Customer Satisfaction On Online Banking of EXIM Bank LTD.: BRAC University
Customer Satisfaction On Online Banking of EXIM Bank LTD.: BRAC University
Customer Satisfaction On Online Banking of EXIM Bank LTD.: BRAC University
Internship Report on
Customer Satisfaction on
Online Banking of EXIM Bank
LTD.
Submitted By
Maria Alam
13104017
BRAC Business School
Submitted to
Ms. Afsana Akhtar
Assistant Professor
BRAC Business School
Submission Date
15/05/2017
Letter of Transmittal
May 15, 2017
Dear Madam,
I would like to thank you for your lucrative direction and back up to prepare this
report. It is an incredible accomplishment to work under your progressive supervision.
For any further explanations about the report, I will be gladly available to clarify the
ins and outs.
Sincerely yours,
Maria Alam
ID: 13104017
BRAC Business School
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Acknowledgement
This internship report can never be the work of one-man effort. It is the result of
valuable contribution of a number of individuals in a direct or indirect manner that
helped on shaping and achieving the objective. I wish to express my sincere gratitude
to numerous people who have been associated with me throughout this project.
First of all I would like to thank my Almighty Allah for the wisdom and diligence that
has been entrusted over me to complete the report within scheduled time successfully.
I would like to thank my honorable supervisor, Ms Afsana Akhtar for her kind
patience, guidance and support during preparing this report. I will always be indebted
to for the valuable suggestion and the time that she had spent for guiding me through
the report.
I would like to thank to Maksuda Khanam, Senior Vice President and Relationship
Manager, Gazi Abdullah Al Sharif, Senior Assistant Vice President; Munshi
Aminul Islam, In-charge (General Banking) and all other employees of EXIM Bank
Limited, Gulshan Branch, for giving me advice and necessary information as well as
teaching me different banking terms in practical form.
I am also indebted to all officers and employees of the EXIM Bank (Gulshan Branch)
who extended their wholehearted cooperation to me despite their huge workload
during my internship. They teach me about overall works with significant, vital,
imperative and essential information during face-to-face speech. They gave me proper
guidance in my work period.
I must mention the wonderful working environment and group commitment of this
bank that has enabled me a lot work and observe the banking activities during my
internship period of the three months.
Last but not the least; I would like to thank my parents for their unconditional support
both financially and emotionally throughout my undergraduate program in BRAC
University. In particular, the patience and understanding shown by my father and
mother during the years of this degree, is greatly appreciated.
Executive Summary
This internship report is on the three months long internship program that I had
experienced in EXIM Bank, Gulshan Branch from 1 st January to 3rd April as a
requirement of my BBA program.
A financial institute that is licensed to deal with money and its substitution by
accepting time and demand; deposit making, loan and investing in security is called
bank. In Bangladesh there are too many banking institutions. Nationalization,
Privatization and Financial sector reform; these are the three phases of development
Bangladesh banking system has gone through. EXIM Bank Limited has started its
journey as a private commercial Bank on 3 August 1999.
The whole operation of Gulshan Branch EXIM Bank is divided into three sectors- (1)
General Banking, (2) Credit Section, (3) Foreign Exchange Section. I was assigned on
General Banking section for two months. And on foreign Exchange section for one
month. Online Banking service is an important part of the general banking sector. So I
tried to find out whether the customers of EXIM bank are satisfied with their online
banking service or not. For this, have prepared my report based on “Online banking
service” provided by EXIM Bank, Gulshan branch.
Service from banking is seemed to vary from one service provider organization to
another service provider organization. This sensitive part gets more sensitive when
individual as well as country‟s potentiality like “Customer Satisfaction on Online
Banking policy” of a Bank involves in there. And, it becomes more complex if the
Bank owned by a private sector and it‟s also a Shariah based banking institution. This
is why, I feel myself fortunate enough for wining a chance to work with a new and
challenging service sector of banking system.
This study will comprise the exploratory findings of EXIM Bank Bangladesh Limited,
its Customer satisfaction management policy, recommendation in the light of
predetermined objective and methodology subject to acknowledgement of the affect
caused by unavoidable limitation.
