How can we create a bank that helps others grow and thrive?
Banks are business entities and certainly not a charitable NGO, so banks will look at their profits first from any of their initiatives. However, loan services is what Banks offer to the common mass for helping them start/scale up their business! They offer Bank guarantee to the business entities so that they can carry out business with minimum risk! These are highly profitable for the banks but at the same time it helps people and businesses to grow and scale up. If you want banks to throw money to the people, that's not gonna happen!
There are a number of product and services banks offer to the common mass which certainly helps us to grow,
1. Portfolio Management - Banks make money only when the depositors make money and take a percentage of the profit as a service fees
2. Loan products - They offer you liquidity when you need it
3. General deposits - They offer you interest to keep your money with banks
Obviously there is a business equations behind every product offering. They will even take the collateral before offering loan to us, but that's how business should be! A promise of profit should always be there!