BAI RD: Mobile banking adoption still has a long way to go, according to B of A

November 8, 2009

Digital Transactions reports that Bank of America is still working to convince its customers that its mobile banking options are valuable and secure.   The…

German company releases cell-phone sticker for contactless MasterCard PayPass payments

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

November 8, 2009

Munich, Germany-based Giesecke & Devrient is providing a new form factor for debit cards in Europe.   According to a news release from Giesecke &…

BAI RD: Allpoint offers ATM locator service for BlackBerry devices

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

November 8, 2009

Allpoint Network, a subsidiary of Cardtronics Inc. and the first surcharge-free ATM network in the United States to offer iPhone and Android applications for…

BAI RD: S1, PayPal announce mobile personal payments service

November 5, 2009

At this week's BAI conference, S1 announced an agreement with PayPal to launch a mobile personal payments service, allowing users to transfer funds to PayPal…

Contactless payments provider INSIDE partners with TWINLINX for mobile payments rollouts

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

November 4, 2009

France-based INSIDE Contactless, a provider of advanced, open-standard contactless and near field communication chip technologies, and TWINLINX, a market…

Mobile tech steals show at BAI RD in Boston

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

PayPal, FIS, Bling Nation and others have placed mobile banking and payments at the top of their priority lists, and they all are coming out with innovative…

BAI RD: ClairMail introduces mobile banking adoption services program

November 2, 2009

California-based ClairMail Inc., a provider of mobile banking and payments solutions, today debuted an end-to-end mobile banking adoption services offering…

BAI RD: Fiserv provides mobile banking offer to The Family Credit Union

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

November 2, 2009

Brookfield, Wis.-based Fiserv Inc. announced during BAI's Retail Delivery Conference & Expo in Boston that The Family Credit Union ($89.9 million in…

BAI RD: Park State Bank & Trust launches Bling Nation's mobile payments network

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

November 2, 2009

Bling Nation, a mobile payments network, announced during the opening day of BAI's Retail Delivery Conference and Expo that Woodland Park, Colo.-based Park…

Colo. bank implements Bling Nation mobile technology, sees record adoption

October 27, 2009

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bling Nation has announced that The State Bank, based in La Junta, Colo., has deployed Redi Pay Bling, Bling Nation's bank-branded…

More U.S. banks move to mobile-phone, iPhone deposits

October 25, 2009

Mobile banking applications are becoming more popular, and iPhone's remote depositing application is quickly topping the mobile-banking list. The Sacramento…

New research shows more opportunities for mobile banking, decline in same-day payments

October 21, 2009

Digital Transactions reports that two recent research projects reveal new opportunities in mobile banking and same-day bill payments for financial…

Research: Mobile money transfer will grow but will face regulatory challenges

October 20, 2009

New data from Juniper Research says more than 500 million consumers globally will use mobile money-transfer services by 2014.

Diebold's Swidarski to deliver keynote at ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

October 15, 2009

Diebold Inc.'s chief executive has been slated to give a keynote address at next week's ATM, Debit & Prepaid Forum in Las Vegas.   Tom Swidarski is…

N.Y. credit union partners with mFoundry to offer mobile banking

October 14, 2009

Westbury, N.Y.-based Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union (NEFCU) announced today a partnership with mFoundry to offer its more than 130,000 members a…

Fiserv's push e-bill, mobile alerts added to Biller Direct for multichannel bill presentment

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

October 12, 2009

Brookfield, Wis.-based Fiserv Inc. has enhanced its Biller Direct HV solution for integrated electronic billing and payments with new delivery and alerting…

The mobile connection: FIs can use the ATM to bring consumers into mobile banking

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

NCR's Barbara Cure says ATMs offer a great way to collect more information about consumers, and should be used as a means to enhance mobile banking offers.

Firethorn offers downloadable mobile-banking app for banks, users

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

October 11, 2009

San Diego-based Firethorn Holdings LLC, a Qualcomm company, has announced a deal with MetroPCS Communications Inc. that allows MetroPCS to offer Firethorn's…

Mobile banking pushes FIs to look beyond simple transactions, enhance user experience

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Commentary: Diebold Inc.'s Bob Usner says the mobile channel will be the catalyst for strengthening consumer relationships with banks and credit unions.

Mobile money expected to revolutionize banking in developing world

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

September 27, 2009

The Economist reports that mobile phones have quickly become tools of economic empowerment for the world's poorest nations, overcoming infrastructural…