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Australia first suits 2007 ANZ CEO

The second instalment of our exit interview with John McFarlane in 2007 is another colourful read.Asked about the financial services landscape in ten years' time, John McFarlane, who by then had been ANZ's chief executive officer for 10 years, said: "Well, it'll be radically different. ..."Our organisation would be far more leveraged in Australia than it is today, because eventually they'll have run out of other places to go ... if you've got a choice to be in Britain or Australia first, where are you going to go."(Photo: John McFarlane, from ANZ's 2007 Annual Report)

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