Sunday 11 October 2015

Banking System Around The World (2015)

Banking System Around The World (2015)  
   Introduction: In the age of 21st century almost every people in the world are familiar with banks directly or indirectly. And banks are operating their activities all over the world. There are many types of banks
such as Commercial bank, Investment bank, Islamic bank etc. I am going to discuss about the banking system around the world very shortly for just getting slight knowledge about it. Although the banking system are almost similar around the world but I found the major four group of Banking system all over the world. Here is my discussion below.

  Banking system around the world:
Dissimilarities exist in the scope of commercial banking activities in different countries such as communist, capitalist, Islamic etc. We can divide the major commercial banking systems in different countries in the following Four group:

  1. Anglo –American banking system:  It is prevalent in most of the countries including Bangladesh.  There are differences between commercial banking and investment or merchant banking. Separate merchant  bank and  commercial banks are established and  commercial  banks do not operate merchant  banking.   
       
  2. German Universal Banking System: This system is prevalent only in German. There is no difference between commercial banking and investment banking in this system. Commercial banks can operate any type of business operation. It can buy up to 40% share of corporate firms and participate in the ownership of the firm. It monitor any corporate in two ways: firstly as creditor and secondly as director or owner. It is also called universal banking system. 

   3. Japanese main banking system: There are difference between commercial banking and investment banking but commercial banks   can be owner of corporation. This is hybrid of (1)and (2)and commercial banks do not  operate invest  banking but can purchase shares of the company up to 5% and monitor the company by directorship.
   
   4. Indian lead Banking System: It is developed in India by the end 1960. Every lead banks performs extra responsibilities with the existing commercial banking System. The purpose of this system is to increase the rate of savings, equitable allocation of resources on the basis of some criteria to various sectors of the economy and to increase efficiency in investment and production. It divides the country’s geographical area in different segments and only one leader bank is selected for each area. That area’s each and every commercial bank and other operating financial institution’s loans activities are transacted according to the advice and guidelines of the lead bank.

   Conclusion: Banks contributes the major role to develop the growth of a country. Those are major four major banking systems around the world. The banking system of others country in the world are almost similar with this four group.
                                                                                                                                                               By Maria 

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