Table of Contents
2. Introduction
2.1 History of EXIM Bank 01
2.2 Vision of the Bank 02
2.3 Mission 02
2.4 Objective of the Bank 02
2.5 Corporate Philosophy 03
3. Organization Part
2.1 Branches Information 04
2.2 Introduction to Gulshan Branch 04
2.3 Products and Services of EXIM Bank 05
2.4 Corporate Information 07
2.5 Organizational Structure 08
2.6 Experience and Learning 09
2.7 Responsibility 09
4. Project Part
3.1 Introduction of the Project 12
3.2 Online Banking 13
3.3 AISER 14
3.4 Terms & Condition of Online Branch Banking Service 15
3.5 Main features of EXIM AISER 17
3.6 The Concept of Customer Satisfaction 19
3.7 Purpose of the Project 20
3.8 Limitations 21
3.9 The Literature Review 22
3.10 Methodology 23
3.11 Analysis of the Survey Result 24
3.12 Findings 28
3.13 Recommendations 30
3.14 Conclusion 31
5. Supplementary Part
4.1 Bibliography 32
4.2 Appendix 33
4.3 Survey Questionnaire 34
Introduction
The export import bank of Bangladesh limited (popularly known as EXIM Bank) is
private commercial bank that operates banking operation by maintaining the Islamic
Shariah and principles regarding the business transactions. The bank was incorporated
on 2ndJune, 1999 as a private sector banking company under the COMPANY ACT
1994 with a target to play the vital role on the social-economic development of the
country. It started operation on 3rd August 1999 with an authorized capital of
TK. 1 billion (100 million) divided into 10 million ordinary shares on TK. 100 each.
The initial paid up capital of the bank was TK. 225 million fully subscribed by 28
persons. Initially the bank started its operation as a private commercial bank, but later
on, the bank has taken up the challenge to start Islamic banking operation in all kinds
of transaction.
Banking operations were migrated all of its conventional banking operation turned
into Shariah based Islamic banking operations after obtaining approval of Bangladesh
bank on July 01, 2004. The bank went for public issue of shares in the year 2004 and
its shares now listed with Dhaka stock exchange (September 26, 2004) and
Chittagong stock exchange (September 04, 2004).
Initially the bank was known as the BEXIM Bank Limited, which stands for
Bangladesh Export Import Bank Limited. But for some legal constraints they had
to change the name. According to the proposed name of the governor of central bank
at the time it was named as Export Import Bank Limited or in short EXIM Bank
Limited.
The bank finances export and import business and also conduct traditional
commercial banking activities by maintaining the Islamic Shariah regarding the
business. The commercial banking activities of the bank consists of services including
mobilizing deposits, providing invest facilities, discounting bills, conducting money
transfer, foreign exchange transaction and providing services such as issuing
guarantees, safe keeping, acceptances and letter of credit etc. The bank offers full
range of personal, corporate, international trade, foreign.
Exchange lease finance and capital market services. EXIM Bank Limited is the
prepared choice in banking for its friendly and personalized service, cutting edge
technology, tailored solutions for business needs, global reach in the trade and
commerce and highly yield on investments, assuring excellence in banking services.
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Vision of the Bank
The purport of EXIM banks vision is Together towards Tomorrow. Export Import
bank of Bangladesh Limited believes in togetherness with its customers as well as
growth and progress of the services. To achieve the desired goal, there will be pursuit
of excellence in all stage with a climate of continuous improvement, because in EXIM
bank, they believe the line of excellence never ends. Bank‟s strategic plan and
networking will strengthen its competitive advantage over others in today‟s
rapidly changing competitive environment. Their personalized quality and services to
the customers with trend of constant improvement will be the cornerstone to achieve
their operational success.
For uplifting the standard of the living of the limited income group of population
the bank has introduced monthly saving scheme and educational saving scheme to
encourage common and fixed income group of people.
The operation of the bank computerized to ensure prompt and efficient services to
the customers.
The bank has introduced camera surveillance system (CCTV) to strength the
security services inside the bank premises.
Corporate Philosophy:
Organizational culture is considered as an essential component of business
corporations as it has the ability to bind organizational members together. The culture
and values of our bank have been provide as a source of competitive advantage for the
bank and are acting as a key component to establish the relationship between the bank
and it‟s employees and in turn, between the employees and the customers. Their
cultures and values also encourage their customers and employees to join with them
as well as stay with the bank.
EXIM Bank has also been able to improve organizational performance via improving
the performance of individual contributors and also recognizes existing talents to fill
up the higher vacancies within the organization or place them in the right position,
where in the best use of their abilities can be ensured. Their culture promotes sharing
of common goal, which insures harmonious relationship in the working environment.
