The bank charged fees on dead people’s accounts, ignored hardship notices and misled customers. But over those same three years, ANZ bosses were awarded more than $26m in bonuses.

Now, shareholder proxy firms are waiting until December to see whether bonuses will be cut in response to the record $240m in fines given for ANZ’s widespread misconduct . ANZ bank pays record $240m fine for widespread misconduct: ‘Betrayed the trust of Australians’ Read more

The short-term bonuses, awarded to 11 executives between 2021-22 and 2023-24, have been condemned as indefensible and “completely out of touch” by the Finance Sector Union, which has been assisting some of the 3,500 ANZ staff whose jobs will be cut by next September.

The bonuses have also been criticised by the Greens as an exampl

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