with respect to disclosures in this report, in
accordance with TCFD, the NZBA’s Guidelines
for Climate Target Setting (Version 2),
ANZ’s Financed and Facilitated Emissions
Methodology (Appendix 4) and ANZ’s Social
and Environmental Sustainability Target
Methodology. A copy of KPMG’s limited
assurance report is on pages 117-119. KPMG
also performed reasonable assurance over
global operational greenhouse gas emissions
(scope 1 and 2) (location-based) and limited
assurance over global operational scope 3
greenhouse gas emissions (location-based)
1
and global operational scope 1, 2 and 3
emissions (market-based).
Overview
CEO’s message
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
ANZ progress towards net-zero
About our business
Our Climate and Environment
Strategy
Transition planning
Governance
Strategy
Risk Management
Metrics and Targets
Appendices
Assurance opinion
6ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Disclaimer and important notices
The material in this report contains
general background information about
the Group’s activities current as at
7 November 2024. It is information given
in summary form and does not purport
to be complete. It has a sustainability
focus and does not reflect the totality
of the Group’s business activities. For a
more complete overview of the Group’s
business, see the ANZ Annual Report
available at anz.com/shareholder/centre/.
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.
Forward-looking statements
This report may contain forward-looking
statements or opinions including statements
regarding our intent, belief or current
expectations with respect to the Group’s
business operations, market conditions, results
of operations and financial condition, capital
adequacy, sustainability objectives or targets,
specific provisions and risk management
practices. Those matters are subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause the actual
results and financial position of the Group to
differ materially from the information presented
herein. When used in the report, the words
‘forecast’, ‘estimate’, ‘goal’, ‘target’, ‘indicator’,
‘plan’, ‘pathway ’, ‘ambition’, ‘modelling’,
‘project’, ‘intend’, ‘anticipate’, ‘believe’, ‘expect’,
‘may ’, ‘probabilit y ’, ‘risk ’, ‘will’, ‘seek ’, ‘would’, ‘could’,
‘should’ and similar expressions, as they relate to
the Group 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.
There can be no assurance that actual outcomes
will not differ materially from any forward-looking
statements or opinions contained herein. Also see
the important information in Appendix 4 Financed
and Facilitated Emissions Methodology which
may affect forward-looking statements relating
to the Group’s financed and facilitated emissions.
These statements only speak as at the date of
publication and no representation is made as to
their correctness on or after this date. No member
of the Group undertakes to publicly release the
result of any revisions to these forward- looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances
after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
Climate-related information
This report may contain climate-related statements,
including in relation to climate-related risks and
opportunities, climate-related goals and ambitions,
climate scenarios, emissions reduction pathways
and climate projections. While the statements were
prepared in good faith, climate-related statements
are subject to significant uncertainty, challenges
and risks that may affect their usefulness, accuracy
and completeness, including:
1. Availability and reliability of data – emissions
and climate-related data may be incomplete,
inconsistent, unreliable or unavailable (including
information from the Group’s clients), and it may
be necessary to rely on assumptions, estimates
or proxies where that is the case.
2. Uncertain methodologies and modelling –
methodologies, frameworks and standards
used for calculations of climate-related metrics,
modelling and climate data are not universally
applied, are rapidly evolving and subject to
change. This may impact the data modelling,
approaches, and targets used in preparation of
this report.
3. Complexity of calculations and estimates –
Estimating financed or facilitated emissions
(including allocating emissions to banking
activities) and emissions reduction is complex
and relies on assumptions and judgments, often
made in respect of long periods of time.
4. Changes to climate-related governing
frameworks – changes to climate-related
policy, laws, regulations and market practices,
standards and developments, including those
resulting from legal proceedings and regulatory
investigations.
5. Lack of consistency in definitions and climate-
science terminology subject to changes –
definitions and standards for climate-related
data and assessment frameworks used
across industries and jurisdictions may vary,
and terminology and concepts relating to
climate science and decarbonisation pathways
may evolve and change over time. These
inconsistencies and changes can also make
comparisons between different organisations’
climate targets and achievements difficult or
inappropriate.
6. Reliance on third parties for data or involvement
– the Group may need to rely on assistance,
data or other information from external data
and methodology providers or other third
parties, which may also be subject to change
and uncertainty. Additionally, action and
continuing participation of third parties, such
as stakeholders, may be required (including
financial institutions and governmental and non-
governmental organisations).
Due to these uncertainties, challenges and risks,
statements, assumptions, judgments, calculations,
estimates or proxies made or used by the
Group may turn out to be incorrect, inaccurate
or incomplete. Readers should conduct their
own independent analysis and not rely on the
information for investment decision-making.
The information in this notice should be read
with the qualifications, limitations and guidance
included throughout this report and in:
Appendix 4 ANZ Financed and Facilitated
Emissions Methodology
Appendix 6 ANZ Operational Greenhouse
Gas Reporting and Carbon Offset Methodology
ANZ Social and Environmental Sustainability
Target Methodology available at anz.com/
esgreport
2024 ANZ Data and Frameworks Pack available
at anz.com/esgreport
Overview
CEO’s message
Our 2024 reporting suite
Disclaimer and important notices
ANZ progress towards net-zero
About our business
Our Climate and Environment
Strategy
Transition planning
Governance
Strategy
Risk Management
Metrics and Targets
Appendices
Assurance opinion
7ANZ 2024 Climate-related Financial Disclosures
ANZ progress towards net-zero
1. See ANZ’s 2022 ESG Supplement explanatory notes section for methodology at page 95 available here: anz.com.au/esgreport. 2. Important information about eligibility requirements for the target is set out in the Social and Environmental Target Methodology available here:
anz.com.au/esgreport.
2015
Issued first Green
Bond, certified by the
Climate Bonds Initiative
Committed to funding
and facilitating at least
$10 billion by 2020
in low carbon and
sustainable solutions
Set a target to
encourage and support
100 of our largest
emitting business
customers to develop
or strengthen their
transition plans
2018
2019
Committed to funding
and facilitating at least
$50 billion by 2025
towards sustainable
solutions
1
First Australian bank to
join the NZBA
Set our first two NZBA
sectoral pathways:
• Power generation
• Large-scale commercial
real estate in Australia
2021
2022
Announced target to fund and facilitate at
least $100 billion by end 2030 in social and
environmental activities through customer
transactions and direct investments by ANZ
2
Set four additional NZBA sectoral pathways:
• Oil and gas
• Cement
• Aluminium
• Steel
Joined the TNFD Forum to support its work
Implemented Climate Change Risk Assessment
online tool to support bankers to engage with
selected large business customers on climate risk
Set two additional NZBA sectoral pathways:
• Thermal coal
• Transport sub sectors
Disclosed an:
• Agribusiness data coverage cohort target
• Australian residential home loans financed
emissions performance
2023
2024
Elevated climate to a material risk
Five year Climate and Environment Strategy
approved by the Board in October 2024
Commenced a new phase of engagement for
our LEEP, a multi-year, multi-cohort customer
engagement program that builds on the
experience we developed through the previous
phase of our customer engagement.
Established the Central Review Team (CRT)
as the decision-making body that reviews the
application of the customer transition plan
assessment framework to customer ratings
We will extend our engagement to the next
cohort of our LEEP customers, which are
customers included in our sectoral pathway
targets and other large emitters, both as
identified through LEEP customer selection.
We will review our existing and any new
sectoral pathways and targets to incorporate
relevant facilitated emissions by November
2025
2025
2030
Aim to achieve targets for
our NZBA sectoral pathways
Aim to achieve our Climate and
Environment Strategy
Starting Early
Scaling Up
From Ambition to ActionEnhanced Customer Engagement
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About our business
Australia Retail
Provides a range of banking products and services to Australian consumers.
Australia
Commercial
Provides a range of banking products and financial services to small business
owners, medium commercial customers, large commercial customers, and high
net worth individuals and family groups.
Institutional
Services global institutional and corporate customers and governments across
Australia, New Zealand and International (including Papua New Guinea (PNG)) via
Transaction Banking, Corporate Finance and Markets business units.
New Zealand
Services retail and commercial banking customers in New Zealand and is one
of the largest New Zealand companies.
Pacific
Provides banking products and services to retail and commercial customers
(including multi-nationals) and to governments located in the Pacific region
(excluding PNG which forms part of the Institutional division).
Suncorp Bank
On 31 July 2024, the Group acquired 100% of the shares in SBGH Limited, the
immediate holding company of Suncorp Bank. The transaction was undertaken
to accelerate the growth of the Group’s retail and commercial businesses while
also improving the geographic balance of its business in Australia. The ESG
performance reported for the year ending 30 September 2024 does not include
Suncorp Bank for the period since ownership, unless otherwise stated. Disclosures
and data relating to Suncorp Bank will be included in our 2025 ESG reporting.
Group Centre
Provides support to the operating divisions, including technology, property,
risk management, financial management, treasury, strategy, marketing, human
resources, corporate affairs, and shareholder functions. It also includes minority
investments in Asia and interests in the ANZ Non-Bank Group.
Our purpose and strategy
We provide banking and financial products and services to over
8.5 million retail and business customers across 29 markets.
Our expertise, products and services make us a bank. Our people,
purpose, values and culture make us ANZ.
We operate across a diverse business structure
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 three 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.
Our aspiration is to build a simpler, better, more purpose-driven bank, through:
purpose-led propositions and partnerships that
improve financial wellbeing, access to housing
and sustainability for our target segments
automated business-services supported by
modern, cloud-based technology that is more
open, efficient, resilient and compliant
an agile operating model that encourages
innovation and makes it easier for our people to
deliver value for our customers quickly
disciplined allocation of resources, enhanced
delivery capabilities, and an alignment of
systems and incentives.
In particular, we want to help customers:
• Save for, buy and own a liveable home
• Start or buy and sustainably grow their business
• Move capital and goods around the region and
sustainably grow their business
For information on our Strategy and Business Model, refer
to the Annual Report, available at anz.com.au/annualreport
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To be a trusted partner for our customers, supporting them to adapt and become more resilient,
to a changing environment and economy. In particular, we aim to be a leading bank in supporting an effective
and orderly transition for our large business customers
Objective
Financing a sustainable transition
Vision
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability
Purpose
Ambition
Building our capability to
help customers understand
climate and nature risks
Transitioning our lending portfolio to
net-zero financed emissions
Supporting our customers’
transition and resilience
Divisional
focus
areas
InstitutionalCommercialRetailNew Zealand
Being a leading bank in
supporting customers to
transition, and growing our
low-emissions and nature
related opportunities
Delivering insights and
propositions to support
customers to understand and
navigate the transition
Delivering targeted
education and propositions to
support customers to adapt to
climate impacts
Supporting Aotearoa
New Zealand’s transition to a
low-emissions, climate resilient
economy
Action
pillars
Understanding risks
and opportunities
Building capability
and capacity
Driving customer
engagement
and propositions
Collaborating with
stakeholders to support an
economy wide transition
Core
enablers
Governance and ReportingData and SystemsPeople and Culture
Refer to Strategy section for more
information at page 19.
Our Climate and Environment Strategy
Through our purpose, we have
elevated three areas facing
significant societal challenges,
aligned with our strategy and
our reach. One of these areas
includes our commitment to
supporting household, business
and financial practices that
improve environmental
sustainability.
To support our purpose, our
five year Climate and Environment
Strategy was approved by the
Board in October 2024. It sets
out our objective to be a trusted
partner for our customers,
supporting them to adapt and
become more resilient, to a
changing environment and
economy. In particular, we aim to
be a leading bank in supporting
an effective and orderly transition
for our large business customers.
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See page 12 for how we are transitioning
our lending portfolio for our higher emitting
sectors to net-zero financed emissions.
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In 2024, we have taken further
steps to develop our transition
plan, supporting our commitment
to transition our lending portfolio
to net-zero financed emissions
by 2050 in line with the
Paris Agreement.
The components of our transition planning
are informed by the GFANZ Transition Plan
Guidance Framework as illustrated in the table.
We acknowledge that ongoing work is required
to achieve a robust and well-developed
transition plan.
Our disclosures do not purport to be
comprehensive or to satisfy all aspects of
GFANZ. Our five year Climate and Environment
Strategy approved by the Board in October
2024, sets out our objective to be a trusted
partner for our customers, supporting them
to adapt and become more resilient, to a
changing environment and economy. In
particular, we aim to be a leading bank in
supporting an effective and orderly transition
for our large business customers.
We intend to further disclose our progress
within our 2025 disclosures.
