ANZ starts financial literacy training

By MAZIE SELMBIA
THE Australia New Zealand (ANZ) Bank has implemented its flagship financial literacy programme, with a one-week training beginning in Lae this week.
“It’s our flagship financial literacy programme that we run across the ANZ network in 28 countries,” Halstead said ANZ Bank managing director Lachlan Halstead.
Globally, it has been facilitated to more than 927,000 participants. In PNG, there about 10,528 participants so far.
The programme was originally written by ANZ and approved by the New South Wales Education Department, with the support of Non-Government Organisations.
Training for the PNG ANZ money-minded programme began at the Lae International Hotel.
Present to roll out the programme were Halstead and programme lead trainer Kevani Geita.
Geita said the financial literacy programme was created by ANZ Australia in 2002 to address social economic issues in the indigenous communities.
“The programme is free because it sits on our corporate responsibility platforms due to the bank having three strategies – the environment, housing and financial welfare,” Geita said.
She said participants were tracked for their annual reports through their in-house impact report.
“The programme is built in a way that it empowers you to be financially independent, and helps you do informed decisions around the way we behave with money.”