Contrast ways of India’s largest public-sector bank State Bank of India
State Bank of India has collaborated with SBI-cards for issue of SBI-cards to all account-holders of SBI having minimum balance of rupees 20000-25000, without going into credit-history of account-holder. On the other hand, SBI has from 01.04.2017 has decided to levy minimum-balance charge requiring minimum balance of rupees 5000 in savings-accounts in metro-cities.
Liberal issue of credit-cards will be misused by fraud-minded persons. Already account-holders have facility of debit-cards to all account-holders. Rather SBI should take lead in abolishing transaction-charges on use of credit and debit cards. Processing charges on issue of credit and debit cards should also be abolished. Presently sellers charge transaction-charge of 2-percenbt from customers on purchases made through credit...