Latest Mobile & online banking News: Finextra Research

WorldRemit adds international remittances to Huawei’s suite of mobile money products

Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership making WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa.

11 July 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

HSBC and Barclays join EU project to test the use of digital IDs for cross-border banking

HSBC and Barclays are among a consortium of private and public sector organisations testing the use of a citizen’s national digital identity from France to open a bank account in the UK.

11 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

FRFCU implements Roostify home loan platform

Roostify, a provider of automated mortgage transaction technology, today announced that Financial Resources Federal Credit Union (FRFCU) has implemented Roostify’s mortgage technology platform in order to create a better online experience for its members applying for or refinancing a home loan.

11 July 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Australians urged to 're-wire' brains for saving

Australia's Ubank is aiming to turn its free-spending customers into diligent savers through AI-powered money management technology and tips on "re-wiring" their financial brains.

11 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

CIBC adds currency converter tool to app

With more than half of Canadian households packing their bags and travelling abroad* each year, making informed decisions around foreign currency exchange is key to ensuring peace of mind when overseas.

10 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

CapStar Bank picks Baker Hill lending platform

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, relationship management and smart data analytics, announced that CapStar Bank selected Baker Hill NextGen™ Consumer Loan Origination for Direct Lending to streamline its entire consumer lending process and accommodate its growing loan portfolio.

10 July 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Digital Identity needs to be focused on

Paul Briault, Digital Security, Identity and API Management Director at CA Technologies, talks about the advantages of and barriers to digital identity in banking, and the opportunity to bring simplicity to consumers and banks.

10 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Retirement planning goes digital with Fiserv

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it is integrating digital retirement platform Vestwell into its Unified Wealth Platform.

10 July 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Stripe adds global support for WeChat and Alipay

Digital payments outfit Stripe is introducing global support for Alipay and WeChat Pay, connecting business customers to the hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers that actively use these payment methods.

10 July 2017

News/Mobile & online banking

Brits unmoved by new digital challengers

Brits may be the most prolific users of digital banking services across Europe, but only 14% would contemplate switching to an app-based challenger bank, according to a study conducted by Mastercard.

10 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Wirecard brings WeChat Pay to Europe

Europe has a new mobile payment method: Wirecard will enable European retailers to accept WeChat Pay, one of the leading mobile payment solution in China.

10 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Oman Arab Bank selects Finastra for retail banking

Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has committed to deploy FusionBanking Essence from Finastra in each of its 65 branches and representative offices across the Sultanate.

10 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Citi Pay launches in US

Citi Mastercard credit customers in the U.S. can begin using Citi Pay, a digital wallet that offers seamless payments across channels with card number protection through tokenization.

07 July 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Digital and cultural change will drive innovation

David Watson, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Corporate Cash Management Americas in Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking talks about digital transformation in banking and how it drives innovation. How working with the fintech community and partnering with others will be the way banks innovate and develop future products and services. But this requires a cultural as well as organisation change and banks should be prepared to embrace this.

07 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

N26 to bring Apple Pay to Spanish customers

When we recently broke the news that we’ll be bringing Apple Pay to Italy, we received dozens of messages asking when we might introduce it to more countries.

07 July 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Are financial services ready for biometrics?

Bob Reany, Executive Vice President, Identity Solutions, Mastercard, talks about why – though passwords don’t work for either consumers or banks – more needs to be done to make biometrics truly fit for purpose in financial services, and outlines the need for frameworks around performance, usability, interoperability, security and privacy to underpin future biometric developments.

07 July 2017

Finextra TV/Mobile & online banking

Virtual accounts enable new business models

Tim Martin, Product Manager, Cashfac, and Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payments, talk about the rise of virtual accounts, how they enable banks to meet corporates’ evolving and individual needs, and how, alongside other key developments such as PSD2, they underpin exciting new business models.

07 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

UnionPay accelerates the rollout of QR code payments

UnionPay International is now accelerating the promotion of its innovative products and services globally. Southeast and Northeast Asia are the key target markets.

07 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Ethical investments app Goodments prepares for launch

Goodments is creating a more sustainable future by making it easy for people to invest in good business, with an app that matches people to shares that fit their environmental, social and ethical values.

07 July 2017

Company update/Mobile & online banking

Visa Checkout comes to Air Canada

Visa today announced the availability of Visa Checkout with Air Canada, Canada's largest airline. With Visa Checkout, Air Canada customers can spend more time planning their trip and less time filling out payment and billing information.

06 July 2017