The site currently accounts for over 50% of transactions involving foreign securities.
Bank Hapoalim (LSE: BKHD; TASE: POLI) figures indicate that the bank’s website handles over half of all Internet banking in Israel. The figures also show that its website currently accounts for over 50% of transactions involving foreign securities, and over 25% of transactions involving Israeli securities.
Bank Hapoalim announced yesterday that it was upgrading its user interface on its website. From now on, the site will feature prices of securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange, in addition to the bank’s existing online service for Nasdaq.
The site will also enable customers to pay their television service tax and fees for the Registrar of Companies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as bills for VAT, the local authorities, the Israel Electric Corporation, gas, etc.
Facilities for standing orders will be expanded, and a new screen with particulars of the account and fields of activity will be launched, displaying permitted activities and types of service permitted on the account under the agreement for opening it.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on March 25, 2004