Organization Part
Branches Information:
The number of branches as it stands now is 90 and there are 63 ATM booths situated
in 31 districts around Bangladesh. Steps are taken to open few more branches at
commercial important places throughout the country by the year 2015. The branches
are:
Location Branch
Dhaka 27
Chittagong 13
Rajshahi 01
Sylhet 07
Khulna 01
Barisal 01
Rangpur 01
There are also many branches situated in Jessore, Pabna, Kushtia, Noakhali,
Manikganj, Magura, Narayanganj, Bogra, Kishoreganj, madaripur, Feni, Cox‟s-bazar,
Maymansing and Jhalakati.
EXIM bank successfully marked its product design to fulfill the needs of various
socio-economic strata. Attractive features of the product have given distinct image
among the private banks. The bank has been making continuous endeavor to offer
new products and services. As a commercial bank, they provide all traditional banking
services, which are:
Deposit Product:
Saving Account:
Current deposit:
Deposit Schemes:
Investment Products:
Corporate finance
Commercial finance
Industrial finance
Project finance
Lease finance
Mode of investment finance
Murabaha
Bai-Muazzal
Quard
Izra Bill Baia
Corporate Information:
Industry Banking
Founded August 3, 1999
Founder Late Mr. Shahjahan Kabir
Headquarters Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area Served 90 branches in Bangladesh
Mr. Nazrul Islam Mazumder
Key Person
(Chairman of EXIM Bank)
Services Banking, Financial Services
Revenue 20,476,318,100 Taka (264.05 million USD)
Operating Income 8,284,131,946 Taka (106.82 million USD)
Net Income 3,256,947,071 Taka (41.99 million USD)
Total assets 195,542,247,545 Taka
Number of employees 1909 (2012)
Parent NASSA Group
Website www.eximbankbd.com
Organizational Structure:
Principle Officer
Executive Officer
Officer
Trainee Officer
Junior Officer
Assistant Officer
Responsibility:
During my internship program, I was lucky enough that I got chance to work in both
General Banking division and Foreign exchange division of EXIM Bank. Working
in both divisions was a very interesting experience for me. I came to know about
numerous activities that is performed daily in the bank. The work experience in both
divisions was totally different. As being an intern, they were friendly enough to keep
me under the regular bar.
The first two months of my internship program, I was assigned in General banking
division and my work was mainly with different types of Current Deposit Account
and Short Term Deposit Schemes. The experience of working there was good
enough. Working in this division was quite easy than working in foreign exchange
division. At first I came to know about the types of accounts EXIM Bank provides for
their clients. The accounts differ based on the time period, gender, occupation and
most importantly, the amount of transaction. The provisional profit rates also differ
according to the time period. As an Islamic Bank, the names of the accounts are also
translated in Islamic words. There are different types of accounts for the clients. Such
as: Mudaraba Monthly Saving Deposit Scheme, Mudaraba Su-grehini Monthly
Saving Scheme, Mudaraba Senior Monthly Saving Scheme, Mudaraba Super
Saving Scheme, Mudaraba EXIM Student Saver, Mudaraba Hajj Deposit
Scheme.I was appointed to assist the general banking officers, who deals with the
operations of these accounts.
While assisting the general banking officer, I actually inputted the compulsory
information of the clients, marked down the vital facts about the clients and handled
the confidential matters as well.
There are some steps that must be followed during opening an account. To open an
account, the first and foremost thing to know is location where the client lives in.
Because it is strongly recommended that the client should open an account where he
lives or where his/her workplace is situated. If anyone is seen doing the opposite,
he/she is referred to the base area as per bank rules.
Then the client fills up the form. 2 (two) passport sized photographs, photocopy of
National ID, photocopy of Income Tax, photocopy of passport and some other basic
information such as: name, date of birth, gender, name of father and mother, spouse‟s
details (if any) these information are must needed to fill up the form.
Likewise, all the information given goes under a verification process where every
detail is checked precisely.
Furthermore, all the data are inputted in a computer in the bank‟s database and an
account number is provided. Every client holds an individual and unique Customer
ID Number. But one client can hold different types of accounts with different
account number.
Not to mention, the client operates any banking activity with the account number. The
transaction limit is depended on the monthly income of a particular client. The limit is
as much as the income is. The limit should not be crossed. The senior officers of the
bank did further confidential activities.
There was another part of general banking division, where I worked and that was the
“Online banking service.” EXIM Bank provides a superior online banking service,
where clients can conduct their banking activities at home or any other place via using
Internet. During working with this online service, I came to know about the services
that are provided in this sector. By using this online service, clients can transfer funds
to any other branch or other bank. Clients can check their balance, find out the deposit
balance information, they can also pay their credit card bill. There are some other
services, which can be conducted via online service.
