BANKING FINANACIAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT

UNIT I
Two mark Questions:

1) What is bank?
Bank is a German word which means ‘to collect’. The main function of the banks is
collection of funds as deposits. With time, banks have started performing other functions
such as lending money, etc.

2) Define scheduled banks.

The banker concerned must be in business of banking in India. It is either a company
defined in section 3 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956, or corporation or a company
incorporated by or under any law in force in any place outside India or an institution
notified by the central Government in this behalf.

3) What is Commercial bank?

Commercial banks are those banks which perform all kinds of banking functions
such as accepting deposits, advancing loans, credit creation, and agency functions.

4) What are non scheduled banks?

Non scheduled banks are not entitled to all those facilities that the scheduled banks
avail of form the Reserve Bank of India. Since the enactment of the Banking regulation
act in 1949, non scheduled banks have also come under the ambit of the RBI control.

5) What are the customer obligations to banks?

i) Obligations to honour the customers cheques
ii) Obligations to maintain secrecy of customers account
iii) Obligations to Receive Cheques and other Instruments for collection
iv) Obligations to Give Reasonable Notice before Closing the Account

6) Who is banker?
A banker is a dealer in capital or more properly a dealer in money. He is an
intermediate party between the borrower and the lender. He borrows from one party and
lends to another.

7) Who is customer?
A customer is a person who has some sort of account, either deposit or current or
some similar relation with a bank and from this it follows that any person could become
 a customer by opening a deposit or current account or having some similar relation with
a bank.

8) What is balance sheet?

A bank balance sheet record of the assets, liabilities, and net worth of a bank at a
given point in time. Assets are what a bank owns.

9) What is Income Statement?

An Income statement is a type of flow report, as compared to the balance sheet
which is a status report. Financial flows in firms are continuous.

10) What is Link Relationship?

Balance sheet acts as a link between the Income Statements of successive
accounting accounting years.

Long Answer Type Questions:

1) Explain the features and functions of bank. Discuss the various types of banks.
2) Explain the features and functions of commercial bank. Discuss the types of commercial
banks.
3) Write note on: i) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, ii) Banking Regulation Act, 1949
4) Define Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881. Explain the characteristics and types of
Negotiable Instrument Act.
5) Elaborate the financial statements and income statements of banks.
 UNIT II
Two mark Questions:

1) What is capital adequay?

According to the capital adequacy standard set by bank for international
settlement banks, must have a primary capital base equal at least to eight percent of their
assets.

2) What do you mean by deposit?

The term deposit and withdrawal tend to obscure the economic substance legal
essence of transactions in a deposit account.

3) What is credit analysis?

Credit analysis is the quantitative and qualitative analysis of bank, which help to
determine the banks debt service capacity, or how capable it is to pay back its principle
payments to the other creditors.

4) What is application of bank funds?

The application of funds is part of the funds statement which shows the various
uses of the firms working capital or other funds easily converted into cash.

5) What do you mean by lending?

The primary function of a bank is to receive deposits and lend loans, the majority
of the funds are used for lending and this is also considered as the major source of
income for the bank.

6) What is asset based lending?

Asset based lending is a type of financing in which the asset being bought is used
as collateral in asset based lending the quality of the collateral and not the financial
strength of the borrower is of prime importance.

7) What is customer profitability analysis?

Customer profitability analysis is a loan pricing method that takes into account
the lenders entire relationship with the customer when pricing the loan.

8) What do you mean by credit administration?

 Financial institutions must ensure that their credit portfolio is properly
administered, that is loan agreements are duly prepared renewal notices are sent
systematically and credit files are regularly updated.

9) What do you mean by credit delivery?

The credit is approved the customer should be advised of the terms and conditions
of the credit by way of a letter of offer. The duplicate of this letter should be duly signed
and returned to the institution by the customer.

10) What is credit management?

The goal of credit risk management is to maximize a banks risk adjusted rate of
return by maintaining credit risk exposure within acceptable parameters.

