There is little doubt that Google Wallet adoption will spike following Google’s unveiling last week of the new Gmail payments function, which relies on Wallet. Despite this, a little-known (we might say mysterious) wallet seems to be enjoying far greater interest and appeal among Android users. If you haven’t heard of Droid Wallet, you are...
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BNP Paribas, the French bank which generated $12.9 billion of revenue last quarter, has launched the first “standalone, digital mobile bank” in Europe — and has done so with a rousing symphony. According to Finextra, a Hello Bank! account can be opened in just four steps from an Android or Apple smartphone, tablet and over...
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American Express updated the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad apps last Friday. The updated apps surface more account information and gather offers, rewards, and member benefits in one place. The iPhone app is now on version 4.0.0. and the iPad version is 4.0. The Android app is on version 3.0 and was last updated...
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Last October, Credit Agricole Group, the mega (but troubled) French bank, became what is thought to be the first traditional bank to release a public read/write API. So what has happened since the launch of the Credit Agricole Store? Did the bank lose customers? Did the API lessen the stickiness of its 33.5 million...
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It’s a snap to program an NFC (near field communication) tag. Now, what to do with it?
Bank Innovation tracks new financial apps for the iPhone and Android and when we find one that’s worth taking a closer look at, we write about it here. Today we’re looking at PrepaidCardConnect, a new app from the Florida-based prepaid card provider FSV Payment Systems. The app is just over a year old, premiering...
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iPhones, Androids and other smartphones are much more than just a way to call our friends and family and store their phone numbers. Today’s smartphones have become our most personal computer and contain much more than pictures and contacts. They now allow us to access financial data, bank accounts, and medical information from anywhere...
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Simple, which announced plans to offer Photo Check Deposit (also known as remote deposit capture or RDC) a few weeks back, made it official this week: the feature is live and ready to go. RDC is one of mobile banking’s must-haves these days. Just look at customer comments of banks (and bank replacements like...
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In its Q3 2012 earnings report, Bank of America revealed that it had reached 11.1 million mobile users, a gain of 8% over the second quarter of this year and 30% over this period last year. Bank of America offers a suite of full-featured mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows phones. It...
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