Challenges of E-Banking in Zambia

The electronic banking has various advantages than the traditional banking system which is simple and convenient for the users. The advantages are-

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Domician Mate, as well as the entire school who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic (E-banking services) which also helped me in doing Research and I came to know about so many new things. I am really thankful to them.

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.

In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are considering how to give residents access to banking services via their handsets. The GSM Association predicts that by 2012, nearly 300 million of the previously "unbanked" will be using some form of mobile banking.

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.

Internet banking has made bank transaction easy and convenient in the sense that people can do the transactions from anywhere they, desire to i.e in the home, offices, and schools. It has helped to avoid unnecessary trips to the bank.

1. To identify the key factors affecting the decision to adopt Internet banking system in Botswana.

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Availability of timely, adequate and transparent credit from formal banking channels will allow the entrepreneurial spirit of the masses to increase outputs and prosperity in the countryside. It will open the doors of formal remittance facilities to the low income and unbanked populace who, presently, are forced to use all kinds of informal and costly ways of sending money from one place to another.

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Despite the noted improvements, financial deepening in Uganda is still very low and the financial system remains under-developed in a number of respects. The banking sector is still highly concentrated with 3 out of 24 commercial banks accounting for approximately 50 percent of the total market share i.e. assets, deposits and number of branches (Lwanga et al. 2013). Most commercial bank branches are concentrated in the capital, Kampala, and other urban centres leaving the rural population with no access to commercial bank services.

The banking industry gained the opportunity to improve the quality of services offered to their customers with a mechanism that marked the way for the introduction of sophisticated services at a negligible cost. Providing Banking Services through internet proved fruitful to bankers in terms of establishing a single platform for providing a wide range of services and reducing the cost involved in such service offerings. This mechanism revived the service structure of the banking industry and provided customers with cost, convenience and comforts.

The study came to a number of conclusions among which states that, the provision of mobile money services by various service providers has had a positive impact on the performance of the banking institutions. It therefore recommends that, banks should conduct research on other possible mobile money services packages that are user friendly and develop them so as to enable deposit/withdraw of money using mobile phone which will meet different customer requirements and capture market niches that competitors have not identified hence expand on the market share leading to

The management of the private commercial banks and nationalized commercial banks might allocate a part of their yearly profit for ICT penetration in banking activities and human resources development. They may also extend those services to the rural people of Bangladesh so that the rural people can also get the benefit of technology driven banking.

Besides opportunities of this channel, banks and financial institutions across the world face new challenges to the ways they operate, deliver services and compete with each other in the financial sector. Driven by these challenges, banks and financial institutions have implemented delivering their services using this channel (Chan&Lu, 2004; Cronon, 1997). Internet banking refers to the use of the Internet as a delivery channel for banking services, which include all traditional services such as balance enquiry, printing statement, fund transfer to other accounts, bill payment, and so on, and new banking services such as electronic bill presentment and payment (Frust, Lang&Nolle, 2000) without visiting to bank branch (Mukherjee&Nath, 2003; Sathye, 1999). Many commercial banks and financial institutions have implemented Internet banking services over the past decade. Compared with traditional over the counter banking, Internet banking does not offer face-to-face contact in what is essentially a one-to-one service relationship with the individual. As a result, Internet banking must deliver higher quality in order to compete. Understanding customer’s expectations and how they feel about their perceived services is becoming a very serious concern. Internet banking continuous success comes from two groups: new customers and repeat customers. Since it always costs more to attract new customers than to retain