GFANZ Alignment Index
GFANZ ComponentGFANZ Recommendation
1
Page Reference
Foundations
Objectives and priorities
Define objectives to achieve net-zero by 2050 or sooner aligned with science-based
pathways to limit warming to 1.5 degrees
Pages 8, 10, 12
Set interim and long-term targetsPage 12, ESG Targets – see
our ESG Supplement located at
anz.com/esgreport
Identify priority financing strategies for emissions reductionPages 19-27
Implementation strategy
Products and services
Utilise products and services to support customers’ transition
Accelerate and scale the net-zero transition in the real economy
Offer education, guidance, and support for portfolio decarbonization
Pages 21-32
Pages 36-37
Activities and decision-
making
Integrate and apply (top-down and bottom-up) net-zero objectives and priorities into
evaluation and decision-making tools and processes
Pages 13-18, 41-51
Policies and conditionsImplement policies and conditions for priority sectors e.g. thermal coal, oil and gas, and deforestationPages 33-35, 61-66
Engagement strategy
Clients and portfolio
companies
Provide feedback and support to clientsPages 29-32
Pages 36-40
IndustryEngage with industry peers
Represent cohesive financial sector views to external stakeholders
Pages 38-40
Government and public
sector
Ensure lobbying and public-sector engagement supports an orderly net-zero transition
and align customers efforts with ANZ’s net-zero objectives
Pages 29-32, 38-40,
ESG Targets – see our ESG
Supplement located at
anz.com/esgreport
Metrics and targets
Metrics and target
Establish metrics and targets to drive execution of the net-zero transition plan and monitor progressPages 52-86, ESG Targets – see
our ESG Supplement located at
anz.com/esgreport
Governance
Roles, responsibilities,
and remuneration
Define roles for the Board or oversight body and senior management
Assign appropriate individuals and teams to all aspects of both design and delivery of
the transition plan
Regularly review the plan
Pa g e s 13-14
Pages 14-17
Page 18
Skills and culture
Provide training and development for teams and individuals
Implement a change management program to embed the transition plan into the organisation
Pages 36-37
Tra n s i t io n
planning
1. Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Financial Institution Net-zero Transition Plans – Fundamentals, Recommendations, and Guidance (2022).
Sectors
1
2030 Interim Target ReductionStatusCategory
Power generation
50% (2020 baseline)
ON TRACK
Oil and gas26% (2020 baseline)
ON TRACK
Thermal coal100% (2020 baseline)
ON TRACK
Auto manufacturing28% (2022 baseline)
ON TRACK
Shipping10% (2022 baseline)
CLOSE TO ON TRACK
Aluminium30% (2021 baseline)
NOT ON TRACK
Cement20% (2021 baseline)
CLOSE TO ON TRACK
Steel28% (2021 baseline)
CLOSE TO ON TRACK
Australian large-scale commercial real estate60% (2019 baseline)
ON TRACK
Specific policies in place to
steer our lending decisions
Customer engagement
via our LEEP
Prioritisation of customers with lower
emissions assets, stronger emissions
reduction targets and/or diversification
strategies
>10% above pathway
<=10% above pathway
On or below pathway
1. Refer to page 54 for ANZ’s rationale for not disclosing a sectoral pathway target in 2024 for the Australian residential home-loans, Institutional agribusiness, and Aviation sectors.
How we are transitioning our lending
portfolio to net zero financed emissions
Refer to our sectoral pathways on pages
57 to 79 for further information.
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Governance
Board and Executive oversight
The ANZ Group Holdings Limited Board (Board)
is responsible for oversight of the Group and
its overall governance and performance, with
specific duties as set out in its charter available
at anz.com/corporategovernance.
The Board, with the support of six principal Board
Committees (refer chart to the right), is also
responsible for oversight of ANZ’s governance
framework. The framework seeks to provide
effective and responsible decision making,
assisting ANZ in delivering on its strategy and
purpose. Each Board Committee has its own
charter setting out its roles and responsibilities
available at anz.com/corporategovernance.
At management level, the Group Executive
Committee (ExCo) comprises ANZ’s most senior
executives. A delegations of authority framework
outlines matters delegated from the Board to our
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and other members
of senior management. In addition, a number of
formally established management committees
deal with particular sets of ongoing issues.
Principal Board
Committees
Audit Committee
Ethics, Environment,
Social and Governance
Committee
Risk Committee
Digital Business
and Technology Committee
Nomination and
Board Operations Committee
People
and Culture Committee
Board of Directors
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Key management committees and forums
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC)Operational Risk Executive Committee (OREC)
Climate Advisory Forum (CAF)Credit and Markets Risk Committee (CMRC)
Key management roles
Group Executive, Institutional – drives
implementation of the Group’s Climate and
Environment Strategy, working closely with CRO
and GGM Climate and divisional Group executives.
Responsible for executing environmental
sustainability activity within the Institutional division.
Chief Risk Officer (CRO) – responsible for the
Group’s Risk Management Framework (RMF),
including policies, systems and processes for
identifying, assessing and managing climate risk.
Group General Manager, Climate (GGM Climate)
– responsible for leading, guiding and informing
the Group’s policy response to climate change,
working closely with Risk and the Institutional
division, including supporting implementation of
the LEEP and setting sectoral pathway targets.
Group General Manager, Corporate
Communications and ESG – responsible for ESG
disclosures and reporting and ESG governance.
Key support teams
1
Institutional Strategic Planning and
E xe c u t i o n Tea m – supports the CAF
and implementation of the LEEP along
with coordination of reviews of Group-
wide Environmental Sustainability
governance and the Climate and
Environment Strategy.
Climate Risk Team – reports into
the CRO, Institutional, who is the
material risk owner for climate risk.
Responsible for the integration and
management of climate risk within
the Group’s RMF.
ESG Analytics and Advisory Team –
provides subject matter expertise advice
on social and environmental issues
affecting our business lending decisions,
such as public policy, regulation, emerging
community standards and expectations,
and managing the development and
monitoring performance of climate-related
metrics and targets.
ESG Governance Team – supports
effective identification and
management of the Group’s ESG risks
and opportunities through our senior
executive and Board decision making
processes and structures.
ESG Disclosures and Reporting
Tea m – delivers the Group’s ESG
disclosures, reporting, market
briefings and oversight of forthcoming
reporting standards, practices and
frameworks.
1. Key teams across the Group support our customers’ to shift to low carbon business models and operations, including through labelled and other financing products and services. Refer to page 22 for further information on how we are financing sustainability.
The Board and its committees oversee our ESG approach, including how we manage our climate risks and opportunities. See the chart below for the committees,
forums and key management roles that represent our governance structure for the oversight of climate risks and opportunities for 2024.
ANZ Group Holdings Limited Board
Key Board committees
Board Ethics, Environment, Social
and Governance Committee (EESG)
Board Risk Committee (BRC)Board People and Culture Committee
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Board and Board Committees
ANZ’s Board
The Board is responsible for the oversight and
strategic direction of the Group.
As part of its role, the Board sets and monitors
the long-term implementation of ANZ’s strategies
and financial objectives. The Board has a specific
responsibility to oversee and assess management’s
performance in achieving strategies and budgets
approved by the Board as well as monitoring the
management of risk across ANZ.
ANZ’s strategy is 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.
We are focused on integrating our purpose and
ESG approach into our business strategy.
Our purpose to shape a world where people
and communities thrive, provides the context in
which we make decisions and consider our overall
strategy. Through our purpose, we have elevated
three areas facing significant societal challenges
aligned with our strategy and reach, including a
commitment to supporting household, business
and financial practices that improve environmental
sustainability. The other two focus areas, financial
wellbeing and housing, are covered in detail in our
ESG Supplement available at anz.com/esgreport
.
Further, climate risks and opportunities inform the
Board’s thinking in relation to our overall operating
and strategic plan.
Board Committees
Board Ethics, Environment, Social and
Governance (EESG) Committee
The Board EESG Committee is responsible for
assisting the Board by providing oversight of
measures to advance ANZ’s purpose, focusing
on ethical and ESG matters, including climate-
related matters.
In undertaking this role, the Board EESG
Committee is responsible for oversight, review and
approval of ANZ’s ESG approach, objectives and
performance, and public disclosures including
ESG and climate-related targets. Refer to page
18 for more information on setting and approving
climate-related targets.
The Board EESG Committee meetings typically
open with an overview of the ESG operating
environment, covering current and emerging
issues, including regulatory and parliamentary
inquiries, community sentiment, relevant
international developments and our stakeholder
engagement. Key climate-related topics that were
considered in 2024 are outlined on page 17.
The Board EESG Committee also reviews ERBC
meeting minutes and discusses material matters
referred to it from that body.
Board Risk Committee (BRC)
The BRC oversees the implementation and
operation of the Group’s RMF, including climate
risk, which was elevated to a material risk in
November 2023. In undertaking this role, the
BRC is responsible for endorsing the Risk
Appetite Statement (RAS). RAS sets out the
Board’s expectations regarding the degree of
risk (including climate risk) that the Group is
prepared to accept in pursuit of its strategic
objectives and business plan.
Climate risk is considered at the BRC, for example
in updates as part of the CRO’s report, via sector
reports and updates to ANZ’s Risk Management
Strategy (RMS). Key climate-related topics that
were considered in 2024 are outlined on page 17.
Board People and Culture Committee
The Board is ultimately responsible for and
oversees ANZ Group’s Performance and
Remuneration Framework and its effective
application throughout the ANZ Group. The
People and Culture Committee’s role is to assist
the Board in its oversight of the effective operation
of the Performance and Remuneration Framework
and other Talent and Culture matters.
The People and Culture Committee has a strong
focus on the relationship between business
performance, risk management and remuneration,
aligned with our business strategy.
A joint meeting of the People and Culture,
Risk and Audit Committees is held annually to
review performance and variable remuneration
recommendations at both the Group, and CEO/
Disclosed Executive level (i.e. assessment of the
ANZ Group Scorecard and Divisional Scorecards
for the current financial year and setting the
preliminary ANZ Group Scorecard and Divisional
Scorecards for the next financial year). The
Committees then submit their recommendations to
the Board for approval. Refer to our Remuneration
Report within our Annual Report available at
anz.com/annualreport.
Board skills
The ANZ Board Skills Matrix, as set out in the
2024 Corporate Governance Statement, which
is available at anz.com/corporategovernance,
outlines the key skills and experience the ANZ
Board is looking to achieve in its membership.
Included in the skills matrix is sustainability.
Our directors collectively bring a broad range
of skills and current and prior experience which
includes having held roles across sectors such
as infrastructure, energy, mining, banking and
agriculture. For further details on the experience
of our directors refer to anz.com/annualreport.
In addition to having individuals on the Board with
a variety of technical skills and experiences, the
Board seeks to ensure that the directors operate
as a team. The Board is focused on the long-
term success of the Group. Each director has an
individual perspective which facilitates respectful
and constructive challenge of management and
each other, allowing for robust debate when
navigating complex issues.
The Skills Matrix is reviewed by the Nomination and
Board Operations Committee on a regular basis.
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Management Committees
and Forums
Ethics and Responsible Business
Committee (ERBC)
The ERBC, chaired by the CEO, comprises Group
Executives and senior executives from business
divisions and Group functions.
The ERBC is a leadership and decision-making
body that exists to advance ANZ’s purpose and
seeks to ensure that ANZ operates responsibly
and achieves fair, ethical and balanced stakeholder
outcomes. The ERBC provides leadership on our
ESG risks and opportunities, monitoring progress
quarterly against ANZ’s ESG targets, which include
those related to climate.
This year, we have undertaken a review of the
ERBC to ensure the Committee continues to
effectively fulfil its role. In August 2024, the ERBC
charter was updated to reflect:
• Adjustments to the Committee’s key
responsibilities to align with restated objectives,
including relating to financial wellbeing,
affordable housing and ethical and ESG risks
and opportunities; and
• Renewed Committee membership, for example,
inclusion of Group Executives from four of ANZ’s
divisions (Australia Commercial, Institutional,
New Zealand and Australia Retail).
The ERBC considers the key social and
environmental impacts of various industries,
customers and communities ANZ serves. The
ERBC is responsible for overseeing the ERBC
Sub-Committee for sensitive wholesale
transactions. It also receives updates on decisions
relating to the enhanced due diligence and
decision-making process for relevant customers
and transactions in the energy sector, including
oil and gas companies. Refer to page 48 for
more information.
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,
including climate-related matters.
Climate Advisory Forum (CAF)
The CAF chaired by our Group Executive
Institutional, includes our Group CRO, GGM
Climate and other business and risk executives.
The CAF has visibility of the progress in
implementing ANZ’s Climate Change Commitment
and our Climate and Environment Strategy which
replaces our previous Environmental Sustainability
Strategy, ensuring coordination between all parts
of the Group to deliver the various workstreams
including our sectoral pathways and LEEP.
The CAF was established in October 2022. It
meets approximately every second month, with
the agenda structured to cover focus areas. Some
of the key topics discussed at the forum in 2024
included: enhancing Environmental Sustainability
(ES) related governance, capturing and managing
ES-related data, ES capability implementation
and progress considering nature, our LEEP and
enhancing transparent reporting and disclosures,
including sectoral pathways implementation and
progress. Actions and decisions are captured and
progress of the focus areas are tracked. The CAF
met five times in 2024.
As we look ahead to 2025, we will update our
climate governance structures, and commence
implementation of our Climate and Environment
Strategy outlined on page 19.
We have recently set up a Climate Program t o u p l i ft
our Group wide climate-related activity, capability
and associated reporting to meet the forthcoming
mandatory climate reporting under the ASRS –
see page 49 for more information on how ANZ is
preparing.
Other management committees
Other management committees play a role in
the management of risks, including climate risk
and risks which are climate-related, such as the
following:
• Operational Risk Executive Committee (OREC) is
the primary senior executive management forum
responsible for overseeing the non-financial
risk profile and the related control environment
across the Group. This includes relevant climate-
related non-financial risks; and
• Credit and Markets Risk Committee (CMRC)
is the primary senior executive management
forum responsible for the oversight and control
of credit, market, insurance and other material
financial risks across the Group. This includes
relevant climate-related financial risks.
