National Australia Bank Limited is an international financial services group, providing a comprehensive and integrated range of financial services across four continents and 15 countries. Globally, at September 30, 2001, the Company had total assets of over $375 billion, $64 billion in assets under management and administration, more than $345 billion in assets under custody and more than 8.2 million banking customers and 2.8 million wealth management customers. The Company began as The National Bank of Australasia. In its current form, the Company is the result of a merger in 1981 of The National Bank of Australasia Limited and The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited.