A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits
and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly or through capital
markets. A bank connects customers that have capital deficits to customers
with capital surpluses.
Due to their critical status within the financial
system and the economy[citation needed] generally,
banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most banks
operate under a system known as fractional reserve banking where they
hold only a small reserve of the funds deposited and lend out the rest
for profit. They are generally subject to minimum capital requirements which are
based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel
Accords.
The oldest bank still in existence is Monte dei Paschi di Siena, headquartered
in Siena, Italy, which has been
operating continuously since 1472.] It is
followed by Berenberg Bank of Hamburg
(1590) and Sveriges Riksbank of Sweden (1668).
1.
HISTORY
Banking in the modern sense of the word can be
traced to medieval and early Renaissance Italy, to the rich cities in the north like Florence, Venice and Genoa. The Bardi
and Peruzzi
families dominated banking in 14th century Florence,
establishing branches in many other parts of Europe. One of the
most famous Italian banks was the Medici Bank,
set up by Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici in 1397.
The earliest known state deposit bank, Banco di San Giorgio (Bank of St.
George), was founded in 1407 at Genoa, Italy.
1.1. Origin of the word
The word bank was borrowed in Middle
English from Middle French banque, from Old Italian
banca, from Old High German banc, bank "bench, counter".
Benches were used as desks or exchange counters during the Renaissance
by Florentine
bankers, who used to make their transactions atop desks covered by green
tablecloths.
One of the oldest items found showing
money-changing activity is a silver Greek drachm coin from ancient Hellenic
colony Trapezus on the Black Sea, modern Trabzon, c.
350–325 BC, presented in the British
Museum in London.
The coin shows a banker's table (trapeza) laden with coins, a pun on the
name of the city. In fact, even today in Modern
Greek the word Trapeza (Τράπεζα) means both a table and a bank.
Another possible origin of the word is from the Sanskrit words
'byaya' (expense) and 'onka' (calculation) = byaya-onka. This word still
survives in Bangla, which is one of Sanskrit's child languages. Such expense
calculations were the biggest part of mathematical treatises written by Indian
mathematicians as early as 500 B.C.
2. DEFINITION
The definition of a bank varies from country to
country. See the relevant country page (below) for more information.
Under English common law, a banker is defined as a
person who carries on the business of banking, which is specified as:
- conducting current accounts for his customers,
- paying cheques drawn on him/her, and
- collecting cheques for his/her customers.
In most common law jurisdictions there is a Bills
of Exchange Act that codifies the law in relation to negotiable instruments, including cheques, and this
Act contains a statutory definition of the term banker: banker
includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not, who carry on the business
of banking' (Section 2, Interpretation). Although this definition seems
circular, it is actually functional, because it ensures that the legal basis
for bank transactions such as cheques does not depend on how the bank is
organized or regulated.
The business of banking is in many English common law countries not defined by
statute but by common law, the definition above. In other English common law
jurisdictions there are statutory definitions of the business of banking
or banking business. When looking at these definitions it is important
to keep in mind that they are defining the business of banking for the purposes
of the legislation, and not necessarily in general. In particular, most of the
definitions are from legislation that has the purposes of entry regulating and
supervising banks rather than regulating the actual business of banking.
However, in many cases the statutory definition closely mirrors the common law
one. Examples of statutory definitions:
- "banking business" means the business of receiving money on current or deposit account, paying and collecting cheques drawn by or paid in by customers, the making of advances to customers, and includes such other business as the Authority may prescribe for the purposes of this Act; (Banking Act (Singapore), Section 2, Interpretation).
- "banking business" means the business of either or both of the following:
- receiving from the general public money on current, deposit, savings or other similar account repayable on demand or within less than [3 months] ... or with a period of call or notice of less than that period;
- paying or collecting checks drawn by or paid in by customers.
