vietnam national university, HANOI school of business Nguyen Viet Thang BUSINESS STRATEGY FOR CONSUMER LENDING OF HSBC master of business administration thesis Hanoi - 2007 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com vietnam national university, HANOI school of business Nguyen Viet Thang BUSINESS STRATEGY FOR CONSUMER LENDING OF HSBC Major: Business Administration Code: 60 34 05 Master of business administration thesis Supervisors: 1. MRS TRAN PHUONG LAN,MBA Hanoi – 2007 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. iii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .v LIST OF TABLES .v LIST OF FIGURES. Aim and objective .4 CHAPTER 1: LITERRATURE REIVEW .2 Strategic management process.
Strategic management model. Evaluating and choosing a value added strategy .3 The main factor for choosing business plan .5 The Strategy Hierachy. 32 vi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.6 Type of Corporate Business Strategy. 33 CHAPTER 2: HSBC AND CAR LOAN PRODUCT.
Introduction of HSBC. Introduction of HSBC .2 The HongKong and Shang Hai Banking Corporation Limited. HSBC in Viet Nam. Business Environment Analysis.
Choosing the right strategy. 71 CHAPTER 3: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION. Choosing the right strategy. Detailed Functional strategy.
Business Development Strategies. 87 vii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com List of abbreviations HSBC The Hong Kong and ShangHai Banking Corporation HSBC Viet Nam The Hong Kong and Shang Hai Banking Corporation Limited in Viet Nam PFS Personal Financial Services List of tables Page Table: 1.1 Three stages of strategic process 14 Table 2.1 Toyota Car Loan payment method 52 Table 2.2 Competitor analysis matrix 54 Table 2.3 Brief about HSBC Car loan 59 Table 2.4 Approval/ Underwriting Criteria 64 Table 2.5 Number of Car sales 2006 -2007 69 Figure 3.1: Ha Noi – Toyota Car Loan market share 82 List of figures Page Figure 2.2 Profit before tax 38 Figure 2.2 Total assets 38 Figure 2.1 Viet Nam Economical Indicator over times 47 Figure 2.2: Side of the market 49 Figure 2.3 Car sale number of all major brands 50 Figure 2.4 Staff of PFS 70 v TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC INTRODUCTION To get an introductory illustration of the studied subject, in this chapter, the author is going to describe a basic background of the theme, determine the problem area and identify the purpose of the research, followed by an illustration of its aims and objectives. Economic globalization is a natural development trend of the labor division and cooperation around the world, with the support of modern science and technology. This trend is irreversible and it involves any nation, covers most the facets of the socio-economic life, promote competition, strengthen cooperation while increasing the interdependence between economies.
This double-side nature of international economic integration depends on the condition and level of economic development in each nation. In banking and finance system, international integration opens an opportunity to international cooperation in expand their business to other countries which was very sensitive and hard to enter. When coming to a developing country like Viet Nam, foreign banks can take advantage of capital, modern technology, management experience, and etc to develop the comparative advantage to catch up with the local competition that establish a large distribution channel and have depth knowledge about the local business environment. However, international integration in banking is also associated with the rising risk and sensitivity of the domestic financial market in front of the volatile world market.
The opening up of the new financial market will pave the way for foreign banks to penetrate the domestic financial market, with the number of strong competitors in the local market.HSBC 1 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC Becoming an official member of WTO (by end of 2006). Viet Nam target is to fully integrate to the global economic and financial system. In the new situation, there is a great opportunity for foreign bank especially retail bank like HSBC to enter the new and emerging market of Viet Nam. From the above discussion, it can be seen that with the opportunity to enter the new market.
HSBC now experiencing a game with some tough competition in the race of obtain new customer, win their loyalty and remain the business with them. The most pressing point is that Vietnamese banks in particular and financial institutions are important corporation that work in sensitive situation therefore they have a strong back up from local government. In addition, they have an reckonable distribution channel with a good customer base. Hence, to setup distribution channel and build up database is some of core targets for foreign bank to achieve in the new situation.
Aim and objective This thesis‘s aim is to answer the question what the Bank should do in the new context of accessing WTO to effectively setup the new business Strategy and build up the customer database in order to enter a very promising market like Viet Nam and equal compete with other local and foreign banks. The objectives of the research, therefore, will be as follow: 1) Literature review of Strategy and strategic management. 2) An evaluation of the Bank‘s current position of car loan product and assess the bank‘s current strategy on kept going to be the best retail bank and build up the bank customer database.HSBC 2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC 3) Highlight areas for improvement for HSBC. Company profiles Company profile The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation have been operation in Vietnam since 1880 with quite long history.
