Tuesday, April 9, 2013

IDBI Bank’s fee income from govt biz doubles in FY13

......“We are proactively encouraging our customers to pay their taxes through us. This is part of our cross-sell activity. “We want to leverage our technology as much as possible to facilitate e-payments to the Central and State Governments. Even non-IDBI customers can pay their taxes through us.” Government business presents two-fold advantage for banks. While banks earn fee income, the funds collected also improve their overall low-cost CASA (current account, savings account) deposits, albeit only for a day. “Any banking relationship is not just an asset relationship. It has to be seen holistically as asset plus liability plus whatever other cross-sell opportunities that a commercial bank can tap,”.......

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