RETAIL BANKING MCQ-1

Q.1. What  is  retail Banking?
a. Banking  targetted  at corporates
b. Banking focused towards  weaker class  segment
c. Banking deals with individuals and  lends them   money
d. Banking deals with wholesalers for deposits   source
e. Both (a) and  (c)
Q.2. Characteristics of  retail banking?
a) Targeted  at individual customers,  and  mass  market segment
b) Offer various liability, assets  and service products  to  individuals
c) Both (a) and c)
d) Delivery  model of  ATMs/internet and mobile  banking
e) All above
Q.3. What  are the advantages of  retail Banking?
a) Spread of risk across customers /customers loyalty and attractive interest   spreads.
b) Spread of credit risk to diversified customers and lesser volatility in demand and    credit cycle
c) Large number of customers with selection possibility by scroing   system.
d) Both and (a) and  (c)
e) Both (d) and  (b)
Q.4. Mark  the  problems in retail banking?
(a) Managing large number of customers and /or rapid evolution of   services.
(b) Costs of maintaining low  value transactions, (c) Higher
(d) delinquencies is unsecured retail loans and credit card receivables. All of   above
(e) Both (a) and  (c)
Q.5. Reasons for retail banking in India are   :-
(a) Growing urban population/higher disposable income/increase in mass affluents space and explosion of service economy. (b) Foreign banks and private sector banks seriously looking at the bottom of customers alongwith credit and debit cards receivables.
(c) Despite credit and deposits growth, banking access remains limited to few sections of the population,   (d) Both  (b) and    (c),
(e) Both (a) + (b)
Q.6. Which is relevant to  bank's balance  sheet?
(a) ABSA (b) NASA   (c) CASA (d)  NBFC Q.7.Define the retail assets under Retail  Banking?
(a) Housing loans/consumer durables /credit card  receivable
(b) Auto loans/personal loans/loan against shares and   debenture
(c) ECS Loans/EFT Loans/CASA  Loans
(d) Both (a) and  (c)
(e) Both (a) and (b)  only
Q.8. Which is highest in number of commercial banks in  India?
a) Branches
b) ATMs
c) Extension Counters
d) Mobile Banking
e) Internet Banking
Q.9. What is the contribution of bank's retail assets to Gross Domestic Product    (GDP) in India?
( a )  6 %  ( b )  1 5 %  ( c )  3 3 %  ( d )  2 4 %  ( e )  3 %
Q.10. What is not a constraint in Retail Banking?
a. ManaginglargenumberofclientsinabsenceofROBUSTITsystem
b. Rapid  evolutionofservices
c. Maintaining ATMscentres withlow  costs
d. Unsecuredretail  loansand creditand receivables  amount
Maintainingnetinterestmarginof2%inhousingloansbeyond75lakhsandabove.
Q.11. What is business model for retail banking in India?
a. Strategicbusinessunitapproach
b. Departmental  Approach
c. Integratedapproach
d. Any oneof above
e. Both(a) and(b) only
Q.12. Givethenamesofforeignbankswhichenteredtheretailbankingactivitiesbutwhennotabletoachievethebusinessobjectivesmovedoutofbusiness?
a. BNPParibas
b. AmericanExpress
c. ABNAmro(Now RSB) bank
d. CitiBank
e. All (a) to (c)
Q.13. In retail banking which business model is adopted generally by Public Sector  Banks?
a. Strategic Business Unit
b. Departmental  Approach
c. IntegratedApproach
d. Managementby  ObjectiveApproach
Q.14. Which business model in retail banking is do adopt by new generation private sector  banks
a) Strategicbusinessunitapproach
b) Departmental  Approach
c) Integrated approach(partof overall business  plan)
(d)  Managementby Objective Approach
Q.15. During 1990s, certain foreign banks went for business model in retail banking, but after certain  years?
a. Continued with their business inspite of being  unprofitable
b. Changed their focus with some strategic  changes
c. Movedout of the business
d. None of above
Q.16. Discuss the liability products offered to retail banking   customers?
a. Savings Accounts
b. Current  Accounts/Term  depositaccounts
c. Housing  Loans/consumer durables/auto loans/credit-cards  easy payments
d. Both (a) + (b)
e. All (a) to (c)
Q.17. In Liability products of retail banking what are different value   propositions?
a) ATMs/Debit cards/Credit Cards/Multicity cheques, built in with savings   A/c
b) Internetbanking/phonebanking/mobilebankingtagginggroupinsuranceproductstolifeandnon-life/moneysweepfacilitiesfromsavingstofixed deposits.
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Auto overdraft facility only
Q.18. Retail asset financing is a major component of retail banking.    Discuss what are those assets?
a. Housing  Loans/Loan  against rental receivables
b. Consumer  durableloans /credit  cards/salary overdraft
c. Auto loans/personal  loans/loans  against securities
d. All above
e. Only (a) and (c)
Q.19. Discuss the other services which are tagged under retail   banking?
a) Housingloan/consumerdurablesloan/autoloans/personalloan/creditcardreceivables
b) Saving/term/currentdeposits
c) Debit    Cards/ATMcards/telephonebanking/mobilebanking
d) Internetbanking/dematservices/brookingservices/insurancepolicies/mutualfunds/saleofgoldcoins/wealthmanagementservices
e) Both (a) and (c)
Q.20. Processing of services in retail banking is basically approached, from which   dimension?
a. In-house resource
b. Some products  processed  in  house and  some are outsourced
c. Outsourcing of entire process
d. AUabove
Q2I. The entire process for products and services in retail banking is done though in house resource by which category of banks?
a. Public Sector Bank (PSB)
b. Old Private Sector and  PSBs
c. New Private Sector Banks
d. Foreign Banks
Q.22. Banks adopt different process models for retail asset products and services, to build absolute process efficiencies?
a. Centralised retail asset processing  centres
b. Centralised  processing for some assets  only
c. Regional processing hubs
d. Stand  alone processing at branches (e)  Any  of above
Q.23. What are the process models which commonly banks adopt for retail   liability?
a. Centralised processing for opening of account/issue of PB/ Cheque book/ATM   card
b. Regional processing Hubs, all  above  activities
c. Opening of SB A/cs at branches add issue of PB and cheque book/ ATM Cards/PIN Mailers also at the stand alone,
(d) Any of above
Q.24. In pricing of products and services is based on certain fundamental parameters. Which are those parameters?
a) Market  dynamics/risk perception/return  expectations/customer profile
b) Tenor/duration/resources  position/asset-liability  management position
c) Any of above
d) Both (a) and (b)
25. Pricing of products and services in banks is mainly driven on the basis of   bases?
a. Asset Liability  Management
b. Regulatory advices from RBI
c. Structured step up pricing practice
d. Both (a) and (b)
Q.26. Price structuring for productsand services is attempted by banks in the following ways -
(a) Stand alone pricing for different services
(b) Special concessional quotes for high net worth depositors and retail   depositors
(c) Bundledpricing/Holisticpricingbasedontotalrelationship(d)Allabove(e)   Any  of   above
Q.27. Why structuring is adopted by banks in retail banking?
Offerholisticpricingacrossofspecificbundlingofservicessothetotalpricepropositionbecomesattractivecustomer Offerholisticpricingacrossofspecificbundlingofservicessothetotalpricepropositionbecomesprofitabletobank
Offerholisticpricingacrossofspecificbundlingofservicessothetotalpricepropositionbecomesattractivetohighnetworthclientsonly     d)  All   above
Q.28. Which category of banks adopt price bundling of product and   services?
(a) Public sector banks (b) Private sector banks
(c) Foreign banks
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.29. Publicsectorbanks(nationalised+ IDBIbank+ SBIand 5 associatesand Bhartiya Mahilla Bank Ltd.) havepriceconcernsaswellasrebatesin pricingstructure.    Whatisthebasisofitsapplication?
a) Volumes of transaction
b) Quantum
c) Relationship with bank  d) All above
30. Banksdohavestructureforpricingadditionalmodels. Underitwhatarebenefitsmadeavailabletocustomersotherthanrebatesofdiscountsas alternativepricingpropositions?
(a) Free remittance facilities
(b) Issue of demand drafts free of charges
(c) Waiver of service or processing charges (d) All above e)  Anyofabove
Q.31. Technologyandretailbankingareinseparable.Technologyistheenablerforbuildingandtranslatingacustomerdatabaseintoretailbankingbusiness.Suchdataareusable          to
a. Increase the scope for cross selling
b. Increase  thescopeforup-selling
c. Get due about the level to which data base is organised
d. aII above
e. Any one of above
Q.32. Distinguish retail banking with corporate banking and state which is retail   banking?
a. Individualssegment/massmarket/businesstocustomerapproach
b. Wholesaleclients/smallersegment/businesstobusinessapproach


