E-banking usage grew in 2014

The number of individual customers with access to internet banking services grew by 14.9 percent year-on-year and stood at 25.12 million at the end of 2014. The number of customers who actively use internet banking services rose to 13 million, an increase of 5.3 percent year-on-year, Związek Banków Polskich announced in the NetB@ank report. As many as 2.06 million companies had access to banking services via internet, which is 8.6 percent more than in the previous year. The report also mentioned that the number of debit cards issued in the last year rose by 4.1 percent y/y to 36.07 million, of which 25 million are contactless.