Commonwealth Bk of A (CBAUF)

Description:

Commonwealth Bank of Australia was Incorporated and established in Australia in 1911. The Company along with its subsidiaries is engaged in providing integrated financial services, including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, life insurance, general insurance, broking services and finance company activities. Its personal banking products and services, includes transaction accounts, savings accounts, and term deposits; credit cards; personal and home loans; financial planning services; superannuation products; products for youth and students; home, car, life, loan protection, and credit card insurance products; and international and online banking services. Its business banking products, such as business accounts and cards; merchant services; business loans, overdrafts, business line of credit, commonwealth portfolio and margin loans, and bank guarantees; equipment, car, technology, and medical equipment finance; risk management services; life, income protection, business overhead, and vehicle insurance products; investment products; employer and employee superannuation products, and self-managed super funds; and products and services for agribusiness owners. In addition, it offers corporate banking services, which include capital raising, transaction, and financial market services; and trade finance, foreign exchange, money transfer, and commodities risk management services, as well as offshore banking and investor services. The Company operates banking and insurance services through different distribution channels including Retail Banking Services, Institutional Banking and Markets, Business and Private Banking, Bankwest, New Zealand, IFS and Other Divisions. The Retail Banking Services provides home loan, consumer finance and retail deposit products and servicing to all Retail bank customers. It also receives commission for the distribution of wealth management products through the retail distribution network. The Business and Private Banking provides specialised banking services to relationship managed business and Agribusiness customers, private banking to high net worth individuals and margin lending and trading through CommSec. The Institutional Banking and Markets services the corporate, institutional and government clients using a relationship management model and includes includes debt and equity capital raising, financial and commodities price risk management and transactional banking capabilities. Institutional Banking and Markets has international operations in London, Malta, New York, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Shanghai. The Wealth Management includes the Global Asset Management including operations in Asia and Europe. The New Zealand includes the Banking, Funds Management and insurance businesses operating in New Zealand. The Bankwest is active in all domestic market segments, with lending diversified between the business, rural, housing and personal markets, including a full range of deposit products. The IFS and Other Divisions includes; the Asian retail and SME banking operations, investments in Chinese and Vietnamese banks.