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E-Banking in Tanzania: Practices, Opportunities and Challenges

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 E-Banking in Tanzania: Practices, Opportunities and Challenges


a. Problem Statement

Electronic banking is a current driving force that is changing the landscape of the banking industry fundamentally, in particular, towards a more competitive industry in Tanzania. Electronic banking has eliminated the boundaries between different financial institutions, enabled new financial products and services, and made existing financial services available in different packages. But the influences of electronic banking go far beyond this.

The developments in electronic banking together with other financial innovations are constantly bringing new challenges to finance theory and changing people’s understanding of the financial system.

b. Aim and Purpose of Study

In the application of electronic banking in Tanzania, the financial institutions have to face its problems. The success of electronic banking is contingent upon reliable and adequate data communications infrastructure. For past years communication over the Internet is not secure and often congested due to lack of proper infrastructure. The financial institutions would also have to contend with other Internet challenges including security, quality of service especially in poor countries like Tanzania.

Besides these issues, the existing business environment also poses some challenges to the smooth operations of electronic banking; some of these operational challenges include lack of reliable power supply, dominance of cash transaction in the economy, low level of awareness among consumer in Tanzania. The thrust of this project work shall be to examine the trend of electronic banking in Tanzania and a critically examination of the challenges mentioned.

c. Why is the particular topic chosen?
Electronic banking system has become an important practice among commercial banks in country , The introduction of this electronic banking has improve banking efficiency in rendering services to customer, It is in line with this that the topic was chosen. The subject of Internet banking provides many potential dissertation topics for me as I have worked on the banking filed of banking for 10 years now the first being Telephone banking administrator for Barclays Bank Tanzania Ltd. I have seen the evolution on banking on past years and the emergence of e electronic banking in the market has pushed me choosing the topic.

d. What contribution would the project make and to whom?
 This project is significance because it would help to enlighten operators in the banking sector and other concerned individuals and organisation on the adoption of Electronic banking in this modern way of life. The research shall basically identify the technical and operational challenges facing Electronic banking in Tanzanian business environment and suggests ways by which they could be tackled and improved.

e. Objective and scope of the study.
 The advancement in Technology has played an important role in improving service delivery standards in the Banking industry.
Some the objectives and the scope of the study is aiming to achieve the following:
(i) To evaluate the prospects of electronic banking in Tanzanian banking industry and financial institutions;
(ii) To evaluate the impact of electronic banking on the operations of financial institutions in the country;
(iii)To examine the effect of electronic on bank-customer relationship;
(iv)To seek to examine the challenges facing the implementation of electronic banking in country.

In pursuance of the objective of the project, attention shall be focused on Electronic banking among other e-commerce implementation. In order to conduct an empirical investigation into the adoption of Electronic banking in country, this study shall examine the nature Electronic banking operations in First National Bank Tanzania Limited.

f. Methodology
 Both primary and secondary data shall be the basis of this project work. The primary data shall be generated by means of a structured questionnaire instrument. The first section of the questionnaire shall be based on the personal data of the responses while the second section shall seek to ask a question that relates to the subject on the basis of the research questions.

The questionnaire to be used shall be carefully administered and a total of forty (40) staffs of the bank would be selected, for the purpose of this study. The sampling shall be done randomly such that the respondents shall cut across the different departments in the bank. This could to some extent give a basis for generalisation.


The data, which would be collected from the questionnaire, will be analysed using the simple percentage method and chi-square, goodness of fit. This would make the analysis of the data more concise and simple. Secondary data shall also be collected from research reports, e-Business Newsletters, Central Bank of Tanzania and other published materials.