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• AT&T experiences growth in wireless for Q2

  July 24, 2008

  Wireless growth continues for telecoms service provider AT&T in the second quarter with subscriber gains, wireless data revenues and improved margins.

• Verizon debuts mobile banking app for BlackBerry

  July 21, 2008

  Verizon Wireless has launched a mobile banking application for customers with the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones.

• Accenture develops contactless mobile payments technology

  July 15, 2008

  Consulting giant Accenture has opened a new facility at its research and development technology lab dedicated to the rapidly growing mobile payments industry.

• IBC Bank debuts bilingual mobile banking

  July 14, 2008

  IBC Bank has launched a bilingual mobile banking application to better serve its large base of Spanish-speaking customers.

• USAA offers banking, insurance and investing via mobile

  July 14, 2008

  Financial services company USAA has introduced mobile technology to let members meet their banking, insurance and investment needs via Web-enabled phones and PDAs.

• AT&T, Alltel to allow third-party billing on phone bill

  July 11, 2008

  Payment processor Global Electronic Technology Inc. is letting mobile phone subscribers of AT&T and Alltel pay for online goods and services via their handset.

• Washington Mutual launches mobile banking service

  July 10, 2008

  Washington Mutual Inc. has launched a free mobile banking platform that lets customers access account information and search for branch and ATM locations via their handset.

• Axa insurer targets over-25 for mobile quotes

  June 25, 2008

  Insurance giant Axa's swiftcover.com unit introduced a mobile site for British consumers to get car insurance quotes immediately from their mobile phone.

• Boeing employee credit union flies with mobile wallet

  June 24, 2008

  Aircraft manufacturer Boeing's employee credit union will next year launch a mobile wallet to let its members conduct mobile banking and payments activities through their phone.

• MasterCard enables mobile money transfers

  June 20, 2008

  MasterCard is letting customers conduct financial transactions via mobile phones.

• New Chase campaign targets Hispanics for mobile

  June 19, 2008

  Chase is running a new television advertising campaign aimed at raising awareness within the U.S. Hispanic community about many banking features, including Chase Mobile.

• Citibank eyes market for mobile money transfers

  June 18, 2008

  Citibank partnered with mobile payment enabler Obopay to let checking account customers try out a bank-linked mobile person-to-person payment service this summer.

• Chase runs text effort for U.S. Open tickets

  June 16, 2008

  Chase is letting consumers in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York try and win free tickets to the U.S. Open via a mobile campaign.

• E*Trade targets BlackBerry users with mobile service, ad campaign

  June 16, 2008

  Leading online trading and banking service E*Trade Securities LLC has strengthened its mobile presence with a new platform for the BlackBerry.

• Visa mobile effort gives taste of Signature Rewards card

  June 13, 2008

  How many ways to use a credit card? Visa answered that via a mobile campaign to give customers a taste of the opportunities that the Visa Signature Rewards Card offers to cardholders.

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