{"id":1825,"date":"2008-07-11T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:24:06","slug":"canada-leads-the-world-in-use-of-online-banking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Canada leads the world in use of Online Banking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090217221726\/http:\/\/www.comscore.com:80\/press\/release.asp?press=2318\" title=\"Canada Leads World in Online Banking Usage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.azaroff.com\/uploaded_images\/comScore-762242.jpg\" class=\"imgbord\" alt=\"Canada Leads World in Online Banking Usage\" \/><\/a>Well, it&#8217;s always nice to be <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">number one<\/span> (well, maybe not).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comscore.com\" title=\"comScore\">comScore<\/a> released their study which shows that &#8220;Of the 37 global markets individually-reported by comScore, Canada ranked number one in adoption of online banking, with 67.1 of Canadian Internet users banking online in April 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also shows&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RBC Financial group led the category with 4.6 million visitors, followed by TD Bank Financial Group with 4.5 million visitors and Bank of Montreal Sites with 3 million visitors. Among those banks in the top 10, Bank of Montreal Sites experienced the greatest increase in visitation during the past year, growing 22 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if my friends at BMO are surprised by this.<\/p>\n<p>The study also showed that the heaviest users of online banking are 45-54 year olds. At first this may seem surprising, but in fact, they are also likely the heaviest bankers: &#8220;The segment shows both high penetration (73 percent) and the heaviest frequency in usage (12 visits and 157 pages per visitor per month).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So can we just admit that online banking is just banking. If your financial institution still talks a lot about online but still has its heart firmly in the branch, here&#8217;s some ammunition to change the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090217221726\/http:\/\/www.comscore.com:80\/press\/release.asp?press=2318\" title=\"Canada Leads World in Online Banking Usage\">Read the press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s always nice to be number one (well, maybe not). Yesterday comScore released their study which shows that &#8220;Of the 37 global markets individually-reported by comScore, Canada ranked number one in adoption of online banking, with 67.1 of Canadian Internet users banking online in April 2008.&#8221; It also shows&#8230; RBC Financial group led the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,31,7],"tags":[185,190,174],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-credit-union","category-web","tag-banking","tag-credit-union","tag-web"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-tr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}