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Can BNP Paribas make money from its proposed new direct bank?
16 May 2013 | Internet banking Mobile banking Tablets | Mark Pavan
The digital banking world has been all a flutter recently with BNP Paribas' announcement of a new direct bank launch. Hello bank! was launched today in Germany and Belgium, and is also shortly said to be rolled out in Italy and France.
The targets they have set themselves are for 25,000...keep reading
Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Sweden focus on NFC
07 May 2013 | Internet banking Mobile banking Tablets | Ruth Janssen
The time has come again… Mapa Research issued their second quarterly International Digital Banking Dashboard of 2013. This product monitors digital developments of various international providers across different channels (internet, mobile and tablet).
As a result, we would like to share with...keep reading
As Little Black Book retires others are flourishing
02 May 2013 | Credit cards | Meaghan Johnson
The most recent Mapa Credit Card Dashboard update recorded a number of changes this update, but one of the most interesting was First Direct's removal of the Little Black Book in late February of this year. Five years ago the bank was the first in the UK to launch a community site that was...keep reading
Digital Sales: enhancing existing customer relationships report now published
24 April 2013 | Mobile banking Tablets | Paul Merry
Mapa announced today that its eagerly awaited report looking at evolving digital sales strategies is available for purchase. This study delivers the key approaches taken from exhaustive analysis of financial service provider’s products and services. It provides the reader with the tools they...keep reading
Membership down to the exponential increase in interest in digital financial services
23 April 2013 | Social | Hannah Durevall
Today Mapa Research announced that the three-thousandth person threshold had been breached with the latest member joining its illustrious Digital Banking Innovation LinkedIn Group.
The prestigious invite only Digital Banking Innovation group covers the entire remit of financial services within...keep reading
Considering cross channel sales strategy as a mechanism of enhancing existing customer relationships
17 April 2013 | Internet banking Mobile banking Social Tablets | Paul Merry
The digital economy has created the opportunity for banks to occupy a central role in the commercial life of its customers, whether that is by enabling payments for goods and services over the multiple devices available to us or simply improving the experience of taking out a loan or applying...keep reading
Citibank’s strategy for success with tablet banking
02 April 2013 | PFM Tablets | Paul Merry
As part of our research into the development and evolution of banking tablet applications conveyed in our latest syndicated report; Tablet Banking Series: Branch on the go? Mapa considered best of breed innovation in tablet app design. Citibank’s tablet apps were consistently identified as some...keep reading
Two landmarks in the UK as Bankinter send tremors around the industry
26 March 2013 | Mobile banking | Joshua Grant
Mapa’s first International Mobile & SMS Banking Dashboard of 2013 saw a couple of landmarks, both coming from the UK.
Firstly, Santander’s new Android app means that out of the 42 major banks across the UK, USA, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland in the Dashboard, there are no...keep reading
SBAB Bank becomes SBAB!
18 March 2013 | Internet banking Mobile banking | Alexander Hertzell
Mapa has now completed the first update of 2013, monitoring the Swedish internet and mobile banking market. It has been a fairly busy start to the year but more activity is expected moving forward.
In fact, both Handelsbanken and Danske Bank are about to launch new internet banking platforms....keep reading
Innovations within the tablet banking market
14 March 2013 | PFM Social Tablets | Meaghan Johnson
Over the past 12 months the number of innovations within the tablet banking space have indicated that it is becoming the channel of choice amongst a significant segment of banking customers, and that many banks have already reacted by adapting their product development strategies accordingly....keep reading
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