American magazine Global Finance has announced the global Internet Banking review results for 2007 recently and ICBC has won the prize of Best Consumer Internet Bank of China once again. ICBC has won this prize for consecutive 5 years since the year of 2003. Besides this prize, ICBC has won another title, Best Deposit Internet Bank in Asia, in this review.

It's well known that American magazine Global Finance is a famous finance and economics magazine in the world. It mainly faces the finance decision-maker, such as chairman, CEO and CFO, of the international finance group. The Global Finance has a high-end readership of over 300 thousand amongst more than 100 countries, and enjoys the great reputation in the industry worldwide. Each year, the magazine will invite the third party independent experts and some well-known international financiers to make a review for the global best Internet Bank. They will vote for the best Internet Bank in each area by some composite indexes, such as the service ability and appeal to the customers, the increase of the customer numbers, the actual payoff ability, the functionality and convenience for customer interface, product innovation and so on.

The principal of ICBC expresses the five years when ICBC continued to hold the title of Best Consumer Internet Bank of China is also the five years for ICBC Internet Banking fast growing. From January to September in this year, the trade amount for ICBC Personal Internet Banking has broken through RMB 2.7 trillion, with the increase of 230% to the same period of last year. Till the end of this September, the customers of ICBC Personal Internet Banking have broken through 36 million with the biggest market share among all the domestic banks, and the USB-Shield holders have been over 3.5 million. The service conducted via E-Banking occupies 35.1% of the total services and E-Banking has become the most important service channel of ICBC.

During the five years, ICBC Personal Internet Banking is always keeping improvement. It combines the function of bank, investment and financing and provides the service of account inquire, transfer, seven twenty-four hours remit, toll station, online forex, online securities, online insurance, online gold, online futures, online bill payment and so on. It is the best Personal Internet Banking in China. To improving the safety of Internet Banking, ICBC cooperated with the famous IT companies, such as Microsoft, and firstly provided the intellectual chips based hardware encryption numeric certification, USB-Shield, which has been authorized the national patent. Last year, ICBC provided E-Banking new product, E-Banking Code Card, with dynamic code authentication technique. The product has the characters of convenience and low cost, which suits the common Internet Banking customers with not strict request to the payment limit.