This paper examines how New Zealand banks enhance their retail banking services through the Internet. Seven NZ online banks were studied in terms of their web sites’ effectiveness, functionalities and Internet strategies. The functionality was examined by evaluating banks’ web sites using a tailored electronic commerce model. The effectiveness was surveyed utilising a judgment sample of actual ...

Over the last two centuries human race has created innumerable progresses in science, medicine and technology. The evidences of technology adaptation can be seen everywhere, from the large spacecraft to a small hand held smart phone. The dependencies on such technology have become inevitable and are now considered as the fourth necessity for life after air, water and food. In the current era of...

Combating with immense competition now a day‟s banks are focusing upon customer satisfaction rather than merely rendering their services in the Indian banking industry. Due to the tough competition in banking sector, paradigm changes are seen in this sector. Various innovations are witnessed in this field, because banking sector is adopting innovative ways to improve their services & to win the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine co-creation of non-economic values in Islamic banking services and their significance for service science by comparing Islamic and conventional banking services. Although many scholars have discussed co-creation of values in services, most of them have focused on only economic values. Following Sharia (Islamic principles that are based on Qur’an and Sunna...

* Group Treasurer, Colonial Limited. 1 The Tripartite Group of Banking, Securities and Insurance Regulators defined a financial conglomerate as “any group of companies under common control whose exclusive or predominant activities consist of providing significant services in at least two different financial sectors (banking, securities, insurance)” (see Tripartite Group of Banking, Securities a...

Through investigating factors that influence consumers to make a transition from online to mobile banking, this empirical study shows that relative attitude and relative subjective norm positively motivated respondents to switch from Internet to mobile banking while relative perceived behavior control deterred respondents from transitioning. Empirical results also demonstrated that Internet ban...