Mobile banking

Royal Bank of Canada has updated its mobile app to enable personal banking users to ask Siri to pay their bills on iPhone and iPad.

Citigroup is expanding its payments partnership to allow its card members to use their ThankYou rewards points for purchases at PayPal checkout in the U.S.

N26 will soon add insurance service to go along with its mobile payments, and credit and savings accounts.

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

This morning the bank owned P-to-P network, Zelle, is formally going live, enabling direct transfer of funds across thirty U.S. financial institutions over the course of the next twelve months. There are a lot of questions around whether it can compete with the current kings of P-to-P — Venmo and its parent company PayPal — but Zelle may not be aiming to take them head-on just yet.

Wells Fargo is expanding its fintech accelerator so it is better positioned to connect with customers through channels like the internet of things.

Current, an app debuting Tuesday, updates the joint account for an era of tweens with smartphones.

Bank of America has added new features to its mobile banking app in an effort to build flexibility in mobile wallet options and more closely tie payments to financial services.