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Government and municipal bonds 7 Oct 2009 | 09:39 pm
These may be attractive to sections of retail investors paying tax as such bonds are often tax exempt. They may also have a longer maturity than deposits offered by banks. They are, however, relativel...
Mutual funds 1 Oct 2009 | 09:38 pm
These are funds, marketed and managed by asset management companies such as Fidelity, Putnam and Merrill Lynch Asset Management, that invest in a mix of bonds and stocks. They allow individual investo...
Direct investments in the stock market 25 Sep 2009 | 09:32 pm
Investors maintaining equity portfolios by buying individual stocks through a brokerage firm. The proportion of the US population directly invested in the stock market rose steadily during the 1990s. T...
ACCOUNT CHARGES 19 Sep 2009 | 09:28 pm
In most countries as deposit rate liberalization has progressed banks have moved to offset the cost of higher rates that competition has produced by introducing account charges for selected retail dep...
Direct marketing 13 Sep 2009 | 09:28 pm
Retail banks often claim that sophisticated “data mining” tools allow them to leverage their investments in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to identity potential fee-paying customers. T...
Service stations/Convenience stores 3 Sep 2009 | 09:26 pm
Citibank, for example, has been able to circumvent regulatory restrictions on branch openings in a number of countries by making agreements with outlets such as convenience stores, service stations an...
Internet and other electronic banking 26 Aug 2009 | 09:25 pm
During the period of the Internet boom a number of stand-alone Internet banks were established by non-bank companies. Their business model was based on rapidly attracting a large, retail deposit base ...
Phone banking 20 Aug 2009 | 09:24 pm
In many countries, phone banking has become highly automated providing similar functionality as an ATM machine. Call centers have become increasingly sophisticated and automated. A few banks establish...
