15 Facts About Macquarie Bank

Macquarie Bank Group Limited is an Australian global financial services group.

Macquarie Bank became Executive Chairman of Hill Samuel Australia and founded the company from offices at Gold Fields House in Sydney's Circular Quay.

Authority for HSA to become Macquarie Bank Limited was received from the Federal Treasurer Paul Keating on 28 February 1985, making it only the second private trading bank to be established in Australia in modern times.

The framework ensured Macquarie Bank was not materially exposed to the October 1987 global share market crash.

On 29 July 1996, Macquarie Bank Limited listed on the Australian Securities Exchange .

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Macquarie Bank continued its overseas expansion during the early 1990s, opening offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing, while extending its Australian operations to Perth and the Gold Coast.

In 1994, Macquarie Bank began its infrastructure investment business with the underwriting and placement of publicly listed equity for the Hills Motorway in Sydney.

Macquarie Bank continued to expand its Asia operations in the early 2000s with the opening of offices in Seoul and Tokyo in 2000, and through the acquisition of ING Group's Asian cash equities business in March 2004.

Macquarie Bank made a number of significant acquisitions, particularly in the US, in the later part of the 2000s.

In 2005, Macquarie Bank announced an unsolicited takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange valuing the company at £1.

In 2010, Macquarie Bank Group completed its then largest acquisition with the purchase of Delaware Investments, a leading US-based diversified asset management firm, from Lincoln Financial Group.

In March 2015, Macquarie Bank announced the acquisition of a $US4 billion aircraft operating lease portfolio from AWAS Aviation Capital, bringing Macquarie Bank's portfolio up to more than 220 aeroplanes.

Also in 2021, Macquarie Bank entered into a binding agreement to acquire AMP Capital's Global Equity and Fixed Income business in Australia.

Macquarie Bank's Managing Director and CEO is Shemara Wikramanayake, who replaced Nicholas Moore in December 2018.

Macquarie Bank holds a number of licences enabling it to conduct activities in the jurisdictions in which it operates and is regulated by a significant number of regulators globally.