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Mobile Banking

Greening Your Financial Life: Tips from Ally Bank

Diane Morais | Posted 04.22.2013 | Green
Diane Morais

Just as driving a hybrid vehicle means less time spent filling up and using less water means shorter showers, greening your finances doesn't just help save the environment -- it saves you time.

Banking on Easy, Fee-Free Spring Travel?

Diane Morais | Posted 03.26.2013 | Travel
Diane Morais

People across the country are finalizing their plans and wallets for spring break. As many Americans hit the road for vacations and family trips in the coming weeks, ensuring easy access to cash will be an important part of their vacation planning.

Million Dollar Hunger Reality Show: The Hult Prize

Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.07.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Littman

Welcome to the brutal world of business plan competitions. It's not about co-eds hoping to win the affections of the Bachelor. It's about late nights sketching out business models on sandwich wrappers, pizza boxes, newspapers and white boards.

Prepaid Is the New Checking (With Help From Your Cellphone)

Patrice Peyret | Posted 04.06.2013 | Business
Patrice Peyret

After years of being two separate product lines, prepaid card accounts and checking accounts are merging into a single new offering.

Four Innovative Ways Mobile Phones Are Saving the Lives of the Urban Poor: Examples from Nairobi, Mumbai, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro

Josephine d'Allant | Posted 03.20.2013 | Impact
Josephine d'Allant

In the developing world, mobile phones are both ubiquitous and relatively affordable. They're also being put to work in more innovative ways that magnify their impact on the lives of the urban poor.

Mobile Tech and Personal Finance: The Perfect Storm to Change the Financial Behaviors of the Populations That Need It Most

Timothy Flacke | Posted 02.09.2013 | Impact
Timothy Flacke

Too many working Americans lack access to mainstream financial products and have low levels of financial capability.

Is It Time to Use a Mobile Wallet?

Patrice Peyret | Posted 12.24.2012 | Technology
Patrice Peyret

You may have seen it. You're standing in line at McDonald's, Starbucks, Home Depot or a local store, and the person in front of you waives her phone at checkout then walks out with her stuff. No cash, no card, just a waving phone.

Catherine New

Cyber Attacks On Banks Are Price Of Banking In Digital Era

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 10.04.2012 | Home

Many were inconvenienced, but few customers, if any, reported serious financial harm after last week's cyber attacks that hit at least six major banks...

Mobile Banking On The Rise

Cleveland.com | Teresa Dixon Murray | Posted 10.20.2012 | Home

One in five people who have a cell phone have used it recently to do their banking. By next year, nearly half of cell phone owners are expected to ...

Catherine New

How To Get Free Gas This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 08.14.2012 | Home

Next to offering an open bar night, free gas may be the next best way to soften up potential new customers. That is the strategy community banks and c...

Your iPhone Is Now A Bank of America Branch... Sort Of

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 08.09.2012 | Home

It may be harder to get cash from Bank of America as its ATM network shrinks, but starting this week it'll be easier for customers to give the bank th...

Digital Money, Mobile Wallets and Latin America

Anabel Perez | Posted 10.01.2012 | World
Anabel Perez

Whether promoting digital money, mobile payments, mobile banking, prepaid or a mobile wallet, one thing is certain: the lack of consistency in terminology and the vagueness typical of early product releases has made the task of distinguishing all the more difficult with each new announcement.

4 Ways Smartphones Will Replace Brick-and-Mortar Banks

Bethy Hardeman | Posted 09.17.2012 | Home
Bethy Hardeman

New technology, along with America's growing acceptance of the digital wallet, means it won't be long before most of us are reaching for our cell phones to pay the cashier.

Would You Stash Your Cash In An Apple iBank?

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.21.2012 | Home

Personal banking with Apple? It could happen. With the growing trend toward mobile banking, Apple is already serving as a digital "bank branch" fo...

Emily Cohn

Check Your Statement: Citibank Users Found iPad App Payments Made Twice

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Cohn | Posted 02.10.2012 | Business

Customers who use Citibank's iPad bill-paying app might want to pay closer attention to their bank statements: A technological glitch recently caused ...

Who Needs a Bank Branch When You've Got a Mobile Phone?

Brett King | Posted 04.03.2012 | Technology
Brett King

In its purest form, this will be simply a challenge to the branch-led distribution model. How so? Ultimately, with mobile banking and payments, the branch and resultant paperwork processes becomes a convenience "penalty" for transactional and basic onboarding.

Bank Outlook 2012: Six Trends to Watch

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.20.2012 | Business
Richard Barrington

Will customers be treated to higher deposit or higher fees? Or will a wild card such as technology dominate banking news in 2012?

Catherine New

Banks At A Tipping Point, Heading For Decline

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.16.2011 | Business

Wall Street has lost its luster. Financial services -- the white-collar industry that has grown to more than 8 percent of the economy -- is at a tippi...

New Way To Rebel Against Big Banks

Posted 12.28.2011 | Technology

By Mitch Lipka (Reuters) - If you are looking for a way to rebel against big banks, you could just sit on your couch and scan a few checks. How ...

A Technology Pioneer's Top 10 of Davos

Carol Realini | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Carol Realini

I thought I would create my own list of "bests" for Davos. Not to contradict the top 25 award, but to see Davos through a different lens. So here is one Technology Pioneer's Top 10.

Davos Hot Topic -- Inclusive Growth Through Mobile Banking

Carol Realini | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Carol Realini

Today, there are more five billion mobile phones in the world, but only 1.6 billion bank accounts. This creates an unprecedented opportunity to use mobile access to bridge this gap.

Cell Phones Used For Mobile Banking In Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

The one year anniversary of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake has come and gone. While the efficiency of Haiti's relief and rebuilding efforts ...

Tapping Consumer Minitrends: Predictions for 2011

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Marian Salzman

A trend's growth factor depends, like all things do, on timing: Is the right technology in place in the right hands for a tech trend to take off? Or, if it's a new product or service, has it hit the price-point sweet spot in such a way as to get a handle with the right number of the right people?

Is Financial Inclusion Imminent in India?

Bhagwan Chowdhry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Bhagwan Chowdhry

70% of India's population is excluded from formal financial services that most people reading this blog take for granted. If financial services are to become a reality, they have to be delivered non-traditionally.

Why Does My Internet Bank Suck?

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Brett King

Is it just me or have you noticed that the pages behind the login for your bank haven't changed much in the last five or six years?