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This research paper reports how a credit union applied knowledge from the literature to solve a marketing problem. A credit union serves a unique group of customers who may be in the same profession, have the same employer, or simply in the same regional location. The marketing problem is how to switch bank customers from branches to internet for the main reason of reducing transaction costs. The research model comprises the independent factors of customer, transaction, application, and bank; and the dependent variables the number of internet banking transaction, perceived usefulness of internet banking, and willingness to use internet banking measuring different aspects of internet banking. We carried out an on-site survey in different branches of our subject credit union to capture the opinion of customers who rely solely on branches for banking transactions. To our knowledge, this study provides a pioneer internet banking survey in the context of credit unions. The survey results reveal different internet banking facilitators for customers with and without internet bank accounts. For customers with internet bank accounts, application security is the most important facilitator variable for them to continue its use in the future; while promises for continuous improvement can be a prohibitive variable. In order to encourage customers without internet bank accounts to adopt internet banking, the management should focus on strengthening the variables of bank diversified service, bank responsiveness, bank image, and extra online instruction and feedback for complicate internet transactions; and reducing the negative effect of web fun/entertainment. We also found that the variables of proficiency in using computers, application security, and bank image have opposite effects on customers with and without internet bank accounts.
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1has been in IT industry for 17 years. He has in-depth management experience for large and complex projects, IT strategic planning, application software design and development, systems integration, and off-shore development team. In addition, his extensive background in EFT and payment systems, such as ATM, POS, VISA, VISA DPS, COOP, Interlink, EBT, NYCE, PULSE and STAR Systems, helped shape industry policies and best practices. He is currently managing the payment processing network of Smart and Final Stores, Inc. in USA.
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Katuri, S., Lam, M. Switching customers from branches to internet: A credit union's journey. J Financ Serv Mark 11, 229–248 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fsm.4760041
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fsm.4760041