``The Banker'' Again Presents Nordea With Global Award for Best E-banking Strategy.Business Editors STOCKHOLM Stockholm (stŏk`hôlm'), city (1995 pop. 692,954), capital of Sweden and of Stockholm co., E Sweden, situated where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. , Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 The British magazine "The Banker" has for the second year running granted Nordea Nordea is a financial services group operating in Northern Europe, based in Stockholm. It is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Bank, Unibank and Kreditkassen (Christiania Bank) that took a global award for "Best Online Business Strategy." The Banker's jury regards Nordea as the pathfinder pathfinder /path·find·er/ (path´find?er) 1. an instrument for locating urethral strictures. 2. a dental instrument for tracing the course of root canals. path·find·er n. in e-banking. "Receiving the award last year was a great achievement but receiving it twice in a row is of course excellent news. The fact that we were awarded a second time confirms our ability to hold on to our top position in the world of e-banking. We truly appreciate this award since it comes from one of the most respected appraisers of the banking industry," states Bo Harald Harald. For Norwegian kings thus named, use Harold. , Head of Nordea's E-banking. The key reason for the award is the broad usage of the Nordea e-services. By the end of August this year Nordea's customers made 17.3 million more payments via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the compared to the same period last year. A total of 54.9 million payments were made from January to August 2001. "The extent to which our e-services are utilised shows to the best of our knowledge that we have by far the best figures in the world, and it also highlights the part of our strategy aimed at promoting e-habits for a broader public. Another dimension is our multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple approach which enables customers to select different means, including pc, phone, wap phone WAP phone n → teléfono WAP , tv and mobile phones, to access services. There is one service agreement for all channels and this is an integrated part of our branch- related sales activities. The third point of relevance is our efforts to strengthen our commitment to e-services as symbolised by the Solo market and to help corporate customers streamline their own e-processes faster by growing the e-habit and providing a number of new tools," says Bo Harald. Nordea today has almost 2.5 million e-banking customers and near to 240,000 customers who trade in equities via the Internet. Around 1,700 e-merchants use Nordea's e-payment to sell their services. In addition to the global award for Best Online Business Strategy, Nordea won two other awards. Nordea's banking arms in both Merita Bank in Finland and Unibank in Denmark, both part of the Nordea Group, received the awards for "Bank of the Year in Finland" and "Bank of the Year in Denmark," respectively. Note to Editors: This press release is also accessible online at www.Waymaker.net. The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/05/20010905BIT00280/bit0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/05/20010905BIT00280/bit0001.pdf |
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