Bankrate reported third quarter revenue of $140.8 million but delivered a GAAP net loss of $23.4 million. The investment to redesign o CreditCards.com site, which went live in April, is bearing fruit as it has helped drive a record number of unique visitors to the site.
Bank of America announced a series of improvements to mobile and online banking to better meet customers’ changing needs and make it easier for users to manage their finances digitally.
Ink from Chase, the Business Card portfolio from Chase Card Services, announced the rebrand and redesign of its Jot mobile application to the Ink app.
Fiserv inked Bank of the West for a redesigned online banking service built on the Corillian Online platform from Fiserv. The enhanced service for personal and business customers features a clean, intuitive design that puts money movement and management capabilities front and center.
Miami-based Net Element’s Aptito released version 2.3 of its cloud-based mPOS platform. Aptito’s all-in-one restaurant and bar POS and business management software gives restaurants the tools to reduce payroll costs, improve efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction.
American Express launched a redesigned customer website, to enhance the cardholder’s digital experience by providing increased financial clarity, simplifying online payments, and providing new account and spending insights.
The first native mPOS tablet app with support for all magstripe, EMV and NFC payments has been unveiled by Ingenico Mobile Solutions’ ROAM business unit.
The Vodacom m-pesa slution is now used by more than 18 million people across 13 countries to perform banking and money transfer services via mobile phone. Specifically redesigned for the South African market, the service introduces a number of entirely new elements including a chip and pin protected Visa card, and a voucher system to upload cash. The new m-pesa Visa card gives access to approximately 27,000 ATMs and over 240,000 merchant outlets in South Africa, dramatically increasing the versatility of the service. Another key innovation is the introduction of a voucher system which allows people to convert cash to m-pesa at all Vodacom shops, selected spaza shops, and at selected retailers. The process is similar to buying airtime and makes topping up the m-pesa wallet quick and convenient. On top of this, traditional services like person to person transfers have been optimised. Additional functionality is planned for the near future. In short, this is true mobile banking that has something to offer for all income groups across South Africa.
Citi launched its Mobile Snapshot, allowing customers to view deposit and credit card balances and recent transactions without having to log into their accounts. This follows a successful beta test conducted with customers over the past three months. Citi banking and credit card customers who choose to enroll in Citi Mobile Snapshot will have instant access to their basic account information. The new feature will help enrolled banking and credit card customers monitor their accounts on-the-go by displaying balances and the 15 most recent transactions without requiring a log-in every time. The introduction of Citi Mobile Snapshot feature is part of the complete redesign of the Citi Mobile app launched earlier this year. The new app, enabled for iPhone® and Android™ devices, provides U.S. banking and credit card customers with new and enhanced mobile account management capabilities.
Citi this morning launched its redesigned Citi Mobile® app for iPhone® and Android™ devices to provide U.S. banking and credit card customers with new and enhanced mobile account management capabilities. New features, a cleaner, sleeker design, intuitive navigation and alerts on-the-go have been added to make it faster and simpler for customers to check balances, transfer money and make deposits and payments. Over time, the new application will go live to Citi customers around the world. The U.S. launch includes a limited beta test of Citi Mobile® Snapshot, a new opt-in feature that enables customers to check deposit and credit card balances and recent transactions without having to log into their accounts.
Fiserv has redesigned its online banking solution, Corillian Online, with new digital money movement capabilities into a simplified, task-focused design. The latest licensed version of Corillian Online from Fiserv brings Popmoney® person-to-person (P2P) payments and account-to-account transfers to the home page of the service, where they join existing bill payment capabilities. Design enhancements throughout the service, including the reduction of visual clutter and the use of iconography, reflect current design principles and simplify the user experience. The update also includes improvements to enable family banking and small business banking users to better manage their accounts, and segmentation functionality that allows financial institutions to offer customized banking features to different customer segments.
Fiserv launched “Sales Enablement” mobile sales solution that enables financial institutions to become more effective and efficient at selling their products thereby accelerating revenue, reducing costs and streamlining hand-offs to operations. Using Sales Enablement from Fiserv, a financial institution’s account executives can walk into a prospect’s office to introduce their institution and its products and services, carrying only a tablet. With assistance or self-navigation, the solution shows available options and then the customer can enroll and sign the required forms. Sales Enablement is currently available for the Apple iPad, with support for additional mobile platforms to be announced. Sales Enablement from Fiserv is an interactive, fully customizable brand and message-focused tool designed to elicit a more personal, dynamic sales conversation. It eliminates paper and disparate tools by combining email, documents, collateral, video, ROI and pricing calculators into a single solution that is connected to the financial institution’s existing sales management, onboarding and core systems.