Goldilocks Reloaded wrote:I am not a prophet like @Obiero but as i said yesterday the bottom is nigh. The banks may still experience selling pressure as the bears especially the foreigners rush to sell to the new bulls but the price should stabilise here before heading up (depending on the results of course).
On another note; someone educate me (not a guru in this), in UK and other such countries where interest rate margins are very small, how do the likes of BBK and SCBK make their profits?
CREDIT CARDS thats where the margins are. 242 million credit card purchase were made in the UK in just November. 45% of the amount spend incurred interest. Average interest rates are 10.4%.
In the US the most profitable banks Jp Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup have a large portion of income from investment banking.
Lets look at JP Morgan & Chase which owns the Chase brand in the US which big in retail banking and credit cards. Over 60 million households.
45% of their revenue was from retail banking (general mwananchi products like credit cards, loans, mortgages etc)
35% from investment banking
13% from asset management
7% from commercial and corporate banking
Generally in terms of income 46% is from net interest income while 54% is from non interest income (fees)
In Wells Fargo (biggest in retail) 53% net interest income while 47% non interest income
35%