It also came to my knowledge that how the clients open their account and get access
to those. How the clients are able to get the desired information. Even there is a
section where the clients reach if they face any kind of problems.
Based on this situation, I decided that I should have a survey regarding the
satisfaction of the clients in the criteria. Afterwards, I started to gather information by
providing the clients a survey questionnaire. I basically reached among those who are
already using this service because there are a quite number of people who is still not
using the online services. It was quite a tough task for me as everyone was not able to
cope up with given time. Nevertheless, 30 clients were generous enough to provide
the information I needed for the survey.
EXIM Bank has correspondent banking relationship with many International banks
and many countries with great care to ensure that their customers get the best and
most reliable service in the foreign lands at most competitive rates. The Foreign
Exchange division of this bank plays a very vital role in providing revenue to its
income sector. This department deals with the transaction in foreign currency, export,
import and foreign remittance and post import financing.
I worked in the foreign exchange section for a limited time of period. So, they have
taught me some basic activities, which are done in this section. Such as, data entry
method, managing the L/C (Letter of Credit), dealing with scheduling the product
shipment, input data of the transaction between the clients and the companies. These
activities were done under straight guidance from a superior to mine as it a very
sensitive sector of any bank.
Project Part
Banking sector is introducing new financial events every day and also its service
process is becoming faster, cheaper and better day-by-day. Bangladesh commercial
banks have already introduced online banking, which can be considered as a huge
technological achievement for our banking sector. This type of service was totally
beyond imagination for a developing country like us. Earlier ten to twelve years ago
people would not even think about operating their banking activities without being
present personally in any bank. Security concern was also a major factor for this type
of service. But now-a-days people are involving with this online banking activity.
Today‟s world cannot imagine a life without Internet. For saving time, convenience
and also to get a 24 hours access; people are getting more attached and attracted with
this Online banking service.
Banks are now termed as “Third generation banks”. EXIM Bank of Bangladesh
limited is one of the most renowned “third generation banks”, which is contributing a
lot to the financial system of Bangladesh. One of the great achievements of their
service is their excellent online banking service.
Any academic course of the study has a great value when it has practical application
in the real life. Only a lot of theoretical knowledge will be little important unless it is
applicable in the practical life. So we need proper application of our knowledge to get
some benefit from our theoretical knowledge to make it more fruitful. Such an
application is possible through a study and research. My study on “Performance
Analysis of customer Satisfaction on Online Banking Of EXIM Bank Ltd”- A
study on Gulshan Branch, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Online Banking
Online banking is a technique by which, clients can conduct all the activities
electronically via Internet. . In Bangladesh there are a huge number of banks, which
are using this online service. Some of them are:
EXIM Bank also provides online service to satisfy their customers by providing them
latest technologies. Among all the branches across the country EXIM bank has set up
Wide Area Network (WAN) to provide on-line branch banking facility. The service is
called as “AISER”. This service has showed immense improvement on the customer
service. Using this facility customer of one branch can do transactions at any other
branch of the bank. EXIM bank has organized its web site to facilitate widely spread
of information about the banking services and facilities of EXIM Bank Limited all
over the world.
“AISER”:
Clients need to put all the information very carefully and then submit it to
any Branch of EXIM Bank
Afterward when the clients complete the approval procedure of the
Application successfully, two activation codes will be sent to the user
registered Mobile number and email address respectively with a temporary
numeric User Id.
After receiving this user ID, clients must go to the link User Activation of
the AISER login page and follow the user Activation Procedure according to
the User manual or he/she can watch the video of User activation
procedure.
Terms and Conditions of Online Branch Banking
Service:
Before opening an online account under EXIM Bank AISER, a client needs to go
through with some important terms and conditions. Clients need to read this carefully,
as there are many rules and regulations included. Some of this terms and conditions
are given below:
The User of Internet Banking Service must keep up not less than one
exchange account, among AWCD (Al-Wadia Current Deposit), MSD
(Mudaraba Savings Deposit) and MSND (Mudaraba Special Notice
Deposit) with the Bank. By using AISER, users might enable to get more
than one account.
Accounts that are hold jointly are not applicable to Transfer fund.
The user name, password and security PIN Code will be recognized by the
account holder only. Any type of Transactions or operations will be done
under the control of the user. So the account holder will be liable or
responsible for any of these activities.
In case of security concern or if the account holder feels that any other
person came to know his/her password, he/she should immediately change
the password through Internet Banking. If the user could not be able to do
that, he/she needs to call to the call center at 16246 or Internet Banking
Help Desk number. They will help the user to set up a new password. In
the meantime all the services of that account will be suspended.
