Westpac
Sign in to saveAlso known as Westpac Banking Corporation, WBC, Western Pacific, Western-Pacific, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION, Westpac Banking Corp
Westpac Banking Corporation, also known as Westpac, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered at Westpac Place in Sydney.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Westpac Banking Corporation
- Company.image
- Westpac Place 2.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 180px
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters at Westpac Place in Sydney
- Company.type
- Public company
- Company.predecessor
- Bank of New South WalesCommercial Bank of Australia
- Company.foundation
- (as the Bank of New South Wales) (as Westpac Banking Corporation)
- Company.location
- Westpac Place Sydney, Australia
- Company.key_people
- Steven Gregg, chair Anthony Miller, CEO
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.industry
- Financial services
- Company.operating_income
- A$22.38 billion (2025)
- Company.net_income
- 6.93 billion (2025)
- Company.assets
- 1.13 trillion (2025)
- Company.equity
- 73.09 billion (2025)
- Company.num_employees
- 35,236 (2025)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION
- Employees
- 37032
- Official website
- www.westpac.com.au
- Image
- Westpac Place 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Westpac
- inception
- 1982-10-00
- location information URL
- www.westpac.com.au/locateus
- social media followers
- 59476
- market capitalization
- 82066398745
- official jobs URL
- ebuu.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX
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32 sectionsContents
- History
- Executive leadership
- Chief executives
- Chairs of the board
- Core business activities
- Consumer Bank
- Business Bank
- BT
- Westpac Institutional Bank
- Westpac New Zealand
- ATM Alliance
- Westpac Migrant Banking
- Westpac Pacific
- Westpac Outstanding Women Awards
- Banking Alliance for Women
- Reinventure
- Corporate responsibility
- Controversies
- US Federal Reserve borrowings
- Funding of coal mining in New Zealand
- Financial misconduct
- Manipulation of benchmark interest rates
- Money laundering and child exploitation scandal
- Unsolicited sales campaign
- String of misconduct cases
- Insider trading and interest swap allegations
- Home loans misconduct
- Westpac New Zealand
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Westpac Banking Corporation, also known as Westpac, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered at Westpac Place in Sydney.
Established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales, it acquired the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1981 before being renamed to Westpac Banking Corporation in 1982. Westpac is one of Australia's Big Four banks, and is Australia's first and oldest banking institution. Its name is a portmanteau of "Western" and "Pacific".