Mobile Banking in Bangladesh: A Case Study on DBBL Mobile
Banking (Rocket).
1.1 Introduction
Mobile banking is a service provided by a bank or other financial
institution that allows its customers to conduct a range of financial
transactions
remotely using a mobile device such as a mobile phone or tablet, and using
software, usually called an app, provided by the financial institution for the
purpose. Mobile banking is usually available on a 24-hour basis. Some financial
institutions have restrictions on which accounts may be accessed through mobile
banking, as well as a limit on the amount that can be transacted.
The
types of financial transactions which a customer may transact through mobile
banking include obtaining account balances and list of latest transactions,
electronic bill payments, and funds transfers between a customer's or another's
accounts.
Dutch Bangla Bank launched the very
first mobile banking service in Bangladesh on 31 March 2011. This service is
launched with 'Agent' and 'Network' support from mobile operators, Banglalink
and Citycell. Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. has provided software
solution with their local partner Neurosoft Technologies Ltd. There are around
160 million people in Bangladesh, of which, only 13 per cent have bank
accounts. With this solution, Dutch-Bangla Bank can now reach out to the rural
and unbanked population, of which, 45 per cent are mobile phone users. Under
the service, any mobile handset with subscription to any of the six existing
mobile operators of Bangladesh would be able to utilize the service. Under the
mobile banking services, bank-nominated 'Agents' perform banking activities on
behalf of the banks, like opening mobile banking account, providing cash
services (receipts and payments) and dealing with small credits. Cash
withdrawal from a mobile account can also be done from an ATM validating each
transaction by 'mobile phone & PIN' instead of 'card & PIN'. Other
services that are being delivered through mobile banking system are
person-to-person (e.g. fund transfer), person-to-business (e.g. merchant
payment, utility bill payment), business-to-person (e.g. salary/commission
disbursement), government-to-person (disbursement of government allowance)
transactions.
1.2 Background
of the Study
We
Know Bangladesh Bank play an important role of our country. The banking system
of Bangladesh is composed variety of banks working as National Commercial
Banks, Foreign bank, Specialization, banks and Development Banks. However there
are many Banks in Bangladesh at Present. Under internship program each student
has to prepared report on particular topics related with the organization.
According to this requirement, I have already completed my study about DBBL Mobile
Banking Rocket. On the basis of my practical experience as well as theoretical
knowledge, I have completed the report regarding, “Mobile Banking in
Bangladesh, A Study on Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (Ricket). The main focuses
of my study is to analysis about Mobile Banking which is most famous banking
system in Bangladesh and its strength and weakness.
1.3 Profile of DBBL in Bangladesh:
1.3 Profile of DBBL in Bangladesh:
Banking
system occupies an important place in a nation’s economy. Banking institution
is indispensable in a modern society and it plays a vital role in the economic
development of a country. Against the background of Liberation of economic
policies in Bangladesh. Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd. Emerged as a new commercial bank
to provide efficient banking services with a view to improving the
socio-economic development of the country. The Bank provides a broad range of
financial services to its customers and corporate clients. The Board of
Directors consists of eminent personalities from the realm of commerce and
industries of the country.
Objectives of Dutch Bangia Bank Limited:
Objective:
To
achieve positive Economic Value Added (EVA) each year.
To
be market leader in product innovation.
To
be one of the top three Financial Institution in Bangladesh in terms of cost
efficiency.
To
be one of the top five Financial Institutions in Bangladesh in terms of market
share in all significant market segments we serve.
Financial Objectives:
To
achieve a return on shareholders’ equity of 20% or more, on average.
Vision:
Dutch-Bangla
bank, as a first class pioneer banking financial institution, dreams of a
better Bangladesh, where arts and letters, sports and athletics, music and
entertainment, science and education, health and hygiene, clean and pollution
free environment and above all a society based on morality and ethics make all
our lives worth living. DBBL’s essence and ethos rest on a cosmos of creativity
and the marvel -magic of a charmed life that abounds with spirit of life and
adventures that contributes towards human development.
Mission:
The
Dutch-Bangla Bank engineers enterprises and creativity in the business and
industry with a commitment to social responsibility. “Profits alone” does not
hold a central focus in the banks operation; because “man does not live by
bread & butter alone.”