The account holder can also get the help of the call center or the Internet
Help desk, if the registered mobile number is lost, misplace or stolen or if
the registered e-mail address is changed or hacked.
For any type of impose or modify charges the bank or management needs
to inform the clients immediately via, the respective website.
According to the terms and conditions of EXIM Bank AISER, the bank shall not be
liable or responsible for any sort of damage or loss to any online account holder, as a
consequence of:
Or
Or
If a client admits to accept all the terms and conditions given by the bank, he/she
needs to sign in an agreement form. Which will be kept to the client as well as to the
bank.
Main features of EXIM AISER:
A client can perform most of the banking activities via AISER. Being at home or any
other places, individuals can deal with any kind of transactions or transfer activities.
The main features that are served by AISER to its valuable clients are given below:
Balance Information:
By using AISER, clients can easily check their account balance from anywhere of the
world, at any time. It provides the information of the balance and statement of the
registered account(s) as well as DPS (Deposit Pension Scheme) and MTDR
(Mudaraba Term Deposit Receipt) accounts. To check out the balance, a client needs
to go through four steps. At first he needs to go to “Account Balance” which can be
found on the sub menu of the “Balance Info”. On the account balance the user will
find out the “working balance”. At the second part the user will see the first page of
balance statement, before that the user needs to select a date range, which must be
given within 365 days (One year) or an error will be occurred. The third part will
represent the WEB view of the statement of selected range. At the fourth step, user
will find out PDF statement of the web view.
Mobile Recharge:
Using AISER, a user can recharge balance to any operator at any time. In a single
day, user can recharge an amount of maximum BDT 10,000. In a single transaction, a
user can recharge an amount from BDT 50.0 to BDT 2,000. The user can recharge to
any mobile number of any operator, if his or her amount is between the given ranges.
Nevertheless, there need to be sufficient balance (at least BDT 500) in the user‟s
account to complete the process, as he or she requires selecting the debit account. For
the recharge process, at first the user needs to fill up the debit account number,
available balance, in which operator and mobile number he wants to recharge,
Connection type (prepaid/postpaid) and the most importantly the amount of recharge.
After filling the inputs, the user will click “Validate”. Once he click the validate
button, he cannot change or edit the information. For this he needs to go to the
“previous page” button. Afterward the user needs to give a PIN code to “registered
mobile number” as well as a security PIN code (set during user activation). Then he
needs to click the “Submit for FT” button to recharge mobile balance. Hence the
user will get a CBS (Core Banking Software) reference number, an IB (Internet
Banking) reference number and a recharge ID for further proceeding. This “Recharge
ID” is favorable for any query regarding mobile recharge.
Fund transfer:
User can transfer funds from minimum amount of BDT 50 to maximum amount of
BDT 2,00,000 (Two lac). In a single day, a user can obtained ten transactions of all
kinds of funds transfer. For this procedure at first the user needs to go to the
“Beneficiary credit account” where already the information of the user‟s IBank Id,
beneficiary name, account number, account type, bank name as well as branch name
also included. There he needs to click the “Validate” button and if the information is
correct, the user need to put a PIN code which will be sent to the registered mobile
number via SMS. Afterward the user needs to put the PIN code and the Security code.
Finally a CBS (Core Banking Software) reference ID and IBanking Id will be given to
the user as the recognition of successful funds transfer.
In case of other bank transfer, at first the user needs to select the bank and then follow
the rest of the procedure.
Bill Payment:
A user can pay credit card bills vie using AISER. For this at first he needs to go to the
“Credit card” menu under its submenu he needs to go to the “EXIM VISA”. There
in the debit account he needs to put all the information to pay the bill. The rest of the
procedure is as like as the funds transfer.
There are some other features, which can be conducted via AISER. The users can
provide their feedbacks also, as there is an option given called “feedback” menu. The
users can also change the password or the security PIN. They can change their profile
as well as deactivate their profile. Besides this if any kind of problems faced by the
users, there are officers available in the branch, who can guide you to get rid of those
problems.
Satisfaction:
Satisfaction is basically a tool, which makes a person happy, pleased or content.
Satisfaction is the act of fulfilling a need, desire, or appetite, or the feeling gained
from such fulfillment.
Customers Satisfaction:
Customer satisfaction means you have had enough in a good way. When a customer is
satisfied by a product or service, it means that particular product or service has
fulfilled its consumer‟s needs or expectations.