Since the advent of EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale), direct
credit, direct
debit and internet banking, the cheque has lost its primacy in
most banking systems as a payment instrument. This has led legal theorists to
suggest that the cheque based definition should be broadened to include
financial institutions that conduct current accounts for customers and enable
customers to pay and be paid by third parties, even if they do not pay and
collect checks.
3. BANKING
3.1 Standard Activities
Large door to an
old bank vault.
Banks act as payment agents by conducting checking or current accounts for customers,
paying checks
drawn by customers on the bank, and collecting checks deposited to customers'
current accounts. Banks also enable customer payments via other payment methods
such as Automated Clearing House (ACH), Wire
transfers or telegraphic transfer, EFTPOS, and automated teller machine (ATM).
Banks borrow money by accepting funds deposited on
current accounts, by accepting term
deposits, and by issuing debt securities such as banknotes and
bonds.
Banks lend money by making advances to customers on current accounts, by making
installment
loans, and by investing in marketable debt securities and other forms of
money lending.
Banks provide different payment services, and a
bank account is considered indispensable by most businesses and individuals.
Non-banks that provide payment services such as remittance companies are
normally not considered as an adequate substitute for a bank account.
3.2 Channels
Banks offer many different channels to access their banking and other
services:
- Automated Teller Machines
- A branch is a retail location
- Call center
- Mail: most banks accept cheque deposits via mail and use mail to communicate to their customers, e.g. by sending out statements
- Mobile banking is a method of using one's mobile phone to conduct banking transactions
- Online banking is a term used for performing transactions, payments etc. over the Internet
- Relationship Managers, mostly for private banking or business banking, often visiting customers at their homes or businesses
- Telephone banking is a service which allows its customers to perform transactions over the telephone with automated attendant or when requested with telephone operator
- Video banking is a term used for performing banking transactions or professional banking consultations via a remote video and audio connection. Video banking can be performed via purpose built banking transaction machines (similar to an Automated teller machine), or via a video conference enabled bank branch clarification
3.3 Business Model
A bank can generate revenue in a variety of
different ways including interest, transaction fees and financial advice. The
main method is via charging interest on the capital it lends out to customers.[citation needed] The bank
profits from the difference between the level of interest it pays for deposits
and other sources of funds, and the level of interest it charges in its lending
activities.
This difference is referred to as the spread between the cost of funds and the loan
interest rate. Historically, profitability from lending activities has been
cyclical and dependent on the needs and strengths of loan customers and the
stage of the economic cycle. Fees and financial advice constitute
a more stable revenue stream and banks have therefore placed more emphasis on
these revenue lines to smooth their financial performance.
In the past 20 years American banks have taken
many measures to ensure that they remain profitable while responding to
increasingly changing market conditions. First, this includes the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which allows banks
again to merge with investment and insurance houses. Merging banking,
investment, and insurance functions allows traditional banks to respond to
increasing consumer demands for "one-stop shopping" by enabling
cross-selling of products (which, the banks hope, will also increase
profitability).
Second, they have
expanded the use of risk-based pricing from business lending to
consumer lending, which means charging higher interest rates to those customers
that are considered to be a higher credit risk and thus increased chance of default on loans. This helps to offset the losses
from bad loans, lowers the price of loans to those who have better credit
histories, and offers credit products to high risk customers who would
otherwise be denied credit.
Third, they have
sought to increase the methods of payment processing available to the general public and business clients. These products include debit cards,
prepaid cards, smart cards, and credit
cards. They make it easier for consumers to conveniently make transactions
and smooth their consumption over time (in some countries with underdeveloped
financial systems, it is still common to deal strictly in cash, including
carrying suitcases filled with cash to purchase a home).
However, with convenience of easy credit, there is
also increased risk that consumers will mismanage their financial resources and
accumulate excessive debt. Banks make money from card products through interest
payments and fees charged to consumers and transaction
fees to companies that accept the credit- debit - cards. This helps in
making profit and facilitates economic development as a whole.
