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100,000 ANZ customers under-charged interest

Wednesday 9th of May 2018

ANZ has pledged $10 million for customers affected by the faulty calculator, which was used to calculate some loan repayments between June 2015 and May 2016.

The problems date back to June 2015 when the lender introduced a new calculator to work out repayments for people who had changed their loans. The faulty system meant the bank did not charge customers interest between the first of the month and the day in the month the loan was changed.

Roughly 100,000 customers underpaid interest over the period, according to ANZ spokesman Stefan Herrick. Herrick said: “We needed to understand the issue properly before we could put it right. This involved understanding who was impacted and how – which involved asking Deloitte to review this with us – and developing a plan to put things right for any impacted customers.”

Herrick said ANZ customers underpaid roughly $2 on average and the problems only affected customers during the month people changed their loans. The bank has pledged to cover the interest shortfall and expects costs to reach $10 million.

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