2. Types of Banking
Banking is mainly divided into four parts :-
• Retail Banking
• Wholesale Banking
• Universal Banking
• Rural Banking
3. Retail Banking
Meaning:-
• When a bank executes transactions directly with consumers. Retail
Banking deals directly with individuals and small businesses.
• It is also known as consumer banking or personal banking.
• Retail Banking aims to be the one stop for as many financial
services as possible on behalf of retail clients.
4. Products and Services:-
• Checking and Savings accounts:-Customers are generally Charged a monthly fee
for checking accounts, saving accounts offer higher interest rates than checking
account.
• Mortgages on residential and investment properties.
• Debit and Credit Cards:- Retail Banks provide the facility of Debit & Credit cards
for easy availability of money.
• Foreign Currency and Remittance services
• Personal and Home Equity Loans:- Retail banks also provide personal & home
equity loans for meeting the expenses such as home repairs, medical bills or
collage education etc.
5. Wholesale Banking
• Wholesale Banking deals with larger institutions, where as retail banking would
focus more on the individual or smaller business.
• In Simple words, wholesale Banking refers to banking, where large companies or
large infrastructure project or government accounts are handled.
• Modern wholesale banks are engaged in finance wholesaling, underwriting,
market making, consultancy, mergers and acquisitions, fund management.
6. Product and Services
• Currency Conversion
• Working capital financing
• Large trade transactions
• Cash Management
• Loan participation
• Merchant banking
• Trust services
7. Universal Banking
•A banking system in which banks provide a wide
variety of financial services, including both
commercial and investment services.
•These are also called full-service financial firms
although there can also be full service
investment banks which provide asset
management, trading and underwriting
9. Rural Banking
• Regional Rural Banks are the banking organisations being operated
in different states of India.
• These are created to serve the rural areas with banking and
financial services.
• Rural banks may have set up branches for urban operations.
• The main purpose of RRB’s is to mobilize financial resources from
rural areas and grant loans and advances mostly to small and
marginal farmers, agricultural and rural artisans
10. • Regional Rural Banks were established under the provisions of an ordinance
passed on 26 Sept. 1975 and the RRB act. 1976 to provide sufficient banking and
credit facility for agriculture and other rural sectors
• Examples are:-
• Allahbad UP Gramin Bank
• Baroda Gujrat Gramin Bank
• Bihar Gramin Bank
• Dena Gujrat Gramin Bank
• Himachal Gramin
• JK Gramin Bank
• Maharashtra Gramin Bank
• Punjab Gramin Bank
• Uttarakhand Gramin Bank
• Odisha Gramin Bank