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Showing posts with label Sybase 365. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Mobile Banking Vendor Updates

Sybase 365 and Dutch Bangla-Bank recognised for “Best Mobile Banking Initiative” at Asian Banker Technology Awards
"Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., an SAP company and the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced that together with the Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), both companies were presented the “Best Mobile Banking Initiative Award” at The Asian Banker Technology Implementation Awards 2012."

KeyBank Launches New Mobile Banking Solution with mFoundry
"mFoundry, North America's largest mobile banking and payments provider, today announced KeyBank launched mFoundry's mobile banking technology, mBanking, to expand the bank's mobile banking offering. mFoundry's mobile banking solution is now used by nearly 10 million consumers across more than 675 financial institutions nationwide, including one-third of the top 50 banks in the United States. KeyBank is the latest financial institution to select mFoundry's mBanking solution to support its mobile banking requirements."

Ensenta and MShift Extend the Reach of Mobile Banking with Mobile Deposit
"Ensenta, the leader in self-service remote deposit capture and risk management, and MShift, the leading provider of mobile banking solutions for financial institutions, are seeing a strong uptake of MShift Mobile Banking Apps with their combined end-to-end Mobile Check Deposit service. Among the first financial institutions to go live with the Mobile Deposit service integrated into their MShift Mobile Banking Apps are EECU, State Department Federal Credit Union, Air Force Federal Credit Union, Unity One Credit Union and Nutmeg State Federal Credit Union."

Mobilearth Announces Mobile Banking Training App
"As Mobile Banking continues to gain traction at a staggering rate, we see an increasing need for additional tools that customers can use to access their information. Although Mobile Banking comes with a huge benefit in terms of convenience for members, there is a serious need for training resources to teach customers how to use Mobile Banking to the fullest extent."

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Mobile Banking Updates - Apr 5

Mobile Expert Video Series: The Sybase 365 Team
"I have said it before, and I will say it again, I believe the Sybase 365 platform is one of Sybase's most interesting mobile platforms and one of their best kept secrets. It is huge in m-Commerce and in mobile banking. It is also widely used around the world for mobile commerce. In this interview, I talk about Sybase 365 with Sybase's Allen Lau and Gabe Thendean."

Banking via mobile phone to become the norm
"Talking and tweeting might be OK for mobile phones, but banking is another thing altogether.

At least that’s the verdict of a global survey which found Australians are surprisingly reluctant to embrace mobile banking. A little more than one in three Australians have banked via mobile phone over the past six months, well below the global average, according to the KPMG poll."

Bank of America boosts mobile strategy for investors with Android app, new functionality
"Bank of America is introducing a number of new mobile capabilities to meet the investment needs of Merrill Edge customers.

With the financial institution’s research showing that Merrill Edge customers are avid users of mobile banking, it has added an Android mobile application to a lineup that already includes offerings for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry. Additionally, Merrill Edge iPhone app users will now be able to deposit checks remotely using their mobile devices while iPad app users will be able to pay bills."

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Mobile Banking Updates - Feb 15


Banks Seek Sticky Relationships from Mobile Apps
"Mobile banking continues to dominate banks' application development initiatives, as it has for the past several years, a recently released American Banker survey shows.

The survey of the American Banker Executive Forum found that 42% of banks currently offer mobile banking or mobile payments. And among those that don't, 40% have firm plans to offer them within the next 12 months."

Mobile Banking App Usage Increases Dramatically in 2011
"In Q2 2011, 16 percent of the total U.S. mobile audience age 13+ reported using their mobile devices for accessing financial information or carrying out a financial transaction. While browser usage continues to be the dominant channel for banking services on a mobile device, app usage has seen a dramatic increase in the previous year – largely due to the popularity of smartphones and investment of financial institutions into their mobile channels. By Q2 2011, banking app usage had risen 74 percent from nearly a year go, followed by app usage among credit card users (up 58 percent)."

The Rise of Mobile Banking: Will Cash Become Obsolete?
"If you like carrying cash and sorting through a wad of bills to find the correct change, you're not only a merchant's nightmare, but you could soon be the one being asked to wait while a clerk runs off to make change.
And it's not just cash that's coming under fire, credit and debit cards are too. Industry research shows that the average "plastic" transaction takes close to one minute to process, whereas through mobile payments, you can pay and be on your way in less than 12 seconds."

Trends in mobile banking today
"Today's consumers are Internet-savvy and want the convenience of checking their bank balances on the fly and performing transactions as quickly and effectively as possible. In response to the ever-increasing demand for portability and convenience, many financial institutions have been ramping up their mobile banking efforts and coming up with ways to please today's consumers. Here are some mobile banking trends you can expect."

Oracle Introduces Oracle FLEXCUBE Multi-Channel Solution on Direct and Mobile Channels for the Financial Services Industry
"To help financial services organizations deliver more personalized services and offerings via direct and mobile channels, Oracle Financial Services today introduced Oracle FLEXCUBE solutions for multi-channel banking.

