Technology is Necessary for the Banking Industry

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INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

In everyday lives, people are influencing by new invented technologies, which they used as one of their communicating tools. Banks are already been adopted and utilized in such as internet and mobile technologies. They used them as one of their financial services in order to cater the needs of their customer in an easy and accessible ways. A fact, that part of the growing economic condition of the country, technologies gives the big role in making banks more productive. Without technology system, they cannot operate some of their transactions as fast as possible.

Mobile Financial Services is developing by using mobile phone. It consist two commonly categories such as mobile banking services and mobile payment services. Through these two categories, bank’s customers easily connected with their designated accounts to check by using their mobile devices and of course to respond immediately the needs and wants of both parties. Mobile Financial services created and well invented in a sense of the fastest growth of the population. Mobile phone or a cellular phone considered one of the basic needs in people lives.

“According to Ang (2011) approximately 72 percent of the population or 2.5 billion of the adults is non-banked which means they have no access to financial services. In addition, closely 2.5 billion people in most countries have their mobile phones. Possibly, up to 2 billion mobile phone users are not fiscally involved and it can served through mobile financial services (MFS).

Gross et al.(2012) the ubiquity of mobile phones is changing the way consumer’s access financial services. In 21 percent of mobile phone owners have used mobile banking in the past 12 months, 11 percent of tho...

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... can be more productive and accurate to their customers.

Future Researchers – The mobile financial services study will also serve as source of information for supplementary research on other related studies.

Definition of Terms

For clarification of terms being use in the study, the conceptual and operational definitions hereunder provided.

Utilization – it is the application of the services or the product to support the needs of every mankind.

MFS- Mobile Financial Services - is one of the financial services in which most of the customers accessing the use of mobile devices were they can transact in different businesses in terms of GCASH, Smart Money and PayPal.

Accuracy- it determines the exact information of the services/product to the customer.

Timeliness-it is the accessibility in using the services/product that can easily transact anytime/anywhere.

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