Active

Lloyds, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale among the poorest performers in BankTrack ranking, alongside Canadian and Chinese banks

4 out of 5 banks failing on human rights, new BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark shows

2019-11-26 | BankTrack

National Australia Bank’s new climate policy an exercise in greenwash

Too little, too late

2019-11-15 | Market Forces

2019-11-06 | The Guardian

ANZ and Westpac boosted new lending to fossil fuel projects last year, figures show

2019-10-10 | Melbourne, Australia | Market Forces

NAB, ANZ and Westpac hit with climate risk shareholder resolutions

2019-10-10 | The Australian Financial Review

Big Australian banks face shareholder vote on coal lending

2019-06-25 | Nijmegen | BankTrack

BankTrack 2019 Human Rights Benchmark: criteria and scope announced

2019-03-20 | Financial Review

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority demands banks, insurers act on climate risk

2019-02-04 | The Advocate

Our Future: Clean energy a test for banks’ rehabilitation

Few banks acknowledge relation between fossil fuels and climate breakdown

Banks massively financing fossil fuels unclear about future of ... fossil fuels

2018-12-20 | Nijmegen | Claire Hamlett – BankTrack

Statement by Inclusive Development International And Equitable Cambodia for the ANZ Banking Group Annual General Meeting

ANZ Declines to ‘Do the Right Thing’ for Displaced Cambodian Farmers

2018-12-19 | Equitable Cambodia, Inclusive Development International

2018-10-11 | Inclusive Development International

ANZ bank issued rare rebuke by Australian oversight body

2018-05-31 | The Guardian

Australian inquiry slams greedy banks and regulator for rampant misconduct

Big four banks quit coal only to invest in other fossil fuels, research finds

2018-05-31 | The Guardian

Big four banks quit coal only to invest in other fossil fuels, research finds

2018-05-31 | Melbourne | Market Forces

New research: Australian banks 2ºC scorecard 2018

2017-11-15 | Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Profundo

New report: Towards responsible and inclusive financing of the palm oil sector

Bank support for FSB Task Force recommendations is welcome, but reveals lack of joined-up thinking

TCFD: banks supporting better disclosure are not the ones exiting coal project finance

2017-07-31 | Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack, Yann Louvel – BankTrack

2017-07-25 | Environmental Finance

'Big four' Australian banks slammed for fossil fuel backing

- Oil traders Trafigura and Vitol received over $100 billion in loans since 2012
- Of 26 banks contacted, not one has pressured companies over toxic fuel exports to Africa

Banks provide billions for Dirty Diesel traders while failing to act on human rights, says new briefing

2017-05-23 | Nijmegen | BankTrack

2017-03-16 | Energy Desk Greenpeace

Standard Chartered and other major banks financing palm oil

Pheun Ra, 42, was visiting her mother in hospital when security guards from the ANZ bank-financed Phnom Penh Sugar Company arrived at her small plot of land in Cambodia's south.

Victims put pressure on ANZ over the loss of their land

Adani coalmine: ANZ chief suggests bank would not finance Carmichael project

2016-12-17 | The Guardian

2016-11-22 | The Sydney Morning Herald

Banks' climate change talk not yet matched by action

2016-11-14 | Marrakech, Morocco | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth France, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network, urgewald

Financing of coal industry expansion by top banks undermining Paris Agreement

2016-09-15 | Melbourne | Market Forces

New polling shows half of customers prepared to change banks over fossil fuels – as prominent Australians demand climate action

Financial sector under the spotlight in new international push to protect forests and forest communities

New online platform reveals banks and investors financing companies linked to tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia

2016-09-06 | Singapore | Rainforest Action Network

Oxfam Australia release "Still Banking on Land Grabs"

New poll: Australians draw the line at badly behaving banks

2016-02-15 | Melbourne | Oxfam Australia

2015-10-06 | Rrenew Economy

ANZ makes climate commitment, but labelled ‘satirical’, ineffective

2015-10-06 | The Guardian

ANZ 'will not finance' dirty coal plants and pledges $10bn for clean energy

2015-10-06 | Melbourne | Market Forces

ANZ climate change policy leaves open the door for real leadership

2015-10-05 | The Australian Financial Review

No lifelines for old coal clunkers: ANZ shifts carbon emissions policy

2015-08-07 | Oxfam Australia

No excuse: How Australia’s big four banks can better respond to land grabs

ANZ confirmed as Australia’s biggest fossil fuel lender

Australian banks: New Report highlights gulf between renewable and fossil fuel financing

2015-06-18 | Melbourne | Market Forces

2015-06-17 | The Guardian

Australian banks 'favour fossil fuel projects over renewables by $6 to $1'

New research finds inadequate reporting on human rights impacts, and failure to establish mechanisms to allow complaints.

