Mobile banking software and credit union

Mobile banking software companies are growing at a very fast pace and will soon become the primary medium for banks to connect with their customers .A mobile phone is an exceptional and indivisible part of our lives now. It is so multi-functional and is related to copious aspects of our daily life. . It is of great service to its owner in ways more than one but none of them is more beneficial than the mobile banking function provided by almost all mobile carriers today.Mobile banking is known by various other names. The media calls it M-Banking or SMS Banking. Basically it is a term that describes a whole lot of activities. Through mobile banking, one can balance checks, complete his account transactions, make payments on time etc. via a mobile device such as a mobile phone. It is the age of technology and credit unions have also warmed up to it. Many credit unions around the globe now offer mobile banking feature to their customers so that important and urgent financial transactions can be performed even when they are travelling and don’t have access to a PC or cannot visit the bank.

A credit union is a cooperative fiscal organization which is owned and governed by its members, and operates for the intention of promoting financial system, providing credit at rational rates, and providing other financial services to its members. There are many credit unions whose endeavor is to help community development or sustainable international development on a local level. A credit union may be tiny or large. Large credit unions may possibly have more than a million members and several billion dollars of money. Many of the largest banks have already launched mobile banking services, which are catching on with customers and generating positive business results. Banking via a mobile device is the most revolutionary thing to have happened ever since the advent of mobile phones. Customers can now pay bills, check their account balances, transfer funds and more. Many credit unions are right now choosing between WAP/browser-based mobile banking programs and SMS/Text messaging programs. There are some, who necessitate their customer to download mobile banking software. This is clearly great news for their customers who often find themselves in complex situations when they have to transfer money urgently and cannot access a bank or credit union. The number of credit unions offering mobile banking facility to their customers is on the rise, and the trend is likely to carry on in the future. They provide solutions for all mobiles: Windows Mobile/iPhone/Google Android G1 Phone/Blackberry and others. The connections are ensured to be safe and secure too.

What You Wanted To Know About On-line Banking Services

Technical advance has brought essential changes to our lives. Things that we consider commonplace today were hardly imaginable just a few decades ago. The Internet is amidst the most important and useful achievements in the past years. Today we get a chance to get to know about everything that is happening in the world almost at once. Getting any info you need, talking to people, even making business on-line – everything is possible now.
On-line banking is becoming more and more popular now. On-line banking, also called internet banking, is an instrument allowing clients to conduct transactions on a specialized secure web site operated by virtual bank or financial institution. The introduction of internet banking has changed the way of accomplishing everyday banking tasks. The use of Internet banking service is much more convenient and it saves a lot of time, in this way it augments the efficiency of your business processes.
On-line banking provides you with a whole range of financial services. You get a total control over your account, and you have an opportunity to check the status of your account any time you like. Regular bank organizations keep to certain working hours, while on-line banking permits you to conduct transactions any time of day or night. Sometimes we are faced with situations when we need to apply to bank office urgently. For example, you wrote an erroneous check or need to pay for some product right at the moment. A benefit of Internet banking is that you have a chance to use its service when you need it, not just during working hours of the bank. What's also essential, you can control your money and make payments in any place of the world. All you need is an access to the World Wide Web, and you have all your savings at your disposal.
The following step of online banking development is mobile banking. Cellular phone is always at hand, so you can use banking service even if you are far from home or office.
So, the comfort of using private banking services is evident. There is no necessity to worry about business hours of bank office any longer. Have total control of your money with online banking

Personal Lending

Overview

We, at personal lending unit located at Lalitpur Branch, are committed to provide you with top-notch services when it comes to your personal financial needs. Whether you need to buy your dream house or your fast car, need to mortgage your house for money for any reason or need funds for household items, you are more than welcome. Please step in and feel the difference for your personal financial needs.

Please click links on this page for details of our services.

Auto Finance

We are committed to provide finance for purchase of your vehicles - be it for personal or commercial purpose. Please step into one of our branches and ride home in your new car. The following are the features of auto finance scheme.
S.N.
Products
Loan Amount
Loan Tenor

1
Private
3 lakhs to 60 lakhs
Upto 5 years to 7 years

2
Commercial
3 lakhs to 60 lakhs
Upto 4 years

3
Used
3 lakhs to 20 lakhs
Maximum 4 years

4
Refinancing
3 lakhs to 25 lakhs
Age of the vehicle should not exceed maximum 7 years at the time of loan maturity


Other Features
· Processing fee 1% of the loan amount payable upfront.
· Prepayment Allowed after 1 year only with prempayment fee
as 1% of the amount prepaid.
· Age Criteria from 21 years to 65 years at loan maturity.
Housing Finance

We are committed to provide finance for purchase or construction of your land and house so that you have a shelter of your dream. Please step into one of our branches and feel at home. The following are the features of housing finance scheme.

