Posts Tagged mobile banking
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Kicking the branch habit
OPINION In a world where the bank is no longer a place you go, and banking has become something you just do ('Banking's new normal), the role of branches is back in the spotlight. The prospect of closing branches — always a sensitive political issue— has returned, following the release of ...
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The smartphone call
Having a mobile app on your website is not the same as having a mobile strategy. So why should you tap into the smartphone phenomenon? BY SIMON VAN WYK You may have seen that Google/IPSOS recently published some interesting research findings on smartphone usage around the globe. While Austra...
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PayPal trumps banks on mobile micropayments
OPINION Watching the bevy of announcements coming out of PayPal’s X Innovate conference this week, you could be forgiven for thinking banks have entirely missed the mobile payments boat. Online media giants including Facebook and FT.com have jumped on board PayPal’s new digital goods payme...
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Know your customer well
Wells Fargo has 17.2 million active online customers that it knows intimately, which is the secret to its astounding online success BY CHARIS PALMER US banking giant Wells Fargo is celebrating 15 years of providing online banking to its customers. Today, the bank serves 17.2 million active on...
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Banks trial online banking apps on Telstra’s T-Hub
Three of Australia's four major banks are preparing to offer online banking tailored to Telstra's T-Hub device, testing their existing mobile applications for the T-Hub's seven inch screen. The T-Hub is a wireless touch-screen device, linked to a Telstra fixed line and BigPond broadband servic...
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Pocket rocket
Apple's new iPad is likely to help mobile users consume content like never before, as it offers the power of a PC in a more portable size BY CHARIS PALMER The introduction of the iPad by Apple is likely to drive greater uptake of both online and mobile banking, say technology watchers. T...
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Thou shalt bank on an iPad
It’s been labeled “the biggest advance in bathroom reading technology in human history”, but jokes aside, has Apple just unveiled a device that will boost mobile banking? Or has Steve Jobs simply added to the growing number of screens we can stare at our bank balance from? The iPad, which l...
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Count me in
Banks have jumped to offer mobile services, without strategically considering why. So why the "me too" attitude? BY SAM SKONTOS Today, almost all retail banks in Australia offer some form of mobile banking, but do people actually use it? While in theory I could utilise the "lost time" on the t...
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Mobank co-founder Steve Townend speaks with Banking Review Media
Mobile banking start-up Mobank launched last month with a mobile payments offering pitched squarely and Generation Y.In this 20 minute interview I chat to co-founder Steve Townend about how Mobank evolved, the learnings the founders have applied from Egg and First Direct, and how Mobank plans to mak...
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What’s going on with mobile banking?
Mobile phone penetration in Australia has been stable for the past two years, with 92 per cent of the population owning a mobile phone according to research from Nielsen Media Group.As would be expected 94 per cent of Australians under 40 have a mobile phone. Those under 40 have the highest levels o...
