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Mobile banking is set to achieve the fastest rate of mass-market penetration in recent history, even outpacing items such as credit cards, online banking or ATMs.  This is according to recent research published by the Future Foundation, a consumer-forecasting consultancy. “As consumers tighten their belts they are demanding that they are empowered with more control [...]

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Monitise Americas has announced new research results finding that "Americans are increasingly demanding ‘always on’ information about their money, with 77% saying that it was important for them to have real-time and immediate information regarding their bank and credit card accounts." The research which was undertaken by MaCorr Research, polled 1,367 adults across the US [...]

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Barclays has become the first UK bank to offer its mobile banking customers security software to download free of charge, covering anti-virus, anti spam and anti theft protection. The free security software offer is available to all Barclays online banking customers and is provided by internet security firm Kaspersky. In addition, Barclays.mobi customers will benefit [...]

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Standard Chartered has announced the launch of mobile-phone banking (‘mBanking’) in Kenya. The bank claims to be the first bank in Kenya to introduce ‘mBanking’ on the USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) platform to the market. This new product will provide Standard Chartered Bank’s customers with access to banking 24 hours through their mobile phone [...]

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