Mobile Banking

06 Apr 16 @ 08:48

Atom Bank, the UK’s first bank designed for digital and optimised for mobile, announces that the restriction on its regulatory authorisation has been lifted, and as of today opens its... read more

05 Apr 16 @ 10:56

Mobile banking continues to gather momentum, fuelled by rising smartphone use and the steadily improving supply of mobile-optimized banking worldwide. In a new piece of research by Forrester, they surveyed... read more

31 Mar 16 @ 11:30

Five of Switzerland’s biggest banks are reported to be discussing with top retailers a joint mobile payments platform for the country, the partners said on Wednesday. The talks with financial... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 11:55

Splitting a bill with friends at a restaurant, paying back half of a household bill to your partner, urgently sending money to your child studying in another European country…These are... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:15

Banks are starting to experiment with a new way of reducing credit-card fraud: tracking their customers’ mobile phones. The principle is straightforward enough. People are wedded to their phones, so if... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:05

NFC mobile payments continue to grab headlines, but to really drive uptake and ensure full market coverage, combining contactless cards with next-gen mobile banking apps is surely the right way... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 09:17

Two of the US’s biggest banks, US Bank and Bank of America are to offer real-time, mobile P2P money transfers to consumer mobile phones over the clearXchange network. ClearXchange, operated by... read more

03 Mar 16 @ 15:44

Challenger bank Mondo raised £1m in a record-breaking one minute and 36 seconds on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Mondo was forced to suspend its initial launch date for the crowdfunding rise... read more

02 Mar 16 @ 15:15

Payments Cards and Mobile interviewed Ajay Bhalla of MasterCard to understand what is hot in the world of biometric payments including selfie pay and securing the further digitisation of payments.

29 Feb 16 @ 12:02

The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the... read more

24 Feb 16 @ 17:25

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions has processed over $1 Trillion mobile banking transaction globally, in client transaction value, on CitiDirect BE Mobile and CitiDirect BE Tablet since 2011. “The scalability of CitiDirect... read more

19 Feb 16 @ 09:54

Peru has launched a domestic mobile money network, with the aim of drawing five million of the country’s unbanked into the formal banking system. Dubbed ‘BIM’, the low-tech mobile money programme... read more