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ABSTRACT:
Back ground: electronic banking is an important and fundamental issue that plays an important role in reaching
to electronic government. Generally speaking electronic banking includes all banking services using electronic
system by the virtue of safe mediators in a way that physical presence is no longer necessary. The beginning of
electronic banking turns back to 1960s when computers were used in banks for the first time. The second round
of electronic banking started at late 1970s and it was named automation of the office. Using telecommunication
services was also common in this period. The third round started in the middle of 1980s by connection of
customers to accounts. In this round the connection of customers with their accounts, telephone, ATM, etc was
used. Finally, fourth period was accompanied by uniting the systems and connecting the customer to all banking
operations. The beginning of electronic banking in Iran goes back to 1981-1991. Tejarat bank issued the first
bank card in 1991 and after that Sepah bank started to establish 7 ATM stands all over the country. In 1992 Iran
joined SWIFT(Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ) international channel and it
was connected to the channel in 1993.
Methods: The type of study is operational from the perspective of its aim and practical from the perspective of its
implementation and it includes two parts. The first part is concerned with a comparison of banking systems in
Turkey-Malaysia and Iran. The second part is however concerned with the obstacles in the way of electronic
banking in Iran including: management obstacles, financial obstacles, technical obstacles, cultural obstacles and
safety obstacles. It is attempted to use statistics from the organizations like central bank, telecommunication
center, etc and study the amount of influence in each of them. Statistical data used in this study is during 20102011.
Results: The result of the first chapter of the present study is the importance of Internet, frameworks and
encouraging policies to impress beneficiaries to use electronic banking. The second part introduces the cultural
elements as the most important ones and then it attracts our attention to financial elements (the cost of Internet
and commissions) as the second influencing factor the influence of technical elements is fading away due to the
improvements in banking system. Different parameters like management obstacles also play an important role in
the way of electronic banking. The safety obstacles are influenced by the cultural issues and their direct influence
is not certified. Ghareche and Abdolbaghi introduce Internet foundation and decrease in service expenses,
managers and experts, that this study confirms Internet foundation and decrease in service expenses. Moghali
confirm culture as effective parameter (indirectly). Amade and Jafarpour introduce culture-social, management
and reject financial and technical parameters, that this study only confirms culture-social parameters as effective
parameter.
Conclusion: The result of study does not certify the safety obstacles and cultural, financial, and technical
management obstacles are influencing respectively.
KEYWORDS:
Electronic banking, management obstacles, financial obstacles, technical obstacles, cultural obstacles
DOI : 10.5121/ijmit.2011.3305
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1. INTRODUCTION:
Electronic banking has many advantages and interesting diversities including more number of
customers, services in higher quality and lower price, preservation and enhancement of share in
market, unlimited space for market, concentration in new distribution, making competition
between commercial brands, concentration on expenses and improvement of revenue, providing
extensive services, improvement in management system, decreasing the expenses of contractions,
close intra banking connection, controlling ecological pollution, etc.
The implementation of article 44 of constitutional law and manifestation of electronic
government can make electronic banking much more serious. Also electronic trade requires
electronic banking. Besides, in recent years sanctions have influenced all current issues and
electronic banking can be affective in breaking suctions. (But also suctions can be effective
communication with foreign banks). Also in recognizing financial operation of competitors it
can be very useful. Existence of a comprehensive electronic banking system can prevent the
process of launder in the country and can minimize tax violation, fabrication of banking
documents and monetary theft. Electronic banking has different models like internet banking,
telephone banking, cell phone banking and related technologies like ATM, POS, electronic links,
etc.
3. METHODS:
3.1 First part- Comparative study:
In this part it is tried to compare the actions taken in Turkey and Malaysia with Iran. Malaysia is
the model of our Islamic country in the field of banking so taking it into consideration can be very
helpful. Turkey is a country with a similar religion and culture and is located near our country so
that we can study this country in respect of similar affordability of the people in Turkey and Iran.
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electronic banking by introducing new operations and alterations in signatures in software and
hardware systems (electronic signature). EST (Electronic Securities Transfer) is used for
purchasing and other system were implemented for other purposes like EFT. These items were
protected by the government.
In Iran, the commencement of electronic banking turns back to 1381-1391. From 2001 the
comprehensive paying system is defined and its operational levels are under construction. By the
end of implementation levels all banking operations will be done by the use of electronic system.