Importance of Customer satisfaction:
Customer satisfaction plays an important role within a business. Not only is it the
leading indicator to measure customer loyalty, identify unhappy customers, reduce
churn and increase revenue; it is also a key point of differentiation that helps you to
attract new customers in competitive business environments. There are few factors of
importance of customer satisfaction. These are given below:
1. General Purpose
2. Specific Purpose
1. General Purpose:
Limitations:
No study can be perfect, as there will be some limitations, which will be faced during
conducting that study.
The time frame of the internship program was only three months. So the primary
limitation of this study was the time duration, which was very short. It was not
enough to study properly about the EXIM Bank Limited and its various activities.
Though this study was not about the whole existing program of EXIM Bank, it was
specifically a portion of the factors effecting EXIM Bank Limited.
Another limitation of this study was, there was some highly confidential data, which
cannot be used anywhere. Those, information might be more helpful for preparing my
report.
The most significant limitation that faced by me was during the survey of analyzing
the customer satisfaction on Online Banking. Time constraint was also a big factor
there. I got only three weeks to complete my survey. The clients were busy enough,
that they were not able to give me proper time during filling up the survey
questionnaire, which was very natural. Most of the clients refused to provide their
valuable time for the survey. Some clients were not desired to write any comments.
For which sometimes to avoid those comments, they put the erroneous answers.
There were a number of clients who still do not use the online service of EXIM Bank.
That was also a big challenge for me to find out the potential candidates for the
survey.
The Literature Review:
Today‟s world of business or market place is a place of competition. A company can
sustain properly in a market place, if it becomes successful to cope up with this
competition. When a new business or new product enters in a market place, it is
obvious that on the upcoming day a competitor will stood up side by side of that
business. This problem can be solved by competitive advantage of a business.
According to Jack Welch, “If you don‟t have a competitive advantage, don‟t
compete”
Every business has their individual competitive advantage, which they maintain to
differentiate their product or service from their competitor‟s products or services. This
competitive advantage can be the price of their product or quality of their product or
the service quality they are providing. All this strategies are followed to make their
customers satisfied, so that they purchase their product again and again and become a
loyal customer of that brand.
Service quality and customer satisfaction are inarguably the two core concepts that
are at the crux of the marketing theory and practice (Spreng and Mackoy, 1996).
Now-a-days businesses are focusing more on their intangible assets, whereas earlier it
was believed that a business could become successful by providing good products or
service only. But now businesses are focusing more on service quality, customer
Satisfaction management (CSM) as well as Customer Relationship Management
(CRM).
But how to achieve this customer satisfaction, that is a vital issue and here are several
numbers of arguments for this concept.
“The service management literature argues that customer satisfaction is the result of a
customer‟s perception of the value received, where value equals perceived service
quality relative to price”(Hallowell, 1996, p. 29).
“The first determinant of overall customer satisfaction is perceived quality; the second
determinant of overall customer satisfaction is perceived value” (Fornell et al., 1996,
p. 9).
Methodology:
To conduct any sort of report or research, it is essential to collect data from various
sectors. These data can be collected through primary data and secondary data. Both of
these sources are used to prepare my report.
1. Primary Sources:
2. Secondary Sources:
I was not able to do this study with only observing or getting conversation with the
employees of EXIM Bank. For further information, I had to go through with
secondary sources. For this I have collected relevant data from “Google”, by using
different articles and journals, which helped me a lot to contribute to my literature
review. For the other essential information of to know about EXIM Bank briefly, I
had to go through with the website of EXIM Bank Ltd. As my topic was based on
online banking, so I had to go through their online banking website too.
Analysis of the Survey Result:
To explicit my knowledge about the online banking service of EXIM Bank, I needed
to conduct a survey of “Customer Satisfaction on Online Banking of EXIM
Bank”. I was able to gather information from 30 clients, who are using online service
of EXIM Bank. Though there are a number of clients, who are still not using their
online service. This survey was very helpful for me to find out the real thought of the
clients or what their expectations are. I wanted to find out, whether the clients are
actually happy with the services provided by EXIM Bank Online Service or not.
According to clients, which service they are using the most or which service they like
the most. All of this information was found from the survey. From this I was able to
analyze some important factors. The analysis of the survey is given below with the
questions that I asked during the survey:
1. What were your reasons for choosing our Online Banking service?
For this question there were four options: Convenience, to save time, 24
hours access to account and others. From these options 63.33% of the
participants said they use the online service of EXIM Bank for
convenience. According to them by using this service it became easy for
them to operate the banking activities from anywhere. After using this
service they do not have to visit the branch frequently, if they have any
quarries. Among the participants, 20% said they use this service to save
time. According to them, by using this service they can have any
information about their account at any time, it saves their time. The rest of
the 16.67% participants said by using this, they can have 24 hours access
to their account. As we know the banking operation usually lasts till 5pm.
