Banking system is spread all over the world and the first and foremost priority of all the financial institutions in the world is to protect customer’s money. But in the modern era banking has surpassed this idea of just saving customers money and gone to next level. Customers choose a bank for its customer service level, security of customer’s account and money. Internet Banking is one of the cutting-edge internet technology applications, which promises multiple benefits both for the financial institution and for customers. In last few years a large number of banks have launched websites, offering online Banking services. While the functioning of these digital systems seem to be relatively smooth in the United States and some other technology oriented countries, but the situation may be different in European countries. This research investigates and analyses that how Internet Banking is empowering customers in Internet Banking in United Kingdom. The study also discovers how internet banking is improving customer service quality in banking industry in United Kingdom. 1.2 Research Hypothesis & Research Questions Research Hypothesis: Internet Banking is empowering customers and increasing customer services quality in Banking Industry in United Kingdom. Research Questions The research questions that I am going to address in my dissertation are: • Internet Banking is empowering customer? • Internet Banking is improving customer service
Moreover, bank would able to enhance the usage of internet banking by adding more services as customers required. Other actors concerns, among banks, their customers will be delighted by improving their services to their own customers. Then, actors like supermarket, shopping complex also able to gain from the internet bank usage of customers since it reduce the cost of transaction, unnecessary rush in the counters and it will help them to provide better service to the
As their name suggests, they only execute their operations online. Customers can only be in contact with their money over the internet since they do not have any physical branches. Because online-only banks require lower overhead costs, they have the capability to offer more free services and higher interest rates compared to a traditional bank. Online banking provides many customers the convenience of handling their business at any physical location as long as they have access to internet. This is possible because of the variety of services that online banks provide despite limiting interaction to only the internet. Some of their services include applying for loans online, transferring funds and paying bills online. While the convenience of being able to access banking through the internet is worthwhile, there are limits to it. For example, making large deposits to the bank is limited and can only be made through the mail, they don’t service cashier checks for transactions, and withdrawing money from the account is very inconvenient. Luckily, the role of the internet in financial transactions is becoming increasingly prominent so that spending money online is more accessible, but it is important to understand both the benefits as well as restraints of online banking. Nowadays, many large brick-and-mortar banks have caught on and provide some online services in attempts to
In order to build relationships with its customers FIR needs to step away from the mind set that the use of the internet is no longer dominated by males and the women and older generations are moving towards the use of computers and handheld devices to conduct business. Fir needs to focus on internet security and protecting the interests of its clients and that the market is more competitive, “brick and mortar” banks have become more competitive in the use of internet banking along with the provided customer service.
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.
The use, acceptance, adoption and application of internet technology to businesses to boast their performances are not something new. Saffu et al., (2008), states that there has been a significant increase in the use and application of e-commerce in businesses in the past decade. E-commerce has benefits such as reduction in costs, increased business opportunities, reduced lead time and providing more personalized service to the customers (Turban et al., 2008). Internet banking or e-banking is one of the many tools of e-commerce adopted by the banking industry. Tools of information technology such as internet banking have significantly improved the quality of services offered by the banking
I would believe that two measures I’ve mentioned are not the only ones used by the banks, but I would like to think that different banks have their own security measures that they use to keep the information protected from outsiders. All together any new technology has its advantages and disadvantages. I am therefore going to outline some things that I feel affect our use of the online banking system positively and negatively. Advantages • The availability to inquire and carry out transactions twenty-four hours seven days a week. Therefore one does not have to worry about reaching the bank at a specific time to get some information. • Connection to your online bank is available worldwide. It doesn’t matter where you are as long as you have internet connection you can access your bank account. • One is able to view all transactions carried out whether recent or old and be able to evaluate himself financially. • It saves time because you do not have to go and make long queues at the physical bank’s site to carry out your
This Research will examine the future of retail banking and the increased popularity of electronic banking among adults in the United States. This research utilizes data from census.gov and pewresearch.org, ABA and federalreserve.org. The data set examined is over a twelve year period with data at three year intervals.
The number of individuals going to branches has dropped by 30% before two years, while nearly 80% of while some 70% of the Karachi banking population now uses some form of online banking service every month. More consumers are embracing mobile banking via their phone or tablet. Developments in technology have empowered banks to increase customer
In response, financial institutions, who once viewed technology mainly as a cost center, now see the Internet and other technological capacities as strategic tools for enhancing the value of customer relationship through cross-selling and improved customization. A recent survey of bank managers in the United States reported that, for the first time, investment in Internet
In 2009, 10 million customers used mobile banking and this is expected to grow to 37 million by 2014. Customers that use mobile banking are not the same as online customers. Customers that use mobile banking represent a different segment of the market that other banking customers. Security issues, a perceived low value and expense, were the primary reasons that customers did not switch to mobile banking. Potential customers were reluctant to try a new banking service that are represented an extra cost and they were also afraid of losing control of their finances. Debit cardholders were the most active users. It was convenient for them because they could check their account at any time. Customers that used this service changed their usual banking channels and as a result -the bank had a higher retention for these users of online services.
Within this section the Author intends to present the results of implementing the research methodology as developed in the earlier section accompanied with discussion and interpretation of the findings on how they address the research question (How to lower the referral rate at Bank X from the existing 6% down to industry average levels). The required information was collected via quantitative and qualitative methods of research using primary and secondary data. This information was then collated within tables so that a comparative analysis can be conducted to arrive at findings. The findings will be discussed by comparing top 5 banks against each other on key aspects of online security and customer experience. An
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
With the innovative changes in everyday life since the creation of the internet, the banking sector is no exception. The creation of value-added services through the internet such as online transactions and online banking, the traditional landscape of banking has been transformed to new lengths. Day to day banking and similar financial transactions through the digital medium have positively affected the live of many due to the derived benefits such convenience to complete financial transactions at their leisure.
The last time that technology had a major impact in helping banks service their customers was with the introduction of the Internet banking. Internet Banking helped give the customer's anytime access to their banks. Customer's could check out their account details, get their bank statements, perform transactions like transferring money to other accounts and pay their bills sitting in the comfort of their homes and offices. However the biggest limitation of Internet banking is the requirement of a PC with an Internet connection, not a big obstacle if we look at the US and the European countries, but definitely a big barrier if we consider most of the developing countries of Asia like China and