The purpose of these committees is to assist the
BRC in the effective discharge of its responsibilities.
OREC and CMRC have responsibility (shared with
ERBC) for oversight of climate risk. OREC and
CMRC also have responsibility for the oversight of
ANZ’s management of new and emerging risks
within their respective risk areas.
Activities undertaken by OREC and CMRC will at
times overlap with topics raised in ERBC (and vice
versa) as part of the executive oversight and risk
management required to deliver on ANZ’s purpose
and strategy.
Energy Transaction
Escalation Process
We apply an enhanced due diligence process
for material energy transactions which are
referred to senior subject matter experts for
review. Our experts evaluate the Institutional
energy customer’s transition plan using the LEEP
assessment framework, regardless of whether the
energy customer is part of LEEP, see page 29 for
further details.
In some instances, material energy transactions
are escalated for consideration by our Group
Executive Institutional, Group CRO and GGM,
Climate. Reasons for escalation vary and may
include consideration of larger transactions,
more significant impacts to financed emissions
pathways, reputational risk, or where a customer’s
transition plan is not yet in the mature phase. In
2024, 6 transactions were escalated to the senior
executives, as mentioned above, with 1 declined
and 5 approved or conditionally approved.
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Areas of focus by the Board EESG
Committee and management ERBC
Both committees discuss the areas of ‘how
we bank’ and ‘who we bank’. Environmental
sustainability is one of ANZ’s three ESG focus areas
that is fundamental to our business and strategy.
Climate is a standing item on both the Board EESG
Committee and ERBC’s agenda, usually presented
by the Group CRO, Group Executive Institutional
and GGM Climate.
Climate-related topics covered as part of the
standing agenda item in 2024 included the
following:
• Strategy;
• Policy;
• Targets; and
• Customer engagement.
Based on allocated agenda time, this year these
committees jointly dedicated approximately 37 per
cent of their time to climate-related topics.
Table 1.1 Frequency by which the Board EESG Committee and ERBC were informed about climate-related risks and opportunities
Oct
23
Nov
23
Dec
23
Jan
24
Feb
24
Mar
24
Apr
24
May
24
Jun
24
Jul
24
Aug
24
Sep
24
Board Ethics, Environment, Social and Governance
Committee (EESG)
5 meetings during the year
⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
Ethics and Responsible Business Committee (ERBC)
5 meetings during the year
⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
Table 1.2 Frequency by which the Board Risk Committee and other risk management committees received updates or
items of note relating to climate-related risks
Oct
23
Nov
23
Dec
23
Jan
24
Feb
24
Mar
24
Apr
24
May
24
Jun
24
Jul
24
Aug
24
Sep
24
Board Risk Committee (BRC)
8 meetings during the year
⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
Operational Risk Executive Committee (OREC)
8 meetings during the year
⚫⚫
Credit and Markets Risk Committee (CMRC)
10 meetings during the year
⚫⚫⚫
Areas of focus by the Board Risk
Committee (BRC) and other risk
management committees
During the year, the BRC and other risk
management committees (OREC and CMRC)
received updates or items of note for climate-
related risks. These included for example, the
following agenda items:
• Climate risk as a material risk;
• Climate Change Risk Assessment tool
integration update;
• Group Risk Appetite Statement; and
• Risk Management Strategy.
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Knowledge building
We run a regular program of CEO and senior
executive meetings with civil society leaders
including environmental non-government
organisations, government, regulators and
academics to build knowledge of our senior
executives across ESG topics.
During the year, the Board EESG Committee
and ERBC received briefings from internal and
external subject matter experts. These briefings
and meetings provide opportunities to support
knowledge building and capability in areas such
as climate and nature.
In May 2024, our Group CRO, Group Executive
Institutional and GGM Climate met with around
20 financial institutions, regulators and corporate
customers in Europe and the United Kingdom
to obtain perspectives on climate and nature
challenges and opportunities. Discussions
included organisations’ approach to customer
engagement, how they are resourcing teams and
data considerations to keep pace with customer
transition activities and increasing regulatory
requirements.
Targets – approval processes
ESG targets including climate-
related targets
Each year we set public targets that reflect our
ESG focus areas, support the delivery of our
business strategy and respond to our most
material ESG issues. Progress against our ESG
targets is monitored quarterly by the ERBC and
twice a year by the Board EESG Committee.
Climate-related targets, within our suite of ESG
targets
1
, are developed under the guidance of
the CAF and informed by the ESG Governance
and ESG Analytics and Advisory teams in close
consultation with relevant business units.
Proposed targets are reviewed by the ERBC
and the Board EESG Committee and approved
by the Board EESG Committee. An annual review
of these targets is conducted to ensure they
remain relevant.
Sectoral pathways
Our sectoral pathways (disclosed on pages 57-79)
are developed by our ESG Analytics and Advisory
team, working closely with the relevant business
units and risk teams.
Proposed targets are reviewed by CAF, ERBC
and the Board EESG Committee and are
approved by the Board EESG Committee.
Progress towards our sectoral pathway targets
is updated annually, reflecting the frequency
with which data (for example, emissions data)
is reported by our customers.
1. Our full ESG target suite is available in our ESG Supplement at anz.com/esgreport.
Nature considerations by Board
EESG Committee and ERBC
Nature has been considered by the
Board EESG Committee and ERBC as
part of their responsibility to provide
leadership to advance ANZ’s purpose,
involving consideration of certain social
and environmental impacts. Recognising
a need to continue to develop our
understanding of, and capability in,
emerging risks and opportunities to
inform our direction, this year the Board
EESG Committee and ERBC reviewed
our updated workplan, with our nature
activities in 2024 summarised on pages
33-35. This year we continue to draw
on the Taskforce on Nature-Related
Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework
to help inform our disclosures. Refer to
pages 88 for our TNFD index.
Performance objectives are set for Disclosed
Executives through Divisional Scorecards, aligned
with the ANZ Group Scorecard. STVR outcomes
for Disclosed Executives reflect both the overall
performance of the Group and the performance
of each individual Disclosed Executive and their
relevant division.
ANZ’s Group Scorecard includes relevant
objectives and measures. For example the 2024
Group Scorecard includes delivery against
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
targets, such as the:
• funding and facilitation of at least $100 billion
by the end of 2030 in social and environmental
activities,
• management of climate risks via our
Large Emitters Engagement Program, and
• reducing the direct impact of our business
activities on the environment.
Divisional Scorecards also include objectives and
measures as relevant to the particular business.
Group/Divisional Scorecards are not designed to
capture all of our ESG targets – however our senior
leaders are accountable for ensuring we focus
on and seek to adhere to our commitments and
policies, with regular review and oversight by the
CAF, ERBC, and EESG.
Next steps
To date we have focused on the area where we
can have the most significant impact, namely
our Institutional portfolio which accounts
for approximately 2/3 of our total financed
emissions. Recognising the need to have a
group-wide approach, we will commence
implementation of our Climate and Environment
Strategy approved by the Board in October 2024.
Refer to page 19 for further detail.
Executive remuneration
ANZ’s Remuneration Report within our Annual
Report, available at anz.com/annualreport, details
how performance and remuneration outcomes are
determined for our most senior leaders.
The CEO’s Short Term Variable Remuneration
(STVR) is assessed 100% on the ANZ Group
Scorecard, adjusted by the CEO Leadership
Modifier, which takes into consideration the CEO’s
leadership of: key strategic priorities aligned with
ANZ’s strategy; ANZ’s values/behaviours; and
ANZ’s risk and compliance standards.
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Through our purpose, we have elevated three
areas facing significant societal challenges, aligned
with our strategy and our reach. One of these
areas includes our commitment to supporting
household, business and financial practices that
improve environmental sustainability.
To support our purpose, our five year Climate and
Environment Strategy was approved by the Board
in October 2024. It sets out our objective to be a
trusted partner for our customers, supporting them
to adapt and become more resilient, to a changing
environment and economy. In particular, we aim to
be a leading bank in supporting an effective and
orderly transition for our large business customers.
To achieve our Climate and Environment Strategy
we have established three core ambitions:
• Building our capability to help customers
understand climate and nature risks
• Transitioning our lending portfolio to
net-zero financed emissions
• Supporting our customers’ transition
and resilience
These ambitions will be supported by each
division having specific focus areas, and prioritised
divisional action plans that we plan to implement
commencing 2025. In this year’s report, we set out
how we have been supporting our customers to
date. This lays the foundation for us to deliver on
our objective and support an effective and orderly
transition in coming years.
Strategy
Our Climate Change Commitment supports
our Climate and Environment Strategy ambition
and will be available here prior to our AGM.
To be a trusted partner for our customers, supporting them to adapt and become more resilient,
to a changing environment and economy. In particular, we aim to be a leading bank in supporting an effective
and orderly transition for our large business customers
Objective
Financing a sustainable transition
Vision
Supporting household, business and financial practices that improve environmental sustainability
Purpose
Ambition
Building our capability to
help customers understand
climate and nature risks
Transitioning our lending portfolio to
net-zero financed emissions
Supporting our customers’
transition and resilience
Divisional
focus
areas
InstitutionalCommercialRetailNew Zealand
Being a leading bank in
supporting customers to
transition, and growing our
low-emissions and nature
related opportunities
Delivering insights and
propositions to support
customers to understand and
navigate the transition
Delivering targeted
education and propositions to
support customers to adapt to
climate impacts
Supporting Aotearoa
New Zealand’s transition to a
low-emissions, climate resilient
economy
Action
pillars
Understanding risks
and opportunities
Building capability
and capacity
Driving customer
engagement
and propositions
Collaborating with
stakeholders to support an
economy wide transition
Core
enablers
Governance and ReportingData and SystemsPeople and Culture
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How we are driving
our ambition
The action pillars of our Climate and
Environment Strategy are designed to drive
and deliver upon our five year vision and
ambition. The below initiatives, processes
and activities are highlights of how we have
progressed our climate approach in 2024,
and how they connect to our action pillars.
This lays the foundation for us to deliver on
our Climate and Environment Strategy action
plan in coming years to support an effective
and orderly transition.
Elevating climate risk as
a material risk
For further information, refer to
Risk Management page 41.
Taking steps to build capability
to understand nature risks
For further information,
refer to page 33.
Engaging and collaborating
with stakeholders
For further information,
refer to page 38.
Funding and facilitating social and
environmental activities through
our $100 billion target
For further information,
refer to page 21.
Implementing our Large Emitters
Engagement Program (LEEP)
For further information,
refer to page 29.
Action Pillars
Understanding risks and opportunities
Building capability and capacity
Driving customer engagement
and propositions
Collaborating with stakeholders to support
an economy wide transition
Building our capability and
assisting our customers
For further information,
refer to page 36.
Supporting our customers’
transition through financing
For further information,
refer to page 22.
Implementing our sectoral pathways
to transition our lending to net-zero
financed emissions
For further information, refer to
Metrics and Targets page 52.
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Funding and facilitating social and environmental
activities through our $100 billion target
This year, we made good progress towards
our target to fund and facilitate at least
$100 billion by end 2030 in social and
environmental activities through customer
transactions and direct investments by ANZ.
By the end of 2024, we have funded and facilitated
$38.96 billion across 226 transactions since the
target commenced on 1 April 2023. This includes
initiatives that aim to help lower carbon emissions,
protect or restore nature, increase access
to affordable housing and promote financial
wellbeing.
• Our goal for 2024 was to contribute at least
$15 billion towards our target. We exceeded
this with funding and facilitation of $30.17 billion
across 172 transactions,
1
of which $16.09 billion
was attributed to ANZ via on-balance sheet
loans and other credit lines, while close to
$14.08 billion was facilitated by ANZ.
• Transactions eligible for inclusion towards the
$100 billion target include labelled sustainable
finance, other unlabelled banking activities and
ANZ direct investments, but only where they
are assessed as meeting the eligible banking
activities and eligible social and/or environmental
activities criteria specified for the target. As
a result, not all labelled sustainable finance
and unlabelled transactions referred to in the
following pages will be included in the target.
• For further detail on ANZ’s approach for
assessing the eligibility of transactions for
inclusion towards the target, refer to the ANZ
Social and Environmental Sustainability Target
Methodology available at anz.com/esgreport.
• The Board EESG Committee approved changes
to the Target Methodology in October 2024.
1. 2024 includes transactions validated as eligible for inclusion in the target from 23/09/2023. Fourth quarter 2024 progress included transactions allocated towards the
target validated as eligible up to 21/09/2024. A small number of transactions lodged after 21/09/2024 and before 30/09/2024 were also validated and included.
