Honor Roll: This Week's Top Bank Blogs (Sept. 6-12)

Our favorite banking technology-related blog posts from around the Web (September 6-12, 2009):Australian Banks Begin to Embrace Twitter

OK, so technically, this is from last week, but since this is BS&T's first ever weekly blog round-up, I figure everyone might as well get used to me arbitrarily bending the rules. In this post, The Better Banking Blog's Charis Palmer discusses Aussie banks' using Twitter and even provides links to where you can follow the tweets of banks as well as individuals in the banking industry). ---

China banks invest in insurance companies

"Allowing banks to invest in insurance companies and insurance companies to invest in banks will form new financial groups and consolidate the China insurance market," writes Celent's Wenli Yuan in her post that looks at several specific instances where Chinese regulators have recently approved banks to invest in insurance companies. ---

iPhones Revolutionizing Mobile Banking

"iPhone users are one-and-a-half times as likely to be using their mobile device to be logging into bank accounts. Just wait till all those downloadable apps integrate with the inner workings of people's bank accounts...we've only begun to see how always-on, real-time finance will affect everyday human behavior via the small screen," writes James Van Dyke on Javelin's blog.