Abstract: An automated electronic banking system for initiating and automatically processing monetary transactions, includes initiating means for maintaining a transaction record and permitting a remotely located customer of a bank to selectively initiate a monetary transaction request for automated processing, a bank host server adapted for automatically receiving and processing the monetary transaction request, a computer network in data communication between the bank host server means and the initiating means, for transmitting the payment transaction request from the customer's initiating means to the to bank host server, and interface means located between the initiating means and the computer network for automatically interfacing the initiating means to the bank host server, and for converting the monetary transaction request into a readable form compatible with the bank host server, wherein the customer's initiating means periodically receives in response from the bank host server confirmation data for permitting