ANZ has reduced its international money transfer fees from Australia to five Pacific countries, effective immediately.

The fee for an international money transfer from Australia to Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Kiribati or Tonga is now just nine dollars Australian for payments initiated by Internet banking, phone banking or via any Australian ANZ branch.

Group Executive, Fred Ohlsson, says many families and businesses in these five nations rely on friends and relatives who are living and working in Australia to send them money.