Are there studies analyzing the link between digital-to-traditional transaction ratios and retail banks’ operating costs?

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Faisal Khan

Answered 03/Dec/2012

There might be such statistics that would most likely be published either by the Financial Regulator as some form of a report or by the Central Bank as a report on the banking industry or payment systems. Individually, you would most likely not find such statistics or studies in the public domain.

It is highly unlikely, even for a publicly traded Bank to publish such numbers.

Depending on the geography, it can be said with most certainty that the cost of operating a transactions (be it online or via mobile) is inherently much less on a normalized basis that say an in-person visit to the bank.

Floor fees as it is referred to, is much higher than other ADC (Alternative Delivery Channels) like a visit to the ATM, Telephone Banking, Internet Banking and Mobile Banking.

Having worked with banks that provide online and mobile banking experiences, I can tell you this much, the cost of deploying and maintaining an online / mobile system is about equal to the the cost of say opening and maintaining 4-5 physical brick-and-motar branches. This number will vary depending on which part of the world you're in and the size of a branch.

An online / mobile system would be able to handle x100s more (if not x1000 more) transactions than say these physical branches would during their hours of operations.