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Is Banking with an App Safe?

Mobile banking and viewing your bank account via an app on your smartphone or tablet is safe, especially compared to internet banking via a browser on a public Wi-Fi network. Additionally, with the app, you can’t make a mistake in the website link, as it takes you directly to your banking environment.

Secure Your Smartphone or Tablet

Of course, there are things you can do to bank more safely with an app. For example, secure your smartphone and tablet. Banks also take necessary measures so you can safely bank with an app. For example, with most banks, you can only transfer to known account numbers. These are account numbers to which you have transferred money in the past or that are in your bank’s address book. Often there is also a maximum amount that you can transfer. You can find more information about the app and its security on your bank’s website.

Download the App

In the app store, you can find and download your bank’s banking app on your smartphone or tablet. Or check out your bank’s website:

Top 20 Worldwide:

  1. JPMorgan Chase – www.jpmorganchase.com
  2. Bank of America – www.bankofamerica.com
  3. Citigroup (Citi) – www.citi.com
  4. Wells Fargo – www.wellsfargo.com
  5. HSBC – www.hsbc.com
  6. Barclays – www.barclays.com
  7. Deutsche Bank – www.db.com
  8. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) – www.rbc.com
  9. Bank of China – www.boc.cn
  10. China Construction Bank – www.ccb.com
  11. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) – www.icbc.com.cn
  12. Agricultural Bank of China – www.abchina.com
  13. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group – www.mufg.jp
  14. BNP Paribas – www.bnpparibas.com
  15. Credit Agricole – www.credit-agricole.com
  16. ING Group – www.ing.com
  17. Banco Santander – www.santander.com
  18. Standard Chartered – www.sc.com
  19. UBS Group – www.ubs.com
  20. Credit Suisse – www.credit-suisse.com

Top 20 in Europe:

  1. HSBC Holdings – www.hsbc.com
  2. BNP Paribas – www.bnpparibas.com
  3. Credit Agricole – www.credit-agricole.com
  4. Deutsche Bank – www.db.com
  5. Banco Santander – www.santander.com
  6. Barclays – www.barclays.com
  7. Société Générale – www.societegenerale.com
  8. ING Group – www.ing.com
  9. Lloyds Banking Group – www.lloydsbank.com
  10. UBS Group – www.ubs.com
  11. Credit Suisse – www.credit-suisse.com
  12. UniCredit – www.unicreditgroup.eu
  13. Royal Bank of Scotland – www.rbs.com
  14. NatWest Group – www.natwestgroup.com
  15. Nordea Bank – www.nordea.com
  16. Commerzbank – www.commerzbank.com
  17. Intesa Sanpaolo – www.intesasanpaolo.com
  18. BBVA – www.bbva.com
  19. Standard Chartered – www.sc.com
  20. Danske Bank – www.danskebank.com

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Reference Notes:

You may already be aware of my collaboration with the Dutch government and their endorsement of my Information Security PubQuiz. If not, you can read about it here. Regrettably, the government education site that underpins part of my PubQuizzes is not available in English. Therefore, I’ve translated the articles from “veiliginternetten.nl” and “alertonline.nl” and you can read them on my site. The original source for this article, in Dutch, can be found here.