It was late in the afternoon when Hesham Ezz El Arab, the current Chairman and managing director of CIB, had to make an urgent decision that will be announced in Board of Director’s annual meeting the next day. In front of him was paper work that showed the different alternatives that the board had previously negotiated in a recent meeting on which business model it must adopt to penetrate the market and reach its main mission of “consumer banking”.
Company Background
The Commercial International Bank (CIB), was first established in 1975 as a joint venture between the National Bank of Egypt (51%) and the Chase Manhattan Bank (49%) under the name "Chase National Bank of Egypt”. Following Chase's decision to divest its equity stake in 1987, National Bank of Egypt (NBE) increased its shareholding to 99.9%, and the Bank changed its name to Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E.
Since it’s establishment CIB has been consistently awarded for its broad range of products and services on numerous occasions by international publications. Awards won include “Best Sub-Custodian bank in Egypt” for five consecutive years; along with “Best FX Provider in The Middle East” by Global Investors 2012. Furthermore, as of December 2013, CIB’s gross loan book reached EGP 46 billion, while customer deposits marked EGP 97 billion, with a paid-in capital of EGP 9 billion; making CIB the most profitable bank in Egypt. In addition, CIB’s marketing capitilization is the highest in the banking sector in Egypt, amounting to over EGP 29 billion as of December 2013. Furthermore, they operate a wide distribution network of with 152 outlets and more than 500 ATMs. It also has subsidiary brands like CI capital, CIBC, FALCON (for monetary transport) and ot...
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...tapping this segment efficiently. Moreover, liabilities of the bank are at an all time high, creating vast quantities of "cash outflows" in the term of interest payments. Countries like Qatar have been having increasing interests in Egyptian banks and see an opportunity for their financial growth. Furthermore, the current political situation pressured the existing market conditions to weaken the financial performance of existing businesses and reduced the growth rate of loans. However, there lies an opportunity in the newly implemented initiative by the central bank to provide 10m to commercial banks to finance small enterprises. This would be a potential for CIB to invest further this segment but there is a dilemma in which business model it should adopt that would tackle the challenges and grab the available opportunities in the market.
On August 12, 1998, Citibank took full ownership and control of the medium-sized Mexican banking group, Confía, dropping the latter's name and logo from the 280 branches throughout Mexico, and from that point on operating it as part of Citibank Mexico. The road that led to this outcome was rocky to say the least, and the fit of the Mexican bank into Citicorp's global organization and strategy was quite different from what would have been expected only months earlier. This discussion describes the sequence of events involved and the ways in which the process was linked to the organizations and people involved. Before starting into the banks' situations and characteristics, an orientation to the time and place is useful.
In recent times, the very well know Commonwealth Bank is now the second largest Australian registered establishment on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as of January 2008. Also noting that the COM Bank made a Market Capitalisation of AU79.86 billion at the end of the financial year (June 2011). (1)
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The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of banks in the Caribbean largely as a convenience for the local governments. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, most Caribbean banks operated as an oligopoly with limited government influence – this directly translated into higher profits. However, over time, the banking environment could best be described as complex and dynamic. Competition increased, resulting into greater need for improved customer service, product innovation and cost reduction strategies. In order to achieve this, the banking sector was undergoing major structural reforms characterized by mergers and acquisitions. On July 23, 2001 Barclays and CIBC announced that they were in advanced discussions which were intended to lead to the combination of their retail, corporate and offshore banking operations in the Caribbean.
The data provided by the Near East Bank for the purposes of this study not only included 10 years of data (2004-2013) but also rendered all figures in 2013 USD. To facilitate calculation, these figures were then rendered into millions of USD. For reasons of privacy, the Near East Bank did not send identified data, as private banks in TRNC are not obligated to disclose their financial data to any party other than the Central Bank of TRNC itself.
H-E-B is the largest grocery store chain in south Texas. With over 340 stores, and considered in top grocery stores in America, the company is highly successful and only continues to grow through the mobile programs it has established in the community (Blumberg). Furthermore, H-E-B is a prime example of how public relations interact with the community and is a shining example of what a company should provide for the environment, and world it serves.
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Another pivotal issue was that of the multichannel integration—call center, branch, ATM, and Internet—which is immensely important for large financial institution like ICBC to attract and retain customers with the promise of “anytime, anywhere” account access. Customers are eager to have the kind of flexibility to use whichever channel is most appropriate at a particular time. Continuing with the same point the, ICBC was also concerned about the relative penetration of the existing as well as new customer base to gain access to the banks new technological proposition.
First of all, the two real world companies that we choose are Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and Microsoft Corporation. Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) is a local company, however, Microsoft Company is an international company. There are two famous company that have monopoly market structure among others company. Moreover, TNB is the largest electricity utility in Malaysia and a main service organization in Asia. Other than that, TNB also listed at the main board of Bursa Malaysia with an asset of RM87 billion, and it also hire about 33,500 employees to serves an estimated 8.3 million customer in whole country. TNB was set up in 1949 as the Central Electricity Board, and provide over 66 years of electricity to every part of Malaysia. Generation,
Banking is a process that is involved in many ways with the business and trade. There are different types of banking in the present world. Two major types are the Conventional Banking and the Islamic Banking. Both of the banking systems are playing very important roles in the trade and business. The focus in this discussion is an evaluation about these two banking system. The chapters will address important bank characteristics that will be included in the regression models. The Ordinary Least Square method will be used to identify how bank characteristics impact bank profitability. The adopted methodology examines the sensitivity of internal bank characteristics on profitability indicators. The profitability study is conducted on Islamic banking system and is compared to conventional banking system. The discussion begins with a literature review and moves on to the critical evaluation and analysis, variable definition, model, and data variables, advantages, disadvantages, points agreed with, points disagreed, reasons, and evidence.
Egypt today can be a viable market for the foreign investor, especially the investor who has the ability to see the rewards of in investing in the region for the long haul. The world and Egypt both realize that the region is the gateway to the Middle East. Egypt is leading the way for Arabic countries to embrace a new way of doing business and opening their borders to the ‘global village’ concept.
This is followed in section 5 by an analysis of the recent changes in the banking industry. With the development of the financial system, declining entry barriers and the deregulation of the banking industry make banks no longer the monopoly suppliers of banking services and reduce their comparative advantages which they usually hold in the past. Whether the reasons give rise to the existence of banks are still powerful will be examined here, while section 6 offers a way of considering whether banks are declining by looking at the value added by the banks. When the value added by banks is examined, banks are not a financial intermediation, which not only conduct the traditional services but also provide more diversified