- CEO
- Richard Fennell
- Full Time Employees
- 4,601
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Regional banks
- Address
- The Bendigo Centre Bendigo VIC Australia 3550
- IPO Date
- Dec 19, 1985
- Business
- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (ASX:BEN) provides banking and financial services to retail customers, small-to-medium enterprises and agribusinesses in Australia through brands including Bendigo Bank, Adelaide Bank, Rural Bank, Up, Leveraged, Sandhurst Trustees and Community Enterprise Foundation; core offerings encompass personal and business banking products such as deposits, home loans, consumer lending, commercial mortgages, unsecured loans and payments services; financial planning and wealth management including investment products, superannuation, insurance and funds management; margin lending; rural banking; corporate trustee, custodial, estates and trusts management services; and funeral bonds. The company operates a national network of nearly 500 branches and agencies, including 139 Bendigo Bank branches, 319 Community Bank branches, 191 Rural Bank points, 13 Delphi Bank branches and 16 Alliance Bank branches, primarily targeting individuals, businesses and rural sectors with a community-focused model that reinvests profits into local communities. Founded in 1858 and headquartered in Bendigo, Victoria, the regional lender manages over $98 billion in assets and employs more than 7,000 staff to serve 2.4 million customers. In June 2024, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank partnered with MongoDB to modernize its core banking technology using MongoDB Atlas for a microservices architecture and generative AI integration, aiming to reduce costs, accelerate innovation and migrate 50% of critical workloads to the cloud by year-end; the bank continues transitioning Adelaide Bank products to equivalent Bendigo Bank offerings as announced in December 2024, with Everyday accounts and term deposits removed from sale effective June 2024 for new customers; its 2025 Annual General Meeting occurred on October 21 in Bendigo, reflecting ongoing strategic focus on digital transformation and customer-centric growth.