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The Theories of the International Expansion of Bank and the Performance of Foreign –Owned Bank in New Zealand

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This clearly falls within the Eclectic theory, which accord with internalization incentives which encourage a firm to internalize operations for production to replace the need to utilize markets. The purchase uses some of Westpac’s surplus capital, which might fall with the strand of IO theory (Tripe and Matthews 2003). After mergers, Westpac market share have increase from 10% to 20%(Tripe and Matthews 2003) and the profit of Westpac in New Zealand is 18% of total profit for Westpac Group(Westpac Annual Report.2009).Today Westpac is the second largest bank in New Zealand, whichoffers a whole range of consumer and corporate services to clients throughout New Zealand. It is the dominant provider of banking services to small to medium business, corporate and institutional organisations, and is the banker of the New Zealand government .
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ANZ was established in 1840, Union bank of Australia agreed with the New Zealand Company to accompany settlers to New Zealand to provide them with banking services. UBA and the Bank of Australasia merged to become the Australia and New Zealand Banking 1951. In 1979, An Act of Parliament permitted ANZ to incorporate its branches in New Zealand as ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand) Ltd. ANZ sold 25% of the shares to the public. In 1985, ANZ moved its headquarter to Melbourne because of the disadvantage of foreign bank in Australia,

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