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Believe it or not online banking has existed globally in some form since the early Eighties, in particular with the Videotex system. Unfortunately it eventually turned out to be a major flop, apart from in France. Luckily, almost three decades on, online security has dramatically increased allowing online banking to flourish.

The most notable security advancement is the implementation of SSL security, which stores all secure data remotely and can apply scripts to it, for example checking current balance. The encrypted information is then sent securely back to the user. Users can check the webpage and data they are sending is secured by ensuring there is a padlock symbol displayed in their browser.

Online banking has really only taken off in the last decade, when the first internet only banks started, including Egg, First-e and the Smile. Smile was the first full internet bank account, now owned by the co-operative is award winning and known for its corporate social responsibility.

Now a days online banking is just as strong as ever. All the major high-street banks also offer a special internet account or at least the option of online banking. The attraction of an online bank account is mainly ease and speed of access, paperless accounting and primarily more competitive interest rates available.

Due to the nature of online banking and the potential for illicit activities to take place, online banking has constantly been a target by thieves and cyber criminals. The security precautions employed by banks are considered the strongest in the world, therefore canny hackers tend to prefer targeting less aware customers.

A common attempt to obtain bank account information is to create look a like websites, impersonating the genuine bank websites, known as phishing. This technique can easily deceive experienced web users who would not consider themselves at high risk of being caught out. Once a customer opens the website they believe to be the banks, they often enter their personal details such as usernames, pin numbers or passwords. Your confidential details are then sent directly to the criminals who would attempt to use your details themselves.

Banks and security corporations are in an ongoing struggle to protect their customers and their funds from external threats. The latest innovation aimed at increasing online safety is the introduction of security tokens, a physical device that an authorized user of computer services is given to aid in authentication

So what is the future of online banking? Well the simple answer is as secure as your money is, exceptionally. With increasingly complicated security algorithms and authentication systems being developed, external threats are diminishing. Additionally new approaches of online banking are emerging, in particular mobile banking, definitely a technology we will become accustomed to and probably not live without over the forthcoming decade. If you are pursuing a career which will be as secure as your money, why not look into banking jobs, in particular online banking jobs?

By: Charles Newman

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Talking about personal finances, all we think about is managing accounts and income in a manner that is expected. The best thing about personal finances is that if managed efficiently, it can take you away from any problem that is even likely to crop up. Here are some tips to manage personal finances appropriately.

Spend less than what you earn is the first thing you have got to consider. Before venturing into the whole field of personal finances, this ought to be your only motto. Only when you spend less than what you earn, there is a chance to see to it that your financial position is an upward trend. Another essential thing is to have a budget and stick to it. It is difficult of course, but it can be done to a large extent. To pay attention to all details in a budget is sort of impossible, but it can govern inflow and outflow. Pay off all monthly debts like credit card debts and also all the other bills like your cellphone bill, etc. Contribute some portion of your income to a long terms plan, say for instance a retirement plan. It is necessary to begin to open a kitty for such essential aspects of life. Along with this you have also got to have an extensive savings plan as well, because it is necessary for a plan to be in place, so that there are funds in your contingency account. Investment is yet another key to efficient living. With an investment plan in place, you can manage to make the best out of your income. An investment plan always enables you to maximize your available finances over a period of time.

Use all the possible tools and facilities available to make the most comprehensive personal finance plan and stick to it to see a way in which you grow beyond financial problems.

By: Runi Calman

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Google has a program called AdSense that allows website owners to place targeted advertising on their own sites and make money from any clicks on the ads. For some entrepreneurs with very high traffic, they are able to make a lucrative full-time income every month, in excess of $7000 month.

You may not have the traffic to create this kind of income, but you can learn how to improve your results significantly so that you can create a good income from AdSense each month.

These tips are simple and easy to use and follow. Maybe you’ve seen them before, but are you using every single one of them? If you don’t follow all of them, you are going to be missing out on money.

Tip #1

Place the ads above the fold. It’s an old newspaper term, but it applies to the Internet. Make sure the ads are in the top of your screen and visitors don’t need to scroll down to see them.

Tip #2

Customise the look. Ensure your AdSense ads are in the same colours and and texts as your website. Make sure the heading stands out in a strong colour. Grey out or subdue the URLs. The headline is what will cause people to click and the advertisers may have paid a lot of money to get it work well. Don’t use borders around your ad and make sure the background colour matches your site.

Tip #3

Increase your traffic. It can be done. Learn different ways you can increase your traffic through both free and paid advertising. There are as many ways to promote your site as you can come up with.