Oracle FLEXCUBE Multi-Channel Solution, with new versions of Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking and Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking, enables banks to offer complete portfolio view-based products and services on multiple direct channels, including mobile devices. Banks can introduce highly personalized offerings while reducing customer acquisition costs by offering a comprehensive range of products through a one-stop portal."

mCommerce Services
"The mCommerce suite includes the mobile solutions—mBanking, mPayments and mRemittance. Based on the Sybase Mobiliser Platform, Sybase mCommerce 365 includes a number of value added services including our advanced Marketing module.

This highly adaptable mobile commerce solution enables the mobile economy by allowing anyone with a mobile phone to pay, buy, bank and remit money. With the mCommerce product suite, you can introduce a standard, convenient communication and transaction channel that supports anywhere, anytime mobile commerce services."

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

International Mobile Banking Updates - Jul 5

Mobile banking: Take the security call
"More banks now look to offer mobile banking services. But while welcoming the convenience, security experts say safety guidelines need to be followed for the services to gain ground.

According to Gary Singh, General Manager, Nokia Mobile Payment Services, mobiles are safer than using an ATM card with a PIN. 'You need a password for the application and a separate PIN for the transaction. We also check the phone number and the IMEI code, so you have four levels of security.'”

BNZ sees fast return on mobile banking investment
"Launched via BNZ Twitter, the dual release quickly raced to the number one spot for financial apps in Apple's iTunes store.

BNZ says the uptake is gratifying, coming after the bank invested strategically in the assembly of a mobile banking software team at its head office in Wellington. The team are supported by various disciplines from across the bank and have developed the BNZ mobile banking solution from the ground up."

St George banks on mobile apps
"Monthly smartphone transaction volumes are already equivalent to those at 85 physical branches, double the figure from eight months ago.

In time, St George wants its mobile banking apps to act as a customer acquisition platform so people can apply for credit cards, personal loans and other products on their mobile devices.

The bank has 1.3 million logins and attracts about 500,000 financial transactions each month on its mobile apps, which recently underwent a revamp for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry devices."

Dutch-Bangla Bank selects Sybase 365 for m-banking In Bangladesh
"'Sybase 365's platform allows us to deliver the best possible mobile banking services to our customers,' said Abul Kashem Md. Shirin, Deputy Managing Director, DBBL. 'Bank-led mobile banking is the standard worldwide and we hope that efforts to pioneer mBanking will propel other banks to adopt similar services and accelerate the process of financial inclusion in other developing markets.'"

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mobile Banking Updates - Apr 27

Smartphones to drive European m-banking take-up - Forrester
"The survey of 14000 people in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK shows that mobile banking is still relatively little-used, with application-based systems particularly unpopular.

Just one per cent of European Net users with a mobile phone use banking applications, although this is partly because so few financial institutions offer customers the option. Mobile Internet systems are slightly more popular, with four per cent visiting bank Web sites through handsets. However, SMS-based systems continue to dominate, with 10% of European online mobile phone users signing up for one-way text message alerts from their banks."

Brett King: Banks are Losing the Customer and Innovation Battle
"For mobile internet banking, it is far worse. The iPhone has dominated global smart-phone sales over the last 3 years. In 2009, iPhone made up 72% of smart-phone sales in Japan, but less than 1% of banks in the U.S. have an iPhone app - best case of the largest banks, the percentages is closer to 10%. The excuse for this lag in innovation is undoubtedly that 2009 was a tough year to invest in technology. The problem is that banks should have already committed to this in 2007, when the iPhone was released, not be thinking about potentially launching in 2010/2011, five years after the customer has already adopted the technology. Given the expectations are for close to a billion mobile banking users by 2015, there are just no excuses for such a lag."

Analyst Labels M-Commerce Renaissance a Priority
"Banks making a concerted push to promote contactless payment technology are focusing on the wrong target and should switch their short-term focus to mobile commerce.

That's the main conclusion of a new report by independent technology analyst Ovum, which finds that m-commerce is set to experience a renaissance as industry players express renewed interest and mobile banking services take root."

Leveraging Mobile to Combat Fraud
"Join Javelin for a complimentary webinar presentation on using mobile to combat fraud. The mobile channel brings new ways to increase banking security in a time when fraud is on the rise. Mobile alerts and mobile banking bring more advanced capabilities to fight fraud through allowing consumers to have anytime, anywhere access to their finances. The growth of mobile banking offers consumers and FI’s a tool to help stop fraud as soon as it occurs. With the development of mobile banking and near real-time alerts, financial institutions can deputize consumers to help in the battle against fraud – for their own good as well as yours."

Bank of Hawaii - It's Banking on the Go
"If you have an e-Bankoh Online Banking account, you can access your account from your mobile phone. It's free and just takes seconds to setup."

FIS-Sponsored Survey Reveals Consumer Interest in Replacing Cash and Checks with P2P Money Movement
"Demand for electronic person-to-person (P2P) payments and transfers is growing rapidly and the interest of making these and other payment transactions through an ePayment Portal is strong as well. In fact, the study found that of those who were interested in the Portal concept, 70 percent would be likely to use P2P payment services within that Portal. This is according to research commissioned by FIS(TM) (FIS 25.04, -0.61, -2.38%) , one of the world's largest providers of banking and payments technology. The study was conducted by eCom Advisors, a provider of executive consulting and research services in the financial services industry."

