Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (NZX: ANZ) First Quarter Trading Update and Pillar 3 Support Pack

Thursday 18th February 2021

ANZ today announced an unaudited statutory profit after tax for the first quarter to 31 December 2020 of $1,624 million with an unaudited cash profit from continuing operations of $1,810 million, up 54% on the average of the last two quarters of 2020.

CEO COMMENTARY

ANZ Chief Executive Shayne Elliott said: “This is a strong performance in volatile trading conditions that again highlights the benefits of disciplined execution of our strategy as well as maintaining a simpler and well balanced portfolio of businesses.

“We’re pleased to have achieved these results for shareholders while also helping customers in difficulty and providing the vital lending needed to support the economic recovery. All our major businesses performed well through the quarter with market share gains in our key home loan market in Australia as well as record home loan volumes in New Zealand.

“Our diversified portfolio in Institutional delivered again for shareholders with a strong contribution from our international network. Markets had another solid quarter although revenue was down relative to the historic highs we experienced at the end of last year.

“Margins were up across the group due to higher volume growth in targeted segments and a disciplined and active approach to risk and pricing. The combination drove Group revenue up 4% for the quarter when excluding the impact of our Markets business.

“From an operational perspective, we successfully managed a significant increase in customer and transaction volumes while keeping costs in check and operating with the majority of our employees still working remotely. We have been focussed on costs for many years and we were again able to reduce how much we spent on running the bank while investing in initiatives that will deliver long-term benefits to shareholders. “We again strengthened our capital position resulting in a further increase in net tangible assets per share. “ANZ is well positioned heading into the remainder of 2021 with good momentum in our core activities. The work done to simplify and de-risk the business over the past five years set us up well and we have the capital, liquidity and operational capacity to continue to support our customers and the broader economy through what remains a volatile period,” Mr Elliott said.

Please see the links below for details:

First Quarter Trading Update

1Q21 Trading Update & Pillar 3 Support Pack

APS 330 Pillar 3 Disclosure at 31 December 2020

Transcript of bluenotes interview with CEO

Transcript of podcast with Acting CFO and CRO

Source: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

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