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The English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited was an Australian bank founded in 1852 by

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and named English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank. Following a financial reconstruction in 1893 its business was renamed English, Scottish and Australian Bank Limited. Known to all as ES&A it merged with ANZ on 1 October 1970 to form

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History

ES&A opened its first Australian branch in

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in 1853. Australian banknotes were printed by the bank and issued at branches in Sydney,

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and

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. In 1893 its business was renamed the English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited following a financial upheaval. It was one of 16 banks which supplied blank note forms to the Australian Government in 1911 which were superscribed as redeemable in gold and issued as the first Commonwealth notes. The Commercial Bank of Tasmania and the

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were taken over in 1921 and the Royal Bank of Australia in 1927. On 1 October 1970 ES&A merged with the Australia and New Zealand Bank to form the

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Limited. At the time of the merger ES&A had a network of about 570 branches across Australia.

Esanda

Esanda Esanda was an Australian finance company. Founded in 1955 by the English, Scottish & Australian Bank, it became a subsidiary of the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group in 1987. The brand was retired in 2019. History Esanda was established in ...

was a consumer finance division of ES&A which began separate operations in 1955. Its name is an

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of ES&A. In 2015 ANZ sold Esanda to

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Notable staff

Charles Wren became the accountant and branch inspector for South Australia in 1881. He moved to Melbourne in 1888 as inspector's accountant. He was appointed resident inspector in New South Wales in 1901, and became the bank's Australasian general manager in July 1909.

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