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Citibank, Vietnam postal savings firm in tie-up

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

Citibank signed a deal Tuesday with a subsidiary of the state-run Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group to provide local clients a range of banking products.
The deal will allow both corporate and individual clients of Vietnam Postal Savings Service Company make payments and transfers to firms banking with the US bank.

They can also carry out personal transactions like paying school and hospital bills using Citibank fund transfers and checks.

Citibank general director Charly Madan said there were plans to introduce an additional 800 desks to provide banking services in the country, adding that figure should eventually rise to 2000.

Citibank has branches in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and a nationwide partnership network that covers all of Vietnam’s 64 provinces.

The bank offers a wide range of banking services, including currency transactions, hedging, cash management including access to ATMs, trade services, short and medium-term loans in foreign currency and Vietnamese dong to state-owned enterprises, multinationals, financial institutions and private sector borrowers.

Citibank has recently launched its maiden domestic offering in the Vietnamese debt market, expecting it will help expand and develop the local long-term debt market.

The inaugural issue was a VND 400 billion (USD 22 million) floating rate issue with a tenor of two years and one day.

The issue marks the debut long-term negotiable certificate of deposit to be issued in Vietnamese dong. Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

The coupon resets every six months and will pay at a specified spread over a benchmark rate set by the bank. The issue is being targeted at local investors.

Citibank is a regular issuer in Asia’s debt markets, having issued in Hong Kong dollars, Singapore dollars and Thai baht in recent years.

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Citibank signs partnership with Vietnam Postal Saving Service

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

Citibank said Tuesday it has signed a contract to provide its banking services to state-owned Vietnam Postal Saving Service Co.

The partnership between Citi and VPSC will enable millions of Vietnamese people using the VPSC network in more than 3,000 district-level post offices to make payments to firms which are banking with Citibank, the bank said in a statement.

Charly Madan, Citibank’s country director for Vietnam, said the contract will help add 800 outlets now and 2,400 more in the next year to the bank’s local service network.

VPSC was set up in 1999 with a registered capital of VND163 billion ($10 million) and currently has VND7.5 trillion in lending to state funds, the statement said.

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TNT completes delisting from New York Stock Exchange

Posted by | Jun 18, 2007 | |

Following its announcement on 25 May 2007, TNT N.V. announces that the delisting of its American Depositary Receipts (‘ADRs’) from the New York Stock Exchange is effective as from today.

TNT’s American Depositary Receipt facility continues as a Level I program with Citibank, N.A. as depositary. TNT’s ADRs will be traded on the over-the-counter market. TNT has not arranged for the listing of the ADRs or its ordinary shares on any other national securities exchange or for the quotation of its shares in a quotation medium in the United States. TNT’s ordinary shares will continue to be traded on Euronext Amsterdam.

Furthermore, today TNT has filed a Form 15F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to deregister and terminate its reporting obligations under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘Exchange Act’). TNT’s obligations under the Exchange Act are suspended as from today. By operation of law, the deregistration will become effective 90 days after the filing, i.e. September 16, 2007. TNT reserves the right to withdraw the Form 15F for any reason prior to its effectiveness.

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Small financial services using e-mail to compete: Mintel survey

Posted by | Apr 14, 2007 | |

Many large financial services firms are experimenting with a blend of direct mail and e-mail marketing to communicate with their current customers and merchandise their new products and services. In contrast, many smaller financial services have turned to e-mail to attract new customers with acquisition offers.

According to Mintel Comperemedia, a competitive intelligence service in Chicago that analyzes direct mail, e-mail marketing and print media, several smaller companies are emerging as more frequently tracked entities in the e-mail marketing arena.

“E-mail marketing has been able to serve as a more affordable option for smaller, lesser-know companies that need to reach new consumers,” said Carmen Curran, analyst for Mintel Comperemedia, in a statement. “Major financial services companies continue to take advantage of e-mail as well, but they have stronger resources to market through direct mail and other key channels. They are also concentrating more on marketing to current customers through e-mail rather than acquiring new ones.”

Mintel Comperemedia said that as the e-mail sector evolves, companies such as Metabank in the banking sector and First Premier Bank in the credit card sector have been identified as key players, flooding consumer mailboxes with acquisition offers and promotions. However, on the direct mail front, these companies are distributing a significantly lower share of offers than their larger competitors.

As reported March 13 on DMNews.com [http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/direct-mail/40362.html] in the direct mail category, the top 2006 overall mailers for acquisition financial services direct mail pieces were Chase (1.7 billion), Capital One (1.2 billion), American Express (1 billion), Citibank (980 million), and Bank of America (920 million). While many smaller companies turn acquisition efforts to e-mail marketing, larger companies are opting for e-mail marketing to cross-sell their products and communicate with their customers about their services.

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TNT repurchases 18.2 million shares from the State of the Netherlands.

Posted by | Nov 21, 2006 | |

Today the State of the Netherlands announces it is selling all of its shares in TNT; 27.8 million ordinary shares to Citibank and UBS and 18.2 million ordinary shares to TNT. The repurchase by TNT represents a total consideration of nearly euro 600 million and 4.3 % of TNT’s outstanding ordinary share capital. The total sale by the State represents approximately 10.9 % of TNT’s outstanding ordinary share capital reducing the holding of the State of the Netherlands in TNT to nil.
Today’s repurchase by TNT is made part of the share buy back program that TNT announced on 6 November 2006. As a result of today’s transaction the total amount of the shares bought back until and including 20 November 2006 amounts to around 70 % of the announced euro 1 billion buy back. TNT intends to cancel all of the shares repurchased.

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