Banking Put

Singapore lender United Overseas Bank (UOBH.SI) said it plans to grow its private banking arm to tap the growing number of wealthy individuals in Singapore and the region. UOB, the city-state's third...

Consumers are quickly adopting smartphones, but they’re not using them for mobile banking.

EdServ Softsystems Ltd has inked a deal with CAClubIndia.com, the online platform for financial professionals, to deliver coaching content to its 6 lakh students.

Vernon-based Rockville Financial Inc. is venturing beyond its traditional home base in Hartford, Tolland, and New London counties to open its first commercial banking office in New Haven County, bank...

Eight banks fail the European Banking Authority Stress Tests

View of the headquarters of Helaba bank in Frankfurt. In a gloomy development on Wednesday, German regional bank Helaba announced it had failed to pass recent stress tests on Europe's embattled banking...

Eurostoxx 50: 2,714.83 (+21.30) Frankfurt DAX: 7,268.42 (+94.28) Paris CAC: 3,792.05 (+17.92)

Banks need to refocus on their essential social and economic functions if they are to rebuild trust in the eyes of the public, argued the head of the UK’s Financial Services Authority in September....

Today’s announcement by Woolworths that it is to move into mobile telco services with Optus paves the way for the retailer to offer debit and/or loyalty card products via mobile devices. ...

Mobile banking start-up Mobank launched last month with a mobile payments offering pitched squarely and Generation Y.In this 20 minute interview I chat to co-founder Steve Townend about how Mobank evolved,...

Mobile phone penetration in Australia has been stable for the past two years, with 92 per cent of the population owning a mobile phone according to research from Nielsen Media Group.As would be expected...

If you started a bank from scratch today, what would it look like?Would you build branches, a call centre, a user-friendly web offering, and tack on a raft of convenient access points to enable customers...

Almost twelve months since launching the first mobile banking to market, Suncorp has embraced customer feedback to add new services and features. Both personal and business customers have benefited...

Microloans have been a staple of online nonprofits for a while. The success of Kiva is both astounding and heartwarming. Yet micro lending is reaching a new audience; every day customers who find themselves...