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Corporate Responsibility

Engaging our clients

Helping Clients Address Potential Risks

ANZ's Client Screening process doesn't just identify risks as a potential lender. It also identifies opportunities for the client to improve their management of environmental and social issues, mitigating the risks these issues pose to the client's business if left unresolved.

How We Engage with Clients

Where social and environmental issues are raised as part of the screening process, we identify specific actions the client should complete to manage those issues. These actions become part of the terms of any product or service provided by ANZ.

We monitor developments and keep in touch with the client, as well as any stakeholders who contact us with concerns about the client or transaction.

We believe this is a key role for financial institutions, and one which can add value for our clients. Companies committed to continuous improvement in their management of social, ethical and environmental issues are more likely to be sustainable in the long term, and therefore maximise shareholder value.

This is an important role for a bank, but also a challenging one. We can never meet the expectations of all our stakeholders all the time. However, what we can do is be as transparent as possible with our stakeholders about our objectives and the principles upon which we base our decisions.

There will be some situations where we cannot work with a client to manage social and environmental issues. Where the client is unable or unwilling to address the risks identified by ANZ, or where the risks identified cannot be managed in accordance with ANZ's principles, the product or service will be declined.