| Credit Card | Purchase Rate | Balance
Transfer |
Interest Free Days | Reward Points | Card Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St.George Vertigo MasterCard
|
13.24% p.a |
0.99% p.a (for up to 6 months) |
Up to 55 days | |
$55 | |
St.George Platinum Visa
|
15.99% p.a |
3.99% p.a (for the first 6 months) |
Up to 55 days | |
$89 | |
St.George Gold Low Rate Credit Card
|
15.99% p.a |
% p.a |
Up to 55 days | |
$79 | |
St.George Amplify Credit Card
|
18.74% p.a |
0.99% p.a (for first 6 months) |
Up to 55 days | |
$79 |
St. George used to be Australia’s fifth largest bank until it was acquired by Westpac Banking Corporation on December 1st 2008 for A$16 billion. Combined the two lenders now form the second largest banking group in Australia.
The friendly-looking dragon logo of St George is well known throughout Australia and the lender promotes itself as the friendlier and more customer service orientated bank in the country.
St. George was founded as a building society in 1937, in 1955 St. George merged with Bank SA and the lender achieved full banking status in 1992.
St. George operates as a national lender, with most of its operations focused in New South Wales, a business model which had propelled the lender to fifth largest in the country prior to being acquired by Westpac.
St. George was the first building society in Australia to go online when it installed an IBM mainframe connected to thirty terminals in 1972, since then the lender has gone on to provide a top notch online banking facility.
St George offers a comprehensive suite of business and retail banking services, including savings accounts, credit cards, personal loans, insurance products and wealth management.
St George is headquartered in Sydney and has a mortgage portfolio worth some A$85 billion.