Factors Affecting the Adoption of Internet Banking in Bahrain

The emergence of the Internet in business as a marketing tool and as a communication medium is one of the existing challenges for the banking industry. Because of this evolution the banking industry has adopted Internet banking both for financial transactions and for the provision of information about products and services. Based on the ideas mentioned this study aimed to examine the factors which may affect the intention to use Internet banking in the Kingdom of Bahrain with the following research objectives to be First to identify the factors which affect the intention to ue and adopt Internet banking in the Kingdom of Bahrain; second to develop a model based on the identified factors that affect the intention to use Internet banking in the Kingdom of Bahrain; and third to test the reliability and validity of the proposed model and find its implications to the intention to use and adopt Internet banking.