hi there!

Does this mean ICBC offers internet banking? in China?

Is this also available for the normal working person as me?

Brgrds,

Ten

sorry I haven't checked this thread for a couple of days. I have been using the ICBC online banking using downloaded certificated and installed activeX control software(without the USB thing). ICBC seems to have just changed their online banking entry address in the last few days. Open this in your Internet Explorer (no Firefox or any other funny business. this is chinese bank online banking and they only want to see IE):
http://www.icbc.com.cn/icbc/sy/default.htm

on the upper left there is a button for personal banking. you can login from there without the USB key.

Since you already have the USB key things might be diffrent. From reading the page you need to install a driver then download a certificate to that USB key.

if the above fails just call 95588 (chinese and english).

hope this helps

use this address to access the login point of online non-VIP personal banking
https://mybank.icbc.com.cn/icbc/enperbank/index.jsp

at some point you will be asked to download and install their activeX control program at http://www.icbc.com.cn/icbc/html/download/dkq/icbc_netbank_client_contro... to preven passwd theft.

If you have wireless (through the mobile phone networks, not WIFI) you could try it in a branch office. But form my experience the staff at the hot line knows the standard answers pretty well.

if the wiring is one-off you can try Western Union, or just do it over the counter at an bank branch office. I am sure it is possible to wire Euros to a foreign account that way.

By the way it took me more than a month but eventually I get my ICBC dual currency creditcard in RMB and Euro. BOC also issues such card but it demands 5000 Yuan deposit or some such. Now I can fund whatever in Euro abroad and kill the bill locally in Euro, eleminating any overhead.

yes, for payment authorisation, it should be the password of the USB, which the bank clerk should have given you when you first applied for the net banking facilities.

Hi guys,

why are you making your live so miserable?

Go to HSBC: online banking in the whole World, EURO-US$-RMB-HKD Transfer for free and easy! Of course, the maximum limits for each transfer have to be looked at.

But, I feel, the online banking with HSBC is the easiest ones available, even my "home bank" in Germany is not providing such an excellent service as HSBC!

Is there somebody out there who works in ICBC or knows somebody there who can help me with an URGENT (but simple) banking problem?

I am out of the country and unable to activate the "hotline",
nor can I download the ebanking software either from the website or the CD.

I simply need a point of contact at ICBC where I can sort this matter out.

I will be grateful to anyone who can help.

I tried to deposit some dough into my mainland ICBC account at HK and they told me it was impossible.

At least I could access the funds at Macao and HK though.

I used the internet banking for a while, then something weird happened with the website and I could not log in anymore.

That was about a year ago.

Using ICBC online banking without USB key limits transfer to 500rmb ... not sure what your landlord thinks about receiving rent in 500rmb slices ... USB key allows more, but does not work with Windows 7 - and nobody is able to tell when it will - neither it does on company PC, because you have to install with admin rights.

Pay gas/water/electricity bills is not possible when login in English, but only in Chinese. Setup auto-pay for these bills is not possible at all online, but only by visting a ICBC counter.

So compared to foreign standards, features of ICBC are really backward.