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'MILESTONE' SHARE ISSUE BOOSTS ANZ STAKE IN AUSTRALIA'S E*TRADE.

AsiaPulse News, April, 2002

MELBOURNE, April 3 Asia Pulse - ANZ Banking Group Ltd (ASX:ANZ) has expanded its stake in E*Trade Australia from 28.33 per cent to 35 per cent with the issue of more than nine million "milestone" shares.

Under the three year alliance with E*Trade approved in August, 1999, ANZ receives milestone shares in return for marketing the ANZ-E*Trade co-branded service to its customers.

It had the right to be issued up to 35 per cent of shares in E*Trade.

Customers introduced by ANZ now exceed 35,000 accounts, ore more than 37 per cent of the total customer base.

In the final milestone period of six months to September 29, 2002, a bonus five per cent shareholding could be earned if ANZ-E*Trade customers comprised two thirds of total trades in that...

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