The relationship between bankers and customers involves several roles. Bankers act as creditors to customers as debtors, as trustees holding customer assets in pledge as security, and as agents carrying out transactions on behalf of customers as principals. Know-Your-Customer (KYC) norms define a customer as a person or entity maintaining a bank account or business relationship, on whose behalf an account is held, or who is connected to financial transactions potentially posing risks.
The relationship between bankers and customers involves several roles. Bankers act as creditors to customers as debtors, as trustees holding customer assets in pledge as security, and as agents carrying out transactions on behalf of customers as principals. Know-Your-Customer (KYC) norms define a customer as a person or entity maintaining a bank account or business relationship, on whose behalf an account is held, or who is connected to financial transactions potentially posing risks.
The relationship between bankers and customers involves several roles. Bankers act as creditors to customers as debtors, as trustees holding customer assets in pledge as security, and as agents carrying out transactions on behalf of customers as principals. Know-Your-Customer (KYC) norms define a customer as a person or entity maintaining a bank account or business relationship, on whose behalf an account is held, or who is connected to financial transactions potentially posing risks.
Relationship as debtor and creditor As creditor and debtor Banker as trustee As pledgee and pledgor As lessor and lessee As agent and principal Banker and Customer As per KYC norms, a Customer is A person or entity that maintains an account or has a business relationship with the bank. Or on whose behalf the account is maintained. Beneficiaries of transactions conducted by professional intermediaries eg, stock brokers, CAs etc. Any person or entity connected with a financial transaction which can pose significant reputational or other risks to the bank.