BANK Reaction Paper GELACIO, JAN URIEL A.
BANK Reaction Paper GELACIO, JAN URIEL A.
BANK Reaction Paper GELACIO, JAN URIEL A.
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REACTION PAPER
Bank is a way where we can borrow and save money. It is a safe way of keeping
our money. According to Investopedia, a bank is a financial institution licensed to
receive deposits and make loans. They provide deposit and loan services. It also
provides credit cards and investing instruments that we can use to grow our money in
their hands. However, banking also gives positive and negative advantages for people.
So that, we should also learn how to manage our wealth or using the benefits of using it.
There are good benefits of banks. It provides safety on our wealth. It helps us to
save money in addition, by compromising our wealth to the bank, they also can give
interests annually or semi-annually depending on their offers. Next is that banks do offer
cheap loans and it also gives opportunity for unprivileged section in society without
using expensive loan system. Banks also create money with a system called credit
creation. With the help of credit creation, banks can lend a lot more money than the
deposits that it holds. When banks lend this money to agriculture, industries, small
businesses, and service providers, they are helping the economy grow exponentially.
This, in turn, creates employment and spending power. Overall, this one function of the
bank is so powerful that the entire economy of any country relies on it. It is also good
for large scale economy. It is an important benefit for any bank with wide reach through
branch banking system and benefits of large-scale operations. The wider the bank can
reach, the better the service it can provide they say. Banks aid rural development
in more than one way. Firstly, the government makes it mandatory for the banks to lend
to specialized sectors such as agriculture, rural infrastructure, etc. This leads to the
development of modern infrastructure and methods in rural areas, thereby bringing in
growth. Secondly, with the banks opening their branches in the backward areas, the
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rural population has benefits of modern bank facilities such as check-in accounts, ATM’s,
locker facility, etc. Many banks operate at the multinational level, this has helped
people and businesses in a way that
was not possible before the establishment of modern banks. Multinational banks aids in
remittance of cash, exchanging one currency for another; aids in export by transferring
documents and payments; lend money to government, institutions, and other world
organizations. The reach of the banks is unlimited, and it has helped in making the world
a global village.
Aside from the positive benefits of banking, it also has an opposite outcome or
consequences. It may cause us having a huge debt. Let’s say a person is in the habit of
maxing out his credit card every month and repays the bare minimum then he will spiral
into debt very fast. We should have enough capability to afford having loans. Its not
always borrowing, we should also repay on time. It may damage your savings, or the
time expectancy of your debt and may cause for us to be in a bad situation.
Overall, banking is a good way of managing our money. We just need to study
more about banking. Proper and sufficient knowledge gives a huge advantage when it
comes to it.