Implementation of Scheme of Arrangement to Establish Non-Operating Holding Company

ANZ announces that the scheme of arrangement (Scheme) to establish ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ANZ NOHC) as the new listed parent company of the ANZ group has been implemented today, 3 January 2023.

ANZ NOHC is now the listed parent company of the ANZ group.

Eligible ANZ shareholders have received one ANZ NOHC share for each ANZ share they held. The Scheme has not changed the number of shares you hold in ANZ.

ANZ shareholders who are ineligible foreign shareholders did not receive ANZ NOHC shares. Instead, these shareholders will receive the cash proceeds of the sale of the ANZ NOHC shares by the sale agent. There are 1,838,105 ANZ NOHC shares attributable to ineligible foreign shareholders that will be sold by the sale agent.

It is expected that on 4 January 2023:

• ANZ NOHC shares will commence normal trading on the ASX and NZX; and
  
• ANZ regulatory capital securities quoted for trading on the ASX will commence normal trading under their new ASX codes.

ANZ NOHC shares will trade on the ASX and NZX under the familiar ‘ANZ’ code. ANZ NOHC shares will also have the same ISIN as ANZ ordinary shares before implementation of the Scheme (AU000000ANZ3).

The new ASX codes for the ANZ regulatory capital securities quoted for trading on the ASX are set out in the table below.

Now that the Scheme has been implemented, ANZ will undertake the business restructure to separate ANZ’s banking and certain non-banking business into two groups.

Further information can be found on ANZ’s website www.anz.com/shareholder/centre/.

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