Core
values:
The
Dutch-Bangla Bank believes in its uncompromising commitment to fulfill its
customer’s needs and satisfaction and to become their first choice in banking.
Taking cue from its pool of esteemed clientele, the bank intends to pave the
way for a new era for a banking that upholds and epitomizes its vaunted marques
“Fo«r trusted partner.”
For
the community strengthening the corporate values and taking environment and
social risks and reward into account
1.4 Rational of the Study
As
a student of the Business Administration Discipline in “Govt. Titumir College,
Dhaka” it is compulsory to do internship in an organization and I have to meet
that obligation with the support of Dutch Bangla Bank Ltd. I am carrying out my
internship at the Mobile Banking focus on DBBL. This study will enable to know
Mobile Banking. The report will provide information about Mobile Banking, its
operation, its benefit and its influence in Bangladesh economy. I prepare my
report about Dutch-Bangla Bank, which had a great opportunity to have in depth
knowledge of all the banking activities. So, as the part of the study this
internship program helps me to gaining knowledge and understands about Mobile
Banking system.
Scope of the Study:
The
Report mainly focuses on the following areas:
Mobile
Banking and Internet Banking extended by Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited. What kinds
of standard documents are required for different types of account opening like
Mobile
account, saving account, Current Account, STD, Excel, Power, Power Plus.
How
different kinds of projects are appraised and financed at Dutch-Bangla Bank
Limited. Present scenario and prospective of Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd.
1.5 Objectives of Study:
The
main objective of the study is to write a report on Mobile Banking System of
Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd (Rocket).
2.1 Methodology
Both
primary and secondary data is used to accomplish the objectives of the study. A
good number of literatures have been reviewed to sharpen the thought on Mobile
Banking and its different facets in the context of Bangladeshi banks. Data on
various indicators relating to readiness of the banks have been collected from
different sources such as Bangladesh Bank (BB) publications and reports,
websites of different banks, Bangladesh Institution of Bank Management, World
Bank policy paper and Bangladesh Bank mobile banking policy paper about Mobile
Financial Services in Bangladesh, Internet, BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication
Regulatory Commission) and different mobile phone companies websites. It must
be emphasized that information is also collected from several dailies,
Wikipedia etc. through Internet. Various policies and circulars of BB issued by
the Banking Regulation and Policy Department and other departments have also
been consulted for preparing this paper.
2.2 Limitations
of Study
i)Up
to date data about Mobile Banking are not available. Because mobile banking is
not attaining maturity. It is very much new in Bangladesh.
ii)
Literature review and methods of research is not sufficient.
iii)There
was a time constraint to prepare this paper.
I
have little knowledge about Mobile Banking technology.
3.1 Mobile Banking History in Bangladesh
Dutch Bangla Bank launched the very
first mobile banking service in Bangladesh on 31 March 2011. This service is
launched with 'Agent' and 'Network' support from mobile operators, Banglalink
and Citycell. Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. has provided software
solution with their local partner Neurosoft Technologies Ltd. There are around
160 million people in Bangladesh, of which, only 13 per cent have bank
accounts. With this solution, Dutch-Bangla Bank can now reach out to the rural
and unbanked population, of which, 45 per cent are mobile phone users. Under
the service, any mobile handset with subscription to any of the six existing
mobile operators of Bangladesh would be able to utilize the service. Under the
mobile banking services, bank-nominated 'Agents' perform banking activities on
behalf of the banks, like opening mobile banking account, providing cash
services (receipts and payments) and dealing with small credits. Cash
withdrawal from a mobile account can also be done from an ATM validating each
transaction by 'mobile phone & PIN' instead of 'card & PIN'. Other
services that are being delivered through mobile banking system are
person-to-person (e.g. fund transfer), person-to-business (e.g. merchant
payment, utility bill payment), business-to-person (e.g. salary/commission
disbursement), government-to-person (disbursement of government allowance)
transactions.
