TY - JOUR AB - Advances in electronic banking technology have created novel ways of handling daily banking affairs, especially via the online banking channel. The acceptance of online banking services has been rapid in many parts of the world, and in the leading e‐banking countries the number of e‐banking contracts has exceeded 50 percent. Investigates online banking acceptance in the light of the traditional technology acceptance model (TAM), which is leveraged into the online environment. On the basis of a focus group interview with banking professionals, TAM literature and e‐banking studies, we develop a model indicating online‐banking acceptance among private banking customers in Finland. The model was tested with a survey sample (n=268). The findings of the study indicate that perceived usefulness and information on online banking on the Web site were the main factors influencing online‐banking acceptance. VL - 14 IS - 3 SN - 1066-2243 DO - 10.1108/10662240410542652 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/10662240410542652 AU - Pikkarainen Tero AU - Pikkarainen Kari AU - Karjaluoto Heikki AU - Pahnila Seppo PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Consumer acceptance of online banking: an extension of the technology acceptance model T2 - Internet Research PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 224 EP - 235 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -