International Science and Technology Journal

This study aimed to measure the role of information technology and its applications in enhancing the competitive advantage of the Libyan public banking institutions, a descriptive analytical study in which the researcher used the secondary sources of books, references and scientific theses related to the subject of the study. Independent and follow-up study. The study focused on the Libyan public banks, which are 5 banks. The directors of the banks, their assistants, the directors of the department and the heads of the departments were selected as the sample of the study as the most comprehensible category of the study. 70 questionnaires were distributed and 56 questionnaires were valid. A number of recommendations, most importantly that most of the study vocabulary trends were positive on the role played by information technology and its applications in enhancing the competitive advantage of the banking institutions under study, namely, plastic cards, electronics, ATM, fast transfers, and The researcher recommended the need to work on the development of banking institutions by integrating this technology to develop them and achieve better services than it is now for the customer who suffers from the decline of these services. مقدمة :