3.2 Background of Dutch Bangla Bank Limited:
Dutch-Bangla
Bank Limited is a second generation bank that was established in 1995 with a
dream and a vision to become a pioneer banking institution of the country and
contributes significantly to the national economy and society also. The banks
journey began when it was incorporated as public limited company on July 04,
1995. The registrar of Joint Stock Companies and firms issued the Certificate
of Commencement of business of the bank on the same date. The banks first
branch was inaugurated at the busiest commercial hub of the country at 1,
Dilkusha Commercial Area, Dhaka on June 03, 1996.1n its arduous journey since,
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited has succeeded in realizing the dreams of those who
established it. Today is one of the leading banks in the private sector,
contributing significantly to the national economy and society also. The
authorized capital of the Bank is today above Tk. 4000.00 million. Its
Paid-Up-Capital Tk. 2000.00 million and Reserve reached to Tk. 2524.72 million
as on Septembers 1, 2010. The Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited was established by the
leading business personalities and eminent industrialists of the country and
abroad with stakes in various segments of the national economy. They
established the Bank with a vision to bring efficient and professional banking
service to the people and the business community of Bangladesh to help the
national economy to grow. The incumbent Director of the bank is Mr. Abedur Rashid
Khan. The Bank’s operations are built upon unequivocal emphasis on effective
corporate governance. The objective here is to create, promote and build
long-term company value. The Banks first and highest priority is to provide
effective services and maximum satisfaction to the customer. The ethos of
harmony and cooperation is widely practiced in the bank. It believes that
transparency in decision-making, monitoring mechanism and full disclosure to
shareholders and regulatory authorities are essential aspects of bank’s
corporate governance and that they create an intense pressure to rationalize
bank’s services and search for new competitive advantages. It works ceaselessly
within these parameters. A team of efficient professionals manages the bank.
They create and generate an environment of trust and discipline that affects
everybody in the bank to work together for achieving the objectives of the
bank. A commitment to quality and excellence in service is the hallmark of
their identity. Now, the Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited has become a synonym of
quality banking products and services. It has an array of such products
services tailored carefully to cater to the needs of all segments of customer.
It has been achieved much of its goals but it has been performing its
activities to satisfy the country people as it did before well.
3.3 Functions of DBBL:
Dutch-Bangla
Bank is one of the well-known second generation private banks in Bangladesh. It
has much better reputation, position in, and contribution to the economic
sector of Bangladesh only for its better quality services and efficient team of
performers. But it has not reached here over night. It has some distinction
features so that it is now very close of the peak of success. Those distinctive
features are as stated:
The Dutch-Bangla bank provides service with high degree of experienced &
expert & use of modern technology.
Ø The bank has the biggest IT
investment as a bank in the country.
Ø The institution creates long term
relationship based on mutual trust.
Ø It responses to customers needs with
speed & accuracy.
Ø It shares its values & beliefs
with the clients.
Ø It provides products & services
at competitive pricing.
Ø It ensures safely &. security of
customers valuables in trust with us.
Ø It introduces diversified &
dynamic banking system.
Ø It targets every income level person
for its banking service.
The
financial institution ensures higher level of transparency and accountability
at all level of doing business for having efficient and effective business
operation.
It
is the pioneer in maintaining Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a
banking financial institution all over the country. It holds the
biggest ATM (Automated Teller Machine) network.
3.4 Organizational Goals:
ü To employ funds for
profitable purposes in various fields with special emphasis on
small scale industries.
ü To undertake project promotion on
identify profitable areas of investment.
ü To search for newer avenues for
investment and develop new products to suit such needs.
ü To establish linkage with other
institutions which are engaged in financing micro enterprises.
ü To cooperate and collaborate with
institutions entrusted with the responsibility of promoting
4.1 Activities of Mobile Banking:
Mobile
Banking is a Banking process without bank branch which provides financial
services to un-banked communities efficiently and at affordable cost. To
provide banking and financial services, such as cash-in, cash out, merchant
payment, utility payment, salary disbursement, foreign remittance, government
allowance disbursement, ATM money withdrawal through mobile technology devices,
i.e. Mobile Phone, is called Mobile Banking. Mobile banking (m-banking)
involves the use of a mobile phone or another mobile device to undertake
financial transactions linked to a client’s account. M-banking is one of the
newest approaches to the provision of financial services, made possible by the
widespread adoption of mobile phones even in low income people. The roll out of
mobile telephony has been rapid, and has extended access well beyond already
connected customers in rural area. There is mounting evidence of positive
social impact on poorer people and communities as a result There are sound
reasons for the hope that m-banking could have similar impact A mobile network
offers a high technology platform onto which other services can be often provided
at very low cost to deliver an effective result. Mobile data channels are often
under-used and therefore may be offered at low cost by the network operator.
