Advantages And Disadvantages Of E Banking

MasterCard Worldwide has initiative to shift the social consciousness toward a cashless society. Cash means additional expense to create it, distribute it, secure it and destroy it while electronic payments are simpler, faster and safer while offering more value to consumers.

As technology advances over the years, we have experienced and noticed that the trend in how payment are received have shift tremendously. Twenty years ago, check was the preferred way of payment. In today’s world, more and more payments are done by credit cards. Credit card transactions are instance that provides a faster payment method.

In this the user has a account in any bank and registers for online bill pay service and pays all his bills using banks websites. The user is given user id and password by which he logins into bank's payment website and then he will be asked to type his transaction password. After which bank will deduct amount from his account and pay to seller with help of payment gateways. Payment gateways act as bridge between user's bank and seller. Eg.: CC Avenue

The days of cash, check, or credit cards are long gone. Now people want to pay using everything from Paypal and bitcoin to Apple Pay and Google Payments. For years, the

With the advance technology, banking has become a 24 hours a day and seven days a week ability. Not too long ago banks were only open from 9:00am to 3:00pm, workers and businesses rushing to get to the bank before they close. Paychecks were handed out personally not direct deposit, cashing or depositing a paycheck entailed a trip to the bank. Now most companies have direct deposit and the printed paycheck is becoming a thing of the past, this is only one example of how technology in banking has changed in society. The electronic banking (e-banking) can be described as the automated method of new and traditional banking services which reduce cost, and simplify front and backend process satisfying customers.

(Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council,2003). The usual E-banking services provided by banks are account management; bill payment and presentment; new account opening; consumer wire transfers; investment/brokerage services; loan application and approval; account aggregation; cash management ; small business loan applications, approvals, or advances; commercial wire transfers; business-to-business payments; employee benefits/pension administration etc. Online banking or E-banking has spread around the world and has become common these days. In general, banking services have changed over the past three decades to meet the consumers’ needs (McKinsey & Company, 2012); at that time, when the consumer needed money for purchases or to make a transaction, he needed to go to the bank by himself during the bank hours and perhaps waited in a long line to meet a human teller to implement his transaction. Nowadays, due to the E-channels that surfaced with the development of technology and the Internet, the processes of banking have changed. The consumer can make a transaction from one account to another while sitting in his couch anytime and anywhere.

Technology has been advancing at a rapid pace to deliver robust, secure and convenient payments solutions. This enables rapid delivery of payment services to large sections of the population.

The Purpose of this report is to show the use of current technologies for payment support procedures in small and medium businesses. Article covers various solutions to process payments and ultimately determine the best of them. SME’s are designed to the deal with B2B and/or B2C customers depending on the business needs. As per latest discovered trends in the North America the ‘payment’ is preferred if digitalized, such a trend is a result of efforts Fintech and Paytech companies like bitpay, Kabbage, kantox , etc.x. For intents and purposes payments flow can be categorized as consumer and business. Cash and card for former, cheque and EFT for latter. The need for demonetization emerges so as to match with the with rest of the world in the

To supersede cash, E-money should be popularized, but it is a hard work. This is because of the low acceptance of people and the high cost of applying E-money transaction system. For the acceptance of people, people use coins and paper notes as usual practice since many years ago. Although, a growing number of banks are trying to use a “click and bricks” strategy and introduce online services so as to attract more customers (Pennathur, 2001), it helps to promote using of E-money. However, people are not familiar with it and need time to adapt. Especially for the elderly people and people without technological knowledge, they usually resist and don’t how to use E-money. Also, E-money is still not so widely used now. To deal with the daily transactions, many of them cannot be done by using E-money. However, cash using is already adapted by people, and all transaction can be done by using cash. Therefore, Wonglimpiyarat (2007) writes “there seems to be no consumer response to the e-cash as a revolutionary means of payment transmission”. It put E-money in a disadvantageous position. On the other hand, the cost of applying E-money transaction system is very high. Because E-money can only use with the E-money products, specific electronic devices are needed to apply for E-money transaction. Also, “a system [of] … electronic money on cards and hard drives … functions efficiently if

Credit cards are currently the most popular payment instrument on the Internet. The first credit cards were introduced decades ago (Diner’s Club in 1949, American Express in 1958). For a long time, credit cards have been produced with magnetic stripes containing unencrypted, read-only information. Today, more and more cards are “smart cards” containing hardware devices (chips) offering encryption and far greater storage capacity. Recently even virtual credit cards (software digital or e-wallets) are gaining progressive patronage.

Before the emergence of modern banking system, banking operation was manually done which lead to a slow down in settlement of transactions. This manual system involves posting transactions from one ledger to another which human handles. Figures or counting of money which should be done through computers or electronic machine were computed and counted manually which were not 100% accurate thereby resulting to human errors. Most bank then use only one computer in carrying out transactions which ameliorate the sluggish nature of banking

            For most customers, it is a convenience that they have grown accustomed to the electronic banking. And for the large commercial customer, processing thousands or even millions of payments and/or sales a day – it would be impossible to live without the attachment on it.3

Bill payment service: Each bank has tie-ups with different companies, service and goods providers and insurance companies as well, across different parts of the country. It facilitates the payment of electricity bills, telephone bills, mobile phone, shopping bills, credit card and insurance premium bills can be paid with great ease. To pay bills, a simple procedure of one-time registration for each biller has to be completed. Standing instructions can be set, online to pay the recurring bills, automatically. One-time standing instruction will make sure that the bill payments do not get delayed due to lack of time. And the best part is that, the bank does not charge from their customers for their online bill payment.

Electronic banking is an automatic delivery of the new and old banking system of products and services to the customers.They give the service by the electronic and interactive communication channels. Financial institution customers, individuals or businesses are included by the E-Banking system which allows the system to access the account and also transact the business to obtain information about financial products through a network which is public or private by including the internet.[1].

The literature review was done by referring to studies and documentations on the implementation of electronic banking in various banks in India by various universities, and independent consultants. The focus of research question is what are the technical and legal drivers and barriers for adopting electronic banking system in India? This paper initially discusses about the existing electronic banking models; and looks at