National Australia Bank - Business Overview

Business Overview

The National Australia Bank Group is organised into nine divisions, spread across four geographic regions.

Region Division Description
Australia
Business Banking
  • Australia's largest business bank (by assets)
  • Employees: 5,427
  • ~700,000 clients
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$2,445m
Personal Banking
  • Australia's fourth largest retail bank
  • Employees: 8,705
  • ~3,000,000 customers (~100,000 UBank customers)
  • Brands include: NAB Retail, UBank, Homeside and Advantedge
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$932m
UBank
  • An internet centric direct bank
  • ~$15b deposits
  • ~100,000 customers
MLC & NAB Private Wealth
  • 5,909 employees
  • Investment, superannuation, insurance and private wealth solutions to individual investors and corporate customers
  • Brands include: MLC, JBWere, Navigator, Plum, JANA, NAB Private Wealth
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$533m
United Kingdom UK Banking
  • Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank
  • Retail, business and corporate banking services
  • Employees: 8,351
  • ~2.7 million customers
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$288m
New Zealand NZ Banking
  • Bank of New Zealand
  • Retail, business and agribusiness banking and insurance services
  • Employees: 4,641
  • ~1 million customers
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$469m
USA Great Western Bank
  • Great Western Bank
  • Consumer, business and agri-banking
  • Employees: 1,492
  • ~300,000 customers
  • 125 branches located across seven states, mainly in the Mid-West agricultural region of the US
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$88m
Global
Wholesale Banking
  • 2,889 employees located in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States
  • Capabilities: capital markets, foreign exchange, derivatives, project finance, custodian services
  • Sector specialisations: Financial Institutions, Infrastructure, Natural Resources
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$661m
Specialised Group Assets
  • Bad bank containing approximately A$15 billion of exposures including CDOs and high yield debt
  • Created in aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
  • Aim for orderly wind down of assets over time
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$110m
Corporate Functions and Other
  • Includes the Group's operations in Asia, as well as Group Funding and other service functions
  • 2011 cash earnings: A$159m

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