3.4 Products
3.4.1 Retail banking
A former building society, now a modern retail bank in Leeds,
West Yorkshire.
- J Checking account J Home equity loan
- J Savings account J Mutual fund
- J Money market account JPersonal loan
- J Certificate of deposit (CD) J Time deposits
- J Individual retirement account (IRA) J ATM card
- J Credit card J Current Accounts
- J Debit card
- J Mortgage
3.4.2. Business (or commercial/investment) banking
An interior of a
branch of National Westminster
Bank on Castle Street,
Liverpool
- Business loan
- Capital raising (Equity / Debt / Hybrids)
- Mezzanine finance
- Project finance
- Revolving credit
- Risk management (FX, interest rates, commodities, derivatives)
- Term loan
- Cash Management Services (Lock box, Remote Deposit Capture, Merchant Processing)
4. RISK AND CAPITAL
Banks face a number of risks
in order to conduct their business, and how well these risks are managed and
understood is a key driver behind profitability, and how much capital a bank is required to hold. Some of the
main risks faced by banks include:
- Credit risk: risk of loss[citation needed] arising from a borrower who does not make payments as promised.
- Liquidity risk: risk that a given security or asset cannot be traded quickly enough in the market to prevent a loss (or make the required profit).
- Market risk: risk that the value of a portfolio, either an investment portfolio or a trading portfolio, will decrease due to the change in value of the market risk factors.
- Operational risk: risk arising from execution of a company's business functions.
- Reputational risk: a type of risk related to the trustworthiness of business.
- Macroeconomic risk: risks related to the aggregate economy the bank is operating in.
The capital requirement is a bank
regulation, which sets a framework on how banks and depository institutions
must handle their capital. The categorization of assets and capital is highly
standardized so that it can be risk weighted (see risk-weighted asset).
5. BANKS IN THE ECONOMY
5.1 Economic Functions
The economic functions of banks include:
- Issue of money, in the form of banknotes and current accounts subject to check or payment at the customer's order. These claims on banks can act as money because they are negotiable or repayable on demand, and hence valued at par. They are effectively transferable by mere delivery, in the case of banknotes, or by drawing a check that the payee may bank or cash.
- Netting and settlement of payments – banks act as both collection and paying agents for customers, participating in interbank clearing and settlement systems to collect, present, be presented with, and pay payment instruments. This enables banks to economize on reserves held for settlement of payments, since inward and outward payments offset each other. It also enables the offsetting of payment flows between geographical areas, reducing the cost of settlement between them.
- Credit intermediation – banks borrow and lend back-to-back on their own account as middle men.
- Credit quality improvement – banks lend money to ordinary commercial and personal borrowers (ordinary credit quality), but are high quality borrowers. The improvement comes from diversification of the bank's assets and capital which provides a buffer to absorb losses without defaulting on its obligations. However, banknotes and deposits are generally unsecured; if the bank gets into difficulty and pledges assets as security, to raise the funding it needs to continue to operate, this puts the note holders and depositors in an economically subordinated position.
- Maturity transformation – banks borrow more on demand debt and short term debt, but provide more long term loans. In other words, they borrow short and lend long. With a stronger credit quality than most other borrowers, banks can do this by aggregating issues (e.g. accepting deposits and issuing banknotes) and redemptions (e.g. withdrawals and redemption of banknotes), maintaining reserves of cash, investing in marketable securities that can be readily converted to cash if needed, and raising replacement funding as needed from various sources (e.g. wholesale cash markets and securities markets).
- Money creation – whenever a bank gives out a loan in a fractional-reserve banking system, a new sum of virtual money is created.
5.2 Bank Crisis
Banks are susceptible to many forms of risk which
have triggered occasional systemic crises. These include liquidity
risk (where many depositors may request withdrawals in excess of available
funds), credit
risk (the chance that those who owe money to the bank will not repay it),
and interest rate risk (the possibility that the
bank will become unprofitable, if rising interest rates force it to pay
relatively more on its deposits than it receives on its loans).
