UK now a hotbed of activity
20 April 2012 | Mobile & SMS | Joshua Grant
Last week saw two mobile services launched on the same day in the UK. The first was HSBC’s new Fast Balance mobile banking offering. Secondly Barclays Pingit was re-launched to allow customers from all banks to use the service. Whilst these two are both retail banking apps, they serve to...keep reading
Innovation on all fronts
17 April 2012 | Internet banking Mobile & SMS Tablets | Ruth Janssen
In the last quarter of 2011, we opened 3 new Belgian retail bank accounts in 2011. This is part of Mapa’s planned account development plan: creating a core of comparable bank accounts in a new country whenever possible. This write up is the first of our schedule of regular country updates. We...keep reading
The Danish bank take bold steps
16 April 2012 | Tablets | Mark Pavan
A well-known business comment that I heard early in my business life was the one pertaining to success and business types. For the record it goes something like this:
There are three types of people in the business world:
- Those who make things happen
- Those who watch things...keep reading
Retail Banks Taking Measured Approach To Social Media
11 April 2012 | Internet banking Social | Joshua Grant
Mapa has recently produced the Internet Banking Dashboard: an in depth look at all the major UK banks’ Internet Banking services.
A key theme in this quarter has been social media activity. NatWest, RBS and Santander have all launched on Twitter while Barclays are now present on Facebook....keep reading
P2P Payments Take Off Around the World
04 April 2012 | Mobile & SMS | Joshua Grant
In time we may look back at a number of the services featured in the March update of Mapa’s Mobile & SMS Banking Dashboard as being seminal services which triggered a fundamental change in digital retail banking.
For the time being, person-to-person payments is the area seeing most...keep reading
