1) "Online banking (or Internet banking) allows customers to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by their retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society." "Features Online banking solutions have many features and capabilities in common, but traditionally also have some that are application specific. The common features fall broadly into several categories # Transactional (e.g., performing a financial transaction such as an account to account transfer, paying a bill, wire transfer... and applications... apply for a loan, new account, etc.) - Electronic bill presentment and payment - EBPP - Funds transfer between a customer's own checking and savings accounts, or to another customer's account - Investment purchase or sale - Loan applications and transactions, such as repayments # Non-transactional (e.g., online statements, check links, cobrowsing, chat) - Bank statements # Financial Institution Administration - features allowing the financial institution to manage the online experience of their end users # ASP/Hosting Administration - features allowing the hosting company to administer the solution across financial institutions Features commonly unique to business banking include - Support of multiple users having varying levels of authority - Transaction approval process - Wire transfer Features commonly unique to Internet banking include - Personal financial management support, such as importing data into personal accounting software. Some online banking platforms support account aggregation to allow the customers to monitor all of their accounts in one place whether they are with their main bank or with other institutions..." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking 2) "A direct bank is a bank without any branch network. It offers its financial services by: - Telephone banking - Online banking - Automated teller machines (often through interbank network alliances) - Mail banking - Mobile banking By eliminating the costs associated with bank branches, direct banks may offer higher interest rates and lower service charges on their products than their traditional competitors." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_bank

Internet bank is a bank doing business on the internet. Internet banking is a customer doing banking business using an internet bank.