A recent study from the Gartner Group shows that 59 percent of United States banks will be ramping up their mobile banking services within the next two years.

Firethorn now supports mobile banking for more than 3,000 U.S. financial institutions in their carrier-preloaded mobile wallet, which has the potential to be extremely valuable for both mobile payments and mobile marketing.

PeoplesBank is offering customers a downloadable application that gives them access to mobile banking and payment services through the iPhone.

Texas Gulf Bank has launched mobile banking services to attract a new, younger audience already accustomed to living their lives on the go.

Money-transfer giant the Western Union Co. is extending the reach and accessibility of its money transfer services with mobile finance initiatives in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

YellowPepper, a provider of mobile financial services in Latin America, has launched YellowPepper Mony, a new service targeted to the unbanked.

ABI Research predicts that 407 million people will use their mobile phones to carry out financial transactions with their banks by 2015.

A new study by Mercatus LLC found that consumers’ interest in remote deposit capture is strong enough to alter the current deposit process of banks.

A new survey from the Mobile Marketing Association and Luth Research found that 17 percent of all adults in the United States currently use mobile banking, a sign that consumers are embracing the service.

Mobile banking and payment service provider ClairMail Inc. has extended its clients’ mobile Web experience to Android and BlackBerry devices.