Mobile Banking

MasterCard has added more than 30 companies to its mobile partner program.

Pricey, highly considered purchases such as home appliances represent some of the least-penetrated online sales categories, but that’s poised to change in the future, according to a new report from …

AT&T and Firethorn Holdings have announced the availability of their mobile banking application for the iPhone.

The credit card underdog is taking on rival Visa with smart technology, memorable marketing, and global ambition. But what happens when consumers put their cards away?

Now that the big banking behemoths have been humbled by breathtaking credit losses, plain-vanilla banking is back in fashion.

More than 100 million users worldwide will use their mobile phone to make international money transfers by 2013, according to a new analysis by Juniper Research.Cross-border mobile money transfers is …

One in four bank customers would consider switching to a rival if they offered mobile banking services, a survey claims.

A new forecast of the near-field communications market predicts 700 million mobile subscribers worldwide will have phones with NFC contactless technology by 2013.The report, from Juniper Research, said there is …

Dave McLeod listens to the concerns of BankPlus’ employees and customers, and finds a cure for whatever ails them.

The mobile payments market is expected to grow to more than $600 billion worldwide by 2013, according to predictions from Juniper Research’s Mobile Payments Study.The market includes purchases made via …

Carriers and financial institutions keep announcing mobile-banking and payment services, but so far, U.S. adoption is being dwarfed by that of developing nations, where it’s more useful.

Visa Inc. outlined a series of initiatives with three big-name partners in an effort to make mobile payment services “broadly available” to U.S. consumers by year’s end.Visa next month will …

Service provider revenues from mobile money transfer services could exceed $5 billion worldwide by 2013, according to a new study from Juniper Research. The firm predicts the market will begin …

No Matter Where You Roam, New Mobile Services Make It Possible to Keep. . ..

SAN FRANCISCO — There is no shortage of challenges in getting m-commerce off the ground in the United States. But maybe the most important factor is time.That was the takeaway …

Consumer interest in mobile banking and payments services offered by their financial institution has increased significantly in the past two years, according to new findings from a consumer research study …

Carriers are beginning to use carrot-and-stick strategies to bring their third-party content partners to heel. And both the carrot and the stick are made of cash.Sprint Nextel Corp. earlier this …

The financial functionality of mobile phones is poised to explode.

Bankers report adoption exceeds industry expectations, but not everyone is convinced.

Australia’s ‘Big Four’ are revitalising their core banking systems to enable real-time transactions for increasingly online and mobile customers, experts claim.

Today Visa and eight financial institution partners announced a new pilot program whereby Visa cardholders can receive SMS alerts directly on their phones whenever there is activity on their account.

Hurdles remain for wider use of mobile banking. Mobile carriers must have broad enough coverage to connect urban and rural users, as many remittances come from urban migrants sending money …

Google Inc.’s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition – well, what passes for competition – continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based …