Standard Bank’s Role in SMME Financing

14 June 2000

What does Stanbic stand for?

Standard Bank and its role in SMME

SEGMENT

NEEDS

OFFERING

DTI EQUIVALENT

Commercial Banking

(30% )

  • Relationship banking
  • Access to specialised finance and services
  • Relationship Managers
  • Professional specialists
  • Branch and virtual network
    • Medium to large enterprises

    SME

    (34%)

    • Enterprises
    • Convenience banking
    • Simple product set
    • Access to finance
  • Dedicated staff
  • Scoring techniques
  • Limited guidance
    • Formalised
    • Small to medium
    • Very small
    • Micro

    Mass Market (35%)

    • Low income personal
    • Convenience banking
    • Basic Product set
    • Access to finance
  • Focused delivery
  • Technology solutions
  • Strategic partnering
  • Human touch
  • Personal (formal and informal)
  • Standard Bank is a significant player in the SME market and has a large lending book characterised by many small loans

    Standard Bank's SME Base

    Total

    Number of customers

    360,000

    Market share

    34%

    % Customers with lending arrangements

    37%

    Total lending

    R5.21 b

    Overdraft Facilities

    % Customers Borrowing < R 10,000

    75%

    % Customers Borrowing < R 50,000

    82%

    % Non performing loans

    18%

    % Bad debt

    4%

    Black business is becoming an increasing contributor to our SME profitability

    Total SME Base

    Total

    ACI's

    Number of customers

    360,000

    80,000

    Market share

    34%

    34-38%

    % Customers with overdrafts

    34%

    34%

    Total value of overdrafts

    R 3,182 b

    R 386 m

    % Facility < R 10k (accounts)

    70%

    75%

    % Facility < R 50k (accounts)

    92%

    95%

    % NPL

    17%

    % Bad debt

    4%

    Standard Bank makes a large number of loans in the less than R50 000 category to going concerns.
    Over 70% of these loans are < R10 000

    Statistic

    Total Market

    BCI's

    <R50k

    >R50k

    <R50k

    >R50k

    Number of Accounts

    115,500

    8,500

    32,000

    1,240

    Rand value of Overdraft Facilities

    939 m

    908 m

    136 m

    89 m

    % Non-Performing Loans

    19.1%

    19.0%

    SME overdrafts split across facility size and number of accounts shows that….
    [PMG Ed. Note: graph not included]

    New SME business continues to reflect a large number of small loans

    New Business

    Total

    BCI's

    Current Accounts opened

    47,000

    19,740

    Accounts closed

    34,000

    13,620

    % Accounts with overdrafts

    43%

    38%

    Overdrafts approved Rands

    143 m

    44 m

    % Facility < R 10k (Accounts)

    75%

    80%

    % Facility R 10 - R 50k (Accounts)

    10%

    8%

    % Facility R 50 - R 100k (Accounts)

    6%

    5%

    Term loans approved (Rands)

    73 m

    38 m

    % Facility < R 10k (Accounts)

    5%

    6%

    % Facility R 10 - R 50k (Accounts)

    27%

    25%

    % Facility R 50 - R 100k (Accounts)

    58%

    59%

    Refers to business approved on accounts opened in 1999

    New SME business from the BCI communities is clearly growing

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    Although Khula is small we have increasingly played the leading role in the processing and support of its guaranteed business

    % Originated

    1998

    1999

    * 2000

    By Standard Bank

    19%

    36%

    46%

    Demographics

    1998

    1999

    2000

    Approved for Whites

    41%

    38%

    Approved for BCI's

    59%

    62%

    * Performance to May 2000

    Our SME staff composition is being strongly transformed

    SME staff composition

    Total

    W

    BCI

    B

    Rural

    381

    75%

    25%

    11%

    Urban

    575

    51%

    49%

    16%

    Total

    956

    61%

    39%

    14%

    SME manager transformation

    Total

    W

    BCI

    B

    1998

    44

    79%

    21%

    3%

    2000

    105

    74%

    26%

    13%

    We are increasing our deployment of skilled, representative emerging market managers

    Emerging market managers

    Number

    % BCI's

    % B

    1998

    8

    100%

    100%

    2000

    26

    100%

    92%

    But we have a long way to travel, in driving our proposition to become even more inclusive


    In addition, the following obstacles need to be addressed

    The way forward necessitates a partnership approach

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    How do we all contribute?

    Standard Bank’s commitment We will……

    Stretch the boundaries of SME business to be even more inclusive