S.N.
Products
Loan Amount
Loan Tenor
Financial Ratio

1
Land Purchase
5 lakhs to 80 lakhs
upto 20 years
70% of distress value of property

2
Land & Building Purchase
5 lakhs to 80 lakhs
upto 20 years
70% of distress value of property

3
Construction
5 lakhs to 80 lakhs
upto 20 years
70% of construction cost

4
Renovation / Extension
3 lakhs to 15 lakhs
upto 20 years
70% of renovation cost

5
Refinancing (loan take over)
5 lakhs to 80 lakhs
upto 20 years
70% of distress value of property



Other Features:
· Collateral for all above products required
· At least 8 feet wide, motorable access to the land
· Land to be free of guthi or mohi
· Land to be far from high tension line
· Third Party Collateral - not acceptable

Prepayment & Service Charges
· 2% of amount prepaid before 1 year
· 1% of amount prepaid after 1 year
· Partial payment allowed after 1 year only
· Service Charge: 1% of loan amount up front

Loan Documentation Fee
· NPR 1,500 upto NPR 1 million loan
· NPR 3,000 upto NPR 10 million loan
· NPR 5,000 above NPR 10 million loan


NabilProperty

With NabilProperty, you can mortgage your property and borrow from us to use the funds for any purpose. The following are the features of NabilProperty.
Loan Amount
Loan Tenor
Financial Ratio
Age Criteria

5 lakhs to 50 lakhs
upto 10 years
70% of distress value of property
25 to 65 years at loan maturity


Other Features:
· Collateral required
· At least 8 feet wide, motorable access to the land
· Land to be free of guthi or mohi
· Land to be far from high tension line
· Third Party Collaeral-not acceptable

Eligibility: Any individual having steady regular income source.

Loan Documentation Fee
· NPR 1,500 upto NPR 1 million loan
· NPR 3,000 upto NPR 10 million loan
· NPR 5,000 above NPR 10 million loan

Prepayment Fee: 2% of amount prepaid before 1 year
1% of amount prepaid after 1 year

Partial payment allowed after 1 year only

Service Charge: 1% of loan amount up front

Age Criteria for co-applicant is 21 years at the time of application received and not older than 75 years at loan maturity

Personal Finance

With personal finance scheme, you will be able to borrow money to purchase household items. The following are the features of personal finance scheme.
Eligibility: Service holder having permanent service terms or contract basis at least covering the loan tenure and the employer should be in a position to provide an undertaking to transfer the fund to the Bank for EMI

Loan Amount 2 lakhs to 10 lakhs

Loan Tenure upto 3 years

Purpose: For the purchase of household items

Processing fee 1% of the loan amount payable up front

Prepayment Allowed after 6 months

Remittance

SWIFT Transfer

Through the SWIFT transfer mechanism, we can transfer your fund to virtually anywhere in the world. Likewise we can receive the fund for your account with us from virtually any bank in the world. SWIFT stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication System, which is a reliable communication network speeding up fund transfer and other financial messages. You do not need to have an account with Nabil Bank for fund transfers through SWIFT.

Western Union

Through Western Union, you can receive the fund through thousands and thousands of agents located worldwide. It is the fastest and premium fund transfer system. Once the fund is transferred at the sending end and the recipient knows MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number), sender's name, amount etc, he or she will obtain the fund at any of Nabil's Branches within the shortest possible time by filling up a form and submitting an identity. You do not need to have an account with Nabil Bank.

E-Remittance(Qatar, Doha)

Any of the Nepali workers in Qatar can send the fund to their recipient / beneficiary through E-remittance. This product has been established in a tie-up with Doha Bank, Qatar to facilitate transfer of workers' funds into the country.

Traveler's Check

You can purchase or sell traveler's cheques at Nabil Bank. Instead of carrying cash, a lot of people prefer to carry traveler's cheques for safety reason, while they travel. American Express Traveler's Cheques are available for sale.

Bank Draft

Nabil Bank can draw drafts on a number of its correspondent banks located all over the world. Click the following links for the list of correspondent banks on which Nabil can draw drafts:
· Indian Rupee Draft Arrangement
· Foreign Currency Draft Arrangement

Mail Transfer

When there is no SWIFT transfer or draft arrangement, you may opt for mail transfer. As the name suggests, mail transfer is slow compared to other ways of fund transfer.

Manager's Check

It is a cheque drawn by Nabil bank on itself, especially used for payments made by Nabil Bank. Beneficiary can send the cheque on collection or through clearing or can deposit it in his or her account with Nabil Bank itself.

Anywhere Branch Banking

Nabil Bank uses state-of-art technology, software and hardware to provide the best services to its customers. All the branches are connected through VSAT link or Radio link, so that you can access your account from any of the branches located throughout the kingdom. All the branches of the bank serve you for deposit and withdrawal of cash, balance enquiry, statement, balance certificate etc.