Banks not yet living up to UN human rights principles, finds BankTrack

2014-12-02 | Geneva | BANKTRACK

2014-10-20 | Melboune | Market Forces

Hundreds publicly close bank accounts over fossil fuel investments

Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab

2014-10-08 | Phnom Penh

2014-10-07 | Inclusive Development

Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab

2014-08-15 | The Cambodia Daily

ANZ Refuses to Help Evictees of Senator’s Farm

2014-07-09 | The Sydney Morning Herald

Australian banks face more pressure over support for coal projects

2014-05-03 | Melbourne | Market Forces

Big Four Australian banks lose customers over fossil fuel gamble

2014-05-02 | The Sydney Morning Herald

Customers switch banks in day of divestment

Bank accounts closed in fossil fuels protest

2014-04-28 | Sydney | Oxfam Australia

Australian banks backing companies accused of land grabs

2014-02-26 | Melbourne and Paris | Market Forces and Les Amis de la Terre

Australian and French banks target of protests on both sides of the world for investing in Australian coal projects

2014-01-23 | Syndey | The Age

ANZ ethics under scrutiny over Cambodian sugar plantation loan

2013-10-26 | Melbourne | Market Forces

ANZ customers divest in Melbourne!

2013-09-13 | Nijmegen | BankTrack

“Sustainable” badge for Bank of America stretches credibility of Dow Jones Sustainability Index

2013-06-28 | Melbourne | Market Forces

Sixty prominent Australians call on ‘big four’ banks to end fossil fuel investment

Finanial analysis of GVK Alpha Coal Project in Queensland's Galilee Basin concludes

Investor Alert: GVK's US$10 billion Australian coal project uneconomic, an unacceptable risk

2013-06-19 | Sydney | Greenpeace

2013-05-31 | Melbourne | Market Forces

ANZ biggest gambler on dirty coal and gas exports

2013-05-02 | Brisbane | Market Forces

Report triggers campaign to prevent Australian fossil fuel investment

2013-02-07 | Business Review Weekly

Sustainability in the spotlight keeps banks on guard against greenwash

2012-08-13 | Environmental Finance

Equator Principles goes beyond project finance, improves transparency

2011-10-25 | Washington | prizmablog.com

While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning

2011-10-24 | Washington | Social Funds

Time to Improve the Equator Principles, BankTrack Says

Equator Principles update must lead to new Principles focused on people and planet

BankTrack to Equator Principles banks; ‘get the Outside Job done’

2011-10-23 | Washington | BankTrack

2011-10-20 | Washington | Environmental Finance

Financiers search for sustainable future

More than 100,000 people continue to suffer project impacts

Big banks 'no' to coal plant

Nam Theun 2 inauguration hides real costs of controversial Equator Principles project

2010-12-07 | Laos | International Rivers

2010-12-07 | Bangkok | Inter Press Service

World Bank-backed dam powers ahead, despite social cost

2010-12-06 | Australia | BusinessDay

ANZ turns its back on cluster bombs

Insights

Greenpeace targets 'coal backing' ANZ

2010-10-19 | ABC News

2010-10-19 | Sydney, Australia | Greenpeace Australia

Greenpeace illuminates ANZ as Australia's dirtiest bank

2010-10-02 | Sydney, Australia | The Syndey morning herald

Banks being urged to lend 'green'

2010-10-02 | Sydney, Australia | The Sydney morning herald

Banks under scrutiny over coal funding

ANZ hit with $50m suit over fees

2010-09-23 | BusinessDay

2010-09-10 | Tasmania | Wilderness Society et al.