Progress towards our $100 billion social and environmental sustainability target – 1 April 2023 to 30 September 2024
1. Includes renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, green buildings, and other environmental activities. Other environmental activities include activities which cover multiple environmental
categories and/or activities such as waste, sustainable water and waste water management, and climate change adaptation. 2. Includes construction or operation of buildings or portfolios of buildings
that deliver positive environmental outcomes, which meet, or renovation or retrofitting of buildings, so that they can meet regional, national or internationally recognised standards or certifications (e.g.
under the Australian NABERS rating system). 3. Includes affordable housing and other social activities. Other social activities include activities which cover multiple social categories and/or activities such as
socioeconomic advancement and empowerment. 4. Includes activities which cover both environmental and social categories. 5. Note that for the purposes of this reporting, sustainability-linked transactions
(ie where the economic characteristics (e.g. pricing outcomes) of the financial instrument are linked to sustainability performance targets) are reported as a separate category. 6. Funded $20.23 billion includes
deals in “Waste” and “Water” which have deal values less than $0.10 billion.
9% Social
3
1% Social & Environmental
40% Environmental
1
50% Sustainability-linked
5
Funded
$20.23b
6
$3.73b Energy
$3.12b Green building
2
$1.15b Aordable housing$0.12b Other social and environment
4
$10.08b Sustainably-linked
$0.71b Other social
$0.78b Other environment
$0.44b Clean transport
7% Social
3
20% Social & Environmental
43% Environmental
1
30% Sustainability-linked
5
Facilitated
$18.73b
$3.56b Energy
$3.24b Other environment
$1.22b Other social$3.69b Other social and environment
4
$5.63b Sustainably-linked
$0.02b Aordable housing
$1.34b Green building
2
$0.04b Clean transport
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Supporting our customers’
transition through financing
$14b (27 deals) from Diversified
Industries
$10b (11 deals) from Food,
Beverages and Agriculture
$81b (43 deals) from Financial
Institutions Group
$21b (26 deals) from Property
and Health
$58b (38 deals) from Resources,
Energy and Infrastructure
Total deal size
$184b
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140
160
180
200
100
80
60
40
20
0
2020
59
2021
119
2022
155
2023
144
2024
184
Sustainable finance total deal
size over time ($b)
Supporting our customers’
sustainability ambitions
ANZ’s Sustainable Finance team in
Institutional is helping our customers by
encouraging them to identify climate and
nature-related risks and opportunities and
how to link their financing needs to their
sustainability strategies, through the use
of labelled (eg. Green, Social, Sustainability
and Sustainability-Linked) loans, bonds and
trade products. Customer demand for these
labelled sustainable finance products and
services has been strong this year, as our
customers continue to align their sustainability
objectives with directing capital into measures
aimed at responding to environmental and
social challenges. In parallel, we are observing
increased market and regulatory scrutiny
of sustainable finance products which is
influencing customers’ timelines when
undertaking labelled transactions.
During 2024, we participated in 145 sustainable finance deals with a total deal size of $184 billion,
compared to 111 deals with a total deal size of $144 billion in 2023. The amount attributed to ANZ in
2024 was $19.2 billion. Of the $19.2 billion, $14.6 billion was attributed to ANZ via on-balance sheet
loans and other credit lines, and $4.6 billion via our distribution capability.
(83 deals) from
International
(53 deals) from
Australia
(9 deals) from
New Zealand
$30b
$151b
$3b
ANZ is financing a sustainable transition by strategically mobilising and deploying capital.
This effort supports our Climate and Environment Strategy by providing financing solutions
which enable our customers to deliver on their transition plans. Refer pages 23-28 for
examples as to how we have been supporting our customers to date.
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Some examples of labelled transactions we have completed in 2024 include:
Green, Social and Sustainability Loans
Lending to deploy capital into green, social and
sustainability initiatives, where borrowers are
required to use the proceeds of the loan to invest
in qualifying green and/or social assets (e.g., green
buildings, renewable energy).
Sustainability-Linked Loans
Lending which incentivises the borrower’s
achievement of predetermined
sustainability-related performance targets.
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WM New Zealand
WM New Zealand Limited (WMNZ) announced
the successful conversion of its syndicated debt
financing into a NZ$1.1 billion sustainability-linked
loan (SLL) in April 2024.
WMNZ is the leading materials recovery and waste
management provider in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The SLL is linked to key performance indicators
reflecting WMNZ’s strategy WM Porohita (to be
circular) including emissions reduction, supporting
the circular economy and upskilling employees
on climate change and the circular economy. ANZ
acted as Facility Agent and lead Joint Sustainability
Coordinator.
Highlight
Inghams Group Limited
In June 2024, Inghams Group Limited successfully
converted $545 million of syndicated debt facilities
into a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) with ANZ
supporting in the role of Sole Sustainability
Coordinator. The transaction is understood to be
the first of its kind for an Australian poultry supplier
and included the establishment of a Sustainable
Finance Framework. The SLL incorporates
three sustainability performance targets which
incentivise greenhouse gas emissions intensity
reductions, water intensity reductions and landfill
intensity reductions.
Highlight
Tata Communications
In April 2024, ANZ participated in a US$250 million
sustainability-linked loan facility made available
to Tata Communications, a leading global
communications technology company.
The sustainability-linked loan included two
sustainability performance targets for the
reduction of scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. ANZ
acted as Lead Sustainability Coordinator, Arranger,
Primary Hedging Bank and Facility Agent.
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Clearway Energy
ANZ acted as Sole Green Loan Coordinator and Joint Lead Arranger for five green project
financing deals for Clearway Energy Group LCC:
1. 140MW Rosamond South Solar and 117MW Battery Storage project located in California;
2. 114MW Daggett 1 Battery Storage project located in California;
3. 200MW Luna Valley Solar project located in California;
4. 55MW Dan’s Mountain Windfarm project located in Maryland; and
5. 300MW Pine Forest Solar and 200MW Battery Storage project located in Texas.
Clearway owns and operates a portfolio of wind, solar and energy storage installations,
producing ~6.5GW of generated energy.
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ACEN (Ayala Group)
ACEN Corporation is the listed energy platform of
Ayala Group, one of the largest conglomerates in
the Philippines. In February 2024 ANZ provided a
$75 million, 4 year Green Loan to the subsidiary,
ACEN Australia, for funding of renewable energy
projects in Australia.
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Supporting customers’
decarbonisation
We also support our customers’ transition
through unlabelled financing products and
services. ‘Unlabelled’ refers to our existing
banking products and services where
no specific sustainability related label is
applied. In our Institutional business, these
include relationship lending, structured
lending (such as project finance or loan
syndication) or other banking solutions to
customers to finance or facilitate initiatives
that contribute to decarbonisation, such
as buildings and infrastructure, renewable
energy or energy efficiency.
ESG-format bonds
Distribution of capital into green, social and
sustainability initiatives where borrowers are
required to use the proceeds of the bond to invest
in qualifying green and/or social assets (e.g. green
buildings, renewable energy), or where bond
terms are linked to improved performance against
predetermined sustainability performance targets.
Highlight
SA Power Networks
In May 2024, SA Power Networks successfully
issued a $495 million 3 year and 8.5 year
green bond transaction, becoming the first
Australian electricity distributor to issue a certified
green bond.
The proceeds from its financing instruments will
be utilised to finance or refinance new or existing
distribution assets that support South Australia’s
transition to a distributed and decarbonised energy
system.
ANZ acted as sole Sustainability Coordinator for
the Sustainable Financing Framework, which
is aligned to supporting our customers in their
transition to net-zero.
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FleetPartners
In May 2024, ANZ supported vehicle leasing group
FleetPartners with a $400 million asset-backed
securitisation including $75 million which was
allocated to a green tranche. ANZ played a key
role in the transaction, acting as joint green bond
co-ordinator, co-arranger, joint lead manager, and
joint bookrunner. The green tranche of this latest
deal will exclusively fund leases for electric vehicles
and has been certified as a “Climate Bond” by the
Climate Bonds Initiative. This deal contributes to
the growing body of work by ANZ helping fund
reductions in transport emissions.
Recent examples of unlabelled transactions include:
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Talison Lithium
(Greenbushes Lithium Mine)
ANZ acted as Mandated Lead Arranger and
Bookrunner in an upsized Syndicated Debt
Facility for the Talison Lithium joint venture for
US$1.55 billion. The deal which closed in June
2024 supports the Talison Lithium joint venture’s
capital expenditure plans for the Greenbushes
Mine in Western Australia. The mine plays a crucial
role in meeting the growing demand for lithium, a
vital component for electric vehicle batteries and
other battery storage solutions. The deal extends
ANZ’s funding relationship with Talison Lithium
which dates back to October 2022.
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Ventient Energy
(now part of Nadara)
Ventient Energy (now part of Nadara, an
independent power producer in Europe) was
a renewable energy generator in Europe with
146 wind farms generating approximately
5.7TWh of clean electricity, which is estimated to
be enough to power more than 1.5 million homes.
ANZ acted as Mandated Lead Arranger and
Hedging Provider, on a EUR2.6 billion refinancing
for the diversified, pan-European renewable
energy platform.
Highlight
Silicon Ranch Corporation (SRC)
In September 2024, ANZ acted as Coordinating
Lead Arranger (CLA) for Silicon Ranch
Corporation’s Lambert 1 project, a 100 MW
solar photovoltaic energy project that is under
construction in South Carolina.
This US$218 million facility represents ANZ’s
second transaction with SRC, with the first
completed in May 2024, where ANZ acted as
CLA for SRC’s US$410 million 250MW Toombs
Solar Project in Georgia. SRC is an independent
power producer in the United States with an
operating portfolio of more than 3GW of solar
and battery storage systems.
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Environmental Markets
The Australian carbon market operates under the
Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme
that incentivises the development and operation
of eligible activities that reduce emissions or
store carbon.
1
The carbon market is anticipated
to play an increasing role in supporting Australia’s
transition to net-zero as a result of reforms to the
Safeguard Mechanism
2
in 2023. These reforms
seek to align the emissions baselines of many of
Australia’s largest emitting industrial facilities to
national decarbonisation targets
3
. This requires the
businesses that control those facilities to reduce
emissions at site or mitigate them through the use
of carbon credits.
Established in 2022, ANZ continues to build
out its Environmental Markets capability to
provide insights and develop financing and
market-related solutions for customers that are
increasingly interested in understanding the risks
and opportunities of entering the carbon market,
both on the demand and supply side. This
includes customers subject to the Safeguard
Mechanism and those seeking to participate in
the carbon market on a voluntary basis.
During the year, the team has been integrated
within our Sustainable Finance team to enhance
collaboration with relationship teams and product
specialists in Markets and Trade.
Additionally, to support our employees to
understand the why, the what and the how of
carbon markets and engage with customers on
carbon market solutions, this year we launched
a specialised Carbon and Environmental Markets
module under the ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030
learning program. Refer to page 36 for more on
how we are building the capability and capacity
of our employees.
ANZ/Clean Energy Finance
Corporation (CEFC) Energy
Efficient Asset Finance Program
ANZ has been working with the CEFC since
2017, to support Australian businesses to invest
in emission reducing infrastructure that will be
resilient to a changing climate. Under the program,
ANZ and the CEFC each contribute 0.25% towards
a 0.5% interest rate discount to eligible customers
for loans up to $5 million to invest in a broad range
of activities or assets that meet the program
criteria, for example renewable energy to energy
efficient and precision agricultural equipment,
recycling technologies and electric vehicles
4
.
The program enables those customers to use
discounted clean energy finance to reduce their
costs at the same time as meeting community
expectations around improving sustainability.
Since its launch in 2017, this program has
helped finance more than $300 million of
investment in 1,369 clean energy technology
deals for some of our Australian Commercial
and Agribusiness customers.
2024: 133 deals, $21.51m volume
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Carbon Logica
Carbon Logica provides carbon emissions
abatement services to the resources
industry.
Carbon Logica was granted a loan under
the ANZ/CEFC loan discount program to
build a power generation facility, which
utilises waste coal mine gas from Fitzroy’s
Ironbark No. 1 metallurgical coal mine in
Queensland, to generate electricity.
The project is part of the mine’s emissions
reduction strategy and Carbon Logica
describes it as an example of how they
have the ability to tailor services for the
resource industry.
Carbon Logica’s Managing Director, Scott
Barker, explains; “With the support of ANZ
and CEFC, the development of the Ironbark
Waste Coal Mine Gas Power Station
showcases our team’s ability to rapidly
deploy scalable solutions that support
environmental and economic outcomes.”
$7.72m
EV deals
$1.49m
Solar deals
$9.87m
Energy eciency deals
$2.43m
Recycling deals
Total deal size
$21.51m
1. Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme. 2. The Safeguard Mechanism. In Australia, the Federal Government reformed the Safeguard Mechanism legislation so that for financial years commencing on or after
1 July 2023, designated “Safeguard facilities”(large carbon emitters) are required to reduce their emissions on a trajectory consistent with Australia’s climate targets. 3. Safeguard Mechanism. 4. Vehicle and
Equipment Finance | ANZ.
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Smaller Business and Retail Products and propositions (New Zealand)
ANZ Bank New Zealand offers lending products that may support households and businesses transition to lower emissions.
Other lending products are available to support customers impacted by weather-related events.
ProductDescription of ProductLaunched
New Lending
(2024, NZ$m)
Outstanding Balance,
Life to Date (NZ$m)
Lending that may support households and businesses transition to lower emissions311603
Good Energy
Home Loan
Top up available to existing eligible
1
home loan customers to upgrade their homes with solar panels, heating and insulation, double
glazing, ventilation systems and/or rainwater tanks. It can also be used for electric or hybrid vehicles, electric bikes, and electric vehicle
chargers. It allows customers to borrow up to NZ$80,000 at a 3-year fixed interest rate of 1% per annum.