Banking crises have developed many times
throughout history, when one or more risks have materialized for a banking
sector as a whole. Prominent examples include the bank run that
occurred during the Great Depression, the U.S. Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s and
early 1990s, the Japanese
banking crisis during the 1990s, and the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the 2000s.
5.3 Size Of Global Banking Industry
Assets of the largest 1,000 banks in the world
grew by 6.8% in the 2008/2009 financial year to a record US$96.4 trillion
while profits declined by 85% to US$115 billion. Growth in assets in
adverse market conditions was largely a result of recapitalization. EU banks
held the largest share of the total, 56% in 2008/2009, down from 61% in the
previous year. Asian banks' share increased from 12% to 14% during the year,
while the share of US banks increased from 11% to 13%. Fee revenue generated by
global investment banking totaled US$66.3 billion in 2009, up 12% on the
previous year.[12]
The United States has the most banks in the world
in terms of institutions (7,085 at the end of 2008) and possibly branches
(82,000).[citation needed] This is an
indicator of the geography and regulatory structure of the USA, resulting in a
large number of small to medium-sized institutions in its banking system. As of
Nov 2009, China's
top 4 banks have in excess of 67,000 branches (ICBC:18000+, BOC:12000+, CCB:13000+, ABC:24000+) with an additional 140
smaller banks with an undetermined number of branches. Japan had 129 banks and 12,000
branches. In 2004, Germany, France, and Italy
each had more than 30,000 branches—more than double the 15,000 branches in the UK.
6. REGULATION
Currently commercial banks are regulated in most jurisdictions
by government entities and require a special bank license to operate.
Usually the definition of the business of banking
for the purposes of regulation is extended to include acceptance of deposits,
even if they are not repayable to the customer's order—although money lending,
by itself, is generally not included in the definition.
Unlike most other regulated industries, the
regulator is typically also a participant in the market, being either a
publicly or privately governed central
bank. Central banks also typically have a monopoly on the business of
issuing banknotes.
However, in some countries this is not the case. In the UK, for example, the Financial Services Authority licenses
banks, and some commercial banks (such as the Bank
of Scotland) issue their own banknotes in addition to those issued by the Bank
of England, the UK government's central bank.
Banking law is based on a contractual analysis of
the relationship between the bank (defined above) and the customer—defined
as any entity for which the bank agrees to conduct an account.
The law implies rights and obligations into this relationship as follows:
- The bank account balance is the financial position between the bank and the customer: when the account is in credit, the bank owes the balance to the customer; when the account is overdrawn, the customer owes the balance to the bank.
- The bank agrees to pay the customer's checks up to the amount standing to the credit of the customer's account, plus any agreed overdraft limit.
- The bank may not pay from the customer's account without a mandate from the customer, e.g. a check drawn by the customer.
- The bank agrees to promptly collect the checks deposited to the customer's account as the customer's agent, and to credit the proceeds to the customer's account.
- The bank has a right to combine the customer's accounts, since each account is just an aspect of the same credit relationship.
- The bank has a lien on checks deposited to the customer's account, to the extent that the customer is indebted to the bank.
- The bank must not disclose details of transactions through the customer's account—unless the customer consents, there is a public duty to disclose, the bank's interests require it, or the law demands it.
- The bank must not close a customer's account without reasonable notice, since checks are outstanding in the ordinary course of business for several days.
These implied contractual terms may be modified by
express agreement between the customer and the bank. The statutes and
regulations in force within a particular jurisdiction may also modify the above
terms and/or create new rights, obligations or limitations relevant to the
bank-customer relationship.
Some types of financial institution, such as building
societies and credit unions, may be partly or wholly exempt from
bank license requirements, and therefore regulated under separate rules.
