What incentives do banks use in attracting new individual and insttuional customers, including SME businesses to their online and mobile banking offerings using new ICT information technologies and Industry 4.0?
Online and mobile banking has been growing rapidly in recent years. In addition, due to the increase in digitization and Internetization of economic processes, selling products and services over the Internet, making payments and settlements online, etc., noted during the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic, the scale of development of Internet and mobile banking has also increased. Commercial banks developing remote banking conducted via the Internet are rapidly implementing new ICT information technologies and Industry 4.0 to create facilities for accessing banking performed remotely recently mainly using mobile devices, including smartphones. A smartphone can be used to complete banking services, payments, transfers. A smartphone can be used to make contactless payments by uploading a bank card to a smartphone. Within the framework of online banking, a bank customer can also carry out many other services available on the online banking platform and offered by various public institutions of the state. From the level of the online banking profile operated on a laptop or smartphone, the bank's customer can set up a business, receive advisory assistance on tax issues, the selection of financial instruments for external business financing and for the placement of financial surpluses, the investment of funds in investment banking products and others for which the commercial bank is an intermediary institution. This kind of offer available from the level of online banking profile operated on a laptop or smartphone is already becoming a standard of commercial banking. In my country, commercial banks are trying to attract new customers primarily interested in opening a bank account and operating it remotely through online and mobile banking. Since the level of the public's ubanking is high at more than 90 percent, so new customers are being acquired by commercial banks through new incentives to convince new customers to switch from one bank to another. New forms of incentives that have been in use for several years now include. financial consulting, tax consulting, assistance with accounting, financial reporting, the possibility of creating a website for the company, including an online store platform, access to remote services for businesses and companies, the possibility of dealing with official matters at public institutions, including the tax office, the institution of the social security system, the institution of business records, the institution that keeps national statistics, the institution of the health system, the insurance company, the investment fund, the brokerage office that mediates in securities, the banking exchange, etc. These services are offered as additional and free of charge or charged at a low fee as incentives for new customers, mainly SME businesses, who open a business account through online banking and take advantage of a certain package of banking services and products.
In view of the above, I address the following research question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
What incentives do banks use in attracting new individual and insttuional customers, including SME businesses to their online and mobile banking offers using new ICT information technologies and Industry 4.0?
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Dariusz Prokopowicz