c. Highticket size/high risk/low returns/monitoring less laborious high depositcost
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Q.33. What special features are there in retail banking compared to wholesale   banking?
a) Low NPA impact
b) Cost of deposits lesser
c) Monitoring of advances less laborious
d) Both (a) and (b)
Q.34. Towhichtypeofbankingwegethigherreturns/lesserrisk/cheapercostofdeposits/impactof       NPAlesser/Lowticketsizeofloanetc.?
a. Retail Banking
b. Wholesale Banking
c. B2BBanking
(d)  Corporate Banking
Q.35. What is the latest level of technology in Public Sector   Banks?
ALPM
a) Single  Serverenvironment
b) Corebankingsolution,   C) singleplatformenvironment(d)  Truncation
Q.36. Which implementation model banks adopt in retail banking   processes?
a. Horizontally  organisedmodel
b. Vertically organised model
c. Predominantlyvertically  organised  model
d. Predominantly  Horizontallyorganisedmodel
e. Anyone of above
Q.37. Whenis the horizontal model adoptedin retail banking?
a. Level of customer information available in a single  platform
b. Offeringmultipleproducts/services
c. Offering services across assets, liabilities and other  services
d. All of above
Q.38. Whentheverticallyorganisedmodelprovidesfunctionalityunderretailbanking?
a) Centralised Tistomer data  base
b) Common informations availability to other  models
c) Scope for enlarging the scope for cross-selling and up selling  d )All above
Q.39. Which concept of retail banking is adopted under standard norm by PSBs in   India?
a. Horizontally  organisedmodel
b. Vertically organised model
c. Predominantlyvertically  organised  model
d. Predominantlyhorizontally   organisedmodel
Q.40. What are the basic structure of retail  banking?
a) Retail Assets
b) Retail Liability ,c )Third Party Products, d) All above


ANSWER SHEET-
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C
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E
3
E
4
D
5
D
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A
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E
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B
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A
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C
11
D
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E
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B
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A
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C
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
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B
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E
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C
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D
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D
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D
27
A
28
D
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D
30
D
31
D
32
A
33
D
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A
35
C
36
E
37
D
38
D
39
A
40
D

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