ANZ Executive Retires Months After Tasked to Revamp Bank Culture

(Bloomberg) – Anz Group Holdings Ltd. Mark Evans, the senior executive, retired from banking a few months after he assumed the task of improveing the company’s culture and risk management deficiencies.

In response to the queries of Melbourne -based Bloomberg, Evans, who was appointed as the president of the distribution of non -financial risk program in April in April, left Anz directly to the Chairman of the Executive Board. According to the spokesman, Anz will be in the recruitment process for the role and will be the temporary president of Louise Higgins.

McKinsey & Co., Anz, in April by the banking regulator of $ 250 million (163 million dollars) with the need for capital requirement after a comprehensive investigation. A previous study by consultant Oliver Wyman and the Australian Customer Regulatory Authority has led to a series of executives to increase the risk culture of Anz.

“Improving the bank’s non -financial risk management practices is a fundamental priority for Anz, Söz said Sözcü.

Evans, a former Anz Chief Adaptation officer, recently moved from Singapore to Sydney. He spent three years as the president of the city state and as the president of Southeast Asia, India and Middle East.

The new CEO Nuno Matos said that risk management is among the priorities. The predecessor Shayne Elliott has been disturbed by scandals in the last two years, including an investigation that continues its role in the sales of the company’s government bonds by the securities regulator.

Matos has been a rush of management changes since he started his business in May. The last important outbreaks include Maile Carnegie, Australian Retail President of the Bank, who retired on July 1, and Gerard Florian, the chief of technology retired this week.

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