Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Types of Retail Banks


Types of Retail Banks
From Wikipedia

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.

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.

Postal savings
banks: savings banks associated with national postal systems.

Private banks:
banks that manage the assets of high net worth individuals.

Offshore banks:
banks located in jurisdictions with low taxation and regulation. Many offshore banks are essentially private banks.

Savings bank: in Europe, savings
banks take their roots in the 19th or sometimes even 18th century. 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 decentralised distribution network, providing local and regional outreach—and by their socially responsible approach to business and society.

Building societies and Landes
banks: 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.

Islamic banks: Banks that transact according to Islamic principles.

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