However, after the Civil war, they have just come back to Vietnam in 1995 in HCM City and 2005 in Ha Noi. With long experience in banking services and a contingent of well- trained, dynamic and enthusiastic staff, the Bank continues to play a crucial role in Vietnam's banking sector. For the recent year, the bank have awarded many important prize such as: ―best foreign bank in Vietnam‖ in and ―bst bank in Vietnam‖ in by The Banker. In parallel with its development of banking products and services, the Bank has continued to expand its network in order to better serve its customers' demand.
At the moment, the Bank was recognized for its well-established group consisting of 02 major branches at two important city of Vietnam as Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City, one representative offices in Can Tho. In the future, when new law of banking system come to effect and HSBC will be treated as local bank, they will have more and more branches in all over the countries Currently, the Bank have operate many activities in Vietnam such as: Deposit: Current account, saving account (both VND and USD), mutual fund … Loan: include consumer credit, overdraft, trade finance, project finance … (LUAN.HSBC 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC Money transaction include account transaction, ATM, Credit card … Securities services … … a. Problem Area - new to the market - do not know the market well as the local ones - high in capital, technologies, experienced … Becoming an official member of WTO therefore the target for Vietnam is to fully integrate to the global economic and financial system. International integration will generate more opportunities and more challenges.
‗After joining the WTO, we have to accept a wider opening of banking services. Foreign banks and credit organizations will have more opportunities to penetrate the Vietnamese market. And thus, the competition pressure against domestic banks is also higher‘ (Governor Le Duc Thuy, 2006) Therefore, with this trend of development, we can see lots of foreign bank that coming or expanding their business into Vietnam such as ANZ, Citi Bank, GE capital, UOB Bank … and HSBC is not exceptional. And the problem of HSBC Vietnam in particular and other bank in general is how to expand their business and win the sweet cake of this new and emerging market as much as possible because at this moment, local bank still have powerful backup from Vietnam governor.
Within the scope of this paper, I would like to emphasize a number of activities in the banking sector of foreign bank in Vietnam in general and (LUAN.HSBC 4 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC HSBC Vietnam in particular for the car loan market that would partly show the readiness for international integration and accession of Vietnam's banking system in order to rise the challenges of an exiting system of local bank. Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a theoretical and empirical study to analyze and find out the strategy for Car loan product of HSBC, one of the world largest retail bank after Vietnam with the WTO accession.HSBC 5 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC CHAPTER 1: LITERRATURE REVIEW 1. Definition The concept of strategy has been borrowed from the military and adapted for use in business. A review of what noted writers about business strategy have to say suggests that adopting the concept was easy because the adaptation required has been modest.
In business, as in the military, strategy bridges the gap between policy and tactics. Together, strategy and tactics bridge the gap between ends and means. This paper reviews various definitions of strategy for the purpose of clarifying the concept and placing it in context. The author's aim is to make the concepts of policy, strategy, tactics, ends, and means more useful to those who concern themselves with these matters.
Some Language Basics Strategy is a term that comes from the Greek strategia, meaning "generalship." In the military, strategy often refers to maneuvering troops into position before the enemy is actually engaged. In this sense, strategy refers to the deployment of troops. Once the enemy has been engaged, attention shifts to tactics. Here, the employment of troops is central.
Substitute "resources" for troops and the transfer of the concept to the business world begins to take form. Strategy also refers to the means by which policy is affected, accounting for Clauswitz‘ famous statement that war is the continuation of political relations via other means. Given the centuries-old military origins of strategy, it seems sensible to begin our examination of strategy with the military view. For that, there is no better source than B.HSBC 6 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.HSBC Strategy According to B.
Liddell Hart In his book, Strategy, Liddell Hart examines wars and battles from the time of the ancient Greeks through World War II. He concludes that Clausewitz‘ definition of strategy as "the art of the employment of battles as a means to gain the object of war" is seriously flawed in that this view of strategy intrudes upon policy and makes battle the only means of achieving strategic ends. Liddell Hart observes that Clausewitz later acknowledged these flaws and then points to what he views as a wiser definition of strategy set forth by Moltke: "the practical adaptation of the means placed at a general‘s disposal to the attainment of the object in view." In Moltke's formulation, military strategy is clearly a means to political ends. Concluding his review of wars, policy, strategy and tactics, Liddell Hart arrives at this short definition of strategy: "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy." Deleting the word "military" from Liddell Hart‘s definition makes it easy to export the concept of strategy to the business world.
That brings us to one of the people considered by many to be the father of strategic planning in the business world: George Steiner. Strategy According to George Steiner George Steiner, a professor of management and one of the founders of The California Management Review, is generally considered a key figure in the origins and development of strategic planning. His book, Strategic Planning [2], is close to being a bible on the subject. Yet, Steiner does not bother to define strategy except in the notes at the end of his book.