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.

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

PNC Bank is the first major bank to offer secure person-to-person money transfers to anyone with a United States-based banking account in an effort to cater to consumers’ recent change in payment habits.

PNC Financial Services and First Hawaiian Bank have rolled out person-to-person mobile payments commercially.