So if anyone wants to know any information about his account he has to
wait for the next day. But using this service, the account holder can find
out that information from anywhere, at any time. No one mentioned about
any other reasons for why they are using this service. So it can be said that
most of the account holders use this service for their own comfort.
Asking this question, the fact is, very less percentage of 16.67uses the
online service of EXIM Bank over eight times per month. A huge number
of the participants use online service for three to eight times per month,
which is 56.67%. Among the participants 26.67% use online service one to
three times. There was no one who said that they never use the service or
they use this service less than one time. From this it can be said that, the
online account holders often use this service.
For this question, five online services were included which are provided by
EXIM Bank. Among those options, 40% of the participants said that they
use this service mostly to check their account balance. As most of the
clients are very busy, sometimes it becomes difficult for them to visit the
branch just to know their balance amount. For this type of inquiry they
prefer to use online service rather than visiting the branch. Among the
participants, 33.33% said they use online service to transfer credit to
another account. As mentioned earlier, by using the online service of
EXIM Bank, users can transfer money to an account which can be any
other bank or any other branch of the EXIM Bank. According to the
clients, this service is very useful to them, as they can transfer money any
time from their account to any other account from anywhere. The rest of
the 26.67% of the participants said they use online banking to pay the
credit card bill. The clients can easily pay their bills by sitting at home or
any other place, rather than visiting the branch. From the participants no
one choose the options of “Bill payment” and “Deposit Scheme
Information”. Since it was not possible to survey all the account holders
of online banking, so there might be other clients, who use both this
services most.
If focused on the result of the survey, it is seen that the participants said
they had full treat on the security service of the EXIM Bank online service.
No one said that they have any doubt about the security system of this
service. Some of them said that they are connected with EXIM Bank for a
long time, so they have faith upon their service.
5. Please rate the following online service
- Balance Inquiry
- Pay Bill
- Credit Card Bill Payment
- Credit Transfer
- E-alert
For this question, the options were arranged in excellent to poor scale. For „Balance
Inquiry‟ 80% of the participants said that this service is excellent; rest of the 20% said
the service is good. Nobody said that the service is poor.
For „Bill Payment‟ 53.33% said this service is excellent, 36.67% said it is good and
the remaining 10% choose neutral for this service. According to them, this service is
neither excellent nor poor.
For „Credit Card Bill Payment‟, 60% of the participants choose excellent, 36.67%
said it is a good service and a very less percentage of 3.33 choose neutral for the
credit card bill payment.
„Credit Transfer‟ is a very essential service among all the online services. Since there
is a few numbers of participants (3.33%) who think it is a poor service, whereas 60%
of the participants choose excellent and 36.57% said it is good. There was not enough
time so that I could find out the reason of that 3.33% why they choose it a poor
service. From my point of view, they might find it difficult to operate the online
procedure of credit transfer. Because there are some difficult steps which they need to
follow during credit transfer.
There was a mixed reaction found for „E-alert‟ service. 56% of the participants said
this service is neither good nor bad, 3% said it is an excellent service, 30% said it is a
good service and the rest of the 16.67% participants choose the E-alert as a poor
service. From the further answers or comments, it is found that EXIM Bank online
service does not have any alert system for the Deposit Scheme. There are some few
more services which do not have alert system.
From this part of the survey, it can be said that the participants are quite satisfied with
the Credit Card Bill Payment. Credit Transfer and Balance Inquiry and they are less
satisfied with the E-alert of the online service.
6. Do you visit our branch since you started our online?
Most of the participants said they still visits the branch since there are some services,
which EXIM Bank online do not provide. 86.67% said they still visit the branch and
the remaining 13.33% said they do not visit the branch after since they started the
online banking service.
We cannot come to a conclusion with the result or analysis of this survey as there is a
huge number of online account holders who did not participate to this survey. Among
the participants, some were too busy that may be they were unmindful during the
survey. Some were too busy that they did not mention any comments and there were
some participants who were avoiding the questions where they needed to give
comments. For a complete analysis of this topic, more time was needed as well as
more co-operations of the clients.
Findings
This is the most important part of the report that I have prepared. By this part of my
report I am interpreting my whole study about EXIM Bank Limited as well as the
survey I had conducted for customer satisfaction of their Online Banking service. The
result of this study is stated below:
EXIM Bank Bangladesh Ltd focuses on Islami Shariah based banking system.
