Countrywide Bank (New Zealand)

Countrywide Bank (New Zealand)

Countrywide Bank was a Reserve Bank-registered retail bank operating throughout New Zealand. It was created from Countrywide Building Society, which itself emerged from the original Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society created in March 1897.

Countrywide Bank registered as a bank in 1987 during a period of significant regulatory change in the New Zealand banking system. At the time of registration the bank's two major shareholders were Bank of Scotland, a large Scottish bank headquartered in Edinburgh, and General Accident, a major general insurer headquartered in Perth, Scotland. The bank was listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.[1]

In 1992 Countrywide Bank purchased the United Building Society from the State Bank of South Australia.[1] At the time Countrywide was larger and has subsequently been described as much more efficient than United.[2]

In 1998 The National Bank of New Zealand, which itself was owned by Lloyds Bank UK, purchased Countrywide Bank from Bank of Scotland, which by this time had become the sole owner of the bank.[1] The operations of the two banks were merged with a period of consolidation in the retail network that allowed National Bank customers to use Countrywide Bank branches even though the two banks were yet to merge their back-end computer networks. The combined branch network was then rationalised with the rebranding of all branches to the National Bank branding and the closure of surplus and duplicated branches.

Building societies merged or purchased by Countrywide Building Society/Countrywide Bank:[3]

  • Auckland Co-operative Terminating Building Society
  • Central Union Permanent aka New Plymouth Investment and Loan Society
  • Central Building Society, Palmerston North Co-op Building Society
  • Consolidated Permanent Building Society
  • Countrywide Permanent Building Society
  • New Plymouth Investment and Loan Building Society
  • Provident Investment and Building Society of Taranaki Building Society aka Countrywide Permanent Building Society
  • Western Building Society Building Society aka Western Co-op, Western Co-op Terminating Building Society
  • Western Co-operative Building Society
  • Western Consolidated Permanent Building Society aka Consolidated Permanent Building Society and Feilding Permanent & Investment Society

References

  1. ^ a b c 'Banking Supervision by Disclosure – a Review of the New Zealand Regime' David Tripe, Centre for Banking Studies, Massey University. Retrieved July 10, 2007.
  2. ^ 'New Zealand Bank Mergers and Efficiency Gains' Benjamin Lui & David Tripe, Paper presented to the 14th annual Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, Sydney, December 2001. Retrieved July 11, 2007.
  3. ^ 'Tracing former building societies', Financial Services Federation, December 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2007.

Further details can be found in Building a Bank by Tony Farrington, Penguin NZ ISBN 0670 87445 0


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