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Showing posts with label globally competitive biggest bank marathon UBS Deutsche Bank Citigroup. Show all posts
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March 19, 2009

Forget being globally competitive

In Canada over the past fifteen years there has been a constant drumbeat, from every point of the compass, for our banks to make large foreign acquisitions to become, so called, globally competitive.
What is globally competitive anyways?
Does that mean like Citigroup, Deutsche Bank or UBS?
If so, forget it. If there’s a pothole, these big global banks will find it. There are probably more than 12,000 banks in the world.
Why do you have to be in the top five or ten? It’s all egos run amok.
What’s wrong with being the twenty-fifth, or the fiftieth, largest bank in the world and growing your business organically by offering good service. Shares of the biggest banks in the world have been the worst performers as long as anyone can remember.
I have learned that the financial business is a marathon and not a hundred yard dash –
- slow, steady and dull often wins the race –
in many cases because your fast moving hot shot competition blows up. Bear in mind every time a competitor blows up and goes out of business, the survivors win.
In my view Canadian banks are plenty big enough to compete where they want to compete.