Retail Banking Competitor Tracker - June 2009
Datamonitor
July 23, 2009 19 Pages - SKU: DFMN2405286
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Introduction
Datamonitor's Retail Banking Competitor Tracker is a monthly product providing updates on key events relating to major and innovative players in the retail banking sector. Covering events such as M&A activity, market entries and withdrawals, partnerships, product innovation and customer targeting on a global basis, the Retail Banking Competitor Tracker provides succinct summaries of key stories.
Scope- Information on new product developments, mergers and acquisitions, distribution and partnerships.
- Insight on how the major retail banks are adapting to the ever changing economic climate.
Highlights
Abbey announces a masterclass program for 1618 and student bank account customers, while Nedbank in South Africa launches personal money manager.
Abbey, Nationwide and Co-operative Bank launch new mortgage ranges
IPIC sells Barclays shares
Reasons to Purchase- Provides invaluable information on your closest competitors' strategies all in one place.
- Keeps track of how the competitive landscape is changing through M&A activities, partnerships and organic growth.
- Detailed insight into new product developments within the retail banking
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- Overview
- Catalyst
- Summary
- Methodology
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- This tracker provides both one-month and 12-month views of developments
- Each month, Datamonitor tracks the most relevant announcements from 79 competitors
- Datamonitor's Retail Banking team provides analysis of the key developments at both the one-month and 12-month level
- A fully searchable database of the past 12 months of developments is also delivered alongside the report
- KEY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN June
- Banks continue to make pricing adjustments while offering financial education to customers
- Abbey and Nedbank both launched programs aimed at educating and assisting customers with their finances
- Abbey, Nationwide and Co-operative Bank launch new mortgage ranges
- IPIC sells Barclays shares
- Overall competitor activity in June 2009 closely mirrored that of May
- Stories about product and service innovation continued to prevail in June
- Most developments in May originated in Western Europe and Asia Pacific
- News about new products and services continued to dominate this month's stories
- Product, Services and Innovation
- Abbey
- UK: Abbey announces master class program for Abbey's 16-18 and student bank account customers
- UK: Abbey launches two new four-year fixed rate mortgages at 4.59%
- UK: Abbey launches 6% reward bank account for current accounts
- BNP Paribas
- Brussels: BNP Paribas Fortis launches its 'One billion euros' ad campaign in Belgium
- Citigroup
- Philippines: Citibank savings launches Citi auto secured loan
- National Australia Bank
- Australia: NAB introduces voice biometric as a security enhancement tool
- Nationwide Building Society
- UK: Nationwide announces new rates for authorized and unauthorized overdrafts
- UK: Nationwide develops portfolio of mortgage deals for existing customers
- Nedbank
- South Africa: Nedbank launches personal money manager
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- UK: NatWest launches 2009 student account package
- St.George Bank
- Australia: St.George Bank announces reduction in service fees
- Standard Chartered Bank
- Singapore: Standard Chartered announces the launch of mobile browser banking
- The Co-operative Bank
- UK: The Co-operative Bank launches new mortgage scheme
- M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth
- Bank of East Asia
- Hong Kong: BEA and ICBC sign agreements on sale and purchase of Bank of East Asia (Canada) and ICEA Finance Holdings
- Hong Kong: BEA announces co-operation agreements with Criteria CaixaCorp and la Caixa
- Barclays
- UK: IPIC sells Barclays shares
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Australia: Sale of banking and insurance businesses in Fiji
- Nationwide Building Society
- UK: Nationwide announces acquisition of Dunfermline's social housing portfolio
- Netherlands: RBS and ABN Amro announces partner bank agreement for international transaction banking
- SEB
- Baltic region: SEB announces consolidation of its Baltic operations
- Appendix
- Methodology
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer
- List of Tables
- Table 1: The 79 companies and subsidiaries covered by Datamonitor's Retail Banking Competitor Tracker
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: M&A stories remained low in June, as it has done for the previous two months
- Figure 2: As with the previous two months, Western Europe and Asia Pacific dominated the news stories
- Figure 3: Consumers in Western Europe and Asia Pacific believe that the economy will improve over the next 12 months
- Figure 4: Once again, new products and services dominated this month's news stories
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