It's a Norwegian review, and that's one of the countries where all bank transactions are changing to a system where the authentication is done by a central authority. That authority happens to use a java applet for authentication. In other words, while there still may be a bank or two there that doesn't use this java applet authentication, it won't last: Every bank will, in time.

A java dependency is pretty annoying, and for people with some insight it's clear that there are better ways, but from their point of view there isn't: They believe they need a piece of software to do this, and when they go down that route it's at least much better to use a java applet instead of some Windows-only bank-provided, closed application (as some banks used in the past, or still use).