Long Answer Type Questions:

1) Define capita adequacy norms. Explain the capital funding and strategies and norms for
capital adequacy.
2) Explain the various non deposits schemes in brief.
3) Elaborate the pricing of deposit services.
4) Explain the principles of lending and loan policy. Discuss the non fund based lending.
5) Write note on customer profitability analysis.
 UNIT III
Two mark Questions:

1) What do you mean by credit monitoring?

The credit monitoring in a bank is to ensure that the funds are utilized for the
sanctioned purposes and at the same time complying with all sanction terms and
conditions.
2) State the needs of credit monitoring.
i) Accurate and comprehensive credit reports.
ii) Account details
iii) Significant events
iv) An extra set of eyes

3) What is financial distress?

A condition where a company cannot meet or has difficulty paying off financial
obligations to its creditors. The chance of financial distress increases when a firm has
high fixed costs, illiquid assets, or revenues that are sensitive to economic downturns.

4) Define risk management.

Risk is a condition where there is a possibility of an adverse deviation from a
desired outcome that is expected or hoped for the term risk may be defined as the
possibility of adverse results flowing from any occurrence.

5) List some objectives of risk management.

i) Provide a high quality service to customers.
ii) Initiate action to prevent or reduce the adverse effects of risk.
iii) Minimize the human costs of risks, where reasonably practicable.
iv) Met statutory and legal obligations.

6) What do you mean by interest rate risk?

The management of interest rate risk should be one of the critical components of
market risk management in banks. The regulatory restrictions in the past had greatly
reduced many of the risks in the banking system.
 7) What is GAP analysis?
Matching the duration of assets and liabilities, instead of matching the maturity or
repricing dates is the most effective way to protect the economic value of banks from
exposure to IRR than the simple gap model.

8) Define foreign exchange.

Foreign exchange risk is the risk that the domestic currency value of cash flows,
denominated in foreign currency may change because of the variation in the foreign
exchange rate.

9) Define market risk.

Market risk is the potential for a loss in value of an investment portfolio when
prices drop due to sources of systematic risk, or changes in risk factors that affect the
entire market or market segment.

10) Define operational risk.

Operational risk can be summarized as human risk, it is the risk of business
operations failing due to human error. Operational risk will change from industry to
industry.

Long Answer Type Questions:

1) What are the signals of borrowers financial sickness? Explain the debt restructuring for
sick companies. Also describe the rehabilitation process.
2) Explain VaR and its models.
3) Discuss the sources and process of liquidity risk management.
4) What are the types of credit risk? Explain the methods of mitigating credit risk.
5) Discuss the problem and management of NPAs.
 UNIT IV
Two mark Questions:

1) What do you mean by merges of banks?

Bank mergers are taking place all over the world. The banks are opting for
mergers at a rapid rate as the mergers are able to diversity risk, to reduce cost and to
increase efficiency.

2) What are mutual funds?

A mutual funds is a professionally managed from of collective investments that
pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short term money
market instruments, and other securities.

3) Define securities market.

According to P.K Dhar, This is not a market for capital goods, rather it is a market
for raising and advancing money capital for investments purposes.

4) What is diversification of banks?

Term lendings, and underwriting of new issues of corporate securities by
industrial enterprises.

5) Define underwriting.
Insurance underwriting is the process of choosing who and what the insurance
company decides to insure. This is based on a risk assessment.

6) Define life Insurance.

Insurance may be defined as a device in which a sum of money as premium is
paid by the insured in consideration of the insurers bearing the risk of paying a large sum
upon a given contingency.

7) What is Hazard loss?

Hazard is the sources of danger. The hazard is the underlying factor behind the
peril that leads to the probability loss to the insurer.

8) What is commercial bank balance sheet?

Every banking company is required to prepare with reference to that year a
balance sheet and a profit and loss account as on the last working day of the year in the
Form A and Form B.
 9) What do you mean by Return on Equity Model?
Return on Equity is one of the most important indicators of a firms profitability
and potential growth.

