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I don't know if you read the website or want to provide some kind of source for the cost breakdown, but my source suggests it's 50% branches and arms, 20% call
by bko 11y ago
I don't know if you read the website or want to provide some kind of source for the cost breakdown, but my source suggests it's 50% branches and arms, 20% call centers and payment, 20% security and compliance and 10% product development and sales.
I guess you can call those fixed costs. No mention of executive salaries, maybe product development? If they were just fixed costs, and banks were making money off small accounts, why are they discouraging them so much with minimum balances and fees? I cancelled a small account recently and the bank seemed happy to let me go. Not even a question of why I was leaving.
- rahimnathwani 11y ago> No mention of executive salaries From the article you linked: "Overhead costs, including executive salaries along with security and compliance expenses, also account for about 20% of the costs." I'm not saying that the marginal cost of maintaining an additional account is zero. I'm just saying it's closer to zero than it is to $349/year.