OREANDA-NEWS. July 05, 2011. SEB Bank continues upgrading its services provided via mobile Internet. Mobile Internet services are accessed by the customers logging in from their mobile phones – today a new version of the bank’s website offering its services via the Internet adapted both for traditional and smart phones will be presented. The bank’s services are available at m.seb.lt (reference ‘Log in’), reported the press-centre of SEB Bank. 

From now on customers of SEB Bank with traditional or smart mobile phones will be able to check balances of their accounts and transactions, transfer funds to their accounts or to other payees, fill out various set-format documents with more convenience.

“The development of the smart phones market has been a stimulus for us to adapt the website for holders of not only traditional, but also smart phones – iPhone, Android – investigations have shown that in Lithuania almost 30 per cent of all mobile phones are smart phones,” said Virginijus Doveika, Vice President and Head of Retail Banking Division of SEB Bank.

V.Doveika maintained that it is namely owners of smart phones that use various services via the mobile Internet. It is forecasted that in future there will be an increasing number of the population using banking services via a mobile phone.

“Each subscriber for SEB Bank services via the Internet can immediately start using banking services via their mobile phones as well. We expect that a more simple servicing method and more convenient management will be a stimulus to use the services more often. Two months ago when we upgraded the website m.seb.lt, there was an increase in the interest in our services – the number of payment transactions executed via mobile phones tripled,” V. Doveika said.

According to the data of the Communications Regulation Authority, the popularity of the mobile Internet has been rapidly increasing: in 1Q 2011, the number of data packages transferred via mobile Internet was by 28.9 per cent higher compared to that in 4Q 2010, and twice as high compared to a relevant period a year ago.

Aldo, the bank provides its customers – mobile phone owners – services via SMS. SEB Bank launched its services via SMS in the market back in the year 2001, and its services via a mobile phone – back in 2006.