M-banking services which use channels such as text messaging/ SMS can be
carried at a cost of less. The low cost of using existing infrastructure makes
such channels more amenable to use by low income customers.M-banking is new in
our country, and there has been limited donor support in this sector to date.
This report considers the case for donors to support m-banking as a sector.
Bangladesh Bank permitted 10 commercial bank to do such kind of mobile banking
business that the rural people who have mobile but haven’t banking facilities,
Service holders can get there salary by the mobile banking.
4.2 Mobile Account opening procedure
If a customer want to open a mobile Banking account,
he need to visit any of DBBL Bank branch or selected agent and flow there
opening process.
4.2.1 Necessary Documents
A
person who wants to open an account he/she should have some documents to open
an account, these are-
4.2.2 Process:
Æ Customer fills up the Application
Form and submit to agent along with his photograph & National ID (NID).
Æ Agent checks the Application Form,
photograph & NID.
Æ Agent goes to Customer Registration
Menu in his/her mobile and insert customer’s mobile number.
Æ Customer receives a call and in
reply, s/he gives a 4-digit PIN number of his/her choice (please remember your
PIN).
Æ A Mobile Account is created in the
DBBL system which is his/her mobile number + one check digit.
Æ Customer receives an SMS which
contains his/her Mobile Account number (please remember your check digit).
According
to the Law and Practice the Banker – Customer relation arises only from
contract between the two. And opening of Mobile Account is the contract that
establishes the relationship between a banker and a customer. So this section
pays very important role in attracting customer and therefore be handled with
extra care
4.3 Cash-in (cash deposit):
Customer
can cash-in (deposit) at any authorized agent of DBBL (at present Citycell
& Banglalink agents) or DBBL Branch.
4.3.1
Process:
·
Customer hands over cash to the Agent
·
Agent initiates the transaction from his/her mobile
·
Agent gets prompt menu and in reply agent enters customer’s mobile account number (including check
digit) and amount
·
Agent enters his/her PEST
·
System credits customer’s account for the same amount
- Agent issues a receipt to the customer
- System sends an SMS to the customer’s mobile
- For security reason, customer needs to check the sending number of SMS and the amount.
- SMS will be sent from 16216.
4.4 Cash-out (cash withdrawal):
Customer
can cash-out (withdraw) at any authorized agent of DBBL (at present Citycell
& Banglalink agents), DBBL ATMs and DBBL Branch.
4.4.1 Process:
Customer
asks the Agent for withdrawal of an amount from his/her mobile account
Agent
initiates the transaction from his/her mobile
Agent
gets prompt menu and in reply agent enters customer’s mobile account number
(including check digit) and amount to withdraw
DBBL
system sends prompt menu to the customer’s mobile (or IVR Call): “You are going
to withdraw Tk. XXXX from your mobile account with DBBL. If you want to continue,
please enter your 4-digit PEST
Customer
enters his/her PIN
System
debits customer’s account and send an SMS to the customer’s mobile
Agent
hands over money to the customer
4.5 Salary/AIIowance Disbursement
It
is a process by which Corporate Office can disburse the salary of their
employees and Government can disburse different allowances like elderly
allowance, freedom fighter allowance to the people within a few moment in a
hassle free way.
4.5.1
How it works:
- Corporate Office/ Government will send the list of mobile account numbers (including check digit) and monthly salary/allowance to DBBL
- DBBL will credit all the individual accounts by debiting corporate account centrally by a batch process system
- The employee/beneficiary will get an SMS regarding the transaction
- The employee/beneficiary can go to any agent or DBBL ATM or DBBL Branch for withdrawal of money
4.6 Foreign remittance:
It can be sent to Mobile Account-
- Exchange houses at abroad receive remittance against beneficiary’s mobile account number
- Exchange houses send the mobile account number and the amount to DBBL
- DBBL will centrally credit the amount against respective mobile account
- The beneficiary will get an SMS regarding such transaction.
- The beneficiary can go to any agent or DBBL ATM or DBBL Branch for withdrawal of money
Others:
- Merchant Payment
- Utility Payment
- Air-time Top-up
- Fund Transfer
5.1 Mobile Banking growth in Bangladesh
Mobile
banking in Bangladesh continues to grow fast, scaling a new height last year
with 53 percent growth year-on-years.