July 2022255474
Healthy Home
Loan Package
Offers interest rate discounts and fee savings for eligible
2
customers who are buying, building, renovating or already own a home with
a 6 Homestar rating or higher.
March 20191361
Business Green
Loan
Available for eligible
3
business and agriculture customers to borrow up to NZ$3 million at a discounted rate to finance (or refinance)
assets or projects associated with energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, plantings, sustainable water and wastewater,
clean transportation, and pollution prevention and control.
September
2022
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ANZ Agri Uplift
Finance
ANZ Agri Uplift Finance has been created to incentivise and reward customers who have a clear environmental vision and are focused
on improving farming practices and increasing business resilience.
An interest rate discount is applied for up to three years on eligible floating ANZ Business Term Loans. Customers are eligible through:
1. Certification under an eligible industry assurance program or,
2. Meeting the criteria under the product’s general pathway of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, water quality
and soil health.
October
2024
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1. ANZ Good Energy Home Loan. 2. ANZ Healthy Home Loan Package. 3. ANZ Business Green Loan.
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ProductDescription of ProductLaunched
New Lending
(2024, NZ$m)
Outstanding Balance,
Life to Date (NZ$m)
Lending to support customers impacted by weather-related events
458461
Business
Regrowth Loan
A low-interest loan aimed at those in need of finance following extreme weather events. Customers can use the loan for recovery
costs to help with repairing or replacing damaged assets and property, or to improve their business’ resilience to future events.
Initially available for those impacted by the devastating flood and cyclone events to many North Island regions in 2023, the loan was
extended to support existing ANZ Bank New Zealand business and agriculture customers impacted by future climate-related events
such as cyclones, flooding and droughts.
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Support for
customers with
Category 3
properties
Since August 2023, ANZ Bank New Zealand has offered assistance to customers who had been designated as Category 3 under
the New Zealand Government’s Future of Severely Affected Land Programme (i.e. eligible for a Council buyout as it is unsafe due to
unacceptable level of future risk to life).
ANZ Bank New Zealand offers eligible Category 3 customers the ability to break current fixed rates (waiving early repayment recovery)
for a discounted offer for up to one year as customers complete their Council buyout.
August 20234225
North Island
Weather
Event Loan
ANZ Bank New Zealand participated in the Government’s North Island Weather Events (NIWE) loan guarantee scheme between
August 2023 and June 2024. Under the scheme, the Crown carries 80% of the credit risk on covered loans and will underwrite loans
with a term of up to five years, and principal amount of up to NZ $10 million
4
to help significantly impacted businesses recover.
August 2023381384
4. Amounts above NZ$10m were provided subject to confirmation from the New Zealand Treasury.
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SDG Bond Program
ANZ Treasury’s
1
capital and funding strategy
includes SDG bond issuance which supports our
commitment to transition ANZ’s lending portfolio
to net-zero financed emissions by 2050 in line with
the goals of the Paris Agreement. ANZ’s SDG Bond
Framework has been developed to align with the
International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA)
Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles and
Sustainability Bond Guidelines that are current
as at the date the SDG Bond Framework was
released. ANZ recently extended and updated
our SDG Framework (as of November 2024).
An amount equal to the net proceeds raised from
the SDG bonds is used to finance or refinance
a combination of new or existing assets and/
or ANZ’s own operating or capital expenditures,
which align with one or more eligible categories
that furthers one or more of the SDGs.
Since inception (to 31 March 2024), the eligible
asset pool has increased from $1.5 billion to
$11.1 billion, highlighting delivery of ANZ’s strategy
to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability
of our customers through our lending proposition.
ANZ has issued five SDG bonds totalling
approximately $6.8 billion (AUD equivalent),
including ANZ’s inaugural SDG bond issued in
February 2018 that has since matured.
Consistent with our purpose, ANZ’s intent is to
issue SDG bonds as part of its capital and funding
strategy, subject to market conditions. This also
assists in maintaining access to a diverse investor
base across global capital markets.
1. ANZ Bank Group.
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Large emitters engagement program
Given these multifaceted challenges,
achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement
cannot be accomplished by our customers
alone; it necessitates collective action from
governments, industries, and financial institutions
1
.
Understanding the complexities and challenges
our customers face will enable us to better
engage with and support their transition.
Implementing our new phase
of engagement
At the beginning of this year, we commenced
a new phase of engagement – LEEP. LEEP is a
multi-year, multi-cohort customer engagement
program that builds on the experience we
developed through the previous phase of our
customer engagement. We include customers
from varied sectors in this program, but a large
proportion are in energy and resources.
2
Our bankers have initiated discussions with all
of the current LEEP customers, supported by
our Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)
tool. Refer to page 47 for more detail on our
CCRA. We are exploring ways in which our
customers’ transition may be facilitated by our
financing solutions, including via our $100 billion
social and environmental sustainability target,
discussed on page 21.
1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Climate Change 2023: Mitigation of Climate Change. Sixth Assessment Report (2023).
2. The energy sector plays a key role in the transition, with around 75% of global emissions attributed to energy use (data sourced from the
International Energy Agency (IEA) – Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector (2021)). This is especially the case for the
power generation sector, which is essential in decarbonising other high emitting sectors such as transportation and buildings.
100 largest emitting business customers by sector
Coal
Manufacturing
Mining
Oil and gasOther
Power generation
Transport and storage
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8
35
12
11
32
Learning from the previous
phase of customer engagement
Since 2018, our engagement with our large
emitting business customers has continued
to provide us with deeper insights into their
transition plans, the opportunities available to
them and the challenges they face.
Each customer’s transition journey is unique. We
expect the path to net-zero will be non-linear for
many sectors, as some customers may be able to
reach net-zero for their operational emissions in
the next decade, whereas some may experience
increases in emissions while they invest in new
operations or businesses to enable deeper, long-
term decarbonisation. This reflects the complex
balance between maintaining operational viability
and implementing a credible transition plan.
We have also observed that hard-to-abate
sectors remain particularly challenged, for
example, due to technological and commercial
barriers. However, it is encouraging to see many
customers in these industries disclosing clearer,
long-term transition plans.
Energy security and affordability concerns can
introduce another layer of complexity. Similarly,
countries with developing economies are facing
growing energy demand to accommodate
economic growth. Our customers facing these
challenges need to tackle meeting immediate
energy needs while striving to lower their
emissions. This can make setting and achieving
their Paris-aligned targets more complicated.
2024
2025
Our 100 largest emitting business customers
Safeguard Mechanism
Other large emitters
Large emitters in
sectoral pathways
2023
100 of
our largest
emitters
LEEP customers
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We have categorised transition plans this year in the following phases:
Summary phase description
Mature
Customers who have disclosed a well-developed or advanced transition plan, which includes Paris-
aligned intermediate targets covering scope 1 and 2 emissions for the highest emitting part of their
business
1
and committing to a net-zero target by 2050. They also have clear plans to achieve their
targets with strong governance and ‘TCFD aligned’ climate disclosure. This includes customers who
we consider as ‘sector leaders’.
Progressing
Customers who are demonstrating sufficient improvement
2
by progressing their plans. These customers
may fall short on having Paris-aligned intermediate targets, eg due to challenges in the sector or
environment they operate in. These customers have at least adequate climate governance, actions to
meet their targets, and may have or are moving towards TCFD-aligned disclosure.
Emerging
Customers who generally do not meet our expectations for ‘Progressing’ phase. Some of these
customers may have or are moving towards TCFD-aligned reporting but need to significantly improve
certain key components of their transition plan. Some may have internal plans, including governance
structures and steps being taken to reduce emissions that are not yet disclosed.
1. In addition to meeting our expectations of LEEP customers’ transition plans, Institutional energy customers also need to, by end 2025, disclose
(1) Material scope 3 emissions and any progress towards reducing those emissions and (2) How company strategy, targets and planned capital
expenditure is aligned with the Paris goals. 2. We assess the customer’s improvement which includes evaluating their public disclosures and
engagement with us.
We have also set higher standards. Our
engagement seeks to support LEEP customers
to continually improve their transition plans,
recognising that the journey to net-zero by 2050
is not ‘set and forget’ – every improvement matters.
This year, we introduced a more challenging
assessment framework for considering our
LEEP customers’ transition plans. This includes:
• an increased focus on progress in achieving
their intermediate emissions reduction targets
1
• encouraging our LEEP customers to obtain at
least limited third-party assurance of emissions
performance and targets.
While we continue to review our LEEP customers’
transition plans against our assessment
framework, we recognise this only tells part of the
story. The assessment shows where a customer is
at a point in time but doesn’t reflect the customer’s
trajectory in meeting our expectations – good
now, does not mean good tomorrow. Conversely,
a less mature plan today might not fully reflect
improvements our customers have made or are
planning for the future.
As a result, we have evolved our approach to
disclosing where our LEEP customers are on their
transition journey to reflect how we assess their
trajectory relative to our expectations. We consider
challenges facing the customer’s sector or the
region(s) in which they operate, the speed and
scale of improvements already made or planned to
its transition plans and our history of engagement.
This approach allows us to acknowledge
sector and region-specific challenges our LEEP
customers face while leveraging our transition plan
assessment framework to provide an indication of
how we see customers progressing.
“While significant progress has
been made in the nine years since
the landmark Paris Agreement,
the global energy transition is
entering a new phase, marked
by rising costs, complexity, and
increased technology challenges.
To successfully navigate this
next phase and meet the Paris
Agreement goals, urgent action
will be needed and the pace
of change must accelerate.
The clean energy transition will
also need to be balanced with
affordability, energy system
resiliency, and energy security
in an increasingly uncertain
macroeconomic environment.”
Source:
Global Energy Perspective 2024
| McKinsey
We have publicly stated our expectations for
Institutional energy customers and still expect
them to achieve a ‘Mature’ phase in their transition
plans by end 2025
1
or improve sufficiently towards
this
2
– otherwise we may reduce our support.
This may mean that we decline to participate in
new lending opportunities, reduce limits available
to the customer or selldown existing exposures.
Our enhanced due diligence process for material
energy transactions considers Institutional energy
customers’ transition plans, and the effect of the
proposed transactions on our financed emissions
pathways. We have also increased our focus on
how these customers are progressing in achieving
their emissions reduction targets, as well as the
trajectory of their transition journey relative to our
expectations. This allows us to focus on where
we can have the greatest impact by prioritising
engagement with customers that have momentum
and capacity to meet our expectations.
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How our customers are placed in 2024
100 largest emitting business customers grouped by transition phase for 2024
MatureProgressingEmerging
423226
2024
We continue to hold high expectations of
our 100 largest emitting business customers.
We will continue engaging with them, including
those in the ‘Mature’ phase, to encourage further
improvements to their transition plans or to
discuss examples of good practice. Some of
these customers in the ‘Mature’ phase are
large, listed companies whose progress will be
particularly important to support achievement
of the Paris Agreement goals.
We also support our customers in their transition
journey through our broader engagement as well
as financing activities. Our target is that by the end
of 2025, compared with their starting point, more
customers will be in the ‘Mature’ phase for their
transition plans. Some of these customers do not
yet have regulatory obligations to disclose publicly,
but we are gaining insights and some visibility of
their transition plans through our engagement.
For those customers in the ‘Emerging’ phase for
their transition plans, we may reduce our support
if they have not sufficiently improved their plans
following 2 years of engagement.
Additionally, we have set higher expectations
for our Institutional energy customers. This will
be detailed in our Energy Customer Approach,
available here prior to our AGM.
This year’s engagement also provided us with
valuable insights into our Safeguard Mechanism
customers. While it was encouraging to find that
around half of those reviewed are positioned in the
‘Mature’ phase, these customers are facing greater
challenges in meeting regulatory requirements,
in addition to reducing their emissions at a pace
aligned with Australia’s decarbonisation goals. Our
Environmental Markets team has been discussing
with several of these customers how they might
navigate the risks and opportunities related to
procuring carbon credits to meet their Safeguard
Mechanism obligations.
This year, among our 100 largest emitting business
customers, we consider 42 are in the ‘Mature’
phase. For the remaining customers, a smaller
proportion are ‘Progressing’ while the remainder
are ‘Emerging.’
We observed that most customers recognise
climate as a financial risk and have assigned
Board responsibility to manage it. While around
80% have set net-zero 2050 targets for their
scope 1 and 2 emissions, only around 50% have
Paris-aligned intermediate targets for scope 1 and
2. This is partially due to the lack of commercially
and technically available decarbonisation
technologies for some customers. Scope 3
emissions remain a challenge for many customers,
particularly in setting targets, as they have less
direct control over these emissions. Nonetheless,
we are seeing stronger disclosures related to
decarbonisation strategies that are supported by
capital expenditure and investment.
Expanding our engagement
over time
In 2025, we will extend our engagement to the
next cohort of our LEEP customers, which are
customers included in our sectoral pathway targets
and other large emitters, both as identified through
LEEP customer selection.
We anticipate that by the end of 2025, through
LEEP, we will have undertaken enhanced customer
engagement with customers responsible for an
estimated 60% of emissions of our Institutional
customer emissions.