10) What is ratio analysis?

As banks have very different operating structures than regular industrial
companies, it stands to reason that investors have a different set of fundamental factors to
consider, when evaluating banks.

Long Answer Type Questions:

1) Explain the recent trends of mergers in bank. Describe the benefits of diversification.
2) Discuss various types of mutual funds.
3) Explain the characteristics and significance of Insurance.
4) Discuss the underwriting process.
5) Explain the components of CAMEL
 UNIT V
Two mark Questions:

1) Give some paper based payments.

Since paper based payments occupy an important place in the country, reserve
bank had introduced magnetic ink character recognition technology for speeding up and
bringing inefficiency in processing the cheques.

2) What is Electronic Clearing service?

Electronic Clearing service is a facility of electronically sending payment
instructions. The objective is to provide an alternate method of effecting bulk payment
transactions which would obviate the need for issuing and handling paper instruments
thereby facilitating customer service.

3) List the features of EFT.

i) Quick movement of deposit money from the bank account of the customer to
the other bank account of other customers.
ii) No intermediation of paper based system.

4) State the objectives of RTGS?

i)To protest key existing assests of banking system i.e to brand and customer
relationship

ii) To idle and strength the customer base

iii) To reduce the prevalent transaction cost.

5) What are the advantages of NEFT?

i)NEFT facilitates an efficient , secure, economical ,reliable, and expeditious

system of funds transfer and clearing in the banking sector throughout India.

ii)NEFT release the stress on the existing paper based funds transfer and clearing
system.

6) List the advantages of plastic money?

i)It is more convenient to carry than cash.
ii)Helps in establishing a good credit history.
iii)Give incentives such as reward points that we can redeem.
 7) What do you mean by credit cards?
A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system
named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system.
8) What is debit card?

Debit cards are substitutes for cash are check payments much the same way that credit
cards are however banks only issue them to people if they hold an account with them.
9) What is ATM ?
An Automatic teller machine is a computerized telecommunication device that
provides that customers of a financial institution which asses the financial
transaction in a public without the need for a human clerk or bank teller.

10) What are the functions performed by ATMs?

It can perform both cash and non cash transactions in a totally secured
environment.
It helps to perform cash transactions for both deposits and withdrawals.

Long Answer Type Questions:

1) Explain the concept of payment system in India. Discuss the paper based and e-payment
system ?
2) Explain the concept of RTGS .Discuss the role and advantages of RTGS?
3) What do you mean by e-banking. Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of e-banking.?
4) What do you mean by plastic money and e-money. Discuss different forms of plastic
money?
5) Explain the working of ATMs. Also describe the forecasting of cash demand at ATMs?
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M.B.A. MODEL EXAMINATIONS, JANUARY 2022Third

Semester
BA5008- BANKING FINANCIAL SERVICES
MANAGEMENT
(Regulations 2017)

Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART – A (10×2=20 Marks)

1. What is negotiable instrument?

2. Define balance sheet.

3. What is credit delivery?

4. What is credit monitoring?

5. Define lending.

6. What is underwriting?

7. Define NPA.

8. Define ratio analysis.

9. Define electronic banking.

10. Explain RBI.

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PART – B (5×13=65 Marks)

11. a) Explain the functions of Indian Banking System.

(OR)

b) Explain about the rights and obligations of banker?

12. a) Describe the types of lending.

(OR)

b) Write the different types of loans and their features.

13. a) Explain the needs and significance of credit mentoring and signal
borrowers.

(OR)

b) Write notes on: Internet rate, Liquidity, Credit, Market, Operational risk
and Forex.

14. a) Differentiate between mergers and diversification.

(OR)

b) Explain various components used in camel model.

15. a) Elaborate the electronic banking.

(OR)
b) Explain the difference between plastic oney and E-Money.
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PART – C (1×15=15 Marks)

16a) Elaborate the Provisions of the RBI Act, 1934 governing the Indian Banking
System.

