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Background Note
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2006
(Revised from original 2002 version)
Economics of Retail Banking Note
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Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
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Abstract
Explains the financial operations of retail banking, highlighting profitability challenges facing the industry. For U.S. banks, it is quite common for more than half of the customer base to be unprofitable and to have relatively few customers make up the vast majority of profits. Attempts to explain how retail banks generate revenue and incur costs while serving their customer base.
Keywords: Customers;
Economics;
Cost;
Banks and Banking;
Profit;
Revenue;
Service Operations;
Banking Industry;
United States;
Citation:
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Economics of Retail Banking Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-153, March 2006. (Revised from original April 2002 version.)