Virgin Money SWOT Analysis, USP & Competitors

Virgin Money

Parent Company

Virgin Group Ltd.

Category

Financial Institutions

Sector

Banking & Financial Services

Tagline/ Slogan

Banking with a bit of soul

USP

A one stop for all financial products where customers can easily understand where to invest

Virgin Money STP

Segment

Individuals, large enterprises and other financial institutions by providing a wide range of financial products and services

Target Group

Customers and is more focused towards retail banking services

Positioning

Provide easy financial services for customers to invest

Virgin Money SWOT Analysis

Strengths

1. Highly capable and efficient parent company
2. Can explore into other banking divisions like priority banking, etc.
3. Offers a wide range of financial products due to which they add more and more customers every year
4. Advantage of being under a famous conglomerate

5. Supervised by Prudential Regulation Authority

6. Offers services like Finance, Banking, Mortgages

Weaknesses

1. Little presence in few countries other than UK
2. Not a listed company and hence it would become difficult to raise capital

Opportunities

1. Can acquire or form strategic alliance with other giants to increase the banking business
2. Expand to other major countries of Asia, Europe, etc.
3. Can launch IPO and raise capital which in turn can be used for either expansion or achieve other business goals

Threats

1. Presence of giants like HSBC, Barclays, etc. may lead to their cannibalization of revenues
2. International operations in Australia might turn out to be unsuccessful

Virgin Money Competition

Competitors

1. HSBC Holdings plc
2. Lloyds Banking Group
3. Barclays

4. Prudential plc

5. Aviva plc

6. Royal Bank of Scotland

7. Standard Chartered bank