Financial Education > Initiatives > Everything you need to know about online banking

As part of its Financial Education Project, the Portuguese Banking Association promotes a digital literacy programme under the theme “Everything you need to know about online banking”, targeting elderly people not yet familiar with the use of online banking.

The purpose of the programme is to transmit to the audience a set of basic notions that will allow them to perform some of the essential day-to-day banking operations, through online channels, such as making transfers, payments or learning how to consult their bank account. The information sessions will also address the online security theme as well as the behaviours banking customers should adopt to protect themselves from possible fraud attempts.

The programme will consist of 12 monthly information sessions (see programme), promoted by representatives of the APB member banks and will initially take place online.

With this initiative, the APB and its member banks aim to promote a set of basic digital skills from the user's point of view, foster capacity building in the use of digital channels among the target population, raise awareness to the importance of adopting better informed and safer financial behaviours and contribute to increasing the levels of digital and financial literacy in Portugal.

The APB is coordinating the promotion of this initiative directly with the Parish Councils and Senior Universities, at national level, and also with the network of Municipal Libraries of Lisbon.

All the entities or interested participants must register in advance here or send an email to educacaofinanceira@apb.pt.

Please find below the topics already covered in the last information sessions:

Session 1 - "How to access my online bank?"

Session 2 - "What operations can I do in my online bank?"

Session 3 - "How to consult my online banking account?"

Session 4 - "How to do an online banking transfer?"

Session 5 - "How to do payments and charges in my online banking?"

Session 6 - "How to do online payments with my banking card?"

Session 7 - "How to use MB Way?"

Session 7 - "How to use MB Net?"

Session 9 - " How to do online savings?"

Session 9 - "How to apply for a loan online?"