PNC takes next step in mobile banking for customers
"Imagine depositing a check into your bank account the moment you receive it? PNC Bank in late May unveiled a mobile banking feature that allows customers to conveniently deposit checks using an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad 2. All customers need is a version of an iPhone with photographing capabilities and setting up a verification program with the bank."

Mobile Banking? Yeah. Consumers Hate It.
"Bankers love mobile banking. Consumers? Not so much. According to a recent study by the Boston branch of the Federal Reserve, over 65% of Americans use online banking websites to manage their accounts and pay bills.
But only 10% use smartphones and other mobile devices to do it. Not only that, people have been much slower to start mobile banking than they were to try banking online. For example, only three percent of survey respondents have ever made a payment using a mobile device."

10 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile BI Delivery
"Mobile applications have gained a definitive place in enterprise adoption. The growing maturity and adoption for mobile business applications are predominantly visible with service offerings like mobile banking, mobile shopping and mobile social network connections.

The extended mobile business application for business intelligence (mobile BI) has gained momentum, with most of the BI tool vendors offering a mobile extension to the native BI suite itself. Furthermore, the variety of platform support, user-friendly devices and graphical interfaces has pushed enterprise adoption of mobile BI into the spotlight. In 2010, Gartner published a hype cycle indicating mobile BI is a climbing wave and stated that adoption will be visible in two to five years."

RBS Citizens Executive VP Jim Gifas to Speak on "Prospects for Corporate Mobile Banking" at the American Banker Mobile Banking and Emerging Applications Summit
"'Corporate mobile banking is a revolution in the making,' says Jim Gifas, Executive Vice President and Head of U.S. Global Transaction Services Solutions for RBS Citizens. 'By providing business customers with anywhere, anytime access to the financial functionality they need to run their businesses better and more efficiently, mobile banking technology is changing the way they can do business.'"

First Tennessee Rolls Out Browser-Based Mobile Banking for Businesses
"On Monday, Memphis-based First Tennessee bank (25ドル billion in assets) will become one of the first regional banks to launch mobile banking services to corporate customers. “Because of the huge adoption of mobile transactions in the consumer market, and because consumers are the same people that run and own businesses, these same people who expect this in their personal life will want this flexibility in the businesses they own or participate in,” says Taylor Vaughan, director of treasury management services for First Tennessee, who spoke to us in an interview Friday. "

Banks Launch Integrated Mobile Banking Solution from First Data
"American Bank of Texas, Marble Falls, Texas, and Waggoner National Bank, Vernon, Texas, have launched First Data’s Mobile Manager – mBanking solution. The offering is now available to their Internet banking customers following a successful internal pilot period. First Data Corporation is a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing.

With the First Data Mobile Manager – mBanking solution, financial institutions can rapidly implement mobile banking with robust functionality. This solution integrates seamlessly with First Data’s FundsXpress online banking platform, enabling a consistent experience with the same capabilities as online banking on a mobile device, and only one set of logon credentials to manage.

First Data offers the Mobile Manager – mBanking solution as a fully hosted and integrated service. This results in substantially lower costs for a financial institution than developing a solution in-house. Since launching Mobile Manager – mBanking at the beginning of 2011, First Data has signed 60 financial institutions for the service."

Tablets will change banking forever: analyst
"Led by Apple’s iPad, tablet computing is on an obvious growth trajectory, but how should banks and other financial institutions act on this trend? Tablets are already contributing to financial services channel delivery, both inside the branch network and as a viable self-service channel on its own, according to research and consulting firm Celent."

New Mobile Banking App Launched in Volunteer State
"First Tennessee Bank, with 180 branches in and around Tennessee, says the launch of its updated mobile banking app coincides nicely with the introduction of the Verizon iPhone. The app includes a new mobile pay feature for iPhones and other smartphones."

For Mobile Deposit, Banks Choose Speed-to-Market Over Simplicity
"Two apps are better than one — at least for now — when it comes to launching mobile check deposit services, some banks say. Smaller banks are seeking to capitalize on the attention bigger ones like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and USAA Federal Savings Bank have generated for mobile deposit, but to get the function out in a timely way, they are finding, an integrated experience may not be possible. Adding the capability to an existing mobile banking app that lets a customer check balances and pay bills can involve months of integration work, even if the services are all coming from the same vendor. The complexity is prompting some banks to release a separate app solely for remote deposit capture.

ATMmarketplace.com Releases Study on Mobile Banking
"Mobile banking is the technology and services that enable consumers to move funds between accounts, receive text messages about activity and pay bills via cell phone. In a world where smartphones are everywhere and people are increasingly accustomed to having instant access to data, it is one of the most significant changes occurring in the financial industry today."

First Tennessee Bank Introduces Mobile Banking to Put Convenience in the Palm of a Customer's Hand
"First Tennessee Bank, a subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., is mobilizing to serve customers better with the launch of mobile banking. The bank now offers customers access to their accounts any time, any place through their mobile phones. Mobile banking is easy, convenient, secure and free. Customers can choose the connection that works best for them -- text, a mobile web browser or First Tennessee's downloadable app. Customers use the same ID and password as with online banking."

Bank-to-customer mobile messaging rates set to treble - Juniper
"The research house says moves by banks and vendors to expand the range of mobile banking messaging beyond alert functionality to encompass product and account application updates will boost bank-to-customer SMS volumes significantly.

Juniper analyst Howard Wilcox says: 'Our research found that messaging is a 'win-win' for banks. They can improve customer service significantly, whilst simultaneously eliminating the cost of servicing customer enquiries placed with call centres.'"

Compuware Gomez Launches New U.S. Retail Banking Web and Mobile Benchmarks
"Gomez, the web performance division of Compuware Corporation, today launched new U.S. Retail Banking Web and mobile industry benchmarks that provide the most comprehensive and unbiased view of the state of web and mobile site performance.

Gomez's U.S. Retail Banking web and mobile performance benchmarks--recognized as an industry standard for measuring web and mobile performance against key competitors and industry leaders--have been expanded to include metrics from more dimensions to provide a more comprehensive and insightful view of web and mobile performance."

Payment via Mobile Device? There's An App for That
"Virtually everybody carries a mobile phone these days. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could lighten our loads by using these wireless devices as virtual wallets to make payments at various retail locations?

Right, we’ve all by now heard about the prospects of mobile payments. But despite years of talk, this concept has yet to materialize in a significant way in the U.S. That may soon change, however, given new momentum in this space as important companies like Apple, eBay, MasterCard and Visa have announced, or delivered tools to help enable, new initiatives on this front."