The main motive of their service is profit sharing.
EXIM is not a centrally online bank, which is very important to cope up with
today‟s technological developed world.
They provide different attractive schemes to the clients than other banks and
they deduct 10% of profit from the savings of the clients as per tax on behalf
of the government.
They provide quality financial services in export and import trade.
EXIM Bank is quick service provider.
The environment of the branch is pleasant.
The behavior of the employees is satisfactory. They are very friendly and
helpful.
There is a good co-ordination among the employees and the managers. They
eagerly try to help each other in any sort of difficulties or problems.
The bank provides necessary information in time.
The core strength of EXIM bank is its strong and reliable client base. Know
Your Customer (KYC) is the motto of this bank.
The officers and the managers always try to their best to provide their
customers with quality service. If any client becomes dissatisfied, the officers
as well as the mangers become busy to cheer up that customers and give them
full attention so that they become pleased.
The officers maintain the formal dress code.
The internal decoration of the bank is attractive and well furnished. Every
officer has been provided with a PC (Personal Computer) and latest necessary
equipment.
EXIM Bank provides a very well organized online service, which is called
“AISER” (Access I-Banking with Secured and Easy Rationale). This online
service provides different types of services to the account holders.
Users of this account need to follow some steps to operate their banking
activities. After starting the online account, they visit less to the branch. Most
of the customers use the online service 3-8 times per month.
Most of the customers use their online service because of convenience.
Because, by using this service they can easily access their account from
anywhere of this world, at any time.
EXIM Bank provides a very satisfactory online service, which I have found
from the survey.
The services that they use the most are the balance inquiry, Credit transfer and
credit card payment.
The customers have full trust on the security system of their online service.
Some customers are so loyal towards this Bank that have full faith on any kind
of services provided by EXIM Bank.
Since some of the online service users also have an online account on another
bank. But most of them are satisfied with the service of EXIM Bank.
Some of the clients still do not have any online account in EXIM Bank. There
are some clients who trust on the traditional operating system rather than the
latest technological system.
These are some factors that I have found during the study of my report.
Recommendations
EXIM bank is undoubtedly a very well organized bank. But there are some sectors,
where they need to focus on or they need to improve. Those are:
Though the bank is well decorated but there should have some more spaces for
the officers of Foreign Exchange. Because the department of foreign exchange
is quiet big and there are a huge number of officers and managers. It becomes
suffocated to some part of that department.
EXIM Bank does not give attention on advertisement. In a competitive
banking sector a bank has to enhance advertisement campaign in order to get
or retain its market share.
The online service should provide visa card as debit card service, so that the
clients can purchase via online, with this card.
The alert service for the online banking should be improved.
More online services should be included.
Conclusion
EXIM Bank Limited is a bank based on Islamic Shariah, which has become a
renowned bank in our country. In a very short period of time, it has earned goodwill
among the service sector as well as to the customers of the service sector. EXIM Bank
is growing rapidly they are always trying to provide their customers with latest and
better services. Since they already have a huge number of branches, they are opening
more for the convenience of their clients. They are providing ATM booths on the
different locations. Especially in Dhaka, they have provided ATM booths on so many
busy areas, which covers all most every places of this city. Since there are some
lacking on their service, but improve this by the proper guidance or with the co-
operation of the whole team of EXIM Bank Limited.
Supplementary Part
Bibliography
Target Population: Clients who are using the Online service (AISER) in EXIM
Bank Limited, Gulshan Delta Life tower, Plot # 37, Road # 45 & 90, North Gulshan
C/A, Gulshan-2, Dhaka.
Sample Size: The sample size of the survey was 30 including male and female.
Belonging from different types of profession. Such as: Business, service sector,
students as well as housewives. The age limit of the participants was 18-60.
Survey Questionnaire
Survey on
1. What were your reasons for choosing our online banking service?
Convenience
To save time
24 hour access to account
Others
Pay bill
Deposit Scheme Information
Balance Inquiry
Credit Card bill Payment
Credit/ Fund transfer (Any bank, Any branch)
4. Do you trust the security service of our online banking?
Yes
No
6. Do you still visit our branch since you started our online banking service?
Yes
No
Strongly Satisfied
Satisfied
Neutral
Dissatisfied
Strongly dissatisfied
8. If “No” What is the reason for your dissatisfaction?
Yes
No
10. If you do not recommend others, can you please mention the reason?
11. Do you have the online banking account in any other bank?
Yes
No
EXIM Bank
Another Bank
12. Please mention if you have any comments or suggestions:
Thank you!