Westpac Banking Corporation provides various banking and financial services. It offers personal banking products comprising transaction and savings accounts; term deposits; debit and credit cards; home loans; personal loans and overdraft facility; home and contents, life, car, travel, credit and loan repayment, disability and living, and income protection and business overheads insurance; superannuation and retirement products; and investment solutions, including cash rate and managed funds, managed accounts, protected lending, investment loans, wrap products, and alternative investments. The company also provides business banking products consisting of business savings, not-for-profit, agribusiness, and trust accounts; business term deposits; short term and long term finance, equipment finance and leasing, and agribusiness finance; merchant services, including electronic funds transfer point of sale terminals, online payments, and mobile phone payments; business and farm insurance; and international trade solutions comprising foreign exchange, cash flow management, export and import services, and trade finance products. In addition, it offers corporate banking services comprising debt market solutions, including debt capital products, equity issuance and structuring solutions, loans, bonds, structured and asset finance, fixed interest and debt securities, and interest rate derivatives; transaction banking solutions; foreign exchange; investing solutions, consisting of fund management, corporate superannuation, and managed investments; commercial cards; and institutional banking services, such as commodities, carbon, and energy products. As of September 30, 2012, the company operated 1,538 branches primarily in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. The company was formerly known as Bank of New South Wales and changed its name to Westpac Banking Corporation in 1982. Westpac Banking Corporation was founded in 1817 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

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