Tip #4

Attract high paying ads. Use Google’s Keyword Checker or other free tools to search out high paying keyword terms. If you can write articles in your niche and still get these keywords, then you have a better chance of high paying ads appearing on your site.

Tip #5

Ensure you are getting relevant ads. If you are continually getting ads you don’t want, use the filter feature in AdWords to block irrelevant websites. Make sure you are using plenty of relevant keywords on every page the ads are appearing, so Google can target the ads properly.

Tip #6

choose the best AdSense ad sizes. People have become very adept at ignoring ads, so make sure you use every technique you can to get them to pay attention. Ad blocks in the middle of your articles are very effective.

Tip #7

Create multiple ads. Although you may be tempted to use the same code to create ads to save time, avoid the temptation. It’s better to create several identical AdSense templates, then give them unique names. This way, you can see which ads are working best.

Tip #8

Use channels for every page on your site. When you combine this with tip 7, you can monitor each ad on every page of your site for its performance.

Tip #9

Monitor your CTR (click-through-rates). If you are doing everything else listed in this article, monitor your click through rates for ad you use. This is easy to do if you followed tips 7 and 8. If a particular page is not performing well, consider making minor edits to the keywords and meta tags to improve the performance.

By: Rebecca Habel

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The world is changing at a staggering rate and technology is considered to be the key driver for these changes around us (Papers4you.com, 2006). An analysis of technology and its uses show that it has permeated in almost every aspect of our life. According to Tero et al (2004) many activities are handled electronically due the acceptance of information technology at home as well as at workplace. Internet can be seen as a truly global phenomenon that has made time and distance irrelevant to many transactions. According to Heikki et al. (2002), the transformation from the traditional banking towards e-banking has been a ‘leap’ change.

The evolution of electronic banking started from the use of automatic teller machines (ATM) and has passed through telephone banking, direct bill payment, electronic fund transfer and the revolutionary online banking (Alter, 2002). The future of electronic banking according to some is the acceptance of WAP enabled banking and interactive-TV banking (Petrus & Nelson, 2006). But it has been forecasted that among all the categories, online banking is the future of electronic financial transactions. The rise in the e-commerce and the use of internet in its facilitation along with the enhanced online security of transactions and sensitive information has been the core reasons for the penetration of online banking in everyday life (Papers4you.com, 2006). According to the latest official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS, 2006) indicate that subscriptions to the internet has grown more than 50% from 15 million in 2000 to 35 million in 2005 in the UK. It has also been estimated that 60% of the population in the UK use internet in their daily lives.

The fundamental shift towards the involvement of the customer in the financial service provision with the help of technology especially internet has helped in reduce costs of financial institutions as well as helped client to use the service at anytime and from virtually anywhere with access to an internet connection. According to theorists (Walfried et al., 2005) customer evaluation of the electronic services is influenced by attributions of success and failure in inter personal service situations. The use of electronic banking has removed the banking personnel that facilitate the transactions and has placed additional responsibilities on the customers to transact with the service. Although the use of E-banking is provided for the benefit of the customers but these changes require increased work or involvement on the part of customers. These and other factors might be seen as lesser service provided in terms of customer service. But these assumptions would be wrong if the customer knows the value of using the electronic service.

Thus it can be concluded that a fit between task i.e. the banking; technology i.e. the user interface and its reliability; and individuals i.e. the customers and their knowledge about using the service, is the key to successful E-banking services (Zigurs & Buckland, 1998).

References:

Alter, S. (2002), “Information Systems” 4th Edition, Prentice Hall

Heikki Karjaluoto, Minna Mattila, Tapio Pento (2002), “Factors underlying attitude formation towards online banking in Finland”, International Journal of Bank Marketing; Volume: 20 Issue: 6; 2002 Research paper

ONS (2005), “Office of National Statistics”, http://www.statistics.gov.uk

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Tero Pikkarainen, Kari Pikkarainen, Heikki Karjaluoto, Seppo Pahnila (2004), “Consumer acceptance of online banking: an extension of the technology acceptance model”, Internet Research; Volume: 14 Issue: 3; 2004 Research paper

Walfried M. Lassar, Chris Manolis, Sharon S. Lassar (2005), “The relationship between consumer innovativeness, personal characteristics, and online banking adoption”, International Journal of Bank Marketing; Volume: 23 Issue: 2; 2005 Research paper

Zigurs, I. & Buckland, B. (1998), “A Theory of Task/Technology Fit and Group Support Systems Effectiveness”, MIS Quarterly, Sep98, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p313-334, 22p

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