In
2015, the industry saw Tk 157,773.31 crore in transactions through mobile
phones the amount being more than half the country's national budget, according
to a report of Bangladesh Bank.
In
2014, the mobile banking industry saw Tk 103,155.37 crore in transactions.
People
are becoming increasingly comfortable with the banking platform, analysts said.
The
average monthly transactions made through mobile phones stood at more than Tk
13,147.77 crore last year, rising from Tk 8,596.28 crore in 2014.
According
to Subhankar Saha a BB executive director. “In the last couple of years, we
have observed that people at the bottom of the pyramid are also massively
taking part in economic activities and that volume is increasing significantly
every day. This contribution directly impacted the transactions in mobile
banking.” The central bank said the volume is quite natural and there is scope
for further growth.
Saha,
who is also the BB spokesperson, said they are expecting more than 30 percent
growth in 2016.
The
central bank plans to strengthen security measures this year, Saha added.
“There
are about 3.19 crore mobile banking accounts and this figure will increase in
the coming days; the total volume of transactions will also rise,” he said.
Of
the total accounts, only 1.25 crore are active users, according to the BB
report.
People
are mainly using this modern banking channel to transfer money domestically.
But
the opportunities to use this channel to deposit government fees and charges
and make purchases are yet limited, he said. Last year, the sector saw Tk
27,879.56 crore in person-to-person money transfers, and the amount was only
17.67 percent of the total transaction. The figures for business transaction,
salary disbursement, and bills payments were also nominal.
Saha
said entrepreneurs have to work in these areas.
However,
the market leader in mobile financial services -- said customer-centric products along with
the trust and confidence of common people have helped the sector grow.
“Besides
fund transfer services, we are offering 'buy airtime' for mobile top-up,
merchant payments at shops, salary disbursement and different collection
solutions for corporate customers, which have contributed to our growth,” said
Zahedul Islam, the spokesperson for bKash.
Earlier
in a report USAID said Bangladesh has a rapidly growing mobile financial
service industry, accounting for more than 8 percent of the total registered
mobile money accounts globally.
The
country launched such products in 2011 and in five years, the market hit the
highest position in the world so far.
Currently,
28 banks have approval for offering mobile financial service although 20
launched operations so far. Two leading operators hold around 90 percent market
share.
5.2 Advantages of Mobile Banking :
The
biggest advantage that mobile banking offers to banks is that it drastically
cuts down the costs of providing service to the customers.
- You can make transactions or pay bills anytime. It saves a lot of time.
- Mobile banking thorough cell phone is user friendly. The interface is also very simple. You just need to follow the instructions to make the transaction. It also saves the record of any transactions made.
- Cell phone banking is cost effective. DBBL provide this facility at a lower cost as compared to banking by self.
- Banking through mobile reduces the risk of fraud. You will get an SMS whenever there is an activity in your account. This includes deposits, cash withdrawals, funds transfer etc. You will get a notice as soon as any amount is deducted or deposited in your account.
- Banking through cell phone benefits the banks too. It cuts down on the cost of tele- banking and is more economical.
- Mobile banking through cell phone is very advantageous to the banks as it serves as a guide in order to help the banks improve their customer care services.
- Banks can be in touch with their clients with mobile banking.
- Banks can also promote and sell their products and services like credit cards, loans etc. to a specific group of customers.
- Various banking services like Account Balance Enquiry , Credit/Debit Alerts, Bill Payment Alerts, Transaction History, Fund Transfer Facilities, Minimum Balance Alerts etc. can be accessed from your mobile.
- You can transfer money instantly to another account in the same bank using mobile banking.
- Mobile banking has an edge over internet banking. In case of online banking, you must have an internet connection and a computer. This is a problem in developing countries. However, with mobile banking, connectivity is not a problem. You can find mobile connectivity in the remotest of places also where having an internet connection is a problem.
- Mobile banking is helping service providers increase revenues from the now static subscriber base.
- Service providers are increasingly using the complexity of their supported mobile banking services to attract new customers and retain old ones.
- A very effective way of improving customer service could be to inform customers better.
