Nigerian banks break record to be listed among the top 500 Global Banking Brand.
First Bank of
Nigeria Limited, Zenith Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank),
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and Access Bank Plc – have been named
among the top 500 global banking brands.
The Banker magazine of the Financial Times and Brand Finance, London, said this in a statement yesterday.
FirstBank was named as the most valuable banking brand in Nigeria in the report.
According to the country representative
of The Banker magazine, Mr. Kunle Ogedengbe, FirstBank led four other
Nigerian banks in the global ranking.
With a $301 million brand value,
FirstBank ranked 357, followed by GTBank, which was ranked 395 with a
brand value of $258 million. Zenith Bank was ranked 414 with a brand
value of $247 million, Access Bank was in 476th place with a brand value
of $182 million while UBA with a brand value of $172 million ranked 487
in the world.
According to the chief executive of
Brand Finance, David Haigh, the brand value is the amount a third party
will need to pay in using the brand name.
Explaining the methodology for the
ranking, the editor of The Banker, Brian Caplen said: “Brand Finance
employs a discounted cashflow technique to discount estimated future
royalties at an appropriate rate to arrive at a net present value of a
bank’s trademark and associated intellectual property – its brand
value.”
Caplen stressed that the process
involved five steps of obtaining brand-specific financial and revenue
data; modeling the market to identify market demand and the position of
individual banks in the context of all other market competitors;
establishing the royalty rate for each bank; calculating the discounted
rate specific to each bank, taking account of its size, geographical
presence, reputation, gearing and brand rating; and discounting future
royalty stream (explicit forecast and perpetuity periods) to a net
present value – the brand value.
He said the approach was used for two
reasons: “It is favoured by the tax authorities and the courts because
it calculates brand value by reference to documented third-party
transactions and it can be done based on publicly available financial
information.”
Globally, deputy editor of the magazine,
Joy Macknight said the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was
number one with a brand value of $47.832 billion followed by Wells Fargo
of the United States with a brand value of $41.618 million.
The top ten banking brands in the world
were shared by four countries, China and the U.S. with four each while
the United Kingdom and Spain got one each.
The other eight banks in the top ten
were China Construction Bank, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of China,
Bank of America, Agricultural Bank of China, Citibank (USA), HSBC (UK),
and Satander (Spain).
Of the top 50 countries in the world,
only four African countries made the list. These are South Africa (26),
Nigeria (42), Egypt (46) and Morocco (47).
FirstBank was the only Nigerian bank in
the top 10 banking brands in Africa along with nine others banks from
South Africa, Egypt and Morocco.
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