Comprehensive Report: Financial Practices of Bendigo Bank Examination

This report provides an overview of the financial practices of Bendigo Bank, examining its operations across three major segments: personal, business, and wealth banking. The personal banking section covers accounts and investing, credit cards, loans, insurance, travel, and superannuation services. Business banking practices include payment transactions, cash flow management, asset protection through insurance, online solutions, business loans, and foreign exchange services. Wealth banking focuses on fund management, superannuation and retirement planning, financial planning, share trading, and private banking. The analysis is supported by references to academic research and the bank's official website, providing a comprehensive understanding of Bendigo Bank's financial strategies and services.

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It can be observed that the Bendigo Bank has been involved has been involved in some
major financial practices from the time of their inception. It can be observed from the official
website of Bendigo Bank that the financial practices of the institution are divided into three
major segments; they are Personal, Business and Wealth (bendigobank.com.au 2018). The
following discussion shows the financial practices under these segments.
Personal Banking: Under the segment of personal banking, Bendigo Bank involves in certain
specific financial practices. They are accounts and investing, credit cards, loans, insurance, travel
and international travel and superannuation (Adekunle and Asaolu 2013). The financial practices
of accounts and investing involve both transaction accounts and saving accounts. Transaction
accounts involve everyday account, student account, easy retirement account and concession
account. The variants under savings accounts are EasySaver accounts, PiggySaver account,
CommunitySaver account and Charismas Club Account (bendigobank.com.au 2018). The main
variants under term deposits and investing are Standard Term Deposit Account, Gold Term
Deposit Account, Managed Funds and Share Trading. Apart from these, the financial practices of
Bendigo Bank also include credits cards that they provide to their customers. The bank also
provides their customers with different types of loans like home loans, personal loans and others.
The major financial practices of Bendigo Bank under insurance are travel insurance, home
insurance and others. It also needs to be mentioned that the financial practices of the bank
involve the delivery of superannuation services to their customers (Bovee and Thill 2017).
Business Banking: Apart from the personal banking services, the financial practices of Bendigo
Bank involve in the delivery of different services to the business customers. Bendigo Bank
involves in the transactions of taking and making payments for the businesses. After that, the
financial practices of Bendigo Bank also involve in the management of the cash flows of their

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client businesses. Some of the variants under this are Business transaction accounts, Business
overdraft, Business debit and credit cards and business payments (Gittens and Pilgrim 2013).
After that, the financial practices of Bendigo Bank involve in protecting the assets of the
businesses where the bank offers comprehensive range of commercial insurance solution to the
businesses. In addition, they also provide range of online solutions to the businesses. Apart from
these, Bendigo Bank caters to the finance need of the businesses by providing them with wide
range of loans like Business Term Loans, Business Overdraft and Equipment Finance. Lastly,
Bendigo Bank provides the businesses with the financial practices related to the handling of the
foreign exchange related transactions (Reddy, Locke and Scrimgeour 2010).
Wealth Banking: The financial practices of Bendigo Bank involve some of the major practices
to increase and management the wealth of their customers; they are management of funds,
superannuation and retirement, financial planning, share trading and private banking (Tilley
2012). Bendigo Bank provides their customers with their choice of funds tailored to cater to their
specific needs. Bendigo Bank provided the financial practices for share trading through Bendigo
Invest Direct, an online affordable platform for share trading. After that, as a part of the financial
practices, Bendigo Bank provides their customers with better advise for the appropriate financial
decisions.

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