Introduction
Retail banks have traditionally provided payment services to small businesses and individuals involved in a large volumes of low cost transactions. It is nowadays difficult to classify retail banks because the majority of banks offer wholesale and retail activities. Technological developments, also enable these banks to provide a number of retail monetary services to its clients. Retail banks also offer insurance products, pension schemes, and stock services.
Northern Rock is a British bank that was harmfully affected by the United State subprime market fall down in 2007. However, the British government in February 2008 took control of it after it collapsed. On the other hand, the Building Societies Association in the United Kingdom claims that the subprime mortgages and loans to persons whom failure to pay their own loans, were not the primary reason of Northern Rock's meltdown. (Craido and Van Rixtel, 2008).
Northern Rock required emergency support by the Bank of England for the reason that it funded loans using extensive money markets, which included grouped subprime mortgages, instead of using money put in by retail savers (Barbara, 2006, p. 14-15).
For a bank to attract a lot of customers, it has to come up with strategies on how to do it. Good strategies results to the growth of any business enterprise. Short-term profits culture among banks and combinations of investment banking and retail banking operations are linked with the collapse of the northern rock in this study we will analyze the features that make large retail banks unique in the economy and how these features contributed to the fall of northern rock (Mullineux, 2003, p. 8-12).
Features that make large retail banks unique in the economy
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...e lines to take out their money, banking officials tried to convince to its clients to stay calm, saying that the bank and financial system were stable. Before the closure of the bank, it had made losses for six months; this is what led to its nationalization. All the same, northern rock should not have concentrated on offering mortgage services only. It should have offered other services like giving personal loans, insurance and should also have adopted the features of some of the large retail banks like LLOYYDS who were outsourcing some of its processes in order to cut down its costs. Also, it should have embarked on evaluating customers needs so that it can understand their concerns in order to come up with ideas on how to protect their interests; in the process it could have prevented customers from running away to other large retail firms.
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In numerous regards these wholesale finances are much like interbank CDs. There is nothing essentially off with wholesale finances, yet financial specialists ought to consider what it says in regards to a bank when it depends on this subsidizing source. While a few banks de-accentuate the branch-based store social occasion model, for wholesale financing, overwhelming dependence on this wellspring of capital can be a notice that a bank is not as focused as its associates. Financial specialists ought to likewise take note of that the higher expense of wholesale subsidizing implies that a bank either needs to settle for a narrower premium spread, and lower benefits, or seek after higher yields from its loaning and contributing, which ordinarily means assuming more serious