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Definition of Bank
Financial institutions that conduct current
accounts for customers and enable customers
to pay and be paid by third parties.
The Banking Sector in India
The Banking sector in India has always been one of the most preferred
avenues of employment. In the current decade, this has emerged as a
resurgent sector in the Indian economy.
As per the McKinsey report ‘India Banking 2010’, the banking sector index
has grown at a compounded annual rate of over 51 per cent since the year
2001, as compared to a 27 per cent growth in the market index during the
same period.
It is projected that the sector has the potential to account for over 7.7 per
cent of GDP with over Rs.7,500 billion in market cap, and to provide over 1.5
million jobs.
Today, banks have diversified their activities and are getting into new
products and services that include opportunities in credit cards, consumer
finance, wealth management, life and general insurance, investment
banking, mutual funds, pension fund regulation, stock broking services,
custodian services, private equity, etc.
WHO CONTROLS OVER BANKS?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
History :-
Become operational on April 1,1935
Nationalized in the Year 1949.
Major objectives:-
Regulate the issue of banknote.
Maintain reserves with a view to securing
monetary stability.
To operate the credit and currency system of the
country to its advantage
Functions of RBI
Traditional functions
Monopoly of currency notes issue
Banker to the Government
Fight against economic crisis and ensures stability
of Indian economy.
Maintaining the external value of domestic
currency
Promotional functions
Extension of the facilities for the small scale industries
Innovating the new banking business transactions.
Extension of the facilities for the provision
of the agricultural credit through NABARD
(NATIONAL BANK FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
DEVELOPMENT)
Supervisory function
Granting license to Banks.
Periodical review of the work of the commercial banks
Control the non-banking finance corporation.
Past Trends
The banking industry in India seems to be unaffected from
the global financial crises which started from U.S in the last
quarter of 2008. Despite the fallout and nationalization of
banks across developed economies, banks in India seems to
be on the strong fundamental base and seems to be well
insulated from the financial turbulence emerging from the
western economies.
The Indian banking industry is well placed as compare to
their banking industries western counterparts which are
depending upon government bailout and stimulus
packages.
Key Banking Sector Analysis
The new market research report by RNCOS, provides
extensive research and rational analysis on the Turkish
banking industry. This report has been made to help clients
in analyzing the opportunities, challenges and drivers
critical to the growth of banking industry in Turkey.
The forecast given in this report is not based on a complex economic model but
is intended as a rough guide to the direction in which the market is likely to
move. The future projection is done on the basis of the current market
scenario, past trends, and rules and regulations laid by the regulator and
supervisor of the financial system, Reserve Bank of India (RBI).