在新加坡澳洲商会举办的一次活动中，澳大利亚西太平洋银行（ANZ）首席执行官艾略特直言不讳地表示，有关“中国作为投资目的地衰败”的忧虑被严重夸大了，他强调在华业务欣欣向荣。“我们的在中国的业务进展得非常顺利。”尽管他也承认，运营这个市场充满“曲折”和“复杂性”，但他依然乐观。艾略特的说法紧随其后的是中国政府近期宣布的一系列经济刺激举措：包括下调利率与股市流动性支持等行动，在全球经济对世界第二大经济体投资前景看法上带来了显著的积极转变。
艾略特强调：“我们周围每一个国家都面临着某些挑战。”他表示，面对市场波动带来的不确定性是银行工作的一部分。“我们在华享受着非常优待对待”，他继续说道，“我们的中国客户群体无论是国营还是私营企业都非常出色。”
在区域业务中，ANZ 的机构部门的显著增长成为了艾略特任期内的一大亮点。不仅如此，他还以约49亿澳元（折合34亿美元）的价格完成了对国内零售银行Suncorp的收购行动。而在近期，其交易部门却面临收入下滑的情况。
谈及上周针对银行内酒后工作事件所采取的措施时，艾略特表示：“当然，这反映了对我们机构的负面影响，并损害了我们的公司利益，我对此负责。因此，后果是必然存在的，并且我们正在处理这些后果的具体形式。”他强调，改变企业文化需要时间，“它不仅仅是领导者的口令、海报宣传或培训计划所能奏效的”。艾略特表示：“我们要做的是在长期内实施一系列干预措施和变革。”
新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：China Fears Are ‘Massively Overblown,’ ANZ CEO Elliott Says
新闻日期：2024-10-02
原文摘要：
Chief Executive Officer said fears about the “demise of China” as an investment destination are “massively overblown,” with the bank seeing brisk business in the country.“Our business in China is going great,” Elliott said at an AustCham Singapore event on Wednesday, even as he admitted that operating there is “bumpy” and “complicated.”The ANZ chief made the comments less than a week after China announced a slew of including interest-rate cuts and liquidity support for stocks to spur a slowing economy, that triggered a dramatic recovery in equity markets and changed the global consensus on the investability of the world’s second-largest economy. “Every single country in our neighborhood has got some complications going on,” said Elliott, adding that bearing with volatility as a bank is “just what we do.”“We continue to be treated extraordinarily well in China,” Elliott said. “We’ve got amazing Chinese customers, state-owned and private.”Most of ANZ’s Asia Pacific business is through institutional banking and its international return-on-equity has grown to mid-teens, from around 3% when Elliott became CEO more than eight years ago. He said in March that Australia’s fourth-largest lender aims to expand its presence in India, Vietnam and in China — where it has around 300 employees — to keep pace with the growing needs of its clients there.Read More: ANZ’s institutional division’s boom in the region has been among Elliott’s top achievements during his tenure along with the bank’s A$4.9 billion ($3.4 billion) takeover of retail lender Suncorp Bank at home, though those achievements have recently been overshadowed recently by a in ANZ’s trading arm.He told Bloomberg Television on Monday that banning alcohol at the bank, for example, following complaints of inebriated staff on the trading floor, would be with most of its employees dealing with clients.“Ultimately, of course, you know, this reflects badly on the organization. It’s impacted our company and I’m accountable for that. And so yes, there are consequences and we’ll work through what those consequences will look like,” Elliott said at the Wednesday event. “You can’t change culture overnight. It’s not about what the boss says or on a poster or the training programs. Basically what we’re doing is a series of interventions and change over long, long period of time,” he added.
