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Information Technology Governance and Online Banking in Bahrain

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The aim of current study is to investigate the impact of information technology governance on the online banking used by Bharani banks during 2020. The results indicates that the total level of applying online banking was 87% and the information technology was 82% and there is a significant and positive relationship between both. The study recommended that the banks must incorporate more online services and use the financial technology which can be considered as an advanced model of online banking.

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Al-Okaily, M., Al-Sartawi, A., Hannoon, A., Khalid, A.A. (2022). Information Technology Governance and Online Banking in Bahrain. In: Musleh Al-Sartawi, A.M.A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Finance and Sustainable Technology. ICGER 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 423. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93464-4_60

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