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GLOBAL INVESTOR 3.06 Lead — 10 Photo: London Calling Centre Ltd (LCC), Source: Credit Suisse Figure 4 Why the bottom end is becoming profitable + Money transfer transactions Costs (technology, competition) – 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 USD 232.3 billion in remittances The sheer number of people living outside their home country is increasing dramatically. The official estimate is currently 175 million. The rapid migration is drawing tens of millions of people out of poverty into at least the lower end of the income scale of modern society. As these shifting populations find Istanbul jobs and earn income, the demand for quality banking services at a low price grows, especially transferring money to support relatives at home. For example, London Calling Centre Ltd (LCC) executes money remittances for foreign residents in the UK.
GLOBAL INVESTOR 3.06 Lead — 11 Banking for 7 billion and for 7 million1 Today’s global population is far larger than ever before, and is shifting spatially, financially and socially at a pace without historic parallel. New banking technologies drive a new financial services industry fit for twenty-first century clients. As recently as ten years ago, banking for individuals was almost entirely aimed at middle-income groups, with private banking services for high net worth individuals as an important, but niche, market. Now, the scale of private banking is rising rapidly to serve the new pools of wealth created by globalization, but at the bottom end of the pyramid, a completely new business of large-scale, very cheap but fair-quality banking services is being created off new technology platforms. Giles Keating, Head of Global Research, Christine Schmid, Equity Sector Analyst Over the last five decades, the world’s population has expanded on an unprecedented scale, from just three billion to approaching seven billion now. Nothing like this has ever been seen in human history. The large majority of the population increase has occurred in very poor regions (see figure 1 and 2, on page 4), but now a very rapid migration, part spatial, part social, is bringing tens of millions of people out of poverty and into at least the lower end of the income scale of modern society. This is occurring through vast movements of people from countryside to cities in China, through the creation of new jobs within the world’s mega-cities from Mexico to Bangalore, and more controversially, through large-scale population shifts from poor regions to the world’s rich nations, whether across the Mexican-US border or into Spain, which even on official figures has gained some five million people over the past five years. As these shifting populations acquire jobs, income and homes, their need for quality banking services – at a very low price, but in aggregate in very large quantities – has created an extraordinary opportunity for those banks astute enough to seize it. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the private banking business is exploding thanks to new wealth growth of some 6% p.a. created by globalization. The high net worth population grew at a record pace between 2004 and 2005 in emerging market countries: South Korea led the way at 21.3%, followed by India (19.3%), Russia (17.4%), Indonesia (14.7%) and 14.4% in Hong Kong (see figure 2 on page 4, figure 3 on page 5, and figure 5 on page 14). Intergenerational wealth transfer in the developed western part of the world
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