Technological Innovations and Banking in Ghana: An Evaluation of Customers’ Perceptions
JOSHUA ABOR
University of Ghana, Legon
Abstract In Sub-Saharan Africa, developments in information and communication technology are radically changing the way business is done. These developments in technology have resulted in new delivery channels for banking products and services such as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Telephone Banking, PC-Banking, and Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale (EFTPoS). This study evaluates the perceptions of banking customers regarding the effect of technological innovations on banking services in Ghana. The study focused on customers with banks that have at least one form of technological
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Section 4 presents the methodology employed for the analysis. Section 5 discusses the results and finally section 6 summarizes and concludes the discussion. 2.0 Technological History of Ghanaian Banks
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In Ghana, the earliest forms of electronic and communications technologies used were mainly office automation devices. Telephones, telex and facsimile were employed to speed up and make more efficient, the process of servicing clients. For decades, they remained the main information and communication technologies used for transacting bank business.
Later in the 1980s, as competition intensified and the personal computer (PC) got proletarian, Ghanaian banks begun to use them in back-office operations and later tellers used them to service clients. Advancements in computer technology saw the banks networking their branches and operations thereby making the one-branch philosophy a reality. Barclays Bank (Gh.) and Standard Chartered Bank
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Methodology has several parts namely: the subject of the study, the procedure and the statistical treatment