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Practically any financial transaction can be completed through the use of online banking. The advent of direct deposit made getting your money lightning quick and accurate, and many banks have catered to the needs of their account holders by simplifying online banking features.

Do you remember the days when you had to make a physical trip down to your corner bank just to check the balance of your accounts and to make a deposit? While you may have to take a trek to Wachovia every once in awhile, online banking has drastically reduced the necessity to do so.

Popular bank like Bank of America offer their customers added security features, such as encryption and pass codes. Bank of America even implemented a customized image security feature, whereby you choose an image and if you happen to land on a phishing website posing as the authentic site, you will know it before entering personal information.

Online banking through Bank of America and other big names such as Citibank and Wachovia offer similar features through their services. For starters, you can receive online statements instead of those paper ones that always seem to arrive a month after you made the purchases listed on them. You can also utilize online bill payment and add lists of payees to automatically transfer funds to.

Most online banks also allow account holders to transfer funds between checking and savings accounts. Popular online bank ING Direct even allows you to transfer money from their service to other banks, such as Washington Mutual (WaMu) for free. Add this benefit to convenience such as online loan applications and online banking is hard to live without!

Online or Internet banking is the next stage in the development of banking services in India. The banking system in the country was known for their stability and also stubbornness. The public banks in the country always resisted to any kind of change in their working styles through strikes and walk outs. But after some vigorous training and negotiations the concept of online banking was bought into mainstream banking in India. This was already popular in other more developed countries and with the opening up of the banking market to foreign players in India it was begging to be implemented in our mainstream commercial banking systems.

Internet Banking has been so popular in the countries it has been implemented in so far due to certain reasons. Online Banking makes the regular transactions for a client speedy and time efficient with little or no paperwork involved. There is no need for standing in long ques any more for making a deposit or getting a withdrawal. Banking has turned into a 24/7 service with the bank always available to their client. This especially helps the various businessmen who need the best services at any time day or night. Online Banking is the need of the new professional in this modern age who is always on the move and working and trying to succeed in a constantly changing and dynamic environment. Citibank understands this need of their clients and thus gives all their clients access to internet banking and gives a customized and personalized experience to their customers.

There are advantages involved for the bank here as well. Through Online Banking the bank can attract the more sophisticated clients whose needs can now be met through banking through the internet. Also this makes the banks competitive in the international market and against the best banks in the world. Canara Bank has many overseas clients and through online banking they can take care of their current client needs and also be able to attract more foreign clients. Online banking has positively affected these banks in increasing their customer diversity and improved the quality of clients as well.

Online Banking with all its glamor and the banks projecting it as the reason for the more effective banking techniques now in use has its downside as well as the Canara Bank warns all their new clients. It allows banking online but due to that all the clients information is lying somewhere in a server on the World Wide Web just waiting to be picked and taken advantage of. Also their have been a few cases of employees of the banks stealing client information and using it for personal gain. Security has always been given a very high priority especially by Citibank but someone will always find a way to tamper and steal all the information. Thus the client should be careful with their personal information online.