The comprehensive paying system includes: 1- Shetab system that has been implemented in 2001.
2- SATNA system that has been established in 2006. 3- Paya system. 4 -TABA systems. 5- the
providers of paying services. 6- Sheba System 7- NAMAD systems
In this part Iran and Turkey are compared form different perspectives:
Internet: based on a plan designed by the Turkey government, most residents of big cities in this
country are connected to Internet with the speed of 32 MB per second. Based on a report issued
by a site named InternetWorldStats, Iran stands in 34/9 place in regard of Internet use in the
middle east. Zionist regime has allocated the 74th stand and has won the first place. After that,
Emirates stands in 48/9th place, Qatar stands in 42/6th place and Lebanon stands in 39/5th place
respectively. The amount of influence in Turkey is 35 and it stands in 26/5th place that is higher
than the position of Iran.
The fundamental investments: This country is making the largest optical cable in the region and a
consortium of 7 operators from 5 countries is involved in the project. The fiber optics is able to
transfer 12.8 terabytes of data per second. Based on this plan VDSL2 will be delivered to the
customers and it increases the speed of Internet in Turkey 8 as much. The expense of 16 MB
service is 105 Dollars per month and the expense of 32 MB service is 138 Dollars per month.
VDSL2 Internet lines are established in 73 cities of Turkey and this plan will be finished within a
few months.
In Iran the similar plans are not predicted by any related organizations yet.
The Internet expense: The organization for Radio connections has designed the below table to
show the expenses of Internet with a 20% discount (1389).
The width of band (Byte per second)
64 KB
86800 Tomans
128 KB
173600 Tomans
256 KB
260400 Tomans
512 KB
434000 Tomans
1024 KB
781200 Tomans
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2048 KB
1388800 Tomans
4 MB
2343600 Tomans
8 MB
2906000 Tomans
These prices are 12 times higher than the prices in Turkey. (The Tomans is a super unit of the
official currency of Iran, the rial)
Credit cards: Based on a report issued by The Nilson Report Magazine more than 50% of Debit
card exporters are categorized as Credit card exporters and only 25% of Credit exporters are
categorized under the group of Debit exporters. So that it can be concluded superior card
exporters are more into exporting credit cards and about 90% of the transactions are because of
credit transactions. Also it is important to know that the average amount of exporters transactions
in Asia is 22.9 milliard dollars for credit cards and 3 milliard dollars for debit cards. This issue
shows the attraction of credit cards for its exporters so for this comparison only credit cards are
used. The total amount of credit card issuance in Iran was 0.0006% until 2010, May and it was
63% in Turkey which means 45 million and 65 thousand credit cards were issued in Turkey when
there were only 442139 thousand cards in Iran.
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like electronic wallet, stands, and conference video that increase the safety of users but such
things are not possible in Iran.
Internet: The speed of Internet in this Islamic country is 160 times more than Iran and its expense
is 3000 Tomans per Megabyte and in many places people are provided with wireless system for
free. Wimax Internet service is delivered to people for 23000 Tomans per Megabyte in this
country. The users pay only 1/58 dollars per month for 224 MB Internet (about 1500 Tomans). It
can be concluded that the expense of Internet in this country is 16 times more than Iran.
Cultural obstacles:
Before we go to cultural obstacles it should be mentioned that culture is acquired so the elements
that are discussed hereunder are due to lack of education and information.
These elements include: lack of information among electronic bank users, the resistance of
beneficiaries toward electronic banking, lack of the culture to use electronic bank system and IT.
In order to study the influence of this element, we can use the statistics provided by central bank
and the statistics center of Iran.
Based on the declaration of Irans statistics organization, the population of each province is listed
in following:
5 populated provinces of Iran are: Tehran ,Razavi Khorasan, Isfahan, Fars and Khouzestan and on
the other hand Ilam, Semnan, Kohkiluye and Boyer Ahmad, Southern Khorasan and Northern
Khorasan are less in population.