The requirements for the issue of a bank license
vary between jurisdictions but typically include:
- Minimum capital
- Minimum capital ratio
- 'Fit and Proper' requirements for the bank's controllers, owners, directors, or senior officers
- Approval of the bank's business plan as being sufficiently prudent and plausible.
7. TYPES OF BANKS
Banks' activities can be divided into retail
banking, dealing directly with individuals and small businesses; business
banking, providing services to mid-market business; corporate banking,
directed at large business entities; private
banking, providing wealth management services to high net worth individuals and families;
and investment banking, relating to activities on
the financial markets. Most banks are profit-making,
private enterprises. However, some are owned by government, or are non-profit organizations.
7.1 Types Of Retail Banks
National Copper
Bank, Salt Lake City 1911
National Bank of the Republic, Salt Lake City 1908
- Commercial bank: the term used for a normal bank to distinguish it from an investment bank. After the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress required that banks only engage in banking activities, whereas investment banks were limited to capital market activities. Since the two no longer have to be under separate ownership, some use the term "commercial bank" to refer to a bank or a division of a bank that mostly deals with deposits and loans from corporations or large businesses.
- Community banks: locally operated financial institutions that empower employees to make local decisions to serve their customers and the partners.
- Community development banks: regulated banks that provide financial services and credit to under-served markets or populations.
- Credit unions: not-for-profit cooperatives owned by the depositors and often offering rates more favorable than for-profit banks. Typically, membership is restricted to employees of a particular company, residents of a defined neighborhood, members of a certain labor union or religious organizations, and their immediate families.
- Postal savings banks: savings banks associated with national postal systems.
- Private banks: banks that manage the assets of high net worth individuals. Historically a minimum of USD 1 million was required to open an account, however, over the last years many private banks have lowered their entry hurdles to USD 250,000 for private investors.[citation needed]
- Offshore banks: banks located in jurisdictions with low taxation and regulation. Many offshore banks are essentially private banks.
- Savings bank: in Europe, savings banks took their roots in the 19th or sometimes even in the 18th century. Their original objective was to provide easily accessible savings products to all strata of the population. In some countries, savings banks were created on public initiative; in others, socially committed individuals created foundations to put in place the necessary infrastructure. Nowadays, European savings banks have kept their focus on retail banking: payments, savings products, credits and insurances for individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises. Apart from this retail focus, they also differ from commercial banks by their broadly decentralized distribution network, providing local and regional outreach—and by their socially responsible approach to business and society.
- Building societies and Landesbanks: institutions that conduct retail banking.
- Ethical banks: banks that prioritize the transparency of all operations and make only what they consider to be socially-responsible investments.
- A Direct or Internet-Only bank is a banking operation without any physical bank branches, conceived and implemented wholly with networked computers.
7.2 Types Of Investment Banks
- Investment banks "underwrite" (guarantee the sale of) stock and bond issues, trade for their own accounts, make markets, and advise corporations on capital market activities such as mergers and acquisitions.
- Merchant banks were traditionally banks which engaged in trade finance. The modern definition, however, refers to banks which provide capital to firms in the form of shares rather than loans. Unlike venture capital firms, they tend not to invest in new companies.
7.3 Both Combined
- Universal banks, more commonly known as financial services companies, engage in several of these activities. These big banks are very diversified groups that, among other services, also distribute insurance— hence the term bancassurance, a portmanteau word combining "banque or bank" and "assurance", signifying that both banking and insurance are provided by the same corporate entity.
7.4 Other Types Of Banks
- Central banks are normally government-owned and charged with quasi-regulatory responsibilities, such as supervising commercial banks, or controlling the cash interest rate. They generally provide liquidity to the banking system and act as the lender of last resort in event of a crisis.
- Islamic banks adhere to the concepts of Islamic law. This form of banking revolves around several well-established principles based on Islamic canons. All banking activities must avoid interest, a concept that is forbidden in Islam. Instead, the bank earns profit (markup) and fees on the financing facilities that it extends to customers.
