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Online banking was not only popular with the youngest consumers—it was the top response of all those under age 55. Older bank customers still preferred their local branch (26%) and ATMs (17%), but the popularity of branches and ATMs was down in all age groups from 2008. “It tells us that for the first time, more consumers prefer the speed and convenience of conducting their banking transactions on the Internet than visiting their local branch,” said Nessa Feddis, ABA senior counsel and retail banking expert.

Internet Is Top Banking Method - eMarketer

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007295
http://mootee.typepad.com/innovation_playground/2009/09/what-are-next-big-innovations-for-persoal-banking.html What are the next disruptions for personal financial services?

What Are Next Big Innovations For Personal Banking? Yes, The Cur

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1460751

Users as Service Innovators: The Case of Banking Services by Eri

Many services can be self-provided. An individual user or a user firm can, for example, choose to do its own accounting – choose to self-provide that service - instead of hiring an accounting firm to provide it.
Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY . http://mashable.com/2009/09/11/banks-social-media/

5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media

ENVISIONING

http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/Envisioning.aspx Social bookmarking lets you store, organize, rate, share, and reach your favorite web links from any computer.
http://www.bankdirector.com/magazine/archives/3rd-quarter-2009/socal-media-savvy When ShoreBank of Chicago introduced an online high-yield savings account, it built a microsite laden with social media tools to help promote it.

Bank Director Magazine - Socal Media Savvy

Visible Banking: 7 Reasons You MUST Check the Newly Redesigned O

I have already sent a few updates on twitter about the newly redesigned OPEN Forum community (check the email sent to their members on the left handside), but it is such a good redesign that it is worth dedicating a few minutes this afternoon to write a proper post on Visible Banking . http://clanglois.blogs.com/internet_banking/2009/07/7-reasons-you-must-check-the-newly-redesigned-openforum-the-online-community-for-smes-powered-by-.html
TJ runs http://www.TechBizTalk.com | A review, how-to, and tutorial site to help you discover the top new web-based applications and services for your growing company. http://www.openforum.com/topics/innovation

Innovation : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum

Faster data access through 3G networks, as well as wider adoption of smartphones—and the apps that go with them—has helped boost usage of mobile banking, according to the “Mobile Financial Services: The Market Today & Opportunities for Tomorrow” report from comScore . Convenience is a major appeal of mobile banking, and to achieve it users take advantage of various access methods.

Mobile Banking: Anytime, Anyplace - eMarketer

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007182
I look forward to contributing to a high-profile roundtable discussion on 'banking for the youths' organized and hosted by Google in Paris later today. http://clanglois.blogs.com/internet_banking/2009/06/23-ways-to-reach-the-youths-banking-on-social-media.html

Visible Banking: 23 Ways to Reach The Youths Banking on Social M

Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (he has other addresses too, so don’t worry if you have a different one). → Learn More

Mint Turns Personal Finance Into A Game. It’s Better Than It Sou

Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Top 10 Investment/Finance Websites - February 2009

Among the online brands offering to help you manage your spending and savings through account aggregation—that is, compiling information from disparate sources including banks, brokerages and credit card companies—is Mint.com , which moved out of the beta stage in late 2008. (In this article we’ll be focusing on the online branding elements of Mint.com. Several other sources already have test-driven the financial-management features of the site.)

Mint.com | Wesabe | Marc Hedlund | Aaron Patzer | Financial Bran

CeBIT '09 - Surface App for Financial Planning | Lori Grosl

Unlike previous years, I was only at the CeBIT this year for one day. It was one exhausting day, but I managed to get several cool Surface demos on video before I caught my flight back to Munich. In this video, Thorsten Eberhardt from Avanade shows me their Microsoft Surface wealth management application for use in financial planning.