1
1. Based on analysis conducted in 2023. The analysis identified the ultimate parent company of ANZ’s Institutional credit customers (ie, excluding non-lending customers) and estimated the customer’s scope 1 and 2
(location-based) emissions, based on publicly disclosed data or having regard to sector specific emissions intensity estimates. We excluded Project Finance as the emissions from projects are attributed to the relevant
customer segment. We also excluded customer segments which typically have lower emissions such as Financial Institutions, Public Sector, and services and education.
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Our transition plan assessment framework
Expectations for credible climate transition
plans are evolving. We aim to review our internal
customer transition plan assessment framework
every year with a view to reflecting evolving
market developments. Any such review is led
by our internal ESG subject matter experts with
oversight from the CRT, and leverages guidance
from reputable third-party frameworks such as
Transition Plan Initiative, Climate Action 100+
and the Science Based Target Initiative. If we
make material changes to our framework, we will
explain how they impact upon our assessment
ratings in the relevant year.
Case study
ANZ engagement
contributing to uplift in a
customer’s transition plan
ANZ declined an opportunity to participate
in a transaction for an energy customer in
2023, in part based on their transition plan
being less advanced than our expectations.
Since then, our customer has actively and
constructively engaged with ANZ across
multiple areas and levels of the business
including seeking confidential feedback
before publicly releasing its first climate
action plan.
The release of the customer’s climate
action plan represented a marked
improvement, including disclosure of a
net-zero 2050 target (for scope 1 and 2
emissions), a commitment to scope 3
reporting and the linking of executive
remuneration to climate targets. These
improvements were important factors in
ANZ’s decision to participate in another
transaction with this customer this year.
Our customer has committed to further
improving its transition plan. We will
continue to monitor this customer’s
progress.
Uplifting our governance process
This year, we established the Central Review
Team (CRT) as the decision-making body that
reviews the application of the customer transition
plan assessment framework to customer ratings.
The CRT is co-chaired by representatives from
our Climate Risk and ESG Analytics and Advisory
team, and includes representatives from the
Institutional division, including Sustainable Finance
and relevant Business Sectors.
One of the CRT’s main responsibilities is to
review and approve customer transition plan
ratings based on the customer transition plan
assessment framework.
Relationship ManagersESG Analytics and
Advisory Team
Central Review Team
ESG Analytics and Advisory
Team, Climate Risk, Business
Sectors and Sustainable
Finance
Senior Executives Group
Executive
Group Executive Institutional,
Group CRO, GGM Climate
• Complete the Climate Change
Risk Assessment (CCRA),
utilising the latest climate-related
disclosures for the customer
and insights from customer
engagement.
• Conduct an independent
preliminary review of
Relationship Managers’
responses.
• Review proposed customer assessment ratings
• Approve ratings except those escalated to the
Senior Executives Group due to consensus not
being reached within the CRT
• Track actions taken from the customer
engagement and evaluate progress against
our public commitments
• Discuss the preliminary review outcome with
Relationship Managers before recommending
customer transition plan ratings to the Central
Review Team for review.
• Oversee LEEP customers’ transition plan
ratings and engagement
• Make decisions if the Central Review Team
escalates individual customer ratings
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Taking steps to build capability
to understand nature
Our Climate and Environment Strategy highlights our acknowledgment
of the importance of, and links between, climate and nature. Our approach is
guided by our ambition to build our capability to help customers understand
both climate and nature risks.
Nature or Biodiversity?
Currently ‘nature’ and ‘biodiversity’ terminology
is often used interchangeably by policy makers,
regulators and market participants.
The TNFD
2
considers ‘nature’ as the “natural
world, with an emphasis on the diversity of
living organisms (including people) and their
interactions among themselves and with their
environment.” The TNFD defines ‘biodiversity’
as “the variability among living organisms
from all sources, including, inter alia, terrestrial,
marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the
ecological complexes of which they are part;
this includes diversity within species, between
species and of ecosystems.”
ANZ and our customers’ operate in many
diverse and ecologically important locations. We
acknowledge the contribution we can make by
working with our customers to understand nature
risks and opportunities relevant to their business
operations and how they manage their impacts.
We have a role in protecting and restoring nature
and mitigating biodiversity loss in the locations in
which we operate. For more information on how
we are reducing the impact of our operational
footprint see page 85.
We recognise the vision of the Kunming-Montreal
Global Biodiversity Framework which is “a world
living in harmony with nature where by 2050,
biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and
wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services,
sustaining a healthy planet and delivering
benefits essential for all people.”
1
Steps taken this year to further our approach:
Included nature in the development of our Climate and Environment Strategy (see page 19)
Reviewed our Social and Environmental Risk Policy, including consideration of the management
of potential impacts on nature (see page 46)
Broadened our discussions with customers on nature to include our Agribusiness data
coverage cohort
3
(see page 34)
Completed a desktop analysis evaluating a cohort of our customers’ approach to managing
nature related impacts and dependencies (see page 35), and
Released a specialised Nature Mindset2030 learning module for ANZ employees (see page 37)
Understanding risks and opportunities
Nature is classified as an emerging risk to
ANZ under our RMS which we are seeking to
understand further. This year we reviewed our
Social and Environmental Risk Policy and Social
and Environmental Risk Standard, including our
specific requirements for sensitive sectors. As part
of that review, we considered the potential impacts
on nature from our large business customers’
activities. For example, we intend to take a more
holistic approach in seeking to understand how our
customers balance competing demands on land
and water, with potential impacts on nature and
biodiversity. Further detail on how ANZ is exposed
to, and manages, nature risks is available at page
43 and further detail on nature considerations
in our Social and Environmental Risk Policy is
available at page 46.
We are also seeking to be a leading bank
in supporting our Institutional customers to
transition, and grow our low-emissions and nature
related opportunities, as part of our Climate and
Environment Strategy, to be implemented over the
next five years. Our sustainable finance team has
commenced engaging with customers on linking
nature strategies into financing needs alongside
climate and other sustainability objectives more
commonly seen in the market to date. We expect
the market to develop in this regard over the
short to medium term, as global sustainable
finance taxonomies evolve, and nature impact
and dependency frameworks together with
guidance on associated metrics emerge. See
page 22 for how we are seeking to finance a
sustainable transition.
We continue to draw on the TNFD framework
to help inform our disclosures in this report,
building on our first steps taken last year following
the release of the TNFD in September 2023.
Our TNFD Index outlining our response to the
recommendations is on page 88.
This section sets out the initiatives, processes
and activities as to how we have progressed our
approach to nature in 2024. We consider that
these steps lay the foundation for us to deliver
on our Climate and Environment Strategy action
plan over the next five years.
1. Convention on Biological Diversity – 2050 Vision and 2030 Missions. 2. Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures – Glossary (September 2023). 3. The Agribusiness data coverage cohort comprises large
Institutional agribusiness customers with either significant operations in Australia or headquarters in Australia as at October 2023. See page 82 for more details.
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Portfolio analysis
Nature risks and opportunities are inherently
sector and location specific. As a result, identifying
and applying a single portfolio wide metric or
target is challenging.
Building on our work in 2023, we continue to
utilise the Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities
Risks and Exposure (ENCORE)
1
. The tool identifies
potential sector level nature pressures and
dependencies. Having regard to the TNFD’s
Additional guidance for financial institutions
2
, we
have reported against one of the core disclosure
metrics for financial institutions, ‘Exposure to
sectors’. This metric represents the exposure to a
defined set of sectors considered to have material
nature-related dependencies and impacts. The
outcomes are reflected in the bubble chart below.
The assessment highlighted the materials,
and food and beverage sectors as those with
higher potential pressures and dependencies on
nature. Within the sectors assessed, water use
and terrestrial (land-based) ecosystem use are
categorised as having the most material potential
nature-related pressures.
This analysis helped inform our review of our
Social and Environmental Risk Policy, as well as
our approach to customer engagement and the
desktop analysis discussed on page 35.
We continued to build on what we have learnt
from participating in pilot studies of the TNFD
framework’s LEAP
3
application – maturing our
approach to discussions with customers and
informing discussions on data, tools, systems
and capabilities.
Utilities and Environmental & Facilities Services
Electronic Equipment (including semiconductors)
Real Estate Development & REITs
Energy (excluding energy utilities)
Materials
Transportation
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechology
Household & Personal Products
Automobiles & Components
Consumer Staples Distribution &
Retail & Services (Restaurants)
Consumer Durables & Apparel
(Excluding Home Building)
Food & Beverage
Lower
The size of the bubble represents exposure
at default ($b EAD) as at June 2024.
Potential Dependencies
Potential Pressures
Higher
Lower
Higher
15.0
14.9
44.0
13.1
12.4
15.0
2.3
1.6
0.6
4.05.4
85.3
Customer Engagement
We are continuing to build our knowledge
on nature, which is a topic that has been
part of our discussions with some of our
largest emitting business customers since
2021. This year we included nature as a topic
in discussions with our Agribusiness data
coverage cohort
4
, given the dependencies
the agricultural sector has on nature.
We seek to understand whether customers
are establishing or strengthening their
approach to nature through Board
governance, metrics and targets, and
disclosures using recognised indicators or
metrics. We are engaging with our customers
to help us start to identify and consider their
potential impacts and dependencies.
Our customer engagement on nature is
integrated into our credit risk assessment
process via our CCRA tool and our Social and
Environmental Risk screening tool. It is expected
that the nature element of our screening tools
will continue to expand and evolve over time. For
more information on the CCRA, refer to page 47.
We seek to apply what we learn from our customer
engagement to help refine our screening, improve
our knowledge and enhance our capability and
customer engagement capacity. Further information
about our relevant screening tools and processes is
available on page 47.
We are seeking to understand the impacts and
dependencies nature can have on our customers.
This includes how customers are managing and
mitigating material risks and impacts. Customers
are less progressed in setting targets and making
disclosures around nature compared with their
progress in developing low carbon transition plans,
though we expect further progress over time.
Of our 100 largest emitting business customers
plus our Agribusiness data coverage cohort
4
,
27% have metrics and targets in place that
assess and manage certain impacts and
dependencies on nature and 47% disclose their
impacts, dependencies, and associated risks and
opportunities on nature.
ENCORE potential pressures and dependencies by sector
5
2024 Nature-related customer engagement
7
Analysis of our 100 largest emitting business customers and agribusiness data coverage cohort
1. The ENCORE tool previously referred to ‘impacts’ and ‘dependencies’, however the tool now refers to ‘pressures’ and ‘dependencies’.
2. Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures – Sector Guidance (June 2024). 3. Locate, Evaluate, Assess and Prepare. 4. The
Agribusiness data coverage cohort comprises large Institutional agribusiness customers with either significant operations in Australia or
headquarters in Australia as at October 2023. See page 82 for more details. 5. Pressure and dependency ratings were sourced from
ENCORE. A score was applied in order to convert ENCORE’s qualitative assessment to a quantitative analysis and scores were aggregated.
6. Including chemicals, construction materials, containers & packaging, metals & mining and paper & forest products.
0
10
30
20
50
40
70
60
90
100
%
80
Governance of
nature-related risks
Metrics and targets to assess
and manage relevant impacts
and dependencies
Disclosure of impacts and
dependencies and associated
risks and opportunities
7. Not to be compared to prior year disclosures due to coverage of a different customer cohort.
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Informed by our 2023 ENCORE portfolio
analysis, the desktop analysis considered
themes such as:
Acknowledgement of the Kunming Montreal
Global Biodiversity Framework and/or
recommendations of the TNFD
Strategies, policies or commitments
to manage nature replated impacts,
dependencies, risks and opportunities
including water, land, deforestation, riparian
vegetation, rehabilitation and closure planning
Water consumption, quality and efficiency
measures
Metrics and targets related to nature and
water management
Additional analysis of customers’
public disclosures on nature
We also complemented our customer
engagement on nature through the LEEP with
a more detailed desktop analysis of public
disclosures of both our 100 largest emitting
business customers, within LEEP, and the
Agribusiness data coverage cohort. The purpose
of the analysis was to baseline customers’
disclosures as to their management of nature
related impacts and dependencies, identifying
customers that appear to be more advanced
and to inform the focus of future customer
engagement and deepen our knowledge and
understanding.
The analysis (summarised below) highlighted that
our customers are still in the early stages of setting
specific policy commitments on nature. Some
customers are more advanced, for example many
customers in the Australian resource sector had
more fulsome disclosures on the management of
land and water. We understand this is likely due
to their regulatory compliance requirements and
membership of industry bodies. Some of these
customers have commitments to protect high
value biodiversity areas by restricting exploration
and extraction of resources in these locations.
Themes, such as water and deforestation were
not a material impact or dependency for all sectors
we analysed, indicating a need for more tailored
sector-specific engagement.
The analysis identified that although nature risks
can be closely linked to climate risks, there is not
complete alignment between our customers in
our existing LEEP and Agribusiness Data Coverage
Cohort engagement programs and those with
higher nature impacts or dependencies. A number
of customers, outside of existing engagement
programs, have been identified within third-party
initiatives such as Nature Action 100 (NA100) and
Spring
1
as having a high potential impact on nature
within key sectors deemed to be systemically
important in reversing nature loss.