The central bank did not provide statistics regarding the amount of transactions of other banking
models like internet transactions and it only provided information about the transactions in ATMs
and POS. It seems like other types are not very popular in the country yet. As a result we just
discuss ATM and POS in this study (until2011/2/19): The result of the study is summarized in
below table:
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Ratio
Population
to ATM
Semnan(2347.678), Tehran(2679.60)
Ilam(3094.71),Boushehr(3406.26),
Zanjan(3811.61), Isfahan(396081)
Population
to POS
Population
to
issued
cards
Ardebil(0.005619),Isfahan(06773),
Boushehr(2.7169),
S.Khorasan(7.1333),
N.Khorasan(21.5448),
Yazd(33.1878)
Tehran(0.4368),semnan(0.5893),
Yazd(0.649),Markazi(0.7712)
,Qom(0.7924), Isfahan(0.8146)
Sistanbalouchestan(8594.98),
W.Azarbayjan(6336.77),Khuzastan(5696.16),
Lorestan(5960.09),Golestan(5549.62),
E.Azarbayjan(5525.85)
R.Khorasan(597.1819),Kermanshah(334.64),
Fars(264.6861),Khuzestan(234.9458),
W.Azarbayjan(157.3941),
E.Azarbayjan(151.8979)
Population
to
ATM
transaction
Tehran(0.4119),Yazd(0.4748)
Ilam(0.5096),Boushehr(0.5100),
Semnan(0.5380), Isfahan(0.5739)
Population
to
POS
transactions
Boushehr(0.1190),
S.Khorasan(0.2848),Ardebil(0.7),
N.Khorasan(0.8061), Kohkiluye and
BoyerAhmad(1.4257),Zanjan(1.4830)
Sistanbaluchestan(1.7749),
W.Azarbayjan(1.4536),Hamedan(1.2631),
N.Khorasan(1.1908),Lorestan(1.1858),
Kordestan(1.1615)
W.Azarbayjan(1.1262)
,Sistanbaluchestan(1.0884),Hamedan(0.9790),
Golestan(0.8529),N.Khorasan(0.8368),
Ardebil(0.8231)
Tehran(93.608),Isfahan(53.2491),
R.Khorasan(25.9525),Fars(15.4452),
Khuzestan(15.0435), Kermanshah(13.6592)
B) Financial obstacles:
Every alteration requires foundation, support and expertise. The possibility to have suitable
foundations, updated equipments and support groups requires a considerable amount of money. In
fundamental changes of the society such as electronic banking this issue is of even more
importance. Lack of investment in the field of telecommunication, expenses regarding web
connection, satellite expenses, the expenses for up grading webs are some examples in this
regard.
The average speed of Internet is 128 Kb per second and it costs 20000 Tomans monthly. About
using ATM and POS machines it should be said that the banks keep receiving commissions.
Telecommunication center is not faced with serious financial problems in this regard.
C) Technical obstacles:
Electronic banking is dependant to updated and useful technology. Lots of are required in this
regard at the same time like telecommunication, information technology, etc.
The influencing factors on electronic banking are: access to web, internet speed, ISP centers,
number and width of internet bands, lack of IT and electronic banking experts, lack of quality, ICI
expansion, disqualified electronic banking services, etc.
In order to discuss this issue we need the statistics issued by telecommunication center and central
bank. The below chart is used in the site of telecommunication center to show the operations of
the said organ:
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Index
telephone
division
Telephone
influence
Cell phone
division
Cell phone
influence
Connected
villages
ICT
villages
Public
phone
Public toll
call
Data ports
Internet
users
Info
transfer
web
1384
1385
1386
1387
1388
1389 (May)
20340060
22626944
23952089
24709447
25410361
24972645
2971
3257
3345
3395
3404
3360
8510513
15385289
24509714
31423104
35427101
35554812
1243
2220
3420
4320
4790
4792
47955
51058
52784
52459
52596
52600
963
2287
5590
8200
9812
9900
141912
167366
186198
218719
22800
229000
64774
89460
124314
162055
176800
177000
14897
16392
36806
50818
91016
98547
8800000
12000000
12800000
21000000
26500000
26800000
716
956
1182
1220
1223
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D) Management obstacles:
There are many reasons to lack of electronic banking from the perspective of management role
and the most important ones are: tendency to previous processes, low risk ability, changes made
in board of managers, the existence of many decision making organs, long term management, the
amount of knowledge, lack of familiarity with electronic banking and vague policies.
In recent years central bank and some other banks witnessed the changes made in board of high
ranking managers. First of all we are going to discuss the actions taken by Sheibani, Mazaheri,
Bahmani and Nourbakhsh in regard of electronic banking.
Nourbaksh was the chairman of central bank in 1994-2003 and he took the first steps in the field
of electronic banking. After him Sheibani started his career as the chairman of central bank from
2003-2007 and his important actions were listed in the report of 2006 as: the daily liquidation of
Shetab centers, SATNA establishment, and the expansion of credit and debit cards. After him
Mazaheri provided services such as fast monetary transactions, ATM, PINPAD, SATNA and
issuance of credit cards during 2007-2008. Then Bahmani started his job from 2008 and his
services include: SHEBA, Card to card transaction, Mirror and DR supporting sites, etc. you can
see no considerable changes can be observed in management methods of all mentioned managers.
Based on by laws of banking system enacted on 2004, the central bank is responsible for
determination of strategies and foundations of electronic banking system.
Due to the adherence of all banks all over the country from the central bank it can be concluded
that the actions taken by the managers of different banks is toward electronic banking so the
existence of many decision making organs does not seem to be true. But the different services
provided in different banks with similar banking policies is because of the different actions of
middle ranking managers so middle ranking managers can be influential in this regard.
E) Safety obstacles and acceptance of risks:
Regarding this item we first discuss all possible risks in banking system:
In evaluation of risk in electronic banking system we can use the below items: 1 the recognition
of risk by customer. 2 the ability of customer to analyze the capabilities of the system 3
sensitivity to information preservation by bank and customer
Regarding the discussed issues, safety measurements and risking in electronic banking include:
lack of legal encounter with violations made in the field of electronic banking, the use of multi
functional factors by banks, lack of enough attention to preservation of information by customer
and bank, the passive attitudes of banks towards the safety issues, the risks caused by cheating,
etc.
In order to determine the amount of influence of the above mentioned factors we used the
statistics provided by the Police and central bank:
Based on a report issued by the police, the most electronic crimes occur in banking system. Based
on a report issued by the deputy special crimes officer, 33% of cases are about illegal access to
systems and computer data by using bank cards and electronic devices.
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Central bank stated that this issue is because of lack of attention of people in preserving their
passwords. This problem can be solved by the use of electronic signatures. In 1388 central bank
started its activity in regard of electronic signature. So it can be concluded that abuses are because
of ignorance of people about safety issues and banking system itself is provided with enough
security measurement.
4. FINDINGS:
Based on the result of this study cultural factors can be categorized in this way: 1. the dispersal of
ATM, POS is not related to the population of each city. 2. This issue can also be seen in card
issuance by the banks as well. 3. The number of issued cards is more harmonic with ATM than it
is with POS. 4. The provinces with large amounts of ATM, POS have the highest amount of
transaction. 5. The provinces with small amounts of ATM, POS have lower amount of
transaction. 6. Commissions exist in both items so financial issues are not influential in this
regard. Generally, it can be concluded that cultural issues are very influential. ATM was used
before POS and thats why people are much more familiar with that. So the influence of issued
cards can be seen in ATM transaction and provinces such as Tehran and Isfahan have a suitable
proportion of POS but because people are not familiar with that it has a low transaction amount
(while it was expected to have the highest transactions). In financial elements we can conclude
that financial obstacles affect the use of people from banking services but the custodian
organizations are not faced with this problem in the field of electronic banking. Regarding
technical obstacles it can be said that because of the importance of internet in this regard this can
be an influential factor but its influence is fading away due to the actions under operation.
Regarding management obstacles only middle ranking managers can be influential. About safety
obstacles it should be said that it is affected by cultural elements because it can be reduced by
instruction so safety obstacles are not very serious for electronic banking in Iran.
5. CONCLUSION:
From the first section it can be concluded that internet is a very important element in this regard.
Reduction in its price, increasing its speed, paying attention to the expansion of credit cards,
expansion of banking services and paying attention to foundations especially privatization can
encourage people to take advantage o this system. In the second section this issue is stressed as
well (confirmation of first assumption). Also Ghareche and Abdolbaghi introduce Internet
foundation and decrease in service expenses and Moghali also confirm culture as effective
parameter (indirectly). Second assumption: financial elements affect the way people use these
services so after cultural elements, they take the second place. Third assumption: because of the
current improvements the influence of this factor is fading away. Fourth assumption: only middle
ranking managers are considered as influential. Amade and Jafarpour introduce culture-social,
management and reject financial and technical parameters, that this study only confirms culturesocial parameters as effective parameter. Fifth assumption: these obstacles do not play an
important role in electronic banking system and are influenced by cultural factors. Totally it can
be said that cultural, financial, management and technical obstacles are influential respectively.
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