Origin and Development of Bank in Nepal

The growth of banking in Nepal is not so long. The history of banking sector is rather slowing evolutionary. Even now the banking system is still in the evolutionary phase. In Nepal, the origination of banks started through Sahu (Goldsmith), Mahajan (Merchant) and Sunuwars.
Even though the specific date of the beginning of money and banking deal in Nepal is not obvious, it is speculated that during the region of the Mandev, the coin “Manank” and “Gunank” during the region of the Gunkmadev were in use. Similarly evidence of minted coin of Amsuvarma in 7th century and the coin of Jishu Gupta are also found.
Towards the end of 11th century during the time of Jayasthiti Malla Tankadhari was in front in banking transaction, it gave money to the people against the fixed interest rate and other extra dues in loan advanced. Here “Tanko” is money or piece and “Dhari” means the owner of the money. People kept land and goods as pledge and utilize the money in personnel and business use.
During the tenure of the Prime Minister Ranadip Singh (1933 B.S.) an institution called “Tejarath Adda” was established for simple banking against the security of gold, silver and ornaments. However it accepted no deposits from public. For the development of commercial sector “Tejarath Adda” was converted into Nepal Bank Limited in 1994 B.S.
The modern banking system in Nepal started from the establishment of Nepal Bank Limited with paid up capital of Rs. 84,500 on November 1937. After this, development of banking sectors and monetary policies was recognized. As a result on 14th Baisakh 2013 B.S. Nepal Rastra Bank was established as a central bank. Before the establishment of NRB, Nepal Bank Limited was only the bank which controlled and conducted monetary transaction of foreign currency and other transaction within the country.
After the establishments of NRB all banks which are running in Nepal conducted according to policy, rules and direction of NRB. In 2022 as a milestone Rastriya Banijya Bank (RBB) was established. It was fully a government owned commercial bank of Nepal. After the establishment of RBB banking service spread to both urban and rural area of Nepal. In 2024 Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) and Agricultural Development Bank were established. In order to operate all commercial banks uniformly under a single act Commercial Bank Act 2031 was enacted with several amendments. In 2041 B.S. Government of Nepal established rural development banks under the control and supervision of Nepal Rastra Bank.
In 2042 B.S. Banking sector turn to a new era due to adaption of liberal, free economy policy. Government of Nepal allowed establishing other joint venture banks under collaboration with foreign banks as well as private sector. Due to the adaption of this policy Nepal Arab Bank limited (NABIL) was established in 29th Ashadh 2041 as first joint venture bank which provided to be a milestone in the banking. It has pioneered the systematic, reliable and global banking system with professionals, skilled employees and modern technologies which have contributed for the change of classical banking arena of Nepal.
Although there were huge losses of government owned two banks Nepal Bank Limited and Rastriya Banijya Bank Ltd, the positive progress of private and collaborated bank given confidence to the banking sector of Nepalese economy, as a result, there were huge number of banks, finance companies and micro finance companies are competing in current Nepalese market. The Central banks has classified financial institutions in different categories according to their limitation of services and capital structures. At present there are 25 “A” class commercial banks, 58 “B” class development banks, 78 “C” class Finance companies, 12 “D” class micro credit development banks, 16 Saving and credit co-operative (limited banking , licensed by NRB) and 48 Non Government Organization ( Licensed by NRB). The lists of authorized

Evolution and Growth of Bank

When the word bank is used it is meant for commercial bank, actually word was originated from Germany though some people think it to be from French and Italy. Before 1960 there was no such word as banking. However, in the temple of Babylon the practice of safeguarding and saving flourished as early as 2000 B.C. Chanakya in his Arthsastra (Economics) written in 300 B.C. mentioned about the existence of powerful guilds of merchant’s bankers received deposits, advance loans and Hundies ( Letter of transfer).
The establishment of the first modern banking institution called “The bank of Venice” in 1157 A.D. with a view of finance the monarch in wars was a landmark in the history of banking. The Bank of Barcelona, The bank of Spain and the Bank of Genoa were established in the years 1401 A.D.,1404 A.D. and 1407 A.D. respectively. Subsequently, the establishment of “The bank of England in 1694 A.D. as the first central bank contributed a great deal to the history of banking. Many countries quickly followed England and established a central bank of their own. As the central bank lacked a direct interaction with the mass, every country felt a pressuring need of commercial bank. In this way number of commercial bank get established and has came to present stage.

Introduction of Bank

An institution established by law which deals with money and credit is called bank. It is an institution which deals with money by accepting various types of deposits, disbursing loan and rendering other financial services.
It is very difficult to say exactly from where and when the term bank has been derived. However the bank is assumed to be related with the Latin word “ Bancos” French word “ Banque” and Italian word “Banco” which refer to bench for keeping, lending and exchanging of money or coins in the market place by money lenders and money changers.
Chamber’s Twentieth dictionary defines “A bank is an institution for keeping, lending and exchanging etc of money.
G. Crowther says, “A banker is a dealer in debt in his own and other people’s. The bankers business is then to take the debt of other people to offer his own in exchange and thereby to credit money”
According to Dr.H.L. Hart “ a person or company carrying on the business of receiving money and collecting draft, for customers subjects to the obligation of honoring cheques drawn upon them from time to time by the customers to the extent of the amount available on their currents accounts”.