Next steps: The results of our customer
engagement, desktop analysis and ANZ
customers that are identified by third-party
initiatives will inform the focus of future customer
engagement on nature.
NoYesIn progress
Does the company publicly acknowledge the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)?
Does the company have a fomalised nature policy, strategy, plan or commitment that recognises nature loss is a
significant global issue?
Does the company publicly acknowledge the TNFD?
17%83%
37%63%
57%39%4%
Key results of the additional nature desktop analysis
1. A UN PRI stewardship initiative for nature, convening investors to use their influence to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030.
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Building our capability
and assisting our customers
We continue to build the capability
and capacity of our workforce to
respond to the shifting regulatory
requirements, economic and
social pressures, expectations of
stakeholders and to meet changing
customer needs. This is key to our
understanding of climate and nature
risks and opportunities, as well as our
ability to support our customers to
build on their understanding of those
risks and opportunities.
Building internal capability
This year we expanded our in-house purpose built
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 learning program to
offer both foundational and specialised learning
programs. This is an optional online program to
support our employees to build their capabilities.
The specialised learning program aims to support
our frontline employees and product partners to be
better equipped to have purpose-aligned, strategic
discussions with our customers, to understand
their needs and support their understanding of
risks and opportunities.
The learning program is supplemented by
ESG-related webinars, speaker events and an
Insights Hub, a dedicated site for our employees
to learn more about ESG, including climate risk,
and ANZ’s ESG approach. The Insights Hub
includes dedicated tools and resources designed
to better equip employees, for example, to engage
in conversations with our customers.
A community of practice, a group of like-minded
employees with an interest in ESG, has also been
established. There are over 200 representatives
across ANZ to champion the ESG@ANZ – Mindset
2030 learning program.
At the end of 2024, more than 7,000 employees
have commenced the foundational learning
program, ESG@ANZ, Mindset 2030. As at end
of 2024, more than 3,800 employees have
completed the entire foundational program which
consists of 10 modules. In addition to the on-line
learning program, 33 speaker events/webinars on
specific ESG topics have been conducted in 2024.
The learning program was initially established to
support our Institutional division with more than
40% of our Institutional team completing the
foundational learning program in 2024.
As part of the Executive Leadership Series a
program was also delivered to senior executives
1
across ANZ, Delivering Value and Impact with
ESG, with 40% of the eligible cohort attending.
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 –
Specialised Program (new in 2024)
Customer Conversations
Carbon and Environmental Markets
Nature
Human Rights and Modern Slavery
Delivering Value and Impact with ESG
(new in 2024)
Offered to our senior executives providing
an overview of the bank’s ESG approach
and leadership’s role as well as an overview
of greenwashing and the opportunities and
risks for the energy transition
ESG@ANZ – Mindset 2030 –
Foundational Program
ANZ’s Purpose, Strategy and Approach
to ESG
The ‘E’ in ESG – What Environmental
Sustainability means at ANZ
The ‘S’ in ESG – What Social means at ANZ
The ‘G’ in ESG – What Governance means
at ANZ
Greenwashing
ESG Governance and Risk Management
Community and Customer Transition
to Net Zero
Financing sustainability; Products and
Solutions (new in 2024)
Taking action and resources (new in 2024)
Learning Program Assessment (new
in 2024)
1. Comprises persons holding roles within ANZ designated as Group 1 and Group 2.
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Highlight
Spotlight on nature
Supporting our customers to understand
nature risks is a core ambition of our Climate
and Environment Strategy. Building the capability
and capacity of our frontline employees is critical
to supporting their engagement with customers
on managing nature risks and opportunities.
This year we released a specialised Nature
Mindset2030 learning module to support our
people in better understanding nature-related
risks, opportunities and impacts.
Green Ambassador Program
Our Green Ambassador program, created
in 2018, is an employee engagement
initiative active across our 29 markets
and supports employees to live more
sustainably by providing education and
pathways to take action.
This year’s Green Ambassador Summit
invited ANZ staff to learn about zero waste
and the circular economy, with online and
in-person sessions covering topics across the
different stages of resource use and waste
management, such as hands on composting
workshops and panel discussions on share
libraries and recycling.
Helping our bankers to support
our customers
A range of learning is available to equip relevant
employees with a deeper understanding of
climate and nature related risks and opportunities
to support effective customer engagement.
This year, we continued to:
• Deliver training sessions to relevant employees
to improve the skills and knowledge required
to apply the CCRA tool, including relationship
managers who are engaging with our LEEP
customer group. The training covers how
climate risks and opportunities may manifest
for our customers and what elements we
expect to see in a transition plan, with reference
to our expectations of our LEEP customers.
These sessions also provide guidance for
employees to engage in valuable customer
conversations, to help assess customer climate
risks. In 2024, CCRA training was delivered
to a wider group of employees across our
Institutional division, reflecting the broader users
of the tool. See page 29 for further details on
our LEEP and page 47 on the CCRA.
• Educate relevant employees about our Social
and Environmental Risk Policy and the Social and
Environmental Risk Standard, including specific
requirements for ‘sensitive sectors’. Educating
relevant employees on our policies and
standards, and how they are applied in practice,
is important for the effective management of the
social and environmental risks when considering
our large business customers’ transactions
and relationships. This training is mandatory
for new employees authorised to make credit
decisions relating to large business customers.
In addition to our internal education, we also
provide briefings to customers on our social and
environmental risk management and how our
approach may impact the products and services
we offer. See page 45 for further details on our
Social and Environmental Risk Policy.
• Deliver carbon farming training in Australia, in
conjunction with the Carbon Market Institute.
This training is available to all employees and
seeks to increase the understanding and
awareness of the risks and opportunities
involved with on-farm carbon projects.
In addition, Pollination and ANZ continued to
roll-out a program to build Institutional banker
capacity in relation to nature and natural capital.
This program includes improving our bankers’
understanding of nature-related risks and
opportunities to support their engagement
with customers, including through roundtable
discussions with selected customer cohorts.
Topics covered within the module, include:
• How does nature contribute to ESG?
• ANZ’s approach to nature
• Why our customers should care about
nature and biodiversity
• Nature-related sustainable finance
• Resources and tools
This specialised module is supported by the
program to build Institutional banker capacity
in nature and natural capital. This program
includes growing their understanding of
nature related risks and opportunities,
developing tools to support bankers in
engaging with customers on nature, and
holding roundtable discussions with selected
customer cohorts. Additionally, we continued
roll out to relevant parts of the business of
our existing ‘Nature for Business Playbook’,
and four sector-specific Playbooks across
food, beverage and agribusiness, real estate,
energy, and metals and mining. These
Playbooks were developed in conjunction
with Pollination, ANZ’s strategic partner in
environmental sustainability.
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Engaging and collaborating
with stakeholders
Industry associations
• Participate in relevant Australian Banking
Association (ABA) and New Zealand Banking
Association (NZBA) working groups on climate
matters. Through our operations in the United
Kingdom, we participate in the UK Financial
Conduct Authority’s Climate Financial Risk
Forum, and the Climate Resilience working
group. ANZ United Kingdom also Chairs the
Association of Foreign Bank’s Climate Risk
working group.
We periodically review our membership of industry
associations to ensure they align with ANZ’s
position on policy and advocacy. Refer to our ESG
Supplement at anz.com/esgreport for disclosure
of our membership of key industry associations.
Policy engagement
ANZ is a member of a number of industry
associations. We work in a collaborative and open
way as members of associations that have similar
interests and approaches to ours. We understand
that our stakeholders are interested in the position
we adopt on issues related to climate change
and nature. Stakeholders are also interested in
ANZ’s membership and engagement with industry
associations, and how we contribute to advocacy
and policy development surrounding these issues.
Through our memberships we:
• Participate in discussions about industry-wide
issues and strategy
• Provide input into industry association responses
to Parliamentary committee inquiries and
government consultations
• Engage with consumer representatives to
discuss issues affecting customers
We seek to contribute constructively to
public policy formation and to understand
the perspectives of our community’s elected
representatives, policy makers and regulators.
Australian Sustainable
Finance Institute (ASFI)
As a founding member of ASFI, we continue
to collaborate with peers within the financial
services sector. During the year, ASFI continued
to progress its 2023 work program including
sustainable finance taxonomy development, policy
engagement, as well as priority initiatives in natural
capital, First Nations, finance sector leadership
and sustainable finance solutions.
ASFI launched the initial public consultation on
the development of an Australian sustainable
finance taxonomy, in May 2024. This focused
on the technical screening criteria for climate
change mitigation across three priority sectors:
electricity generation and supply; minerals,
mining and metals; and construction and the built
environment. ASFI has also formed working groups
to develop technical screening criteria across
three further sectors: manufacturing and industry;
transport; agriculture, and land. ANZ participated
in the consultation and is participating in each of
these working groups. A second and final round
of public consultation has now been released in
October 2024 which we expect to contribute to.
We also joined the Natural Capital Advisory
Group, convened by ASFI in partnership with
Macdoch Foundation’s Farming for the Future
(FftF). This program aims to bring together
Australia’s agricultural producers and financial
institutions to integrate natural capital into decision
making of financial institutions using an evidence-
based approach, and enabling tangible on-farm
outcomes.
Toitu Tahua – Centre for
Sustainable Finance
ANZ Bank New Zealand contributed to the several
Toitū Tahua initiatives, including as a member
of the Independent Technical Advisory Group.
The Group prepared the report ‘Developing a
Sustainable Finance Taxonomy for Aotearoa New
Zealand’, setting out key design recommendations
for the Government; and the ‘Starter for Ten: 10
topics for SMEs to start sustainability reporting’,
guidance which aims to support New Zealand’s
SMEs with simplified sustainability reporting.
We collaborate on various international, national and industry initiatives
to progress climate action and to contribute to standardised frameworks.
A collaborative and proactive approach to building and maintaining
relationships with stakeholders will support us to deliver on our Climate
and Environment Strategy.
Understanding risks and
opportunities
Building capability and
capacity
Driving customer engagement
and propositions
Collaborating with stakeholders
to support an economy wide transition
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We partner with groups and organisations that
reflect our values and that will support us to deliver
on our Climate and Environment Strategy.
Pollination
In 2022, ANZ and climate and nature advisory and
investment firm Pollination announced a strategic
partnership. The partnership brings together
ANZ’s capabilities across Institutional Banking with
Pollination’s expertise in climate and nature in an
effort to develop and deliver innovative solutions and
opportunities for customers to support their transition
to net-zero and to improve nature outcomes.
This year, Pollination and ANZ continued to roll-out
a program to build Institutional banker capability
in nature and natural capital discussed at page 37.
ANZ also worked with Pollination to develop the
group wide Climate and Environment Strategy.
Farming for the Future (FftF)
ANZ has recently announced it will partner with FftF, a
not-for-profit research and change program that seeks
to progress the agricultural industry’s understanding
of on-farm natural capital and its management. Our
partnership with FftF seeks to help farm managers
realise greater productivity and profitability in their
core production enterprises by providing information
about how different types of natural capital contribute
to farm business performance. The partnership will
also deliver bespoke training to our agricultural banking
employees and support customers to participate in
the FftF program commencing in 2025.
Aotearoa Circle
ANZ Bank New Zealand is a leading partner of
The Aotearoa Circle, a voluntary initiative bringing
together leaders from the public and private
sectors to investigate the state of Aotearoa New
Zealand’s natural resources, and to commit to
priority actions that will restore Aotearoa’s natural
capital for future generations.
Peak industry bodies and associations
United Nations Principles of Responsible
Banking (UN PRB) – Nature Target Setting
Working Group
We are a founding signatory of the UN PRB and
contributed to the guidance on nature target
setting released by the UNEP-FI in November
2023
1
– as part of our membership of the UNPRB
– Nature Target Setting Working Group – which
considers how banks can contribute to the Global
Biodiversity Framework. The aim of this industry-
first guidance is to help banks integrate nature
considerations into their practices and processes
to shift away from harmful activities while
mobilising financial resources.
Partnerships
Government and Regulators
We listen to, and seek to engage constructively,
with government, regulators, and policy makers.
This includes participation where appropriate
in government consultations and parliamentary
inquiries. We continue to meet with members
of Parliament, public officials and regulators and
participate in submissions to, and appearances
before, Parliamentary committee inquiries and
government and regulatory consultations.
This year, matters raised in Australia included
environment and energy, mandatory climate
related financial disclosures, the regulation of
‘greenwashing’, and support for sustainable
financing.
In New Zealand, matters raised included climate
resilience and climate-related disclosures.
We also contributed to dialogue via the Australian
Treasurer’s Investor Roundtable that was
established in October 2022. The roundtable brings
together some of Australia’s largest superannuation
funds, the major banks and global asset managers,
to identify and overcome barriers to investment.
The most recent roundtable was centred
around modernising the Australian economy and
maximising advantages. Topics discussed included
the net-zero transformation and the Net Zero
Economy Authority’s role, principles to guide sector
decarbonisation plans, the Sovereign Green Bond
Framework, and the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.
We continue to participate in scenario
assessments and stress tests across a range of
geographies, including Hong Kong. For further
detail, refer to page 49 of Risk Management.
We are members of or provide sponsorship to
a selected group of peak industry bodies. The
purpose of these memberships is three-fold.
