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Traditionally, cell phones are used for making or receiving calls and sending SMSs or Voice mails. However, the telecom companies have now found out new application of mobile phones. Using mobile phones, customers can now make monetary transactions. AT&T-owned Cingular Wireless has decided to provide mobile banking services in USA. For which, it has selected four major banks of the country. These are Wachovia Corp., Regions Financial Corp., SunTrust Banks Inc. and BancorpSouth Inc. The AT&T customers who have dealing with these financial institutions can use their cell phones to check account balances, payment of bills and money transactions. Firethorn Holding LLC has developed the mobile banking service for the Cingular Wireless. Cingular has announced that the new kind of service will be available for the BancorpSouth customers immediately and rest of banks by the end of this year. The customers need not to pay for the service except data usage fees. AT&T will develop software in the second half of this year for the handsets, which have to be used for the mobile banking services.


 
 
 

Citibank unveils mobile phone application for its customers


Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by admin
 

Now Citibank customers can check their bank balance, pay bills, transfer funds anywhere and anytime. Citibank, the leader in banking innovation has unveiled the first mobile banking application, named Citi Mobile for its customers. The Citi Mobile application will allow its customers to do banking while on the move. The Citi Mobile application can be easily downloaded onto mobile phones. Citi Mobile fulfills the customer needs with advanced mobile technology. It is user-friendly application, which is designed to rum on typical mobile phones as well as on high-end devices like Blackberry, smartphones. Users can simply use the arrow keys and navigate through Citi Mobile features. The Citi Mobile application would be upgraded automatically. Additionally, this application does not need any personal information about client. For vthe security purposes, the Citi Mobile has allowed to access those accounts only, which are already registered with the service. Citibank clients can easily access their everyday banking and navigate through menus like real-time balances, account activity, pay bills, set up feature payments, transfer money and also find financial centre or ATM. Even users can also connect to customer service representatives. Initially, the company is launching this service in California. Later on, a Spanish language version of Citi Mobile will also release. According to Charles Prince, Chairman and CEO, Citigroup Inc., Citibank is providing innovative applications to its customers. Via: Earth Times