Mobile banking is expected to continue to rise by 2013 with a half billion consumers using the services, according to a study from Juniper Research.

According to a new Juniper Research study, mobile couponing is poised to reach redemption rates of 8 percent by 2016.

Mobile retail marketing is predicted to rake in $15 billion in 2012, a 50 percent growth from 2011, according to a study from Juniper Research.

Rapid growth in mobile ticketing, Near Field Communication and purchases of physical goods will help drive up the volume of mobile payments, which are expected to total $670 billion by 2015, according to Juniper Research.

With the exponential growth of feature and smartphones, mobile payments have taken off and are predicted to grow 40 percent and reach $2.5 billion globally by 2015, according to Juniper Research.

Global near field communication mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014, with the United States starting to catch up to other countries, according to a study by Juniper Research.

One in five smartphones will have near field communication capabilities by 2014, according to Juniper Research.

Juniper Research predicts that mobile content revenues will increase by more than 15 percent this year as more consumers adopt smartphones and increasingly become part of the mobile app craze.

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is going on right now and there are a number of hot topics emerging at this year’s event, according to Juniper Research.

Multiple reports are adding fuel to the fire of rumors that Apple’s iPhone 5 will be embedded with a near field communication chip, a move that could shoot mobile payments into the stratosphere.