T-Mobile is preparing to launch a mobile banking service called T-Mobile Money, which comes with benefits for the company’s wireless customers. T-Mobile Money is currently in an early pilot program. It will work like a traditional bank, and since it is backed by BankMobile, customers will even have access to ATMs. While T-Mobile Money aims […]
Wells Fargo customers will soon be able to access their accounts at ATMs via their smartphones. Wells Fargo plans to update all 13,000 of its ATMs in the U.S. next week, completing a pilot that’s been in the testing phase for more than a year. The ATMs will grant access to accounts and cash through […]
The internal computer networks of JPMorgan Chase Bank and up to four other major American banks were hit by an enormous cyberattack earlier this month, according to reports. The intruders’ haul appear to have been not money, but gigabytes of data pertaining to client accounts and bank personnel. The FBI, United States Secret Service and […]
T-Mobile is attempting to take on the banking industry by launching a personal finance service that allows users to manage their funds via smartphone apps. Working with Bancor, Mobile Money allows users to add funds to a prepaid Visa debit card and perform most of the tasks typically associated with a checking account, though for […]
Canada is leading the race to develop a fully integrated NFC smartphone payment system according to Reuters. While NFC systems have been set up in other countries for commuters, Japan and South Korea being examples, no country has yet been able to establish more comprehensive transaction system for wider use. Canada is said to have […]
Splasm Software has updated both versions of their single-window personal finance management programs, CheckBook and CheckBook Pro, to version 2.2, revamping the support for split entries and also allowing users to store the data file wherever they’d like, including on cloud storage systems like Dropbox. The updates also bring minor fixes and improvements. Both versions […]
Samsung and Visa have announced a partnership to deliver NFC mobile phone payments for the London 2012 Olympics. The partnership will deliver a special Olympic and Paralympic games handset for sponsored athletes to take advantage of Visa’s contactless payment system. The phone will carry a Visa-enabled SIM card to work with the system that has […]
Mint.com wants to help middle schoolers develop good money management skills and have fun while they learn. As part of their parent company Intuit’s financial literacy program that was announced in December of last year, Mint.com is introducing its new online “Quest for Money” game. It provides free tools to help middle school students learn […]
American Express is putting real efforts and time into digital payments on Monday by unveiling Serve. The approach gives Android and iOS devices, as well as Facebook, a way to to pay friends or bills without having a traditional credit or debit card. It can be loaded up with credit or debit but also works […]
Mortgage payments comprising 65 percent of all consumer debt, according to the Federal Reserve. To help people plan and budget for owning a home, Mint.com has added a home loans feature to the “Ways to Save” portion of its award-winning tool. The feature looks through thousands of home loan options and compares them to a […]
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