Mortgage Business
Westpac sale of Pacific businesses stymied by ICCC
By Annie Kane
30 July 2021
The major bank has said that it is committed to the sale of its Pacific businesses despite a competition regulator knocking back their proposed acquisition.
In December 2020, Westpac Group announced that it was to sell Westpac Fiji and the bank’s 89.91 per cent stake in Westpac Bank PNG Ltd to Kina Securities Ltd (whose subsidiary Kina Bank bought ANZ’s retail, commercial and SME banking business in 2019).
The Westpac deal was estimated to be around $420 million and is subject to regulatory approvals in both Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG).