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CHAPTER 3 TECHNOLOGY IN BANKING: E-MONEY, E-BANKING, AND E-COMMERCE LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand … Bank technology in term of e-money, e-banking, and e-commerce How e-commerce affects the set-of-contracts theory of the firm and the similarities between banks and communications firms
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CHAPTER 3 TECHNOLOGY IN BANKING: E-MONEY, E-BANKING, AND E-COMMERCE
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • To understand … • Bank technology in term of e-money, e-banking, and e-commerce • How e-commerce affects the set-of-contracts theory of the firm and the similarities between banks and communications firms • E-banking as the delivery system based on electronic funds transfer (EFT)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (continued) • To understand … • The components of EFT as ACHs, ATMs, and POSs • Home banking was a bust in the late 20th century but that Internet banking and e-commerce will take off in the early 21st century
CHAPTER THEME • This chapter focuses on the information-processing and e-delivery aspects of banking from a technological perspective. • Innovations related to information technology (the I in TRICK) have paved the way for e-money, e-banking, and e-commerce. • EFTS and Internet banking are the delivery vehicles of the 21st century.
ARE BANKS DINOSARUS? Yes No Maybe
Banks Are Dinosaurs “Technology in the Workplace” Study Criteria • Has the industry made use of technological advances in a timely manner? • Did it participate in or encourage the development of new technologies? • Has the industry improved its competitive standing, efficiency, or profitability? Banking’s Grade = C-
BANKS ARE NOT DINOSAURS Technological Innovations: • E-Money • E-Banking • E-Commerce • Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
E-COMMERCE AND THE SET OF CONTRACTS THEORY OF THE FIRM • Figure 3-1 (p. 67)
THE SET OF CONTRACTS THEORY OF THE FIRM • Theory from Jensen and Meckling (1976) • Basic idea is to think about the various groups that have claims on the firm’s assets/cash flow • Narrow view suggests only two claimants: Owners and creditors
SET-OF-CONTRACTS THEORY(continued) • Broader view has many claimants including employees, tax collectors, society, suppliers, customers, and regulators. • Advances in technology permit information flows between and among these parties/claimants to be more timely and efficient
THREE IMPORTANT WEB CONCEPTS • Business-to-Customers (B2C) • Business-to-Business (B2B) • Business-to-Employees (B2E) • To which we can add, • Banks-to-Regulators (B2R)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TRICK • Transparency -- permits debt and equity holders to receive information on a more timely basis • Risk Exposure - eases managers ability to sell and buy risk management • Customers -- enhances banks’ abilities to communicate, inform, and attract • Kapital Adequacy -- reduces agency costs associated with bank and securities regulations
ClaimantExample Shareholders E-voting Creditors E-reports Supplier/distributor E-orders Customers E-orders Employees E-mail Regulators/IRS E-filings Society E-info E-commerce uses IT to enhance communications and transactions among mangers and stakeholders
THE EVOLUTION OF MONEY CONCRETE (animals, hides, trinkets, gold) to ETHEREAL (electronic impulses)
CHECKS • Check Volume • Check Imaging • Electronic-Check Presentment • Electronic-Check Conversion
CARDS TYPES • Credit Cards • Debit Cards • Smart Cards or Chip Cards WAYS TO BE USED • Face-to-Face or card present • Mail order / telephone order (MOTO) • Internet
E-BANKING: PAYMENTS SYSTEMS • Automated Clearinghouses (ACHs, see Figure 3-2, p. 73) • Automated Teller Machines (ATMs, see Figure 3-4, p. 80) • Point-of-Sale Terminals • Internet Banking
PAY CARDS AND THE UNDERBANKED • A pay card • looks like a credit card, • acts like a debit card, and • permits customers to receive electronic payments, • but it is not tied to a conventional bank account • Pay cards are marketed through • employers that offer direct deposit and to • parents for teens
WIRE-TRANSFER SYSTEMS CHARACTERISTICS: • High-dollar value of average transfers • Real-time settlement • A widely distributed network of users SYSTEMS: • Fedwire (see Figure 3-3, p. 77) • CHIPS (Clearing House Interbank Payment System) • SWIFT (Society of World Interbank Financial Telecommunications)
Funds Transfer Service Real-time gross settlement system Custodial and Transfer Services 1. Safekeeping Function 2. Transfer-and-Settlement Function FEDWIRE
CHIPS and SWIFT CHIPS Clearing House Interbank Payment System • 95% of money moving internationally SWIFT Society of World Interbank Financial Telecommunications • Primarily Messaging
MONEY LAUNDERERS AND TERRORIST FINANCING • Box 3-3 (p. 79) describes how money launderers use wire transfers • Aggregate funds in bank account of legitimate • Following 11 September 2001 great attention has been drawn to how terrorists use financial systems and underground (cash) transactions to circumvent detection • When a paper trail exists, authorities “freeze assets” to impede funding
E-BANKING: ATMs • ATM or • Pay $3 to deal with a Teller • The Numbers Game • 1980 < 20,000 ATMs • 2000 >200,000 ATMs • During the 1990s, ATMs grew at a rate of 10% per year • ATM Networks: • HONOR, PLUS, MAC, STAR, NYCE, MOST, & CIRRUS
POINT OF SALE SYSTEMS • 53,000 in the early 1990s versus 2,000,000 in 2000 • Why were they so slow to grow? • Payment habits are slow to change and customers prefer credit cards with a “grace period” or checks with “float” to debit cards • Merchants have gone with technologies more focused on electronic cash registers and inventory control rather that EFT
INTERNET BANKING --Andy Grove, CEO of Intel (1996) • The Internet is like a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are in kayaks. • It’s been coming across the Pacific for thousands of miles and gaining momentum, and it’s going to lift you and drop you. • We’re just a step away from the point when every computer is connected to every other computer, at least, in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. • It affects everybody -- the computer industry, telecommunications, the media, chipmakers, and the software world. • Some are more aware of this than others.
ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) • EDI refers to the process of exchanging information electronically (e.g., invoices, purchase orders, and remittances) • Why? • Speed the flow of dollars and data • Omnibus Consolidated Rescission and Appropriations Act of 1996 (requires federal agencies to convert to EFT)
OUTSOURCING Do We Perform Computer Operations In House or Contract with a Third Party? Outsourcing varies inversely with bank size as only 21% of banks with assets over $10 billion prefer to outsource compared to 40% for banks with total assets under $500 million
TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY BANKS Factors Contributing to the Decline of Community Banks • Failure to address the financial needs of baby boomers • Burdensome regulations that create an “unlevel playing field” favoring nonbank competitors • Inability to afford the high cost technology necessary to compete • Financial innovations such as securitization and the development of secondary markets that are transforming banking into a “pure commodity business”
PRODUCT AND SERVICE TRENDS IN BANKING • Internet banking and bill-paying services • Cash-management services • Debit and chip (smart) cards • Upgraded branch-delivery and loan systems • Imaging technology • More efficient data storage (and greater concern about security (backup systems) in the aftermath of 11 September 2001)
TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY BANKS How can Community Banks Compete? • Invest in Niches • Leverage Their Core-Systems Vendors • Make Small Size an Advantage • Utilize Application Service Providers • Build Internal Integration Skills • Don’t be Penny Wise but Pound Foolish
FINANCIAL-MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS OF E-BANKING View in terms of the ROE model: • ROE = PM x AU x EM = ROA x EM • Greater efficiency => higher PM and higher ROA and ROE, ceteris paribus (other things being equal) • Revenue (sales) enhancement (e.g., through cross-selling) => higher AU and higher ROA and ROE, ceteris paribus • Affect EM through more efficient use of equity capital => higher ROE
BANKS AS COMMUNICATIONS FIRMS • They are similar in that they both: • Establish networking relationships through which they • Collect, store, process and transmit information for themselves and the customers’ accounts • Not a two-way street: • It is easier for communications firms to enter financial-services businesses than the other way around
CHAPTER SUMMARY • Bill Gates predicts that online banking (“virtual branches”) will become the primary vehicle for delivering financial products and services • E-money, e-banking, and e-commerce provide the platforms for Gates’ prediction to come true