OREANDA-NEWS. September 20, 2011. The international finance magazine Global Finance has announced Swedbank’s Personal Internet Banking as the best one in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, reported the press-centre of Swedbank.

Winners of the competition were selected by a world-class judging panel. Winning banks were selected based on the following criteria: strength of strategy for attracting and servicing online customers, success in getting clients to use web offerings, growth of online customers, breadth of product offerings, evidence of tangible benefits gained from Internet initiatives, and web site design and functionality.

“In less than a decade, the Internet has transformed the way many consumers and most businesses bank,” says Joseph D. Giarraputo, publisher of Global Finance, in the official release. “The continuing improvements in Internet offerings represented by this year’s entries show that more significant Internet banking developments are still ahead of us.”