The bank from Down Under is boosting its institutional presence in Asia, to help support the increasing number of Australian customers building their businesses there. The western Chinese port, 13 hours’ flight north, ships in a week what Sydney does in a year, all mechanized efficiency and throughput. With trademark smile and almost infectious enthusiasm, she is recalling relentlessly busy Shanghai and Mumbai and the port of Chengdu. The boss of Australia’s second-largest bank has a spectacular view of the sparkling harbor and the company’s new office tower rising up in a revamped historic docklands area below.īut Kelly’s rapid-fire mind is elsewhere. It’s a bright Sydney morning and the sun is streaming in through the glass to Westpac Group chief Gail Kelly’s office in the city’s Central Business District.
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