5.3 Disadvantages of Mobile Banking:
Uncertainties over the speed and nature of customer
adoption: This is to
be expected with any new offering, although the uncertainty is compounded by
the relative lack of knowledge of the needs of un-banked people in many places,
and the market potential. Consumer education may speed adoption; but more
likely, adoption on scale will happen as it has happened with mobile phones: by
forced to adapt their offerings as they encounter feedback in The market place.
Therefore, it is necessary to have sufficient providers in the market who Can
remain in the market long enough to ensure that to identify the elements of a
successful model. Hence, support to providers may assist in overcoming this
barrier. Generally available research into the patterns and needs of the
un-banked target market may also help.
Lack of interoperability with existing systems/Interoperability of
different payment systems is primarily a question of market structure and
regulation. It arises initially only in markets where there is an existing
payment infrastructure with which new providers can inter-operate (and later
on, once new infrastructure becomes the standard). Without inter-operability,
the fixed costs of deploying financial infrastructure may be much harder to
recover, since usage per item of proprietary infrastructure will fall. Clearly,
one solution may be to give regulators the power to require interoperability;
however, it may be sufficient to encourage the identification of appropriate
standard upfront. This could take place via support to regulators or industry
bodies, where these exist.
Regulatory barriers .”Specific regulatory impediments vary by market;
but in general, a lack of openness to new models of provision and a lack of
policy certainty limit the potential of new models. Increasing openness and
certainty may require support to regulators to outline high level policy, as
well as to amend existing regulations or draft new ones where and when
required.
The
case for donor support therefore rests on removing barriers such as these,
thereby making it more likely that transformational models of m-banking will
emerge at all, or at least, sooner; and that they will develop more rapidly
than otherwise would be the case.
5.4
Objective of Mobile Banking:
Around
87% of the total population of Bangladesh is un-banked. To bring such a huge
population into the banking channel, DBBL is implementing a system to launch
mobile banking soon. The project is in its final stage now. With this facility
any person having a mobile number will be able to use his number as a bank
account. In this mobile account they will be able to do the following:
- Cash deposit to any Agent of DBBL
- Cash withdrawal from any Agent of DBBL
- Cash withdrawal from DBBL ATMs
- Funds transfer to another mobile account
- Utility bill payment, Tuition fee payment, Air time top-up.
- Receive remittance from home and abroad
- Salary disbursement
- Disbursement of Govt. allowances
- Merchant Payment
- Balance Inquiry
5.5 Some
other purpose of Mobile Banking:
While
poor people have little money, they are active managers of what they have.
Holding cash comes at high price to poor people because of the risk of crime in
many poor People, but they often have few alternatives to cash based services.
In
particular, appropriate financial services help poor people to access usefully
large lump sums of money, which may either enable a pathway out of poverty
through investment in income generating activities (such as micro enterprises)
or asset creation (such as housing); or may reduce vulnerability to sudden
shocks to cash flow, as a result for example of illness or climate conditions.
In
our country, poor people are forced to rely on informal financial services,
which may be unsafe, or fringe formal financial products which may be expensive
as well as unsafe. In other words, their exclusion from formal financial
services has economic and social impacts which may exacerbate their poverty.
The
cost efficient provision of formal financial services (payments/ remittances,
savings, credit or insurance) is predicated on customers having access at least
to a basic transactional account, from which electronic transfers can be made
as like purchase product and pay one another by M-banking and cash withdrawn as
necessary.
M-banking
holds the prospect of offering a low cost, accessible transaction banking
platform for currently unbaked and poorer customers. In addition, as mobile
networks expand their coverage, they offer the opportunity of bringing payment
and remittance services into that areas where banking services is unable able.
However,
not all m-banking products will be transformational in the sense of broadening
access to financial services substantially at first or even at all. However, it
is likely that even m-banking services which start targeted at existing banked
customers may over time extend to un-banked groups.
6.1 SWOT Analysis
I
get the following Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats from my
practical observation of DBBL Mobile Banking as follows:
6.1.1
Strengths
1.
Potential customer in rural and urban area where branch banking is not possible
but Partner/Agent is available.
2.
New investment like Mobile Banking where no bank in Bangladesh is not start
such kind of business
3.
Low cost for opening Mobile Bank Account.
4.
