A Cost Analysis for Third-Party Deposit Sales

This paper strives to address the issue of distribution costs budgeting, encountered by commercial banks whose business plans presume the sale of saving accounts using third-party distribution networks. A rather intricate problem arises, jointly requiring the design of a commercially viable commission schedule and estimating its impacts on the bank’s financial results, where traditional methods fail. An annotated case study illustrates an expedient and practical solution using statistical simulation.