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Sometime in the spring of 2010, Canada’s Scotiabank will be offering “secure access to their bank accounts – anywhere, any time”. Besides checking your balance, this project will also allow customers to pay bills and make transfers. Scotiabank’s partner in this project, M-Com, looks like they mainly deal with secure WAP sites and SMS; M-Com also does apps, and Scotiabank senior VP Mike Henry has confirmed that there will be custom BlackBerry and iPhone apps available in addition to the website. Considering the mobile web offering, the Bank of Montreal’s latest advances into mobile with contactless PayPass Tags for BlackBerry target a much smaller and specific segment of cell phone users, though the service is infinitely snazzier. We’ll keep an eye out for specific functions once Scotiabank’s service launches next year, but you can check out M-Com in the meantime to get a feel for what might be coming.
[ScotiaBank via ITWorld]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