8. CHALLENGES WITHIN THE BANKING INDUSTRY
8.1 United States
In the United States, the banking industry
is a highly regulated industry with detailed and focused regulators. All banks
with FDIC-insured deposits have the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) as a regulator; however, for examinations,[clarification needed] the Federal
Reserve is the primary federal regulator for Fed-member state banks; the Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency (OCC) is the primary federal regulator for national banks; and
the Office of Thrift Supervision, or OTS,
is the primary federal regulator for thrifts. State
non-member banks are examined by the state agencies as well as the FDIC.
National banks have one primary regulator—the OCC. Qualified Intermediaries
& Exchange Accommodators are regulated by MAIC.
Each regulatory agency has their own set of rules
and regulations to which banks and thrifts must adhere.
The Federal Financial
Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) was established in 1979 as a
formal inter-agency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards,
and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions.
Although the FFIEC has resulted in a greater degree of regulatory consistency
between the agencies, the rules and regulations are constantly changing.
In addition to changing regulations, changes in
the industry have led to consolidations within the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OTS,
MAIC and OCC. Offices have been closed, supervisory regions have been merged,
staff levels have been reduced and budgets have been cut. The remaining
regulators face an increased burden with increased workload and more banks per
regulator. While banks struggle to keep up with the changes in the regulatory
environment, regulators struggle to manage their workload and effectively
regulate their banks. The impact of these changes is that banks are receiving
less hands-on assessment by the regulators, less time spent with each
institution, and the potential for more problems slipping through the cracks,
potentially resulting in an overall increase in bank failures across the United States.
The changing economic environment has a
significant impact on banks and thrifts as they struggle to effectively manage
their interest rate spread in the face of low rates on loans, rate competition
for deposits and the general market changes, industry trends and economic
fluctuations. It has been a challenge for banks to effectively set their growth
strategies with the recent economic market. A rising interest rate environment
may seem to help financial institutions, but the effect of the changes on
consumers and businesses is not predictable and the challenge remains for banks
to grow and effectively manage the spread to generate a return to their
shareholders.
The management of the banks’ asset portfolios also
remains a challenge in today’s economic environment. Loans are a bank’s primary
asset category and when loan quality becomes suspect, the foundation of a bank
is shaken to the core. While always an issue for banks, declining asset
quality has become a big problem for financial institutions. There are
several reasons for this, one of which is the lax attitude some banks have
adopted because of the years of “good times.” The potential for this is
exacerbated by the reduction in the regulatory oversight of banks and in some
cases depth of management. Problems are more likely to go undetected, resulting
in a significant impact on the bank when they are recognized. In addition,
banks, like any business, struggle to cut costs and have consequently
eliminated certain expenses, such as adequate employee training programs.
Banks also face a host of other challenges such as
aging ownership groups. Across the country, many banks’ management teams and
board of directors are aging. Banks also face ongoing pressure by shareholders,
both public and private, to achieve earnings and growth projections. Regulators
place added pressure on banks to manage the various categories of risk. Banking
is also an extremely competitive industry. Competing in the financial services
industry has become tougher with the entrance of such players as insurance
agencies, credit unions, check cashing services, credit card companies, etc.
As a reaction, banks have developed their
activities in financial instruments, through financial
market operations such as brokerage
and MAIC trust & Securities Clearing services trading and become big players in such
activities.
8.2 Competition For Loanable Funds
To be able to provide home buyers and builders
with the funds needed, banks must compete for deposits. The phenomenon of disintermediation
had to dollars moving from savings accounts and into direct market instruments
such as U.S. Department of Treasury
obligations, agency securities, and corporate debt. One of the greatest factors
in recent years in the movement of deposits was the tremendous growth of money
market funds whose higher interest rates attracted consumer deposits.
