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Visa Launches Education-Based Financial iPhone App

Visa introduced last month an app for iPhone and iPad meant to help young people improve their financial literacy.
The Practical Money Skills Calculators app includes calculators to help you make financial choices and saving tips to help you learn the basics.
Calculators Provide Education, Information
The list of calculators provided by the app is long and comprehensive. A variety of cost calculators are included within the app, including auto, credit/debt, education/college, and home ownership costs.
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Make Mobile Payments on iPhone, iPad with MasterCard MoneySend App

MasterCard made official Thursday its foray into the mobile payments market with MasterCard MoneySend, a money transfer app available for iPhone and iPad.
MoneySend is a free app and is available in the iPhone App Store.
Send, Receive Money With Your iPhone
MoneySend allows users to send money to or request money from people in the U.S. via their mobile device. The transfers, which go through banks and credit unions, can be performed using either an existing MasterCard account or a standard bank account.
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Chase Text Alerts Help You Avoid Overdraft Fees

It’s getting harder and harder to rack up costly fees by overdrawing your account.
The government mandated that banks must stop automatically enrolling customers in expensive overdraft protection programs, and Chase just rolled out its Instant Action Alerts service.
Chase’s new service helps you stay updated on your account balance by sending you a text message whenever your balance dips below a certain amount. You can also use the service to perform transactions with Chase.
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Mobile Banking Apps Bring Security Questions

It seems managing money via mobile device is becoming more convenient by the day. But at the same time, worries are arising about the security of mobile banking.
In the old days (just a year or two ago), mobile banking entailed syncing your phone with your account to check your balances.

Verifone PayWare Mobile to Compete with Square for Mobile Payment Services

We knew that when Square announced its mobile credit card reader, competitors would spring up, we just didn’t know when. Verifone’s PayWare Mobile credit card reader, announced back in December, went live on the iTunes App Store this month with its software/hardware combination credit card reader for the iPhone.

2010 Will Be Milestone Year in Mobile Banking Security

With mobile devices being used more often for everyday banking transactions, consumers are showing an increased concern that the information passed over these devices is secure. Secure mobile messaging supplier CellTrust predicts 2010 to be a big year for advances in secure mobile banking.
Rise of Mobile Banking

MoBank Launches First All-Mobile Financial Services Company in Europe

The next innovation in mobile banking technology may be here. Today, UK-based company announced a comprehensive mobile banking service that combines the functions of bill pay servicers, mobile banking applications, and account aggregators, all into a one-stop-shop on your iPhone or Palm Pre.

More Than Just a Mobile Banking App

Online and Mobile Banking Provide Opportunity to Rebuild Trust Between Banks and Consumers, Says MasterCard CFO

Lawrence Flanagan, the Chief Financial Officer of MasterCard, recently had a little heart-to-heart with Forbes about the need to rebuild trust between financial institutions and consumers.
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Angry Consumers in a Digital Age

Real-time Traffic GPS for the iPhone

Soon. As in, October-soon.
It looks like the first iPhone app to bring us real-time traffic alerts, and that comes with offline maps, will be the Navigon MobileNavigator (Earlier CNET review. iTunes Store link.)

Do You Want RFID in Your Mobile Phone?

Håkan Djuphammar, VP of Systems Architecture for Ericsson, made a prediction recently that all new mobile phones sold after Summer 2010 would have two-way RFID chips in them that would allow them to act as a tag or a reader.
If what you just read sounds like technobabble, watch this short news excerpt to get up to speed. Even if you’re not interested in technology, you should learn about the possibilities and the dangers of RFID:

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