Mobile Apps

Report: Mobile Apps for Banking 2013

Banking Apps – A Few Excellent, Majority Still Offering Basics Only
The overall quality of mobile apps for banking is increasing, but there is still a critical lack of more advanced, user-friendly features and content. Compared to the 2011 edition of this report, the sheer number of banking apps and app features have grown explosively, accompanied by an improvement in overall quality, with the average rating increasing from 35 to 40 out of 60 points in 2013.... more

Report: Mobile Apps for Financial Advisors 2013

Mobile Apps for Financial Advisors Revolutionizing Client Interaction in Wealth Management
Mobile solutions for financial advisors to support client interaction and the advisory processes will become one of the most industry-disruptive, but potentially most rewarding developments in the wealth management sector. This is the main finding of the new MyPrivateBanking Research report which analyses the mobile solutions for wealth management and financial advisors offered by ten leading software vendors.... more

Apps lack functions to register and track claims

Insurance Apps Fail Clients When Really Needed
Mobile Apps of insurance companies fail at providing the most basic interactive functions for the user, such as features to ask for an offer/quote, register a claim and check the status of their claim. As a result the insurers forgo their mobile apps’ potential to support clients in their time of need as well as losing opportunites to win new clients.... more

Report: Mobile Apps for Insurance 2012

Insurance Companies Miss Potential of Mobile Apps
Adoption of mobile apps in the insurance industry is still at a very early stage. For our new report we benchmarked a total of more than 100 apps offered by 30 leading insurance companies worldwide. The overall winner of the app ranking is the French AXA insurance group, followed by the AEGON group in second place and AVIVA in third. But less than 10% of global insurers have comprehensive app strategy ... more

Mobile Apps Survey

Banking Apps Weak On Many Features Users Look For
Of the 10 most important features user expect of their banking mobile apps, for only three is provision by the banks adequate. This is a leading finding of a survey by MyPrivateBanking Research, in which we compared the features integrated into the mobile apps from world’s 50 top banks with the needs voiced by the users of banking apps. ... more

2011 Mobile Applications Report

Global Banks Offer Surprisingly Few Good Mobile Apps
The mobile applications of Deutsche Bank and the French bank Caisse d'Epargne come out as winners in a benchmarking of a total of almost 200 mobile apps, offered by the world´s top 50 banks. Scoring 40 points out of 60 with just a single app, Bank of China is the winner in the category of best standalone banking app. Surprisingly, only one US-based bank has made it into the Top10 of... more

MyPrivateBanking Survey

Wealth Managers Slow to Adopt Mobile Apps
New research by MyPrivateBanking Research finds that only half of the world’s 30 most important banks and wealth managers offer mobile applications for their clients. Even worse, only three providers (10%) go beyond applications related to online banking.... more