ASB Bank

ASB Bank Limited
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryBanking
Financial services
Investment services
Founded5 June 1847; 177 years ago (5 June 1847) (as Auckland Savings Bank)
Headquarters,
New Zealand
Area served
New Zealand
Key people
Vittoria Shortt, CEO[1]
Products
RevenueIncrease NZ$1.607 billion (2011) [2]
Total assetsIncrease NZ$63.5 billion (2012)[3]
Number of employees
4907 (2018)
ParentCommonwealth Bank of Australia
SubsidiariesSovereign Limited
BankDirect
Websitewww.asb.co.nz
A branch in Ponsonby, Auckland

ASB Bank Limited, commonly stylised as ASB, is a bank owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, operating in New Zealand. It provides a range of financial services including retail, business and rural banking, funds management, as well as insurance through its Sovereign Limited subsidiary, and investment and securities services through its ASB Group Investments and ASB Securities divisions. ASB also operated BankDirect, a branchless banking service that provided service via phone, online, EFTPOS and ATMs only. [4]

  1. ^ "ASB announces Vittoria Shortt as new Chief Executive". ASB Bank. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  2. ^ "ASB Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Asb.co.nz. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  3. ^ "ASB Sustainability Report 2012" (PDF). Asb.co.nz. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
  4. ^ Pullar-Strecker, Tom (29 August 2017). "It's no longer time to BankDirect". Stuff. Retrieved 17 November 2024. ASB Bank will close its internet and phone banking offshoot BankDirect and migrate its customers – who now number fewer than 10,000 – to ASB proper.