Online Banking

Banks that offer financial products and services through the Internet must be able to meet their customers’ expectations. Banks must also ensure they have the right product mix and capacity to deliver accurate, timely, and reliable services to develop a high level of confidence in the customers. Customers who do business over the Internet are likely to have little tolerance for errors or omissions from financial institutions that do not have sophisticated internal controls to manage their Internet banking business. Likewise, customers will expect continuous availability of the product and Web pages that are easy to navigate.

The Bank has prioritised its engagement in technology and the internet as one of its key goals and has already made significant progress in web-enabling its core businesses. In each of its businesses, the Bank has succeeded in leveraging its market position, expertise and technology to create a competitive advantage and build market share.

Today, banking industry plays a major role in the financial sector and does its business in a highly competitive environment with very low interest margins due to high competitiveness of the industry. Every bank in the industry is equipped with a high tech IT platform and operates its network for the benefit of its customers. A bank offers many products and services to increase its market share and focuses on customer service as the competitive advantage to grab more business.

Internet as a strong means of communication has greatly helped to boost the online banking process and making it a future demand of today’s banking industry.

Since the evolution of e-banking, banking transaction has become very convenient or easy for customers to perform. However this technology has introduced a large set of risk. The breaches of security and disruption to the electronic banking system can damage the reputation of a bank. If a bank encounters a security breach, it can cause a customer to lose confidence in a banks electronic delivery channel. The Internet has grown exponentially. The Internet helps improve the communication between the bank and customers. The adoption of e-banking poses some challenges to the banking industry such as operational challenges which are fraud, processing errors, system disruptions, or other unanticipated events resulting in the institutions inability to deliver efficient services to their customers. There are several risk associated with the use of e-banking which includes systems failures, processing

Banking technologies allow for online transactions, standing orders and the use of ATMs to make bill payments. Cardholders of some banks may use others ' free of charge and the banks themselves are becoming more open-plan, providing easy access to business

At the time of JNB’s launch, Sakura Bank, as the major stakeholder, owned 50% of

Traditional banks offer many different services to their customers. These services include accepting customer money deposits, making loans to individuals and companies and providing servicing to the various loans and accounts offered. When compared with traditional channels of offering banking services through physical branches, electronic banking (e-banking) uses the Internet to deliver traditional banking services to their customers, such as opening accounts, transferring funds, and electronic bill payment (Fan, M. 2002).

Visits to Bank Branch: 51.2% of those with Internet bank accounts typically visit a physical bank branch on average less than once per month, in contrast to 31.8% of those without an Internet bank account.

This transformation has really taken place over the last 20 years and continues to transform the way business is done. No business today can ignore the use of technology as its effective use helps businesses to remain competitive and profitable, thereby creating or safeguarding jobs.

E-banking is the term used for new age banking system. E-banking is also called online banking and it is an outgrowth of PC banking. E-banking uses the internet as the delivery channel by which to conduct banking activity, for example, transferring funds, paying bills, viewing checking and savings account balances, paying mortgages and purchasing financial instruments and certificates of deposits (Mohammed, et. a.l, 2009). It is difficult to infer whether the internet tool has been applied for convenience of bankers or for the customers’ convenience. But ultimately it contributes in increasing the efficiency of the banking operation as well providing more convenience to customers. Without even interacting with the bankers, customers transact from one corner of the country to another corner. Electronic banking has experienced explosive growth and has transformed traditional practices in banking (Gonzalez, 2008). As per prediction of Maholtra and Singh, (2007) the e- banking is leading to a paradigm shift in marketing practices resulting in high performance in the banking industry. Delivery of service in banking can be provided efficiently only when the background operations are efficient. An efficient background operation can be conducted only when it is integrated by an electronic system. The components like

In the days of virtualisation where working mothers and travelling sales-team prefer to use flexi-time and remote jobs profile; Internet is being adopted as a parallel medium of communication, transaction, and social networking. Internet banking is fast gaining momentum across the globe for its convenience and ease of conducting transactions at a speed and service levels never dreamt of, a decade ago.

Introduction During the last years, the banking industry has developed noticeably. The financial services industry is altering rapid and visible. Previous ways of doing business are fading fast. Together with this fast transition is also the rising competition among banks. One of the greatest influences behind all of this is the growing development in information technology. Because of this, costumers have been familiar with the ways of electronic banking services and its systems. Electronic banking is sometimes defined as

The research is focused on what are the customer’s perceptions about internet banking and what are the drivers that drive consumers. How consumers have accepted internet banking and how to improve the usage rate were the focus of research area in this study.

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