New Unwired Banking solution extends choice in mobile banking services, supports any online banking system
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Unwired Nation™, a mobile platform provider powering hundreds of mobile banking applications in partnership with an leading online banking provider, announced the availability of its next-generation mobile banking platform, Unwired Banking™ meeting the needs of community-focused financial institutions in the US. Unwired Banking enables these financial institutions to extend their brand and personal-banking relationships beyond brick and mortar to their retail customers' smartphones.
"Customers prefer the ease of use and convenience of banking on their smartphone. We believe that every community financial institution deserves a mobile app as good as Bank of America's, and that is what Unwired Banking provides," said Chere Heintzmann, CEO of Unwired Nation.
"Unwired Banking brings community financial institutions the features that their customers are demanding today in a mobile banking app, and will meet their needs for future-forward features like mobile payments and biometric security, all with one revolutionary platform," said Dana Bowers, founder of iPay Technologies and Digital Compliance, LLC.
Unwired Banking provides a superior next-generation, integration-free alternative to existing online banking providers such as Fiserv™, Jack Henry & Associates™, and Fidelity Information Services™ (FIS). Unwired's new platform, which currently supports Apple iOS and Google Android™ operating system, is pre-integrated for remote deposit capture ("RDC") and leverages Intuit™ for secure, real-time customer account data.
"It's all about choice. Unwired Banking empowers community financial institutions to adopt best-of mobile technology outside of their limited existing vendor ecosystem," said Steve Sybeldon, EVP of Financial Services for Unwired Nation. "As retail banking customers rapidly shift their preference away from traditional online banking services to mobile banking apps, Unwired Nation provides a branded, affordable, feature-rich platform that can be in the app store for customers in as little as two weeks. This is great news for our customers, who are often forced to wait as long as nine months for apps from their online banking providers."
For smaller community financial institutions serviced by Fiserv, Unwired Banking provides a compelling alternative to products like Touch Banking™.
"Our brand is important to us," said Joel Rosenberg, vice president of Valley Bank of Kalispell, Montana. "Unwired Banking will provide the kind of excellent user experience our customers deserve. Our customers will be able to download our app directly from the app store by searching for our bank. Other so-called 'affordable' solutions like Touch Banking require multiple steps to set up and download the application per customer. We felt that our customers deserved better. We're excited to be launching our mobile application powered by Unwired Banking in the near future."
Unwired Banking puts security front and center. Unwired Banking meets and exceeded FFIEC guidelines for security, and Unwired embraces advanced account security measures, supporting two-factor security of any existing online banking solution. In the near future, the company also plans to announce support for cross-platform mobile biometric security.
"Community banks and credit unions have lagged behind the largest financial institutions in the US with advanced mobile capabilities," said C. Eric Smith, the Unwired Nation's co-founder and vice president of Business Strategy. "Unwired Banking is built from the ground up to bring mobile technology advances to these institutions faster than ever before."
Unwired Nation is based in Austin, Texas. Unwired Banking is based on the Company's patented mobile application platform that enables it to scalably deploy and manage thousands of native apps for its customers.
For inquiries and information, please contact C. Eric Smith (Email) at 512-646-1503, or visit www.unwirednation.com.
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