ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10690-023-09419-6
Abstract
Certain predominant Banks astride across India stayed esoterically stable while
graphing nascent opportunities in retail banking sectors to intensify their fnancial
values. And concomitantly, Money lending facilities i.e., Consumer Loan services
are one of those oferings which are supposed to meet the customer’s needs and
requirements. But due to a lack of proper ‘customer education’, customers are made
to purchase third-party fnancial products like mutual funds or insurance policies
as mandatory at the time of disbursement of loans by the bank ofcials, which
results in fnancial losses to the customers. The study is carried out to explore vari-
ous loan facilities provided by major banks so that customers can avail of the loan
facilities as per their requirements. We have studied and surveyed all consumer
loan services available, and on the basis of certain parameters such as Interest
Rates, Equated Monthly Installment (EMI), Processing Fee, Pre- Payment Charges,
Charges for Late Payments of EMI, Cheques/ Electronic Clearing Service (ECS)
Return Charges, Mandate Life Insurance Policies, etc. The study concluded that
customers should be exposed to all types of terms and conditions regarding third-
party fnancial products at the time of loan disbursement so that every customer can
be protected from mis-selling third-party fnancial products. Therefore, this study
will enhance the literature towards’ customer education’ and will spread awareness
of certain terms and conditions to the customer at the time of disbursement of loans
in their account.
Keywords Consumer Loan services · Third-party fnancial products · Banking
Ombudsman · Retail banking · Customer education
Accepted: 24 July 2023
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2023
The Impact of Third-Party Financial Products on the
Consumer Loan Services Market in the Banking Sector: An
Analysis of Sales Progress and Consumer Behavior
Narendra Singh Ranawat
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· Ayon Chakraborty
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