• It allows us to engage with specific industries to
understand existing and emerging perspectives,
challenges, risks and opportunities for the
sector, and also more broadly for the economy;
• It provides an opportunity for ANZ to assist in
market development and innovation, including
with the aim to increase bankability to accelerate
investment; and
• It provides access to subject matter expertise
that uplifts our own industry specific capability.
Some examples include Australian Water
Association, Carbon Market Institute, Energy
Efficiency Council, Infrastructure Sustainability
Council, and Green Buildings Council of Australia.
Sustainable finance industry working groups
Through our membership of key industry
associations, ANZ is also an active participant
in a number of working groups that seek to
develop and promote high standards of market
practice and lay the foundations for the successful
operation of sustainable finance markets globally.
These associations typically focus on market
conventions and responding on issues impacting
material aspects of the sustainable finance
market. Some examples include International
Capital Markets Association Climate Transition
Finance working group and Asia Pacific Loan
Market Association Green and Sustainable Lending
Committee.
Policy engagement (cont’d)
1. UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative – PRB Nature Target Setting Guidance (November 2023).
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Non-Government
Organisations (NGOs)Thought leadership
ANZ Hydrogen Handbook 2.0
We want to help our customers develop new
technologies, products, and services to support
the emerging hydrogen economy. To assist
our customers, we launched ANZ Hydrogen
Handbook 2.0, which provides an update on
the global market for hydrogen and its adoption
as both an energy source and feedstock into
industrial processes.
Released in March, the handbook provides a
useful resource for understanding hydrogen
and the opportunities it could provide
businesses in the transition to net-zero
emissions. ANZ is a member of the Australian
We work cooperatively and engage in regular
dialogue with NGOs and civil society on a range
of topics that relate to climate and nature. This
enables us to understand perspectives from
external stakeholders and build our knowledge.
Direct NGO engagement this year included regular
meetings with some of the leading environmental
NGO groups in Australia, and internationally,
covering our climate policies, climate risks and
opportunities and nature.
We also run a regular program of CEO and
senior executive meetings with civil society leaders
including environmental NGOs, government,
regulators, and academics to build the knowledge
of our senior executives across ESG topics.
We also play a role in sharing research
and insights, enabling cross-industry
collaboration and support, to help the
economy to transition to net zero.
Putting energy efficiency to
work for Business
ANZ and the Energy Efficiency Council (EEC)
1
again collaborated to launch a second report in
the Forgotten Fuel series Putting energy efficiency
to work for Business in 2024, looking at the steps
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can
take to unlock the benefits of energy efficiency.
The Forgotten Fuel series is the result of a
collaboration between ANZ and the EEC, to
explore how businesses and households can
benefit from using energy efficiency as a tool for
emissions reduction.
Energy efficiency, electrification and renewables
are the critical ‘tools in the toolbox’ for SMEs who
want to lower their energy bills and their emissions.
These solutions have a role to play in every
sector, but different industries require different
approaches when deploying these tools to save
money and emissions.
For further information, please refer to Putting
energy efficiency to work for Business.
1. The EEC is the peak body for Australia’s energy management sector.
Image source: Robyn Johnston, celebrating 50 years in Singapore customer event.
Hydrogen Council (AHC), the peak body for
the Australian Hydrogen Industry. The above
publication follows the release of the ‘The ANZ
Hydrogen Handbook – AH2’ in 2022.
Climate insights for business
This year ANZ Bank New Zealand published
a report in our Business Insights series,
The greening of commercial property in
New Zealand, which discusses the impact
of climate transition on New Zealand’s built
environment and provides insights to help
building owners assess the impacts of lower
emission properties for their businesses.
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Risk Management
In November 2023, the Board Risk
Committee (BRC) approved climate
risk as a material risk within ANZ
Group’s RMF. Climate risk is also
considered to be a driver of other
risks within our RMF.
The CRO, Institutional is the designated ‘Material
Risk Owner’ of climate risk. Supported by a
dedicated Climate Risk Team, we are working to
integrate and embed climate risk in ANZ Group’s
RMF. It is anticipated that this will be a multi-
year journey, recognising the complexities and
challenges that arise from an evolving regulatory
landscape, limitations on the availability of, and
access to, reliable and consistent data, and the
need to, uplift systems, tools, and capability
across the Group.
This year we have been focused on
delivering foundational risk initiatives,
including:
Establishing a new Climate Risk Standard
for identifying and managing climate risk
(refer to page 45) and climate-related
risk appetite metrics for monitoring
climate risk (refer to page 44).
Embedding our Climate Change Risk
Assessment (CCRA) within the credit
process for certain higher emitting
customers in our Institutional division,
and exploring enhancements, such
as the use of generative Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
Preparing for mandatory climate
disclosure (in relevant jurisdictions)
(refer to page 49).
Leveraging learnings from ANZ Bank
New Zealand to progress the
development of Group-wide capability
to undertake geospatial physical risk
assessments for certain priority
portfolios and sectors (refer to page 50).
How is ANZ exposed to
climate risks?
ANZ Group is exposed to climate risk either
directly through its operations or indirectly,
for example, through lending to customers.
Climate risk may also be a driver of other
risks within our RMF. Our most material
climate risks arise from lending to business
and retail customers, which contributes to
credit risk.
In 2024, we qualitatively assessed the potential
impacts of climate risk across a subset of ANZ
Group’s material risk categories
1
. Examples
of potential impacts to our most material risk
categories
1
, including how we manage this risk,
have been outlined in table 2.1. We plan to expand
on this assessment in 2025.
1. Further detail on our risk types is available in the Risk
Management section of our 2024 Annual Report available
at anz.com/annualreport.
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Material riskDescriptionExamples of potential impactsManaging the risk
Financial Risk
Credit RiskRisk of financial loss resulting
from a counterparty failing to
fulfil its credit obligations, or from
a decrease in credit quality of a
counterparty resulting in a loss in
value.
Customers may be affected by direct climate risks, such as:
• the effect of extreme weather events on a customer’s business
or property, including impacts to the cost and availability of
insurance and insurance exclusions;
• changes to the regulatory and policy environment in which
the customer operates;
• disruption from new technology; and
• changes in demand towards low carbon products and services.
Climate risks may also indirectly affect a customer through impacts
to its supply chain and customer base.
If realised, these risks may affect the ability of customers to repay
debt; which may result in an increased probability of default;
in ‘stranded assets’ and/or impact the amount ANZ is able to
recover due to the value or liquidity of collateral held as security
being impaired.
We manage climate-related credit risks to our customers, including
potential legal and reputational risks, through the application of
certain policies, tools and processes within the credit process.
For further detail, refer to page 47.
Non-Financial Risk
Non-Financial Risk:
Regulatory Risk and
Statutory Reporting
and Tax Risk
1
Risk of failure to act in accordance
with laws, regulations and regulatory
expectations, including statutory
reporting and tax filing/reporting
requirements in the jurisdictions in
which we operate.
Climate-related legislation and regulatory change is evolving at pace
and one of our priorities is to ensure that we maintain compliance in
the 29 markets in which we operate.
In Australia, climate-related disclosures were mandated through
amendments to the Corporations Act 2001 in September 2024.
Under the new law, ANZ Group is required to report in accordance
with the regime from the financial year commencing 1 October 2025.
Further ANZ Bank New Zealand and ANZ New Zealand Investments
Limited are Climate Reporting Entities (CRE) under the Financial
Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA)
2
.
Non-compliance with relevant climate and environmental risk
regulations and legislation could lead to penalties, increased
regulatory oversight, capital overlays and reputational impacts.
ANZ Group has built a Group-wide Non-Financial Risk Framework
and the assessment, identification and management of climate risk
has been integrated into the framework.
We are working with teams in other jurisdictions, in which we
operate, that are affected by emerging and maturing regulations,
to oversee and support them in developing their approach to
compliance.
In 2024, ANZ Group established a Group-wide Climate Program to
help us meet our mandatory climate disclosure requirements. For
more details refer to page 49.
ANZ Bank New Zealand Climate and Environmental Sustainability
Programme (CESP’s) Steering Committee and key stakeholders,
are facilitating New Zealand’s mandatory Climate Statement
program delivery.
1. Regulatory Risk and Statutory Reporting and Tax Risk are risk themes under our material risk category of Non-Financial Risk. 2. See page 4 About this report section for further detail.
Table 2.1: Potential impacts of climate risk across a subset of ANZ Group’s material risk categories
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Material riskDescriptionExamples of potential impactsManaging the risk
Non-Financial Risk
Non-Financial RIsk:
Conduct Risk
1
Risk of loss or damage arising
from the failure of ANZ Group,
its employees or agents to act in
accordance with customers’ best
interest, fair market practices and
ANZ’s code of conduct.
ANZ Group could be exposed to conduct risk as a result of
greenwashing, which is the practice of misrepresenting the extent
to which an entity, product or strategy is environmentally friendly,
sustainable or ethical. This also includes where an entity is alleged
to have misrepresented its climate risks, business credentials or
strategies. If we are found to have engaged in ‘greenwashing’, this
may lead to legal proceedings, penalties and reputational impacts,
which could lead to a decline in our future earnings.
We seek to manage this risk through transparent disclosure of our
climate-related financial risks, and through our risk management
policies and processes.
Our Conduct Risk Framework and Conduct Risk taxonomy also
facilitates a clear and consistent way of managing and monitoring
the risk.
Further, we seek to manage the potential for conduct risk in this
context by monitoring both our own legal risks and claims brought
against other organisations to better understand emerging trends.
Non-Financial Risk:
Operational Resilience
Risk and Physical
Security Risk
1
Risk of not being able to service
our customers and operate our
processes when a disruption
occurs, including failure of the
business continuity management
framework or damage to assets
owned or maintained by ANZ Group.
ANZ Group operates in 29 markets across Australia, New Zealand,
Asia Pacific, Europe and America. Countries in these regions can be
vulnerable to extreme weather events such as flooding, cyclones
or bushfires.
The occurrence of physical risk events, including natural disasters,
may result in damage to ANZ Group’s physical assets or impact our
ability to service our customers and operate our processes.
Physical risks to our operations are identified, assessed, and
managed through ongoing application of our Non-Financial Risk
Framework (NFR). ANZ Group’s Business Continuity and Disaster
Recovery Plans are also in place to support alternative banking
arrangements for the communities affected.
How ANZ is exposed to,
and manages, nature risks
Nature is classified as an emerging risk to
ANZ under our RMS. We acknowledge the
need to protect and restore nature and mitigate
biodiversity loss including as a result of species
extinction or decline, or ecosystem degradation
and nature loss (see pages 33-35).
We consider that our most material nature
risks can arise from lending to customers that
have material impacts or dependencies on
nature. These risks can also arise from legal
and regulatory changes, which may impact
ANZ Group directly or indirectly through our
customers. Failure to manage these risks may
lead to financial and non-financial risks to us.
We manage nature-related credit risks to
our customers, including potential legal and
reputational risks, through the application of
certain policies, tools and processes within the
credit process on page 47.
For information on how we manage nature risk
within our Social and Environmental Risk Policy,
refer to page 46.
1. Conduct Risk, Operational Resilience Risk and Physical Security Risk are risk themes under our material risk category of Non-Financial Risk.
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Risk Management Approach
Our Risk Management
Framework (RMF)
ANZ Group has a robust RMF to help
identify, measure, evaluate, monitor, report,
and control or mitigate its material risks.
With Climate Risk now recognised as a
material risk, its management is embedded
within our RMF. ANZ’s Risk Management
Strategy (RMS), Risk Appetite Statement
(RAS) and the Risk Principles, guide our
strategy, governance, oversight and
monitoring of climate risk.
The RMS has been updated to include a
description of climate risk, how its governed and
our approach to managing and overseeing it.
The RAS has also been updated to include
climate risk and conveys the maximum level of
risk that ANZ Group is willing to accept. The RAS
now includes a high level qualitative statement
as well as quantitative metrics and tolerances.
Two new climate risk appetite metrics have
been established reflecting our policy position
for lending to certain thermal coal mining and
upstream oil and gas customers. We will seek
to continue to enhance our risk appetite metrics
as we evolve our work on climate risk or as the
external risk environment evolves.
In addition, we have identified two climate risk
indicator metrics to help us monitor alignment
with our public target to fund and facilitate at
least $100 billion in social and environmental
activities through customer transactions and
direct investments by ANZ Group
1
, and our
approach to seek improved customer transition
plan ratings for customers in our LEEP.
In our Institutional division, our risk appetite
is informed by ANZ Group’s Climate Change
Commitment for certain priority sectors, which
is reflected in the relevant sector-level lending
criteria documents.
Our Risk Principles support the RMF and outline
behaviours and practices that are expected to be
applied to guide management of our material risks
(including Climate Risk) and instil an appropriate
risk culture across ANZ Group.
Further detail on our RMF is available in the Risk
Management section our 2024 Annual Report
available at anz.com/annualreport
1. Important information about eligibility requirements for the target is set out in the Social and Environmental Target Methodology
available here: anz.com.au/esgreport
Enhancing our approach to
monitoring climate regulation
Building on work undertaken in 2023 to assess
regulatory expectations across key jurisdictions
in w
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