OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2013. Recently, the results of the fourth “360-degree Bank Evaluation” were announced. The evaluation was conducted by customers and sponsored by Bankrate, in which Bank of China won the “Precious Metal Customer Satisfaction Award” and “Personal Loan Customer Satisfaction Award” of 2012, reported the press-centre of BOC. 

As the first domestic commercial bank which conducts sales of physical precious metal products, BOC has accumulated rich experience in terms of brand, client, sales and channel and actively met the needs of clients over the past decade. In recent years, the precious metal business is becoming a new growth point for BOC. The bank’s accumulative sales of physical precious metal exceeded RMB10 billion in 2012.

Since the launch of “Ideal Home” personal loan service, BOC has provided financing services covering dozens of loan varieties for tens of millions of clients including the three major series of loans: housing mortgage loan, production and operation loan, and consumer loan. The market shares of such businesses as second-hand housing loan, personal auto loan and student loan all take the lead in the industry. In addition, BOC exclusively launched the foreign exchange loan for overseas study.

Headquartered in the U.S. and with 30 years of history, Bankrate is a personal financial information collection and research institution which provides online inquiry of financial product information and more than 190 personal finance calculators for customers via its website to help the clients make rational investment decisions.