1. ATM provides 24 hours service: ATMs provide service round the clock. The customer can withdraw cash up to a certain a limit during any time of the day or night.
2. ATM gives convenience to bank's customers: ATMs provide convenience to the customers. Now-a-days, ATMs are located at convenient places, such as at the air ports, railway stations, etc. and not necessarily at the Bank's premises. It is to be noted that ATMs are installed off-site. (away from bank premises) as well as on site (installed within bank's premises). ATMs provide mobility in banking services for withdrawal.
3. ATM reduces the workload of bank's staff: ATMs reduce the work pressure on bank's staff and avoids queues in bank premises.
4. ATM provides service without any error: ATMs provide service without error. The customer can obtain exact amount. There is no human error as far as ATMs are concerned.
5. ATM is very beneficial for travelers: ATMs are of great help to travelers. They need not carry large amount of cash with them. They can withdraw cash from any city or state, across the country and even from outside the country with the help of ATM.
6. ATM may give customers new currency notes: The customer also gets brand new currency notes from ATMs. In other words, customers do not get soiled notes from ATMs.
7. ATM provides privacy in banking transactions: Most of all, ATMs provide privacy in banking transactions of the customer.
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Risk-weighted asset is a bank's assets weighted according to credit risk. Some assets, such as debentures, are assigned a higher risk than others, such as cash or government securities/bonds. Since different types of assets have different risk profiles, weighing assets based on the level of risk associated with them primarily adjusts for assets that are less risky by allowing banks to "discount" lower-risk assets.
This sort of asset calculation is used in determining the capital requirement or Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) for a financial institution, and is regulated by the Local Central Banks or other National financial regulators. The specifics of CAR calculation vary from country to country, but general approaches tend to be similar for countries that apply the Basel Accords. In the most basic application, government debt is allowed a 0% "risk weighting" - that is, they are subtracted from total assets for purposes of calculating the CAR.
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Treasury Bills issued by the government as an important tool of raising public finance and up to 1994, were of three types, although all of them were 90-day bills. Among these three types, bulk was represented by ad-hoc treasury bills issued to meet the cash balance need of the government. A second type was the 3-months treasury bills on tap introduced in August 1972 and their purpose was to mop up the excess liquidity of banks.
The third type was the 3-months treasury bills introduced for subscription exclusively by the non-bank financial institutions, non-financial enterprises and the public.Initially, a limit of Tk 250 million was set for the issue of such treasury bills. Later this limit was withdrawn and Bangladesh Bank was empowered to issue any amount of treasury bills for the non-bank public. Despite the withdrawal of the limit, the holdings of non-banking sectors remained small and commercial banks comprised the main market for the treasury bills. These bills continued to be reissued in every ninety days. In December 1994, however, treasury bills on tap and the treasury bills for nonbanks were abolished.
The holdings of treasury bills by the deposit money banks generally did not exceed the amount needed to meet the liquidity requirement. A substantial part of the treasury bills issued, therefore, needed to be held by Bangladesh Bank. Of the total Treasury bill holdings, the amount of holdings by the deposit money banks was 57% at the end of 1973 and amidst fluctuation, they came down to 27% at the end of June 1982. Later, the share started to rise and stood at 68% at the end of 1992. Thereafter, it fell sharply and came down to a lowest minimum of 4% at the end of June 1995.
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A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests typically in investment securities (stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds, other securities, and/or commodities such as precious metals). The mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades (buys and sells) the fund's investments in accordance with the fund's investment objective. It is registered in Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mutual funds raise money by selling shares of the fund to the public, much like any other type of company can sell stock in itself to the public. Mutual funds then take the money they receive from the sale of their shares (along with any money made from previous investments) and use it to purchase various investment vehicles, such as stocks, bonds and money market instruments. In return for the money they give to the fund when purchasing shares, shareholders receive an equity position in the fund and, in effect, in each of its underlying securities.
For most mutual funds, shareholders are free to sell their shares at any time, although the price of a share in a mutual fund will fluctuate daily, depending upon the performance of the securities held by the fund.
Benefits of mutual funds include diversification and professional money management. Mutual funds offer choice, liquidity, and convenience, but charge fees and often require a minimum investment.
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A credit card is a small plastic card measuring about 85 mm by 54 mm bearing the name, date, computer number and specimen signature of the holder and the validity with raised letters to facilitate machine readability issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services.
The issuer of the card creates a revolving account and grants a line of credit to the consumer (or the user) from which the user can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance to the user. Usage of the term "credit card" to imply a credit card account is a metonym.
As per instruction given in the application form or later on in writing, the credit card issuing authority will dispatch the periodic bill to the card holder and realize the bill amount from his account as instructed earlier. In other way, the card holder may pay the periodic bill in cash or by cheque within specific period. If not paid within the grace free specific period, profit or interest or service charge on the bill amount will be charged before full payment of the bill amount.
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