1.75bn to use mobile banking

More than 1.75 billion mobile phone users will have used their device for banking purposes by the end of 2019, up from 800 million people this year, according to a new Juniper Research forecast... More






Robin raises funds for BLE in the office

Boston startup Robin has closed a US$1.4m seed funding round to expand and develop a solution that uses iBeacons and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to let workers interact with the office space around them... More



Moven raises $8m series A

Mobile banking, payments and budgeting startup Moven has raised US$8m in a series A funding round and will use the money to invest in new features and tools and to build its international network of partners... More




One third of US mobile banking users log in at least once a day

Bank of America

Some 31% of Americans who use a mobile banking app access the service at least once a day and more than four in five use it once a week or more, according to new research from Bank of America. Six in 10 respondents are not yet comfortable with the idea of using their smartphone as a wallet in the future, however, the survey found. More






Sensory adds voice and face security to phones

TrulySecure

US startup Sensory has unveiled a biometric security solution that enables individual apps on a consumer’s smartphone to be secured via voice verification, facial verification or, for higher security applications like mobile payments and banking, a combination of the two... More


Air France lets passengers board planes with NFC

Air France, Orange, SITA, Toulouse-Blagnac Airport and RESA have teamed up to provide an NFC boarding experience, allowing a select number of passengers to move through the airport — from entering the building to boarding the plane — by tapping their Orange NFC smartphone at dedicated terminals... More