Fee-Based Services of Banks
Fee-Based Services of Banks
Pricing
People
Process
Chapter Summary
Fee-based services can be broadly classified into
corporate and retail fee-based services. Organizations
avail of such services for meeting both their short-
term and long-term financial requirements. The
common fee-based services offered to corporate
clients are: cash management services, letter of credit,
bank guarantees, bill discounting, factoring/
forfaiting, forex services, merchant banking, registrar
services, underwriting services, custodial services,
lease and hire purchase, and credit rating. Retail fee-
based services are availed of at large by the retail
customers for payments, money transfers, personal
wealth management, online trading, etc.
For wealth management services in the retail segment, relationship-based personal selling is
combined with the technology-oriented channels of distribution.
The active involvement of people is necessary for rendering fee-based services as the people
factor decides the quality of service delivery. Many of the service providers recruit candidates
from reputed colleges and institutions, and train them to handle the customer requirements.
The process factor in service delivery can be analyzed in terms of the flow of activities, the
number of steps involved in each activity, and customer involvement. Providers of fee-based
services take all these factors into account for achieving high levels of service quality.