Why Bank Marketing?

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Why Bank Marketing?

Posted by Ripon Abu Hasnat on Thursday, September 4, 2014 | 0 comments

Awareness among Customers

Modern technology has made customers aware of the developments in the economic environment, which includes the financial system. Financial needs of the customers have grown multifold into various forms like quick cash accessibility, money transfer, asset security, increased return on surplus funds, financial advice, deferred payments etc. With a wide network of branches, even in a dissimilar banking scenario, customers expect the banks to offer a more and better service to match their demands and this has compelled banks to take up marketing in right earnest.

Quality as a Key Factor

With the opening up of the economy, fast change has been experienced in every activity, and banking has been no exemption. Quality is the watch word in the competitive world, which is market driven and banks have had to face up to this emerging scenario. In fact, it may not be out of place to reiterate that quality will in future be the sole determinant of successful banking ventures and marketing has to focus on this most crucial need of the hour.

Growing Competition

Increased completion is being faced by the banking industry from within the system with other agencies both, local and foreign, offering value added services. Competition is no more confined to resource mobilization but also to lending and other areas of banking activity. The foreign commercial bank with their superior technology, speed in operations and imaginative positioning of their services has also provided the necessary impetus to the Indian banks to innovate and complete in the market place.

Technological Advances

Technological innovation has resulted in financial product development especially in the international and investment banking areas. The western experience has demonstrated that technology has not only made execution of work faster but has also resulted in greater availability of manpower for customer Contact.