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Shayne Elliott’s banking epiphany

ANZ’s tilt at Suncorp is a way for the Melbourne-based lender to claw back some of the share it has ceded in the crucial home lending market over the past four years.

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After more than six and a half years as ANZ’s boss, Shayne Elliott appears to have had an epiphany: the Melbourne-based bank desperately needs to bolster how much business it does with the country’s households and small and medium-sized businesses.

How else to explain ANZ’s apparent enthusiasm for forking out about $5 billion to acquire the banking business of the Queensland-based Suncorp Group?

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Karen Maley writes on banking and finance, specialising in financial services, private equity and investment banking. Karen is based in Sydney. Connect with Karen on Twitter. Email Karen at karen.maley@afr.com

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