Amerika Samoa Bank (ASB) was a financial institution established in 1979 in

American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internationa ...

and the second-largest bank in the territory with a 44 percent market share. At one point, it had one overseas branch in

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that it opened in 1997 to serve

Samoans Samoans or Samoan people ( sm, tagata Sāmoa) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language. The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between t ...

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. In 1999,

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(ANZ) acquired ASB and renamed it ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank (ANZ ASB). The process was completed by 2001. ANZ ASB has two branches in Samoa and 10 ATMs. In 2010, it launched an internet banking service.

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*Tschoegl, A.E. 2005. Foreign Banks in the Pacific: A Note. ''Journal of Pacific History''. Defunct banks of the United States Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Banks established in 1979 Banks based in American Samoa {{Bank-stub