Fiserv Research Shows Digital Habits Driving Banking Shifts
Expectations & Experiences survey finds consumers are growing more comfortable conducting financial activities with non-traditional technology providers
Conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Fiserv, Expectations & Experiences is one of the longest-running research studies of its kind and builds on years of consumer survey data. Results from the 2018 Expectations & Experiences: Channels and New Entrants survey of 3,050 consumers show:
Access and Automation Key to Keeping up with Finances
- Adoptionof online banking is fully mature and mobile banking appears well on its way. The vast majority of consumers (90 percent) have accessed online banking, and active users (those who have used the service in the past month) report logging on to their financial institution’s site an average of nine times per month. Slightly fewer consumers (70 percent) have accessed mobile banking, but those who do log on more frequently – an average of 11 times per month.
- The activity digital banking users perform most often is checking balances (79 percent of online users, 80 percent of mobile users). Next is bill payment, with 44 percent of online users and 36 percent of mobile users paying a bill through their financial institution’s site. Millennials are more likely to have ever logged on to their primary financial institution’s site using a mobile device compared to their older peers (92 percent versus 62 percent). Thirty percent of mobile banking users used the service to deposit a check.
- Access to a traditional branch remains relevant, with 52 percent of consumers reporting they visited a brick-and-mortar location within the past month and 80 percent in the past six months. Deposits and withdrawals were cited as the main reason for branch visits.
“The world is being shaped by digital connections and convenience,
providing an opportunity for financial institutions to incorporate
relevant new technologies and enable customers to manage their financial
lives with ease any way they choose to engage,” said
While use of traditional financial institutions for bill payments,
loans, money management and other financial services remains steady,
consumer comfort with different types of companies, particularly
technology companies, has grown. For instance, 55 percent of people
would be comfortable using a technology company such as
The quest for convenience and openness to nonfinancial companies may be creating new considerations for consumers and financial institutions across channels including:
- At the branch -- nearly half of people (49 percent) would feel secure using biometrics for authentication. Yet, the appeal of fully automated branches offering the same services as traditional branches is modest. Only 32 percent of consumers say they would likely stay with their primary financial institution if it went teller-free, compared to 24 percent of consumers who would not be likely to stay.
- Via voice-activation -- among millennials, 31 percent perceive voice banking as faster than mobile banking, and 32 percent cited the ability to free up their hands to perform other tasks as a benefit of voice banking. Factors that may prevent voice banking adoption include preference for speaking to a human (42 percent), concern about being overheard (36 percent) and a perception that it is less secure (35 percent).
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Additional Resources
- Expectations & Experiences: Channels and New Entrants - fisv.co/channels-expectations-pr
Methodology
The Expectations & Experiences: Channels and New Entrants survey was
conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of
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