The Currency Scene
Using Mobile Banking Apps For Two-Way Customer Communication
- Written by: The Financial Brand
- Category: Mobile Banking
Juniper Research predicts that by 2017, there will be a billion mobile banking customers around the world. 40% of these will still take the time to get on the phone or visit their bank’s physical branches for certain inquiries. And according to research from KPMG, more than half of global banking consumers express a real desire for combined social, personalized and “human” interactions to be integrated into a bank’s online services and mobile apps.
Understand mobile banking before using it
- Written by: ABQ Journal
- Category: Mobile Banking
Mobile check deposits are becoming increasingly common, but a few safeguards are needed to keep the practice safe. An Albuquerque woman found this out in an unsettling way.
Five Reasons Why Your Customers Aren't Downloading Your Mobile App
- Written by: Flexcutech
- Category: Mobile Banking
Location and ATM availability is still perceived as the primary driver for potential members selecting or switching financial institutions. However, mobile and online banking offerings are increasingly more important, especially among millennials.
How Smartphones are Disrupting Traditional Branch Banking
- Written by: Matthew S Daye
- Category: Banking
According to a recent study completed by Javelin Strategy & Research (javelinstrategy.com) the banking system in the US has reached a crucial turning point. Now the number of customers performing banking services through a mobile device exceeds both in-bank branch visits and computer online access.
Banks are swamped with hundreds of tech CVs: here’s the new way to stand out
- Written by: eFinancial Careers
- Category: Banking
Tired of carefully massaging your CV for every job posting, then waiting as your application is buried under a pile of rival CVs that most managers will barely skim through? Guess what – banks are losing interest in seeing hundreds of tech CVs swamping every IT role they post, all carefully keyword-matched yet unverifiable in the real world.
Technology hiring in banking is increasingly moving away from the advertised position. Even where roles are posted with job boards and recruiters, the selection process is evolving beyond the “talking heads” interview.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf predicts demise of user names and passwords
- Written by: Biz Journals
- Category: Banking
It's been a long time since a big bank CEO discussing the state of his industry sparked spontaneous applause. But that's what happened when Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf talked technology to those attending the Bay Area Council's 2016 Economic Outlook Conference in San Francisco May 17.
4 Reasons Why People Would Favor Bitcoin Over Cash
- Written by: The Merkle
- Category: Digital Currency
Some people don’t see the point in using bitcoin, especially not when cash is readily available. While it is true cash transactions allow consumers to remain somewhat anonymous, it isn’t a perfect financial tool by any means There are quite a few reasons why people would use bitcoin rather than cash, although some of these “practices” may be considered controversial.