ClairMail reaches agreement with CashEdge
"Mobile banking and payment service provider ClairMail has entered into an agreement with CashEdge, a provider of Intelligent Money Movement services, to provide financial institutions with connectivity to CashEdge's Popmoney through the ClairMail platform.

As a result of the relationship, ClairMail customers will have the ability to provide consumers with a secure mobile banking and P2P payments experience.

Through the integration with ClairMail's platform, the two companies will enable financial institutions (FIs) to offer their customers the ability to send payments by using the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. Each FI can custom brand the Popmoney mobile experience, which provides consumers the security of using a service offered directly from their bank."

Sybase 365 and FirstCaribbean International Bank Bring Industry-Leading Mobile Banking Technology to the Caribbean
"Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced a partnership with FirstCaribbean International Bank to provide customers with mobile banking services enabling them the flexibility and convenience of managing their finances over their mobile phones.

FirstCaribbean International Bank is the largest regionally-listed bank in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean with branches across 17 markets. The new service is of tremendous value to FirstCaribbean customers as it gives many of them a more convenient way to bank on the go, without needing to visit a branch -- something that is of particular importance to many without home Internet connections."

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Mobile World Conference 2009

Bill Gates donates $12.5 million towards mobile banking
"The ultimate goal is to supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012 in hopes of reducing theft rates, and therefore crime as a whole."

Visa will present mobile payment technology at GSMA World Congress

"Visa is expected to demonstrate Visa Mobile, its first commercial service in mobile offers that is enabled on Android powered mobile devices. Also, Visa will showcase NFC-based and SIM-based contactless payments which will enable customers to carry out mobile point of sale payments through their Visa payWave enabled mobile devices."

Sybase 365 launches SMS mobile advertising, geo-location services
"The mobile advertising service for content publishers, advertisers, carriers and consumers features dynamic, targeted, ad-funded content across SMS communication channels, with MMS to follow later this year. Enterprises can also use the mobile advertising service to promote its own offerings."

Ballmer Pushes New Microsoft Mobile OS

"So it was no surprise that the boss, Steve Ballmer, in his keynote address here at the 2009 Mobile World Congress took aim squarely at rivals Apple, Google, Research in Motion, Palm and all the other comers."

VASCO Data Security Demonstrates How to Leverage Mobile Platforms for Authentication
"VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a leading software security company specialising in authentication products, launches DIGIPASS(R) for Mobile 3.0 today at the Barcelona Mobile Conference."

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Mobile Banking Announcements for BAI

Citi and Firethorn Launch Citi Mobile for Cards
"Today, Citi and Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company (NASDAQ: QCOM), introduced Citi Mobile for Cards, an advanced mobile solution that allows Citi credit card customers to quickly, easily and securely access real-time credit card account information on their mobile phones. Citi Mobile for Cards is now available to AT&T subscribers as part of AT&T Mobile Banking, and to Verizon Wireless customers who download and use the free mobile banking application on Get It Now."

Mobilearth and Cooperative Services bring Mobile Banking to the Credit Unions of Georgia.
"Mobilearth, a provider of Mobile Banking software for financial institutions is pleased to announce a reseller agreement with Cooperative Services, Inc. to provide mobile banking to credit unions throughout the state of Georgia. A unique pilot program over the summer gave credit unions in the Atlanta area the opportunity to try out mobile banking without no strings attached."

Monitise Americas Announces 23 New Mobile Banking Partnerships
"Monitise Americas has announced that 23 additional financial institutions have signed agreements with Metavante to provide mobile services to their customers and members. These new agreements add to the growing list of financial institutions that have chosen the Monitise Americas solution for their mobile needs. Metavante is a leading provider of banking and payments technology."

S1 Corporation signs tenth FI mobile banking customer
"S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), a leading global provider of customer interaction software solutions for financial and payment services, today announced that ten customers have licensed S1 Mobile, which enables financial institutions worldwide to drive mobile banking and payments revenues from their retail and business customers."

Sybase 365 Announces Partnership with paybox Furthering Mobile Commerce Globally
"Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging services, today announced a partnership agreement with paybox, a leader in mobile payment solutions, that will extend mobile payments and mobile money services to customers worldwide."

FIS to Offer Obopay Mobile Payments to its Bank Customers.
"Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is to offer Obopay's mobile person-to-person payment service to FIS's roughly 1700 bank customers, the pair announced at BAI's Retail Delivery show. Jacksonville, Fla.-based FIS is starting to sign up interested banks, Kishore Bayyapureddy, senior vice president of FIS told BS&T."

ClairMail Customers See Rapid Growth and Adoption of Mobile Banking
"ClairMail, Inc., the leader in 2-way mobile phone-based customer interaction, today announced that the ClairMail System is processing millions of monthly mobile banking transactions and seeing tremendous adoption and continued growth, with over 12 mobile banking transactions conducted every month per consumer."

CPNI integrates P2P m-payments system with Sun technology
"CPNI (CPNI) today announced that it will offer Financial Institutions the integration of CPNI's Phone Authorized Transfer (PAT) mobile commerce software with Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS)."