Business
Areas

102-2 / 102-6 / 413-1 / 103-1 / 103-2 / 103-3 / FS-2 / FS-3 / FS-4 / FS-5 / FS-10 / FS-11

Retail Banking: Savings, investment and credit operations for individuals and small and mid-sized businesses, with financial products that meet their needs at the right time and through the channels they prefer.

  • Our clients can obtain credit cards and invest in mutual funds and promissory notes from the mobile banking app in a matter of minutes.
  • Our recent launch, PePer Banorte, lets you send and receive money from your contacts without having to know their banking data.
  • The new Banorte Go lets you do your banking without leaving the social network; send money or make a transfer to a contact on the social network. Its most important feature is the convenience of a secure environment.
  • Digital debit and credit cards mean you can create a card instantly with a different verification code every time you generate it, and you can turn it off or on any time you need.
  • With CoDi®, you can make wire transfers in real time between individuals and companies using mobile devices.
  • A Chatbot supports our call center, handling more than 200,000 conversations a month with a high effectiveness rate.

Wholesale Banking: Directs and administers strategies relating to Brokerage Firm, Treasuries and Capital Market management for companies and governments, in addition to handling commercial planning for these entities’ products.

  • More than 2,000 clients with a total of Ps. 290 billion borrowed.
  • Led by the Real-Estate Services area with 16% of lending.
  • Wealth Management Equity Banking administered record assets totaling almost Ps. 350 billion.
  • Fourth largest Asset Manager in Mexico with around Ps. 200 billion under management.
  • Transactional Banking grew more than 10% in Money Market and Cash Management Revenues.
  • International banking almost more than tripled its foreign trade portfolio.
  • More than 180K customers receive remittances in Banorte accounts.
  • New services and products: Swift GPI, trust services, Afore transmissions and cross-border service payments.
  • Investment and Structured Banking ranks 3rd in the domestic market.

Insurance: Protection and planning in the auto, major medical and life insurance branches, among others.

  • Seguros Banorte reported a 15% YoY growth in profits and 4% in premiums written.
  • RoE was 51% in 2019.
  • 5th in profits and 9th in premiums written in the insurance industry.
  • Reduced claims index by 10bp in the Auto insurance segment branch.
  • Introduced the Net Promoter Score to measure our customers’ recommendation and satisfaction rates.
  • Introduced a Customer Service and Support Center to optimize interactions with clients and brokers.
  • Improved products focused on crossed sales and coverage.

Annuities: Custody, investment and administration services for workers’ savings, to protect their equity for retirement age.

  • GFNorte’s fourth largest profit generator, with earnings of Ps. 1.03 billion.
  • More than 135k pensioned customers.
  • Market leader with more than 40% of auctioned awards by social security institutes.
  • Launched a mobile office for service executives, offering integration and certification of the file by digital methods; strengthened identification through biometric techniques.
  • Most clients are registered with a voice signature.
  • Introduced the Net Promoter Score to measure our customers’ recommendation and satisfaction rates.

Afore: Retirement fund manager whose goal is to open, administer and operate individual accounts for workers, as well as receive, individualize and channel resources from the sub-accounts that make up individual funds according to the social security laws; and manage mutual funds.

  • Managed assets totaling more than Ps. 800 billion, 95% of which are pension products and 91% are individual accounts.
  • We have more than 8 million clients, close to 15% of which belong to the Preferred segment and account for almost half of the total amount managed.
  • The independent fund rating agency Morningstar raised the rating for Afore XXI Banorte from neutral to BRONZE.
  • Afore XXI Banorte was the first in the Mexican industry to adopt the Responsible Investment Principles.
  • Migrated the system from basic Siefores to Generational Funds. With this change the system moves to the forefront in world retirement fund models.

Fundación Banorte: GFNorte’s social and community engagement arm, through which we make social investments to improve quality of life for people in vulnerable situations and disadvantaged communities.

Grupo Financiero Banorte is a
leading Mexican financial institution,
with the broadest business diversification in the market. It operates as a universal bank and also provides a wide array of products and services through its subsidiaries.

Subsidiary net income

  2017 2018 2019
Banco Mercantil del Norte 18,012 24,337 26,994
Casa de Bolsa Banorte 691 851 869
Operadora de Fondos Banorte 281 347 390
Ahorro y previsión 4,943 5,742 6,556
Afore XXI Banorte 1,284 1,256 1,609
Seguros Banorte 2,775 3,434 3,918
Pensiones Banorte 882 818 1,030
Arrendadora y Factoraje Banorte 771 861 957
Almacenadora Banorte 42 17 3
Sólida Administradora de Portafolios -963 -793 -172
GF Banorte (Holding company and Ixe Servicios) 130 556 931
Total net income 23,908 31,958 36,528

Figures in million pesos.

GFNorte Structure  
Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A. 98.26%
Almacenadora Banorte, S.A. de C.V. 99.99%
Operadora de Fondos Banorte-Ixe, S.A. de C.V. 88.84%
Sólida Administradora de Portafolios, S.A. de C.V. SOFOM 99.72%
Arrendadora y Factoraje Banorte, S.A. de C.V. SOFOM 99.98%
Casa de Bolsa Banorte, S.A. de C.V. 99.99%
Ixe Servicios, S.A. de C.V. 99.99%
Banorte Ahorro y Previsión, S.A. de C.V. 99.99%