ANZ Bank staff's Mickey Mouse perks Which bank? ... ANZ, actually. Mickey and Minnie Mouse at Disneyland / Pic: Disney Source: The Daily Telegraph ANZ bank spent more than $750,000 sending 75 staff members and their partners on a trip to Disneyland last week, at a time when the bank faces more pressure to cut interest rates out of cycle with the RBA. On the all-expenses paid trip, costing $11,000 a couple, ANZ staff from 14 countries - including 37 from Australia - were flown economy class with Qantas to Los Angeles before spending four nights there including a day trip to Disneyland. The scheme is part of ANZ's CEO Recognition program, which rewards staff for up-selling credit cards and insurance products and meeting other sales targets. The news comes just days after ANZ delivered a bumper $1.53 billion three-month profit. The result, a 6 per cent increase on a year ago, was helped by wider profit margins from lending to Australian consumers and a push to sign up more home loan and deposit customers. The bank's latest splurge is less than a year after The Daily Telegraph revealed ANZ had taken 200 staff on a five-day butler-serviced cruise on the "world's best" luxury liner. Just days after the bank announced it would slash 1000 jobs, the workers, rewarded as part of the same program, last year sailed on the Silver Shadow to Malaysia's Langkawi Islands. But an ANZ spokesman yesterday said the bank recognised the "more difficult times we are working in" - with the budget for this year's program cut by more than 30 per cent with the number of participants down from 110 to 75. "The program covers all the 32 countries ANZ operates in around the world and the reward of an overseas trip recognises a small group of high performing junior staff at the coal face of our organisation - on the phone and in branches, or in the back office," the spokesman said. Consumer advocates last night expressed outrage at the details of the trip, pointing to the bank's advertising slogan: "We live in your world." "There is no doubt in the world the people who attended this trip worked very, very hard," consumer advocate Christopher Zinn said. But this kind of behaviour can only cause customers to look elsewhere given the bank's reluctance to cut interest rates. ANZ say they live in our world, but I think most customers of ANZ would like to be similarly rewarded through lesser home loan repayments. In a monthly banking confidence survey released yesterday, the results showed ANZ was still making up ground with business customers after a difficult 2012. The DBM Consultants' Business Financial Services Monitor showed satisfaction with ANZ dropped sharply after the bank shifted the timing of its monthly interest rate decision away from the official RBA board meeting.