Or

(b) Explain the different types of E-Payment/transfer systems made available to retail
customers by the public sectors banks in India. Are New generation banks able to offer better
payment/transfer services than Public Sector Banks? Give reasons.
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Reg. No. :

Question Paper Code : J1125

M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY/MARCH 2018.

Fourth Semester — General Management

Common to Third Semester — Financial Services Management

DBA 7006 — INDIAN BANKING FINANCIAL SYSTEM

(Regulations 2013)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10  2 = 20 marks)

1. Explain the concept of banking.

2. Define endorsement.
3. What are demand deposits?
4. Explain restrictive crossing.
5. What is meant by loan syndication?
6. Define risk charting.
7. Define financial distress.
8. What is meant by conglomerate merger?
9. What is ALM?
10. What is meant by EFT?

PART B — (5  13 = 65 marks)

11. (a) (i) Explain the various monetary and non monetary functions of RBI.
(ii) Elaborate on the items under the liability side of a banks balance
sheet.
Or
(b) (i) Differentiate between promissory notes, bills of exchange and
cheques.
(ii) Highlight the provisions covered under Part II of the Banking
Regulation Act 1949.
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12. (a) (i) State the different approaches to capital adequacy.

(ii) Describe the steps involved in designing of deposit schemes.

Or
(b) Do you think credit analysis is essential before providing loan to the
customers? Explain the various credit Appraisal Techniques used by
commercial banks to analyse the credit worthiness of a borrower.

13. (a) (i) Explain the need for credit monitoring.

(ii) Should rehabilitation be done on a continuous basis? Explain the
procedure for rehabilitation of sick units.

Or
(b) What are NPA’s? Describe the major factors that contribute to high levels
of NPA in India. Explain the steps taken by banking sector to resolve this
problem.

14. (a) What are the objectives of mergers in banking sector? Critically analyze
on the mergers that have taken place in the post liberalization era.

Or
(b) Describe the various components used in CAMEL’S model to analyse the
performance of banks.

15. (a) Explain the importance of E-banking system in India. Describe how
Indian customers are reacting to E-banking post demonetization?

Or
(b) (i) Describe the role of RBI in addressing the security issues in
e-payment system.
(ii) List out the advantages of SWIFT.
PART C — (1  15 = 15 marks)

16. (a) Elaborate the forecasting mechanism of cash demand at ATMs.

Or
(b) Describe the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and electronic
payments system.

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Question Paper Code : BS2125

M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017.

General Management (Fourth Semester)

Financial Services Management (Third Semester)

DBA 7006 – INDIAN BANKING FINANCIAL SYSTEM

(Regulations 2013)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10  2 = 20 marks)

1. Define banker.

2. What is negotiable instrument?

3. What is meant by pricing of deposits?

4. What is financial distress?

5. What do you mean by risk management?

6. Define underwriting.

7. What is mutual fund?

8. Define merger.

9. What do you mean by credit monitoring?

10. Define E-Money.

PART B — (5  13 = 65 marks)

11. (a) Explain the rights and obligations of the banker.

Or

(b) Explain the highlights of the Banking regulations Act 1948.

12. (a) What are the basic steps involved in credit analysis (5C’S)? Explain the
sources of credit information?

Or
(b) Discuss the lending functions of banks. Explain different types of
lending.

13. (a) Explain different types of loans and advances in detail.

Or

(b) (i) Describe the sources of credit information. (7)

(ii) What do you understand about NPA & ALM? (6)

14. (a) Describe the Framework for Evaluating Bank Performance.

Or
(b) Explain the CAMELS rating system in detail.

15. (a) Explain different types of payment systems followed in India.

Or
(b) Discuss the Security threats in e-banking.

PART C — (1  15 = 15 marks)

16. (a) Discuss the overall functions performed by the commercial banks in
India.

Or

(b) Discuss the various types of risks faced by a banker and suggest
measures to mitigate them.

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