Today, there are many activities in 'the industry banking', but if we take into account the types of customers and types of activity, we can distinguish the following broad categories: Collection of deposits, distribution of credits and management of means of payment are the main activities of the retail bank. The activities of the retail bank are customer-oriented individuals, liberal professions and small-scale businesses (shopkeepers, craftsmen.). For retail banks, based on networks of bank branches But these are supplemented by the services of distance banking: online banking (customer relations) and internet bankThe financial transactions such as ipos, mergers and acquisitions, the issuances of securities or of financial products and the operations of selling and trading on the markets are the specific activities at the BFI. The main customers of the bank's funding and investment are large companies, institutional investors, fund managers, States. The BFI are parts of large banking groups, universal but they have their organization and their own personnel In this residual category, we first find a series of activities to the management of the institutions: the management center itself as centralised functions (treasury, management control, etc) There are also common functions to the large families in the past (retail banking and BFI): central directorates of human resources, marketing, communication, etc.
