Content tagged with Channels posted in May 2010
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Could Mobile Banking End Poverty in Africa?
An article posted yesterday on Voice of America's website suggests that a new mobile banking service in Kenya could eradicate poverty in the country.
Chase Rolls Out Instant Action Text Alerts
Chase rolled out new mobile banking features leveraging SMS technology to alert customers about low account balances and transfer emergency funds from qualifying accounts.
Banks and Social Media Sites Don't Necessarily Mix
Forrester has come out with research showing that consumers don't want to access their bank accounts through social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace. A survey of 5,000 U.S. adults - conducted online, so these are web-savvy folks - found that a daunting 71% have little or no interest in accessing their bank accounts through Facebook-style social media sites. They say they're worried about hackers (60%) and privacy (59%), they like to keep their social and financial lives separate (56%), t
Sun National First NJ-Based Bank to Offer Mobile Banking
Multi-mode Sun on Hand lets customers bank from any mobile device.
Online Banking, Payments Outpace Growth of Internet
Online banking and mobile payments are growing at a faster pace than the Internet, according to Fiserv's 2010 Consumer Billing and Payment Trends Survey.
FaceTime Offers Security, Compliance, Archival for Social Media
New archiving feature intended to meet FINRA requirements and legal e-discovery needs.
Despite Homeowner Dropouts, HAMP Drives Banks to Upgrade Mortgage Systems
The government today released its monthly report on the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) for struggling mortgage borrowers; the report showed that about 1.2 million trial modifications have been started under the plan and about 281,000 homeowners have been dropped from the program as of the end of April. A total of 295,348 home owners have received permanent loan modifications since the program began. The Obama Administration touts these numbers as evidence of success; the media today
iPhone Making Inroads in Banks
Reuters reports today that Standard Chartered Bank is allowing employees to swap their BlackBerries for iPhones, with the bank's full support. This is one of the few large banks we know of to adopt an enterprise version of the iPhone internally, but this may open the door to other, similar announcements.
This ATM is Good as Gold
When you hear analysts and advertisers talk about our future in a cashless society, Gold To Go is probably not what they have in mind.
Bank of the West Offers Mobile Payments Through Bling Nation
Bank of the West ($63.6 billion in assets) will offer mobile payments to its more than 330 client banks through a referral agreement with Bling Nation.
Citi, USAA Execs Share Social Media Best Practices
For many banks, social media - sites such as Twitter, Facebook and FourSquare where users freely share information with each other - is scary, unchartered territory. These banks might have a marketing page up but little else. A few brave pioneers, including Jaime Punishill, senior vice president of digital channel strategy and social media at Citi; Rhonda Crawford, vice president of digital media and innovation at
Chase First to Release iPad App
Chase released an iPad app May 5, becoming the first U.S. bank to get a native mobile banking application on Apple's new tablet computer.
Banking's Future in the "Digital Marketplace"
A headline like this one usually gets bank and credit union executives to spend a moment contemplating the topic; in this case, the "Digital marketplace?". Questions pop up -- like, what is the "digital marketplace?"
Customers Want Multichannel Fraud Alerts
The Internet, smart phones and other connected devices have changed the way we communicate. Rather than wait to check for information, various devices and services bring it to us, creating a sense of receiving updates in real-time. It's just a matter of sending information to the right place.
Mint.com Rolls Out App for Android Users
Offering lets consumers track spending, view account balances over Android mobile phones.
Wells Fargo Expands Popular Small Biz Mobile Banking Program
With continued growth in consumer adoption of mobile banking, some banks are extending their existing consumer mobile offerings to small business clients, while others in the industry see an opportunity to create and monetize new, more sophisticated tools for business customers on the go.
Mobile Phone Shipments Grew 22% or 50% in Q1, Depending on Whom You Ask
One more reason for banks to ramp up their mobile banking and payments offerings (as if you needed one): according to IDC, mobile phone shipments increased by nearly 22% in the first quarter of 2010. (However, for some reason IDC did not include Apple/AT&T in its assessment.) Strategy Analytics, which includes Apple's iPhone in its countings of smartphone shipments, said on Friday th
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