Environment groups welcome Gunns’ frank assessment on native forests

Villages make way for new hydro project

2010-08-05 | Vientiane

New governance rules represent missed chance for Equator Principles to take bold steps forward on transparency and accountability

New rules for Equator Principles, but no new commitments from banks

2010-07-01 | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | BankTrack

Defiant forest communities announce they will continue to fight the Samling corporation's activities within the

Penan score victory as logging road blockades halt timber giant's encroachment on their rainforests

2010-04-26 | Long Sabai, Sarawak, Malaysia

Equator Principles project begins selling power to Thailand in violation of Concession Agreement and obligations to affected communities

Laos’ Nam Theun 2 dam operation illegal

2010-03-23 | Laos | International Rivers

BankTrack calls upon Citi, new chair of Equator Principles to take bold steps forward

Equator Principles: Action, not words needed

2010-03-15 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | BankTrack

Major reforms needed on transparency, accountability, implementation and climate change

Civil society groups call for bold steps forward with Equator Principles

2010-01-14 | Nijmegen | BankTrack

2010-01-05 | London | Tradingmarkets.com

DJ Archipelago Resources Names 3 Banks For Toka Tindung Finance

2009-12-08 | Vientiane, Laos | International Rivers

Theun Hinboun hydropower plant expansion progresses

ANZ Pressured to End Loans to Munitions Maker

2009-12-02 | Cambodia

By Mark Zirnsak, Sydney Morning Herald

Banks must prove they give a dam

2009-11-27 | Australia | International Rivers

2009-11-27 | The Age, BusinessDay

Banks must prove they give a dam

ANZ, BNP Paribas and KBC investment in Theun-Hinboun dam violates Equator Principles and Lao law

"Sustainable Finance" undermines food security of Lao communities

2009-11-17 | Laos | International Rivers

2009-11-13 | (English translation with Google-translate of Norwegian article) | Tekniskukeblad

Must be forced to move 4000 indigenous

Statkrafts vannkraftprosjekt i Laos vil få alvorlige følger for over 50 000 mennesker, og 4000 urfolk blir tvangsflyttet, ifølge internasjonale organisasjoner.

Må tvangsflytte 4000 urfolk

2009-11-13 | Norway | International Rivers

Activists call on banks and pension funds to disinvest from banned weapon

Top financial institutions still invest US$20 billion in cluster bombs

2009-10-29 | London | Netwerk Vlaanderen

Other banks urged to abstain from the project

NGOs Welcome ANZ Decision Not to Finance Gunns Poposed Pulp Mill

2008-05-28 | Tasmania, Australia and Netherlands | The Wilderness Society

2007-09-18 | the Netherlands, Tasmania | The Wilderness Society

New ANZ CEO Mr Smith asked to not finance Gunns pulp mill Tasmania

Gunns mill go-ahead depends on approval procedure below third world standards

ANZ risks Equator Principles violation

2007-03-27 | Tasmania, Australia | The Wilderness Society

Decision provides false reassurance to ABN AMRO, Standard Chartered, ANZ and other financiers

Strong criticism on Reopening Lafayette Rapu Rapu mine Philippines

2007-02-09 | Manila, Utrecht | Defend Patrimony, Greenpeace and BankTrack

2006-08-23 | Australia and Papua New Guinea | Rainforest Action Network

NGOs lodge complaint against ANZ Bank for PNG illegal logging ties

Documents

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Type:

Year:

2019-03-26 00:00:00 | ANZ

2019-03-26 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

Date listed represents date as accessed on website

2019-03-26 00:00:00

Code of conduct and ethics

2019-03-26 00:00:00 | ANZ

2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission

2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-1

2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission

2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-2

2019-02-01 00:00:00 | Royal Commission

2019-02-01 00:00:00

Final Report Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry-3

2018-12-18 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-12-18 00:00:00

2018 Sustainability Review

2nd response to October 29th letter

2018-12-17 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to BankTrack and OECDWatch on ANCP report regarding Phnom Penh Sugar

2018-12-17 00:00:00 | ANZ

Aotearoa’s financial ties to the fossil fuel industry

2018-11-26 00:00:00

Bankrolling the climate crisis

2018-11-26 00:00:00 | 350.org New Zealand

2018-11-22 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-11-22 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement 2018

