Video Interviews by Christophe Langlois

Earlier today Christophe Langlois (Founder of Visible-Banking.com) published a video interview that he and I conducted in New York after the Finovate 2007 conference hosted by Jim Bruene (Editor - Online Banking Report.)

If you get a chance please take a look, but more importantly be sure to check out all of the other videos that he recorded the very same day.

Brandon McGee, VP & Senior Product Manager at Huntington Bank

Andrew Taylor, CTO at Jwaala

Murali Subbarao, Founder & CEO of Billeo

Aaron Patzer, Founder & CEO of Mint.com

Chris Larsen, Founder & CEO of Prosper

Peter Hazlehurt, SVP Product Management at Yodlee

Patrick Gannon, SVP Lending at Lending Club

Bob Homer, VP Product Management at CheckFree

Christophe Langlois is truly an innovative thinker when it comes to social networking and online innovation. If you do not check his blog daily you are probably missing out.

Save Time! Mobile Banking Headline Recap

This has been one active week for mobile banking, and there are a handful of stories that I want you to know about. I haven't had time to flush out full articles on each one, so here is recap of this weeks top headlines:




1) Chase Launches SMS Mobile Banking

2) Firethorn, Checkfree and America First Credit Union

"Firethorn Holdings, LLC, (www.firethornmobile.com) the mobile banking and payments enabler, and CheckFree Corporation, a leading provider of financial electronic commerce services and products, announced today that Ogden, Utah- based America First Credit Union, one of the nation's 10 largest credit unions, will offer the Firethorn mobile banking solution to its 432,000 members."

3) Bank of America Introduces SafePass™ for Safer Online Banking
"Bank of America, an industry leader in secure online banking, is introducing a new security feature to its award-winning online banking service that provides customers with an extra layer of protection against unauthorized transactions."

4) Monitise Americas Joint Venture Debuts

"Monitise plc, the global leader in the provision of mobile banking and payments services, and Metavante Corporation, the banking and payments technology subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE: MI), today announced the formation of a joint venture company, Monitise Americas LLC, the mobile banking and payments ecosystem for the United States. Plans for the joint venture were announced by the companies in March 2007. "

5) Research Reveals U.S. Consumer Obsession With Bank Balances
"U.S. consumers are obsessed with managing their personal finances, according to research released by Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. , the global leader in messaging interoperability and mobile content delivery. More than a third of U.S. consumers, dubbed 'nano-economists,' are able to state their bank balance at any given time, and an additional 42 percent typically know their bank balance to the nearest $200."