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Bank Systems & Technology
August 18, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Visa, Banks In Mobile Alert Pilot Visa is launching a pilot program with eight banks in North America in which it will test a new mobile phone alert program.   |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 26, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Chase Rolls Out Instant Action Text Alerts New SMS alert system notifies customers of low account balances and lets them instantly transfer funds. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 20, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Wells Fargo Rolls Out Rapid Alerts for Visa Credit Cardholders The free service brings customers near real-time detection of fraudulent activity, and helps manage and track spending. |
Bank Technology News
December 2007 |
Mobile banking: Are Texting Services Here to Stay or Not? Text-message banking isn't considered a killer app, but qualifies as the easiest road to launching mobile financial services. |
Bank Technology News
February 2009
Rebecca Sausner |
Will Coupons Kickstart Mobile Revenue? Visa and JP Morgan hope to send customers a coupon via SMS text messaging to encourage the use of mobile banking. |
Bank Technology News
September 2009
John Adams |
A Text Alert for Community Banks Crooks trick consumers into turning over personal information by sending dishonest text alerts to customers' mobile phones, often warning of fraudulent activity to mimic a security alert that an actual bank would send. |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Catherine Seda |
A Gr8 Way 2 Win Customers Get into your customers' pockets with SMS advertising. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 11, 2008
Orla O'Sullivan |
U.K. Banks Now Charge for Mobile Banking Britain's top banks have begun charging their mobile banking customers for text messages -- typically the equivalent of $5 or $6 a month to subscribe to messages sent by the bank plus 50 cents every time a customer requests information. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Visa Worth the Price? It's a phenomenal company, but its new stock is expensive. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 8, 2008
Orla O'Sullivan |
Mobile Banking a Money Maker for U.K. Banks The U.K.'s top banks recently began charging customers for text alerts, typically the equivalent of $5 or $6 a month to subscribe to a message service from the bank plus 50 cents every time a customer requests information via text. |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 25, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Google Partnership Key to Visa Mobile Payments Strategy Payments giant will offer m-payments services on Android-enabled mobile phones. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Visa Powers Ahead ... But Is It Cheap? Visa is doing fantastic, no doubt about it. But how much longer can cash-strapped consumers keep charging up their credit cards, and is Visa a good investment today? |
U.S. Banker
July 2007
Joseph Salesky |
Mobile-Phone Banking: Coming to a Bank Near You The mobile phone is moving beyond voice communication and is poised to change the landscape with mobile banking. |
Entrepreneur
October 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
Get the Message? SMS technology could bring mobile commerce within your reach. Netpace's technology will allow customers to bill Internet transactions made on their cell phones to their Verizon accounts rather than their credit cards. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2007
Mike Elgan |
Text Messaging On Steroids Joopz is a Web site that lets you send SMS text messages from a Web browser. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Sell Visa. Now. Meeting future lofty expectations will likely result in less-than-awesome returns for Visa. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Better Investment: Visa or MasterCard? Visa and MasterCard both reported full-year 2009 results last week. So let's weigh 'em in, unpack the numbers, and declare a winner. |
Bank Technology News
December 2007
Rebecca Sausner |
SMS Use Overtakes The Web at FNB South Africa's FNB Bank rolled out mobile banking in 1999. Soon, users of its SMS banking format will outnumber those customers using Internet banking. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2009
Seth Porges |
How to Email Text Messages to Any Phone The key is to use what are known as SMS gateways. These are backdoors that transform other (usually less expensive) types of communications, such as e-mail and instant messages, into text messages. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2009 |
SMS, iPhone, Android Under Attack at Black Hat A series of researchers take the stage showing both operating system and carrier issues with SMS security. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Buy Visa Today There are lots, but here are three biggies. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2010 |
Droid X Fans Annoyed By Android 2.2 SMS Bug Droid X users say updated Android 2.2 mobile OS has a bug that keeps new texts from surfacing at the top of their messaging list. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2010
Kris Eddy |
A Shift Away From Paying With Plastic Smartphone software could bump the swiping of credit and debit cards to the side, taking business away from card companies and banks, as well as hardware and security providers. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2010 |
SMS-Sending Trojan Hits Android Devices Security software firm Kaspersky Lab has detected a Trojan that hides itself in a media player application to send text messages to premium numbers and run up users' wireless service bills. |
PHONE+
October 21, 2009
Amanda Berkey |
Text Your Way to Marketing Success Here are some examples of how text messaging can be used to target and communicate with customers in a business-to-business setting. |
