BNP launches full-service mobile bank
BNP Paribas is to tap rising demand for banking services by mobile phone users with the launch of a full-service dedicated mobile bank across four European countries. Hello Bank starts with zero customers but aims to have 1.4m by 2017 in Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. The bank launched on Thursday in the first two countries, with France to follow next month and Italy in October – reports the FT.
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Chase enhances Jot mobile application
Today, Ink from Chase, the business card portfolio from Chase Card Services, announced a new receipt capture capability exclusively for Jot, a free mobile application and online tool designed to meet the needs of small business owners who are often on the go.
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Nationwide Building Society hit by IT glitch
Nationwide Building Society has been hit by an IT glitch affecting online banking, mobile banking and online payments. In a statement, a Nationwide spokesperson said: "We are currently experiencing an IT issue affecting our online bank. Customers can still use ATMs to withdraw cash and check their balance and our branches are open to deal with our customers' needs."
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World Retail Banking Report 2013
Within the next six months, 10% of retail banking customers surveyed globally will likely leave their bank and an additional 41% of customers say they are unsure if they will stay or go finds the tenth annual World Retail Banking Report 2013 (WRBR 2013) released by Capgemini and Efma.
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50% of US smartphone owners use mobile banking
The use of mobile phones to access a bank account, credit card, or other financial account became more prevalent in the Unites States last year, according to the Federal Reserve Board's latest report on the use of mobile financial services.
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PKO Bank Polski launches mobile payment service
PKO Bank Polski has launched IKO, a mobile payment service that covers all payment situations. The roll-out includes all Bank’s ATMs and ultimately more than 6,5000 POS terminals of eService, the Bank`s daughter company.
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Citi launches mobile collect in Dominican Republic
Citi has announced the launch in the Dominican Republic of Citi Mobile Collect, a new provider payment solution that makes it possible for small grocery stores and other businesses to replace cash payments to their providers with mobile transactions.
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Bank of Ireland make big P2P play
Bank of Ireland has stolen a march on its local and UK counterparts by going live with a new service that lets its banking customers transfer cash in a way that is as simple as sending a text message.
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Mobile Banking trends in China
The number of mobile banking users in China reached 150 million in 2012, accounting for more than 40% of mobile banking users worldwide. Major commercial banks saw more than 100% growth in mobile banking users in 2012, and more than 300% growth in mobile banking transaction value.
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Citibank launches paperless mobile payment system
Citibank India announced a new paperless mobile payment system for its credit and debit card customers that would do away with the charge slips and be implemented for the entire global network of its US-based parent Citigroup.
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IsBank enables mobile prestaging at 5,000 ATMs
Turkey-based SoftTech has developed IsCep, a cash withdrawal service that integrates the mobile banking platform of Turkey's IsBank with the bank's ATMs. The system reduces transaction time at the ATM to just 10 seconds.
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Tablet banking taking off
You see them everywhere these days - iPads, electronic tablets, and e-readers - and now they are making headway as online banking tools.
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Sberbank buys stake in Yandex.Money
Russia's largest state-owned bank Sberbank said Wednesday it is buying 75% minus one share of Yandex.Money from Russia's most popular search engine, Yandex NV, in a deal worth $60 million. "This company is one of the biggest successes in the Russian market," German Gref, chief executive of Sberbank told reporters Wednesday. "We think this partnership will help Yandex compete with Google," he also said
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TSYS releases White Paper on Bank 2.0 and Bank 1.0
TSYS today announced the completion of a white paper titled ‘Bank 1.0 and Bank 2.0 Success Entails Learning from Each Other’s Best Practices,’ which considers the next-generation Bank 2.0 model, whilst also taking into account traditional banking, or Bank 1.0.
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Turkey’s Garanti Bank Partners with Fjord for mobile banking
Service design consultancy Fjord, today unveils its work with Turkish bank Garanti, known as a key innovator within the financial sector, to design a completely new banking service across the iPhone, iPad, and Android to help customers better manage their finances.
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Danske Bank goes live with eLeader Mobile Banking in Lithuania
In order to enable smartphone users to have access to their accounts 24 hours a day, Lithuanian branch of Danske Bank has recently deployed a mobile banking solution from eLeader, a well-established mobile finance and workforce solutions provider. The results of the collaboration are modern native applications which take advantage of the built-in features of smartphones.
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2012 Mobile Banking & Payments Study
First Annapolis Consulting announces the release of its 2012 Mobile Banking and Payments Study. The 3rd edition of the study analyzes year-over-year data, providing a linear perspective of the developments and trends occurring in mobile banking and payments. First Annapolis gathered over 90 data points across 105 financial institutions (100 in the United States, 5 in Canada) spanning key areas of interest including mobile channel presence, feature functionality, and payments and commerce development.
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Customers trust banks with m-wallets
Consumers prefer to use online and mobile payment services provided by their banks rather than those offered by third parties, according to research.
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AmEx partners with chinese mobile payments company
American Express has entered into a deal to license its Serve digital wallet platform to Chinese mobile payments company Lianlian Group, and has made an equity investment of $125 million in the Lianlian Pay venture.
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Digital banking to be the norm by 2015
Digital banking is set to overtake branch networks as the main way customers interact with their bank by 2015.This is according to a new PwC report 'The new digital tipping point', which suggests that banks are missing a vital new source of revenue growth as they have been too slow to respond to the digital innovations that have radically changed business models and redefined customer experience. This is despite strong demand for digital banking products from consumers and the fact they are willing to pay for these.
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