What are the special features of Retail Credit?

SPECIAL FEATURES OF RETAIL CREDIT

One of the prominent features of Retail Banking products is that it is a volume driven business.  Further, Retail Credit ensures that the business is widely dispersed among a large customer base unlike in the case of corporate lending, where the risk may be concentrated on a selected few plans.  Ability of a bank to administer a large portfolio of retail credit products depends upon such factors :

• Strong credit assessment capability

Because of large volume good infrastructure is required.  If the credit assessment itself is qualitative, than the need for follow up in the future reduces considerably.

• Sound documentation

A latest system for credit documentation is necessary pre-requisite for healthy growth of credit portfolio, as in the case of credit assessment, this will also minimize the need to follow up at future point of time.

• Strong possessing capability

Since large volumes of transactions are involved, today transactions, maintenance of backups is required

• Regular constant follow- up

Ideally, follow up for loan repayments should be an ongoing process.  It should start from customer enquiry and last till the loan is repaid fully.

• Skilled human resource

This is one of the most important pre-requisite for the efficient management of large and diverse retail credit portfolio.  Only highly skilled and experienced man power can withstand the river of administrating a diverse and complex retail credit portfolio.

• Technological support

This is yet another vital requirement. Retail credit is highly technological intensive in nature, because of large volumes of business, the need to provide instantaneous service to the customer  large, faster processing, maintaining database, etc.