ES&A opened its first Australian branch in
Sydney in 1853. Australian banknotes were printed by the bank and issued at branches in Sydney,
Adelaide,
Hobart, and
Melbourne. In 1893 its business was renamed the English, Scottish & Australian Bank Limited following a financial upheaval. It was one of 16 banks which supplied blank note forms to the
Australian Government in 1911, which were superscribed as redeemable in gold and issued as the first Commonwealth notes. The
Commercial Bank of Tasmania and the
London Bank of Australia were taken over in 1921 and the
Royal Bank of Australia in 1927. Prominent
South Australian architect
F. Kenneth Milne designed several buildings for the bank before 1929. On 1 October 1970 ES&A merged with the Australia and New Zealand Bank to form the
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited. At the time of the merger ES&A had a network of about 570 branches across Australia.
Esanda Esanda was a consumer finance division of ES&A which began separate operations in 1955. Its name is an
acronym of ES&A. In 2015 ANZ sold Esanda to
Macquarie Group. ==Executive leadership==