Mobile
The insurance industry needs to accelerate its digitization
The lengthy and prone-to-failure communication between the provider, intermediary, and customer in the insurance industry makes the advancement of digitization a crucial debate. In the German insurance market alone, more than 500 insurance companies and over 45,000 brokers are in operation. The several branches are in charge of managing policies
“You can’t stop the device from getting hacked, you have to defend your data” – A Primer with Kevin Mahaffey
Kevin Mahaffey is an entrepreneur, investor and engineer with a background in cybersecurity, mobile and machine intelligence. He is CTO and Founder of Lookout, a cybersecurity company dedicated making the world more secure and trustworthy as it becomes more connected, starting with smartphones and tablets. He started building software when
‘Europe’s Most Modern Bank Account’ Number26 Raises $10.6 Million
Berlin based banking startup Number26 just raised a $10.6M Series A round courtesy of Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Existing investors Redalpine and Earlybird also participated in the round with Daniel S. Aegerter. Number26 is already building a brand in the German and Austrian markets with their incredibly quick and easy
Royal Bank of Canada Launches Its Own Mobile Wallet
The RBC Wallet, powered by RBC Secure Cloud, is now available, enabling RBC Mobile clients to purchase goods and services with their RBC Interac Debit or Visa credit cards using their Bell Mobility Android smartphone. “We are excited to bring the RBC Wallet to RBC and Bell Mobility clients,” said
Realm Scoops $20m for Their Impressively Tiny Database
Newbie mobile database vendor Realm has garnered $20 million in a Series B funding round led by existing investor, Khosla Ventures. Founded 9 months ago, backed by 3 years of research, what Realm came up with is a new mobile database that runs directly on phones, tablets or smartwatches. A very
Flint Mobile Announces App2App Connect for Payment Integration
Flint Mobile today introduced App2App Connect, an easy way for developers to extend their mobile apps to accept credit card payments on the spot and online without any extra hardware. Designed for business applications that help SMBs manage clients, forms, jobs, appointments or sales orders from their smartphones, App2App Connect
CitiDirect BE Wins Award for Best Mobile Service App at the MWC
CitiDirect BE(SM) Mobile, a mobile extension of Citi’s flagship online banking platform, CitiDirect BE(SM) was declared the winner for the Mobile service or App for consumers at the GSMA Mobile World Conference in Barcelona earlier this month. CitiDirect BE(SM) Mobile is intuitively designed for the global Corporate Treasurer’s busy on-the-go
Corporate Clients Drawing Huge Profits for Banks in Mobile Payments
Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular for consumers and most developments these days are focussed on consumers, however Fintech innovation in the corporate sector is growing by leaps and bounds. Presenting at the Bank Innovation 2015, managing director and global head online banking and connectivity services at Citibank, Mayank Mishra
US Bancorp Announces Its Own Mobile Wallet
US Bancorp is planning to launch its own mobile wallet services. A company executive Niti Badarinath made this announcement in the Bank Innovation 2015 in Seattle, iterating that it is something they are working on. Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), with $403 billion in assets as of Dec. 31, 2014, is
Use Twitter Handle to Make Payments: Barclays Pingit Announced
Barclays will be the first British bank to offer payments using their twitter handle. The service – powered by its Pingit mobile phone app – aims to give the UK’s 13.5 million Twitter users the ability to make swift, secure payments through the social network without providing either their bank