Bank Technology News
September 2008
John Adams |
Text, Set, Match As part of a promotion for its burgeoning mobile banking service, Chase gave away thousands of tickets to this year's US Open tennis tournament in New York City via a campaign that used mobile technology as a vital component. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2009
Lloyd Constantine |
Let's End the Debit Card Fee-for-All The Fed needs to start exercising oversight over debit-card fees. |
Bank Technology News
November 2009
John Adams |
HSBC's Pipe Work Sends Texts Down the Drain First Direct's erroneously sending customers text messages with other people's transaction details earlier this fall sends a message of distrust to consumers. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2010
April Taylor |
2 Stocks That May Spring a Leak Visa and MasterCard have benefited mightily from consumers' shift from paper to plastic, garnering fees on each transaction. Will these companies' moats survive 2011? |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Credit Cards Get Even Easier Paying by credit card is, in many places, becoming a faster way to pay. Investors, remember that credit cards are big business. Many banks sporting high dividends and are likely to keep making money off credit cards in the years ahead. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
David Murphy |
Text-Messaging Resources Take your SMS experience to the next level with these handy and (mostly) free services. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
Sham Gad |
Visa's Big Deal The upcoming $19 billion IPO of Visa is kind of a big deal. In fact, if all goes as planned, it could be the largest IPO in U.S. history |
Bank Technology News
January 2010
Michael Sisk |
Texting The Call Center Many banks offer text-based alerts around account balances, but two-way interactions are generally limited to transactional information; and capabilities have not progressed much in the past year. Now there are signs that consumers are growing disenchanted. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Texting Your Google Search The company extends its reach to mobile users through SMS search service. |
Entrepreneur
July 2007
Jennifer Pellet |
New Way to Pay Looking for a way to offer customers greater payment convenience? A mobile platform recently introduced by Visa is paving the way for merchants to accept payments from cell phones - though the technology has yet to reach the States. |
Bank Technology News
August 2009
Daniel Wolfe |
Traditional Texts Hang Tough in a Sea of Innovation While smart phones get exponentially smarter and app stores burst at the seams, banks and consumers are not only still using basic text messaging - the mode is maturing to mainstream status. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2004
John R. Quain |
The 411 on SMS Send a text query using SMS on a cell phone, and a text reply will provide address and phone number listings. That can amount to significant savings for people paying $1.25 to call 411. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 30, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
Tripping Over Wireless Technology Banks move slowly toward adopting wireless technology as a channel and as an internal tool. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Never Pay This Fee Again Foreign transaction fees on credit cards are starting to disappear. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
Larry Greenemeier |
Growth Can Be Risky Business Most banks are expecting healthy growth over the next few years on the strength of their retail banking operations, according to a recent study. But are banks focusing enough on the issue of data security? |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
This Is All You've Got, Visa? As consumers pull back, Visa's growth goes up in smoke. |
U.S. Banker
June 2011 |
Just Relax Mobile alerts features are pretty standard across the industry, but JPMorgan Chase's mobile alerts stand out in a recent survey. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
Gift Cards with a Personal Touch Put your photo or special messages on gift cards - they're Visa's bid to regain share from stores and restaurants. |
Bank Technology News
May 2010
Daniel Wolfe |
Visa's CyberSource Buy Is an Anti Fraud Play Visa Inc.'s planned purchase of CyberSource Corp. shows the company's pursuit of mobile and online commerce also includes an eye on security risks. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 17, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Citi to be First U.S. Bank to Deploy MasterCard inControl New card features will let customers set SMS alerts, spending controls by the end of 2010. |
Insurance & Technology
August 5, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Santam Launches Text-based Fraud Hotline Cape Town-based short-term insurer Santam launched a new fraud-reporting program that relies on SMS (short message service) text messaging. |
CIO
June 9, 2009
Gary Beach |
Text Messaging at Work Text messaging may drive top-line results, such as improving customer satisfaction. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 4, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Wells Fargo Expands Popular Small Biz Mobile Banking Program The bank has been seeing double-digit growth every month for for its small business mobile banking offering. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2009 |
Mobile's Growing Power and Reach on Display Companies look to bring more capabilities to mobile platforms, including a social app store and enhanced voice recognition. |
Bank Technology News
May 2001
Louise West |
Visa Speeds Up Move to Chip in Europe Visa has announced an investment program designed to accelerate the move to smart cards in an effort to combat increasing card fraud in Europe... |
