The FINANCIAL — The results of selection "World Best Internet Banks 2009" organized by Global Finance, US, were announced recently and ICBC Pocketed 2009's three important awards- "Best Consumer Internet Bank of China", "The 2009 Best Integrated Consumer Bank Site of Asia" and "The 2009 Best Integrated Corporate Bank Site of Asia".
According to introduction, that is the consecutive 7th time for ICBC to win the honor "Best Consumer Internet Bank of China".
It is reported that Global Finance, US, is an internationally well-known finance magazine and its circulation network has been extended to cover more than 100 countries in the world. The magazine mainly faces high-end readers with great reputation in the industry. The magazine invites independently third-party experts and senior insiders of international financial industry to make a selection "World Best Internet Banks" each year in order to select the banks with the most excellent Internet Banking business development in different regions in the world. The fact that ICBC re-won the honors in this selection signs its Internet Banking and network building have entered in the front rank in the world. ICBC's Internet Banking business keeps strong development momentum while it obtains high appraisals from the industry. By the end of last June, ICBC's Internet Banking has developed 66.2 million clients, among them, more that 10 millions were USB-Shield clients. ICBC's Internet Banking is still the first choice for Chinese netizens. According to another statistics, in the first half of this year, the volume of ICBC's E-banking transaction reached RMB 70 trillion, the business volume via E-banking channel has accounted for 46.2% of all business of the bank, representing a growth rate of 6.7% in comparison with the same period of the last year. E-banking has become one of the most important business channels of the bank.
A related ICBC's official said, the first reason why ICBC's Internet Banking keeps the momentum of fast healthy development is its strong innovation ability. In recent years, oriented by the demands of the clients, ICBC was the first in domestic industry to introduce some special products in succession including Personal Internet Banking (VIP Version), FX Purchase (Small Amount) and custody account as well as Mobile Banking (WAP) 3G with many investment & financing functions like payment, installation, and fund and gold trades so as to efficiently satisfy diversified individualized demands of the clients.
"Secondly, ICBC pays attention to cultivating clients and contributing to the clients. In corporations with some E-commerce partners like TM, Snda, Our Game, CA and CZ, ICBC carries out a series of marketing activities with different features. Through rich preferential measurements and colorful entertainment experience activities, ICBC offers all-range multi-layer financial services and practical conveniences which are praised by clients," ICBC reports.
Meanwhile, in order to give clients more confidence on using Internet Banking, ICBC constantly enhances risk control. ICBC has introduced the USB-Shield (Second Generation) with a LTD screen and a physical validation button based on common USB-Shield and brought more practical securities measurements such as SMS verification of cell phone, anti-phishing site security control software and Online Security Scan so as to ensure the security of Internet Banking from the end of bank.
The official said ICBC will keep enhancing the service level of Internet Banking, and enriching and perfecting product functions so as to offer better internet financial service for clients.
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