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		St George Bank
				St. George Bank is a subsidiary of Westpac Banking Corporation trading primarily in New South Wales but with growing representation across a number of industry and business segments in Queensland and Victoria. St. George also operates in South Australia under its subsidiary BankSA. The bank maintains a large number of retail branches and ATMs across Australia and has some backoffice operations offshore in Bangalore, India.
		St. George typically promotes itself as more friendly and customer-service oriented than the 'big four' banks operating nationally in Australia, although it is now a part of the Westpac Group. Despite its roots as a building society specialising in home and consumer lending, today the Bank provides funding to a variety of specialist industries and market segments including commercial property construction and development, invoice discounting, interest rate hedging, foreign exchange, trade finance and automotive finance (formerly the Barclay Bank Business). The Automotive Finance division also operates under St. George Finance Limited and St. George Motor Finance Limited (a subsidiary of St.George Bank). With more than 5700 staff and 396 St. George and BankSA retail branches, St. George is known for exceptional service, innovative, award-winning products, and specialist financial advice for retail and business customers.
		St. George Bank Head Office 4-16 Montgomery Street Kogarah, NSW 2217 Australia Tel:  +61 2 9952 1469 Fax: +61 2 9952 1066 Toll Free: 13 33 30 Tel:  + 61 2 9553 5883  (from overseas) Website: www.stgeorge.com.au Banking Hours‎: Mon - Fri : 9.00am - 5.00pm‎
	The banks are regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) in Australia. APRA is responsible for regulating much of the financial industry, including insurance and superannuation companies. Institution seeking to be prudentially regulated as an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) is required to be authorised under the Banking Act 1959 (the Banking Act). The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is responsible for the authorisation process. Section 5 of the Banking Act defines ‘banking business’ as consisting of both taking deposits (other than as part-payment for identified goods or services) and making advances of money, as well as other financial activities prescribed by regulations made under the Banking Act. The Banking Act only allows corporations to carry on banking business in Australia, which means APRA cannot consider applications from partnerships or unincorporated entities. ADIs are subject to rigorous and close supervision by APRA, which requires the ADI to comply with a range of requirements contained in Prudential Standards and provide comprehensive data to APRA under Reporting Standards.
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