Mobile Banking: Is It Heating Up Or Mostly Hype?
"Banks have been rolling out mobile wallet apps at a furious pace in recent days. The big question is whether they'll ever convince skeptical consumers to begin to zapping money around."

Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon to lead m-payments gold-rush?
"Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google - the 'gang of four' - have been driving forces behind a new technology cycle, dominated by the mobile phone and social media, which is merging the online and physical worlds, says Javelin. These huge companies are now seeking to use their strengths to crack a payments market currently led by financial institutions, card schemes and, increasingly, wireless carriers. In a bid to predict the potential success of the competing factions, Javelin polled 5878 Americans to gauge public opinion on what it claims are three crucial ingredients for success: trust, innovation and privacy."

Mobility Matters – Tracking the Mobile Banking Revolution: Online Only
"Mobile Everywhere. Ask Mark Sievewright, a senior executive at Fiserv, to pinpoint three big trends changing the credit union landscape and here is what he said in late February at the New Jersey Credit Union League’s “Reality Check” conference: “mobile, mobile, mobile.” Mobile is not just about a new channel – although it is that – it fundamentally is about changed relationships. And it is growing incredible fast. Another “Reality Check” speaker, CUNA Mutual’s John Lass, flashed a slide that showed mobile users eclipsing the number of online banking users within a few years."

Should Mitek Systems Acquire Top Image Systems?
"One of the discussion topics on Micro Cap Club, has been about the possibility of Mitek Systems (MITK) acquiring Top Image Systems (TISA). Both Mitek Systems and Top Image Systems have similar stories via a history of working with large banks and leveraging those relationships to market and launch mobile banking applications. Mitek Systems was incorporated in 1986 and went public in the early 1990's. The company historically provided financial institutions with advanced imaging and analytics software to authenticate and extract data from checks and other documents."

Last Year Witnessed a Mobile Banking Lift Off
"In the span of just 12 months, a revolution in financial transactions has occurred. Mobile banking has shifted from nice to have to must have at credit unions across the country as a stampede of institutions have embraced the idea that members demand the convenience of banking from the palm of their hands."

Wells Fargo Mobile(R) Banking Application Now Available from Amazon Appstore for Android
"Wells Fargo customers who use Android-powered smartphone and tablet devices, like the new Kindle Fire, can now keep track of their finances while on the go with Wells Fargo Mobilebanking services. Wells Fargo & Company WFC +0.20% announced today its new Wells Fargo Mobile banking app for Android is available for download from the Amazon Appstore for Android."

The Path to SmartPhone Banking Apps
"Despite mobile banking's growth, many financial institutions still view it as a cost rather than a revenue opportunity. In this roundtable we discuss how banks can speed up adoption rates and increase profit margins, and where deployment of apps fits into the strategy."

Voice controlled mobile banking is the future
"Most Brits will use voice commands to carry out certain banking tasks on their mobile phones following the success of Siri in prompting the take up of voice activation services. Digital banking software maker Intelligent Environments has pieced together the trends in technology and banking and come to the conclusion that voice-activated digital banking could become mainstream in 2014."

First National Bank of Santa Fe Launches Mobile Banking Solution. Teams With Intuit Financial Services to Provide Customers Access to their Accounts Anytime, Anywhere.
"First National Bank of Santa Fe is teaming with Intuit Financial Services to offer consumer mobile banking, allowing customers the ability to access account balances, make transfers, view transaction history and pay bills via a mobile web browser, text messaging or iPhone and Android Apps."