Posts Tagged wesabe

  • The PFM push The PFM push

    Australian banks are learning to engage with their customers through online personal financial management (PFM) tools BY ELTON CANE Mint and Wesabe in the US have been at the vanguard of mass-market online personal financial management (PFM) tools. But while the independent direct-to-consumer...

  • Connect the dots

    If banks want to paint a better picture for their customers, they must offer a different set of online transactional services to everyone else. (Subscribe)...

  • Who or what will fund the next round of PFM?

    Personal financial management provider Wesabe has stepped up its efforts to sign on more financial institutions with the launch of a website to support direct sales of its Springboard platform. Springboard offers a cloud-based services model for financial institutions that want to offer budgetin...

  • Mint.com sold to Intuit in US$170m deal. Will we ever see an equivalent launched by an Australian company?

    Personal financial management service provider Mint.com has been sold to Intuit (the owner of Quicken) in a deal worth US$170 million. Mint.com was privately owned, recently securing US$14 million in additional VC funding. Mint.com makes money by charging banks and other service providers a fee w...

  • What’s next for online banking?

    The Commonwealth Bank is preparing to launch an enhanced version of Internet banking that allows users to view their insurance, CommSec and Colonial First State products in one place.The enhanced site will also include pre-completed insurance and term deposit applications, and a secure messaging are...

  • Second coming for account aggregation?

    ANZ’s online aggregation service has attracted more than 4,000 registrations in its first two weeks, according to ANZ head of online banking Sam Plowman."Take-up of ANZ MoneyManager has been very successful,” says Plowman. “Users have shown incredible support of the 'beta' concept, sending in ...

  • Internet banking about to get leapfrogged

    I'm often asked where Internet banking is headed, given its a service that hasn't really changed much in the last ten years. There's been no reason to change given Internet banking is still more popular than Facebook, but bankers must realise there is a shift happening in the way consumers access f...

  • Communication starts with your community

    In a week where fear and irrationality were blamed for wiping billions of dollars off the value of some of our biggest financial stocks, I think local institutions have performed just as poorly on the communications front.Early last week it was already becoming clear HBOS was facing significant issu...

  • The next security target

    Most Australian banks have successfully rolled out two-factor authentication, which means the security spotlight is starting to shift to the weaker links in our online economy.Whether its retailers looking to offer financial services, or online social finance sites like Wesabe or Mint, it seems secu...

  • The death of statements?

    I’ve just finished writing a piece for Online Banking Review looking at the growth in marketing and uptake of online statements. There’s no doubt consumers are warming to the idea, but I wonder when we’ll get to the point where statements (online or otherwise) are irrelevant.Consumer focused s...

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