Mobile Banking Updates - Sept 15

Wachovia introduces its Mobile CyberInquiry service
"Wachovia presented its Mobile CyberInquiry service to its correspondent banking customers, providing mobile access to their account information at the 2009 SIBOS conference in Hong Kong in a move to expand its business. So, from now, global financial institutions are enabled to view real time balances, account postings and transaction details with mobile devices."

Arvest Bank $5,000 Giveaway
"Arvest Bank is hosting a $5,000 Giveaway when you sign up and use their mobile banking feature. This promotion is only available to current customers who are at least 18 years of age. If you are in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Southeast Kansas and Southern Missouri and you bank with Arvest Bank, then you should most definitely give this a shot. What have you got to lose anyway?"

Sybase And IBM Collaborate To Further Global Mobile Commerce Opportunities
"As mCommerce moves beyond early adopters, IBM’s global reach, strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, coupled with Sybase’s leading end-to-end mCommerce solution and unrivalled global operator reach and Financial Services customer base, the companies will be able to provide flexibility and choice of mobile banking, mobile payment and mobile remittance offerings to an increasing number of customers."

Fiserv opens Asia Pacific support centre for m and e-banking services
"ocated in Singapore at the company's regional headquarters, the centre will deliver local implementation and support expertise, complementing similar services already available at Fiserv locations in India and Australia. Fiserv online and mobile banking solutions are currently used by some of the largest and most innovative banks in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. The new regional support centre will provide greater access to these and other Fiserv solutions and will provide local support to more financial institutions in the region."

Net.Finance 2009

This year I'm being very selective with my travel but one event I'll definitely be participating in is Net.Finance 2009.

The location for this years event is the JW Marriott Resort, Las Vegas

The agenda is topic-notch including a mobile banking panel discussion on Day 2 featuring:
Doug Brown (SVP - Bank of America)
Ginger Schmeltzer (SVP - SunTrust)
and myself titled "In the Hot Seat."

Other speakers include:
Steven Kietz (CEO - Mobile Money Ventures)
Ilieva Ageenko (SVP - Wachovia)
Mark Middlebrook (SVP - City National Bank)
Helen Loh (VP - Charles Schwab)
Jim Van Dyke (President & Founder - Javelin)
Mickey Mencin (VP - Key Bank)
Matt Wilcox (VP - Zions Bank)

Register to attend today >>

Visa, North America & Mobile

"Visa, the global leader in payments, and eight leading North American financial institutions - PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo in the United States, and Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity in Canada - have agreed to initiate a pilot program with up to a total of 2,000 participants to test the delivery of real-time notification alerts on Visa accounts." Continue Reading >>

RBC Royal Bank



TD Canada Trust

Mobile Banking at Net.Finance

I just wanted to take a minute to thank the folks at WBR Research for the great work on the Net.Finance conference last week. If you have not attended I recommend placing it at the top of the calendar for next year. The Hyatt Regency Gainey Ranch (see image above) was absolutely amazing, but more importantly the speakers and content were truly top-notch.

The executives I had the opportunity to meet include:
Chuck Hall (CTO, e-Commerce - Capital One)
Christopher Cox (SVP - Wachovia)
Patrick Reetz (VP - M&I Bank)
Hiroshi Taniguchi (Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi)
Bob Homer (VP - Checkfree/Fiserv)
David Dalka (Fellow Blogger)

As for content - here's a taste of what you missed:
* Wachovia's browser solution is growing at a rate of 20% monthly w/o advertising
* Wachovia's downloadable solution is growing at a rate of 50% monthly