The top 3 developments from our digital bulletin

We look at the highlights from our hot topics we report on monthly

17 January 2012 | Internet banking | Heena Baig

With the spectrum of work that Mapa produce across digital financial services, it’s only logical that we collect some of the hottest and most innovative developments into one report. This report comes in the form of a monthly bulletin and with it being the start of a new year, we wanted to share what we thought were the top 3 developments featured in 2011. And here they are:

1. The August edition of the report covered the launch of a financial literacy program called Ally Wallet Wise by a US based bank Ally Financial. The program aims to explore and explain financial basics through a free online course or an in-person workshop event. The website includes online chapters covering banking, budgeting, credit scores and each chapter is followed by a quiz
2. Monabanq in France is using a unique tool to promote account related products and services. The banks account summary screen features icons next to a particular account that indicate active and inactive features associated with that account. Pop up help boxes actively selling the different features appear when hovering over these icons
3. Swedish sharedealing specialists Avanza Bank have launched a new website which is available as a preview of their new public and secure site via a different URL. The new site has been developed through a crowd sourcing initiative Avanza Labs. The preview site is an unfinished version of the brand new site and customers are encouraged to log on and use the new site and provide relevant feedback and suggestions for improvements that would be considered before a final version is released.

Whilst there has been flurry of activity in the payments, mobile, NFC, tablet, PFM and social parts of banking, we thought that the three developments above are worth remembering! If you’d like to find out a bit more about the monthly bulletin we produce then get in touch. With the industry continuing to evolve, it’s guaranteed to be an eventful 2012!