Nomura bank analyst Glenn Schorr today turned peeks under the hood of Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services unit, which he calls the bank’s “least-understood and most-underappreciated business.”
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Global transaction services include under-the-radar back office support services to help companies, the public sector and investment funds manage cash, trade financing and a raft of other financial transactions.Previously:
Schorr writes:
While the IB, Cards and Retail Banking get most of the attention, GTS is a $10bn-a-year revenue business with low capital requirements (just 6% of Citi’s assets reside here), generous 40-50% pretax margins, very attractive returns (ROAs of around 500bps), and is a critical source of liquidity for the rest of the Citi franchise (45% of the firm’s deposits are generated here)….Net income is spread out across the world, with about 16% from North America, one-third from Asia and one-third from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to the Nomura report. The GTS unit pulled in $9.79 billion of total revenue in 2009, according to financial reports, and net income of $3.7 billion....MORE
As few companies have GTS’s scale and cutting-edge platform, which is able to handle an increasingly complex and more global world, we think it can accumulate more market share and produce double-digit growth
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