Possible to give hand to the remote area customer of there remittance earn from
abroad.
5.
Mobile bill pay or recharge through Mobile Banking is possible.
6.
Transection process is easy
7.
Save money in rural area.
8.
Salary/Allowance Disbursement
9.
Strong network of telecom company
10.
Efficient Employee of DBBL as well as Telecom Partner.
6.1.2
Weaknesses
1.
Out Let is not available as per requirement.
2.
Amount of transaction is very little.
3.
Advertisement is not adequate that most of the people don’t know about Mobile
Banking.
4.
Employee are not efficient that M-Banking is new in Bangladesh.
5.
Insecure out let that rubbery the money in remote area where security is not
available.
6.
New concept in Bangladesh is the beast weakness
8.
Cash in and out cost is more than interest rate
9.
Lack of Knowledge of operating Mobile transaction within customer.
6.1.3
Opportunities
1.
Lot of potential customer in Bangladesh that around 7 corer people use Mobile
phone.
2.
It may that the shopkeeper receive there payment through Mobile transaction.
3.
Salary and allowance may distribute through Mobile Banking
4.
Government and other International agencies positive attitude toward low
classification rate.
5.
Opportunity to expand banking business.
6.
Large market for bank.
7.
Gain more profit through Mobile Banking.
8.
To reach the modern banking facilities to the rural area where banking
facilities does not reach till now.
6.1.4
Threats:
1)
Customer may not use properly the process of M-Banking.
2)
Reaching deeper into rural areas without costly investment in infrastructure.
3)
Reducing the costs of servicing.
4)
Interoperability
5)
Security risks from robbery & holdup.
6)
Scalability & reliability
7)
Personalization
8)
Customer education
9)
Reduce cost of clients
10)
Lack of out late
Recommendation and Conclusion
7.1 Recommendation:
Continue
Mobile Banking in the rural areas to increase the use of E-Money especially in
commercial applications. Continuous pilot testing of the other M-Banking
services to model cost effective ways of reaching more and more people in areas
farther away from bank.
Develop
a mobile banking website as information portal particularly for M-Banking.
Continuous support and training workshop on Mobile Banking Procedures develops
on going Developed M-banking system to automated transecting.
- Major problems in a business arises when it’s new. The officer should observe that whether there is loss of the top executive, demand, or any other most important new one has entered and often the change may be worse.
- DBBL and concern partner should advertise more for attracting all level of customers.
- DBBL should encourage students for Mobile account opening because students are a potential source for a bank.
- DBBL should increase facility to fulfillment customers need.
- DBBL should increase its outlet.
- Bank should also be aware of significant changes in the training of M-Banking officer and concern Partners employee.
- Changes in industry trends may directly affect business so that it can no longer completely profitable. Therefore, the Bank should keep information about the environment of each industry in which its customers operate
- Real value of business can come from making regular visits to the customer’s place of business rather than holding all meetings in the Bank.
- Against big willful defaulters legal action should be taken promptly for customer M-Money Security.
- Should arrange more and more campaign in public place to increase M-Banking customer.
- The cost of cash in and out should decrease.
- Try to involve small business to raise customers.
- Advertisement should increase through Radio, Newspaper, Poster, Banner.
7.2 Conclusions :
For
service providers, Mobile banking offers the next surest way to achieve growth.
Countries like Bangladesh where mobile penetration is nearing saturation,
mobile banking is helping service providers increase revenues from the now
static subscriber base. Also service providers are increasingly using the
complexity of their supported mobile banking services to attract new customers
and retain old ones. For the fact is that one day, in most of the world
emerging markets, more people will use mobile telephones than use fixed
telephone lines. Businesses that are based on mobile financial serviced will
thus be a natural fit for these economies. What is more, there is no need to
wait for the next generation mobile networks; these businesses can be built
using today’s technology. But to capture this significant opportunity,
financial firms and telecommunications companies will have to partnerships with
one another and, possibly, with merchants and retail chains as well.
Dutch-Bangla Bank is pioneer of Mobile Banking in Bangladesh and it has a lot
of possibility to reach customers door as well as banking in the hand of
customers.
Reference
Ø The Daily Star- http://www.thedailystar.net, Business news/12:00
AM, February 03, 2016 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:04 AM, February 03, 2016.