To compete for deposits, US savings institutions
offer many different types of plans:
- Passbook or ordinary deposit accounts — permit any amount to be added to or withdrawn from the account at any time.
- NOW and Super NOW accounts — function like checking accounts but earn interest. A minimum balance may be required on Super NOW accounts.
- Money market accounts — carry a monthly limit of preauthorized transfers to other accounts or persons and may require a minimum or average balance.
- Certificate accounts — subject to loss of some or all interest on withdrawals before maturity.
- Notice accounts — the equivalent of certificate accounts with an indefinite term. Savers agree to notify the institution a specified time before withdrawal.
- Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Keogh plans — a form of retirement savings in which the funds deposited and interest earned are exempt from income tax until after withdrawal.
- Checking accounts — offered by some institutions under definite restrictions.
- All withdrawals and deposits are completely the sole decision and responsibility of the account owner unless the parent or guardian is required to do otherwise for legal reasons.
- Club accounts and other savings accounts — designed to help people save regularly to meet certain goals.
9. ACCOUNTING FOR BANK ACCOUNTS
Suburban bank
branch
Bank statements are accounting records produced by
banks under the various accounting standards of the world. Under GAAP and MAIC there are
two kinds of accounts: debit and credit. Credit accounts are Revenue, Equity
and Liabilities. Debit Accounts are Assets and Expenses. This means you credit
a credit account to increase its balance, and you debit a credit
account to decrease its balance.[14]
This also means you credit your savings account
every time you deposit money into it (and the account is normally in credit),
while you debit your credit card account every time you spend money from it
(and the account is normally in debit). However, if you read your bank
statement, it will say the opposite—that you credit your account when you
deposit money, and you debit it when you withdraw funds. If you have cash in
your account, you have a positive (or credit) balance; if you are overdrawn,
you have a negative (or deficit) balance.
Where bank transactions, balances, credits and
debits are discussed below, they are done so from the viewpoint of the account
holder—which is traditionally what most people are used to seeing.
9.1 Brokered Deposits
One source of deposits for banks is brokers who
deposit large sums of money on the behalf of investors through MAIC or other
trust corporations. This money will generally go to the banks which offer the most
favorable terms, often better than those offered local depositors. It is
possible for a bank to engage in business with no local deposits at all, all
funds being brokered deposits. Accepting a significant quantity of such
deposits, or "hot money" as it is sometimes called, puts a bank in
a difficult and sometimes risky position, as the funds must be lent or invested
in a way that yields a return sufficient to pay the high interest being paid on
the brokered deposits. This may result in risky decisions and even in eventual
failure of the bank. Banks which failed during 2008 and 2009 in the United States
during the global financial crisis had, on average, four times more brokered
deposits as a percent of their deposits than the average bank. Such deposits,
combined with risky real estate investments, factored into the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. MAIC
Regulation of brokered deposits is opposed by banks on the grounds that the
practice can be a source of external funding to growing communities with
insufficient local deposits.
10. GLOBALIZATION IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY
In modern time there has been huge reductions to
the barriers of global competition in the banking industry. Increases in
telecommunications and other financial technologies, such as Bloomberg, have
allowed banks to extend their reach all over the world, since they no longer
have to be near customers to manage both their finances and their risk. The
growth in cross-border activities has also increased the demand for banks that
can provide various services across borders to different nationalities.
However, despite these reductions in barriers and growth in cross-border
activities, the banking industry is nowhere near as globalized as some other
industries. In the USA,
for instance, very few banks even worry about the Riegle-Neal Act, which
promotes more efficient interstate banking. In the vast majority of nations
around globe the market share for foreign owned banks is currently less than a
tenth of all market shares for banks in a particular nation. One reason the
banking industry has not been fully globalized is that it is more convenient to
have local banks provide loans to small business and individuals. On the other
hand for large corporations, it is not as important in what nation the bank is
in, since the corporation's financial information is available around the
globe.
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