Steven Lynch, National Community Development Manager, Bankmecu at the International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference in Cape Town, November 2013.
2. What I will cover
1. Introduction to bankmecu
2. Our journey to becoming Australia’s first customer
owned bank
3. The future for customer owned banking
3. Introducing
bankmecu.
Owned by customers not
investors
We’ve been awarded Best
Value Customer Owned
Bank by Canstar Cannex
We’re the only Australian
bank in the Global Alliance
for Banking on Values
Customer satisfaction
has been over 90%
for the past 10 years
4. Australia’s first
customer owned bank.
Australia wide with
24 Service Centres
Over $3 billion dollars in
assets. Financial strength
More than 119,000
shareholder customers
Over 55 years
in business. Represent
50 mergers
We’re 100% customer owned. That means we’re not listed on the stock exchange, so we don’t answer to investors. Our customers are our shareholders, and they have a say in the decisions we make. Our customer satisfaction is among the best of the Australian banks. In June 2013, we were awarded the Best Value Customer Owned Bank by CanstarCannex. We’re committed to providing our customers with great rates and products. Last year, our customers were also $20.1m financially better off banking with us than they were if they banked with one of the big four Australian banks.
We’ve been in business for over 55 years, starting out as CSIRO Credit Cooperative, and then after a number of mergers, we became a bank in September 2011 - The first Australian co-operative to do so. We’re a lot smaller than most Australian banks but are committed to responsible banking.We have around $3billion in assetsMore than 116,000 customers24 service centres