Response to October 29th letter

2018-11-08 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to BankTrack and OECDWatch on ANCP report regarding Phnom Penh Sugar

2018-11-08 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-10-29 00:00:00 | BankTrack and OECD Watch

2018-10-29 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and OECD Watch to ANZ on Compensation for Families Displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar

2018-10-16 00:00:00 | BankTrack and 120 organisations

2018-10-16 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack and 120 organisations to ANZ on Demands FBNT campaign

2018-10-01 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-10-01 00:00:00

Approach to human rights

2018-09-30 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-09-30 00:00:00

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy

2018-07-31 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-07-31 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policy

2018-05-31 00:00:00 | Market Forces

2018-05-31 00:00:00

2° Scorecard - Are Australia's big four banks living up to their climate commitments?

2018-04-26 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-04-26 00:00:00

Annual Report 2017

2018-04-26 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-04-26 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2017

2018-02-28 00:00:00 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

2018-02-28 00:00:00

How banks contribute to human rights violations: responses to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

2018-01-15 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-01-15 00:00:00

Letter from ANZ to Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, BankTrack on How banks contribute to human rights violations

2017-12-14 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-12-14 00:00:00

Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

2017-08-25 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-08-25 00:00:00

Code of Conduct

2017-05-23 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-05-23 00:00:00

Annual Report 2016

2017-05-23 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-05-23 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Report 2016

2017-01-31 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK & Profundo

2017-01-31 00:00:00

Sime Darby urged to resolve long-standing land rights conflict before stock exchange listing of its plantation division

How HSBC is financing forest destruction for palm oil

2017-01-17 00:00:00

Dirty Bankers

2017-01-17 00:00:00 | Greenpeace

2016-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-12-16 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Practice

2016-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-11-17 00:00:00

Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy

2016-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-09-23 00:00:00

Health and Safety Policy

our publications

2016-06-30 00:00:00

Banking with Principles? Second Edition June 2016

Benchmarking Banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

2016-06-30 00:00:00 | BankTrack

2015-12-08 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-12-08 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2015

2015-11-09 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-11-09 00:00:00

Annual Report 2015

2015-10-18 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-10-18 00:00:00

Information about ANZ's forestry and forests policy

2015-10-05 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-10-05 00:00:00

Climate change statement

Information about ANZ's energy policy

Information about ANZ's water policy

Information about ANZ's military equipment policy

Information about ANZ's extractives industry policy

Information about ANZ's hydroelectric power policy

2015-02-16 00:00:00 | TuK, Profundo

2015-02-16 00:00:00

Kuasa Taipan Kelapa sawit di Indonesia

in Bahasa Indonesia

2015-02-16 00:00:00 | TuK, Profundo

2015-02-16 00:00:00

Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia - Executive Summary

2014-12-05 00:00:00 | ANZ

2014-12-05 00:00:00

Corporate Social Responsibility Review 2014

our publications

2014-12-02 00:00:00

Banking with Principles?

Benchmarking Banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

2014-12-02 00:00:00 | BankTrack

2014-12-01 00:00:00 | ANZ

2014-12-01 00:00:00

Annual Report 2014

2014-06-27 00:00:00 | International Rivers

2014-06-27 00:00:00

Failure to Restore: An Assessment of the Impacts of the Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Dam Projects on Downstream Communities in Laos

Australia's big four banks and land grabs

2014-04-30 00:00:00

Banking on Shaky Ground

2014-04-30 00:00:00 | Oxfam

2014-01-01 00:00:00 | ANZ

2014-01-01 00:00:00

Corporate Sustainability Review 2013

2013-05-10 00:00:00 | ANZ

2013-05-10 00:00:00

CR Report 2013

Interim Report

2013-02-21 00:00:00 | ANZ

2013-02-21 00:00:00

2012 Annual Report

Right place right time

2013-01-07 00:00:00

Hoax ANZ PR on Maules Creek

2013-01-07 00:00:00

2012-06-20 00:00:00 | IKV Pax Christi & FairFin

2012-06-20 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in Cluster munitions, a shared responsibility

