BANKING STRUCTURE IN INDIA
INTRODUCTION India cannot have a healthy economy without a sound and effective banking system. The banking system should be hassle free and able to meet the new challenges posed by technology and other factors, both internal and external.
In the past three decades, India's banking system has earned several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its extensive reach. It is no longer confined to metropolises or cities in India. In fact, Indian banking system has reached even to the remote corners of the country. This is one of the main aspects of India's
growth story.
DEFINATION OF BANKING: BANK AS ACCEPTING FOR THE PURPOSE OF LENDING OR INVESTMENT OF DEPOSITS OF MONEY FROM THE PUBLIC, REPAYABLE ON DEMAND OR OTHERWISE AND WITHDRAWAL BY CHEQUE, DRAFT, AND ORDER. THE COMBINATION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLIC DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWAL OF THE MONEY BY CHEQUES BY ANY INSTITUTION CANNOT BE PERFORMED WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF RESERVE BANK. A BANK IS AN INSTITUTION WHICH DEALS IN MONEY AND CREDIT. THUS, BANK IS AN INTERMEDIARY WHICH HANDLES OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY BOTH FOR THEIR ADVANTAGE AND TO ITS OWN PROFIT. BUT BANK IS NOT MERELY A TRADER IN MONEY BUT ALSO AN IMPORTANT MANUFACTURER OF MONEY.
HISTORY
OF INDIAN BANK
The first fully Indian owned bank was the Allahabad Bank, established in 1865.
However, at the end of late-18th century, there were hardly any banks in India in the
modern sense of the term. The American Civil War stopped the supply of cotton to
Lancashire from the Confederate States. Promoters opened banks to finance trading in
Indian cotton. With large exposure to speculative ventures, most of the banks opened
in India during that period failed. The depositors lost money and lost interest in
keeping deposits with banks. Subsequently, banking in India remained the exclusive
domain of Europeans for next several decades until the beginning of the 20th century.
Foreign banks too started to arrive, particularly in Calcutta, in the 1860s. The
Comptoire d'Escompte de Paris opened a branch in Calcutta in 1860, and another in
Bombay in 1862; branches in Madras and Pondicherry, then a French colony,
followed. Calcutta was the most active trading port in India, mainly due to the trade of
the British Empire, and so became a banking centre.
Hilton-Young Commission:
• The Reserve Bank of India was set up on the basis of the recommendations of
the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance also known as the
Hilton-Young Commission.
BANKING
STRUCTURE IN INDIA
CHALLENGES
INDUSTRY:
1 2 3 4 5 6
FACED BY INDIAN BANKING
RURAL MARKET MANAGEMENT OF RISK GROWTH OF BANKING MARKET DISCIPLINE GLOBAL BANKING CUSTOMER RETENTION
CONCLUSION OVER THE YEARS, IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED THAT CLOUDS OF TREPIDATION AND DROPS OF GROWTH ARE TWO IMPORTANT PHENOMENA OF MARKET, WHICH FREQUENTLY CHANGES IN DIFFERENT SETS OF CONDITIONS. THE PRE AND POST LIBERALIZATION ERA HAS WITNESSED VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES WHICH DIRECTLY AFFECTS THE AFORESAID PHENOMENA. IT IS EVIDENT THAT POST LIBERALIZATION ERA HAS SPREAD NEW COLOURS OF GROWTH IN INDIA, BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY IT HAS ALSO POSED SOME CHALLENGES.
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