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Nedbank Group Limited

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(Johannesburg:NED)
Contact Information
Nedbank Group Limited
135 Rivonia Rd.
Sandown, Gauteng 2196, South Africa
Tel. +27-11-294-4444
Fax +27-11-294-6540

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.nedbankgroup.co.za
Employees: 27,525
Employee growth: 1.8%

Nedbank Group provides commercial and personal financial services in South Africa and other parts of the continent. The company offers a range of wholesale and retail banking services through principal business clusters Nedbank Corporate, Nedbank Retail, Nedbank Wealth, Nedbank Business Banking, and Nedbank Capital (investment banking and capital markets). Other services include property finance, private banking, credit card processing, insurance, and foreign exchange and securities trading. UK-based insurer Old Mutual owns a controlling stake in Nedbank Group.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $7,731.2M
One year growth: 2.8%
Net income: $772.5M
Income growth: 5.9%

Officers:
Chairman: Reuel Khoza
CEO and Director: Michael W. T. (Mike) Brown
COO and Director: Graham W. Dempster

Competitors:
Absa
FirstRand
Investec

Nedbank
Type Public (JSE: NED)
Industry Banking
Founded 1888
Headquarters Sandton, South Africa
Area served South Africa
Key people

Michael William Thomas Brown (CEO)
Raisibe Morathi (CFO)
Graham Dempster (COO)

Reuel Khoza (Chairman)
Products Financial Services
Revenue increase R8.1 billion (US$1.16 billion) (FY 2009)[1]
Total assets US$73+ billion (ZAR510 Billion) (2009)[2]
Employees 22,000+ (2009)[3]
Website www.nedbank.co.za

Nedbank is one of the largest banks in South Africa; however, it is one of the newest banks to be incorporated in South Africa. It is headquartered in Johannesburg. Market capitalization was ZAR:509.7 billion (approximately US$73 billion), as of 31 December 2009.

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History

Originally founded in 1888 in Amsterdam as the Nederlandsche Bank en Credietvereeniging voor Zuid-Afrika ("Dutch Bank and Credit Union for South Africa"). In 1903 the company was renamed into Nederlandsche Bank voor Zuid-Afrika ("Dutch Bank for South Africa"). In 1906, the bank expanded and opened an office in London. The bank expanded to South Africa in 1951, incorporating as the Nederlandse Bank in Suid-Afrika Beperk/Netherlands Bank of South Africa Limited. The amount of South African shareholders increased greatly, and in 1969 the company was 100 percent South African after the Bank Mees en Hope bought 20 percent of shares.

In 1992, the name of the bank was changed to Nedcor Bank Limited, of which Nedbank became the largest division. In 1992, Syfrets, UAL, and Nedbank Investment Bank merged to become Nedcor Investment Bank (NIB). Old Mutual, Nedcor's holding company, was demutualised and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1999. It became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Nedbank acquired the Isle of Man and Jersey private banking business of Robert Fleming & Co. in 2001.

The new Nedcor Group was formed on 1 January 2003, combining Nedcor, BoE, Nedcor Investment Bank, and Cape of Good Hope Bank into one legal entity. The Nedcor Group was renamed the Nedbank Group on 6 May 2005. Nedbank headquarters are in Sandton, South Africa. In August 2009, Nedbank bought the remaining 49.9% of Imperial Bank South Africa, so Imperial Bank South Africa is now fully owned by Nedbank.[4]

Nedbank Group

Nedbank Group is the holding company of all Nebank's businesses, subsidiaries and affiliates. Those subsidiaries and affiliates include the following:[5]

South African Subsidiaries
  • Nedbank Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Imperial Bank South Africa - `100% shareholding
  • Nedcor Investment Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Nedgroup Investment 102 Limited - 100% shareholding
  • B.o.E. Holdings Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Nedgroup Collective Investments Limited - 100% shareholdings
  • The Board of Executors - 100% shareholding
  • Nedgroup Wealth Management Limited - 100% shareholding
  • NBS Boland Group Limited - 100% shareholding
  • B.o.E Life Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Nedgroup Securities (Pty) Limited - 100% shareholding
Foreign Subsidiaries
  • NedEurope Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Nedbank Malawi Limited - 97% shareholding
  • NedNamibia Holdings Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Tando AG - 100% shareholding
  • Alliance Investments Limited - 100% shareholding
  • MN Holdings Limited - 100% shareholding
  • MBCA Bank Limited - 70.4% shareholding
  • Nedbank Lesotho Limited - 100% shareholding
  • Nedbank Swaziland Limited - 67.2% shareholding
  • Nedcor Trade Services Limited - 100% shareholding

HSBC Buyout Bid

On 23 August 2010, HSBC made an offer to buy up to 70% of Nedbank in a deal worth R49,9 billion (US$6.8 billion). If the deal had obtained South African government approval and gone through the buyout would have given HSBC a strong foothold in the African financial services sector.[6] On the 15th October 2010 HSBC withdrew its offer to Nedbank following the expiration of the agreed exclusivity period. If the deal had gone through it could have been worth an estimated R45 billion.[7]

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