2012-06-14 00:00:00 | ANZ

2012-06-14 00:00:00

Annual report 2011

2012-05-25 00:00:00 | ANZ

2012-05-25 00:00:00

CR Report 2012

Interim report

2012-05-14 00:00:00 | ANZ

2012-05-14 00:00:00

2011 shareholder and corporate responsibility review

2011-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ

2011-11-17 00:00:00

Shareholder and corporate responsibility report 2010

2010-12-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack

2010-12-18 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack to EPFIs on issues around Equator Principles Review process

2010-10-11 00:00:00 | Greenpeace Australia Pacific

2010-10-11 00:00:00

Pillars of pollution

2010-09-07 00:00:00 | Profundo for Greenpeace Australia Pacific

2010-09-07 00:00:00

Australian banks financing coal and renewable energy

our publications

2010-04-27 00:00:00

Close the Gap

Benchmarking investment policies of international banks

2010-04-27 00:00:00 | BankTrack

2010-02-24 00:00:00 | BankTrack, et. al.

2010-02-24 00:00:00

Open Appeal to ANZ, Standard Bank and BNP Paribas: Stay away from the Toka Tindung gold mine on Sulawesi!

2009-10-01 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen, et. al.

2009-10-01 00:00:00

Worldwide investments in CLUSTER MUNITIONS, a shared responsibility

bank documents

2008-07-23 00:00:00

Future Financing Energy

2008-07-23 00:00:00 | ANZ

bank documents

2008-03-25 00:00:00

Future Financing for Forests

2008-03-25 00:00:00 | ANZ

2007-10-25 00:00:00 | WWF-Australia

2007-10-25 00:00:00

WWF statement on ANZ and the Tasmanian pulp mill

Media

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Market Forces interactive map of coal and gas exports projects in Australia

http://www.marketforces.org.au/banks/map/

Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry

https://financialservices.royalcommission.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Policies

Voluntary initiatives

ANZ has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:

Carbon Disclosure Project
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
Equator Principles
Global Reporting Initiative
National Carbon Offset Standard
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
UNEP Finance Initiative
United Nations Global Compact

Investment policies

ANZ's webpage on Corporate Social Responsibility can be seen here. ANZ's Sector Policies can be found here.

Year:

Date listed represents date as accessed on website

2019-03-26 00:00:00

Code of conduct and ethics

2019-03-26 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-11-22 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-11-22 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement 2018

2018-10-01 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-10-01 00:00:00

Approach to human rights

2018-09-30 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-09-30 00:00:00

Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy

2018-07-31 00:00:00 | ANZ

2018-07-31 00:00:00

Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policy

2017-12-14 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-12-14 00:00:00

Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

2017-08-25 00:00:00 | ANZ

2017-08-25 00:00:00

Code of Conduct

2016-12-16 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-12-16 00:00:00

Supplier Code of Practice

2016-11-17 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-11-17 00:00:00

Equal Opportunity, Bullying and Harassment Policy

2016-09-23 00:00:00 | ANZ

2016-09-23 00:00:00

Health and Safety Policy

2015-10-18 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-10-18 00:00:00

Information about ANZ's forestry and forests policy

2015-10-05 00:00:00 | ANZ

2015-10-05 00:00:00

Climate change statement

Information about ANZ's energy policy

Information about ANZ's water policy

Information about ANZ's military equipment policy

Information about ANZ's extractives industry policy

Information about ANZ's hydroelectric power policy

Campaigns

ANZ and the Equator Principles

The Equator Principles are a voluntary commitment of banks to try to avoid or minimise the social, environmental and human rights impact of projects they finance. For more information on the Equator Principles see their website here and the campaign page of BankTrack here.

The Equator Principles exist already since 2003. ANZ adopted the Equator Principles in 2003.

Reporting on the Equator Principles

ANZ must report annually on its implementation of the Equator Principles. All information is supposed to be found here.

ANZ is in compliance with its reporting obligations. The 2018 report can be found here.

Dodgy Deals

ANZ is involved in financing the following Equator Principles projects that BankTrack considers controversial.

There are no projects active for ANZ now.

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project Papua New Guinea

oil and gas

Nam Theun 2 dam Laos

energy plants - dams

Rapu Rapu copper mine Philippines

mining - non coal

Theun-Hinboun dam expansion Laos

energy plants - dams