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At the time of the merger, Metway Bank had approximately $7.1 billion in assets. It was established as the Metropolitan Permanent Building Society in 1959. In 1988, it converted to bank status and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). The Queensland State Government proposed the merger of the three companies to create a more ...
Suncorp Group Limited, known simply as Suncorp, is an Australian finance, insurance and banking corporation based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.It was formed on 1 December 1996 by the merger of Suncorp, Metway Bank and the Queensland Industry Development Corporation (QIDC), and is one of Australia's mid-sized banks (by combined lending and deposits) and its largest general insurance group.
In 1959, he left the bank to establish and manage several "terminating" building societies, which provided finance to enable people to buy a home.Prominent among these was the Town & Country Building Society (T&CBS), founded by him and his son Malcolm and friend Bob McKerrow, [2] in 1964 with capital of £100,000, [3] [4] the first permanent building society to be established in Western ...
Australian Settlements Limited [9] Sydney: 1993: Australian Unity Bank [10] Melbourne: 1840 Subsidiary of Australian Unity Limited Auswide Bank (formerly Wide Bay Building Society) Bundaberg: 1966: Avenue Bank: Sydney: 2021 [11] Bank Australia (previously Members and Education Credit Union & Bankmecu) Melbourne: 1957: Customer-Owned [12 ...
Irish Civil Service (Permanent) Building Society (1874–1969) acquired City and County Permanent Benefit Building Society, 1932. Irish Civil Service Building Society (1969–1984) acquired O'Connell Benefit Building Society, 1983: 1984 subsidiary of Bank of Ireland renamed ICS Building Society (1986) Workingman's Benefit Building Society (−1960)
James Munro (7 January 1832 – 25 February 1908) was a Scottish born Australian businessman and colonial politician, and the 15th Premier of Victoria. [1] [2] He is best known as one of the leading figures in the land boom of the 1880s and especially the subsequent crash of the early 1890s, where his Christian morals were seen to clash with his business activities.
The two titles were converted to a single title at the beginning of 1904. The new building for the Bank of Australasia was designed by Edward E Raht, an architect from New York who arrived in Australia in July 1891. The Equitable Life Assurance Society had sent out from America their distinguished New York architect, Raht (born in Austria).
Raymond James O'Connor (6 March 1926 – 25 February 2013) was an Australian politician who served as the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 to 25 February 1983. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1959 to 1984, and a minister in the governments of David Brand and Charles Court .