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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jonathan Barrett Business editor

MYSTERIOUS: Anz shareholders reject executive pay plan for second year in a row - You Need To See This

An ANZ logo seen in the window of a bank branch
The ANZ chair, Paul O’Sullivan, defended the bank’s performance at the AGM after a year when it was fined $240m by Asic and cut thousands of jobs. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

ANZ shareholders delivered a “second strike” against the bank’s executive pay plans at a heated annual general meeting on Thursday, amid simmering anger over a string of regulatory breaches that included failing to refund fees charged to thousands of dead customers.

The bank was recently hit with a record $240m in penalties to settle four investigations by the corporate regulator into widespread misconduct that put public funds at risk, and affected tens of thousands of customers.

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