Fingerprint Matching. Palm Print. Eye Scanning. Voice and Facial Recognition. Behaviometrics. Biometric authentication has been a fixture of the public imagination for decades in futuristic popular fiction.

The mobile “power users” of yesterday have become the average bank customers of 2013. What consumers want from mobile banking over the next few years?

While purchasing on a social network — called “social shopping” — is still in its infancy, the potential for this market is huge. Already 1 in 4 of all U.S. adults has made a purchase on a social network.

Alerts have reached an evolutionary turning point that requires rethinking how to use them to proactively strike up daily “conversations” with customers.

Data breaches, EMV, and mobile payments are key issues affecting the security of payment card data, including credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards.

The explosion of smartphones and tablets is revolutionizing the movement of money, from opening credit card accounts, to transferring card balances.

With today’s U.S. retail market of over $4 trillion up for grabs, no one entity has yet discovered how to claim their slice of mobile wallet revenue.

The first wave of consumers already is pulling out a smartphone or tablet to pay bills.

Mobile wallets are creating an enormous opportunity and an attractive target for investment, and consumer willingness to use mobile wallets is rising.

Consumers transferred over $1 trillion in 2012 using electronic channels, including both account-to-account (A2A) and person-to-person (P2P) payments.