What factors hinder growth of rural banks in the world?

Answer 1

Profitability is the biggest factor that would hinder the growth of rural banks. Rural banks operate in villages and rural areas of a country. The number of customers and the kind of services that are offered in rural banks are significantly lesser than regular banks. Banks cannot charge any fee because rural customers wouldn't want to pay any fee to operate bank accounts and may not deposit much money either. So, the banks cant make much profits through their rural branches. So, banks may not be motivated much to open or operate such branches.