Mapa's recent study looks at 106 banks across 23 countries
16 May 2012 | Mobile & SMS | Evita Medne
Mapa has recently carried out a mini study into how the world's top banks handle mobile detection. The research covered 106 banks in 23 countries and we used an iPhone and an Android phone to do the testing. As well as providing a summary below, we've put the results together in a 2 page...keep reading
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
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
Extensive mobile activity – but still no p2p-payments
27 March 2012 | Internet banking Mobile & SMS | Alexander Hertzell
Mapa recently produced its first quarterly report for 2012 monitoring the Swedish Internet Banking and mBanking Dashboard and the amount of activity is certainly showing no signs of slowing down.
Within internet banking, leading savings specialist Avanza Bank launched an updated website with a...keep reading
