There are many ways to bank. You can call your financial institution on the phone, go to the nearest brick-and-mortar branch, or hop online. While these are the most traditional ways of banking, there’s another option that’s quickly growing in popularity: mobile apps.
As we mention in one of our guides, mobile banking raked in some impressive stats in 2015:
- 15% of Bank of America’s customers began depositing their checks through the bank’s mobile app
- JPMorgan’s active mobile user base grew 20%
- Bank of America’s mobile user base grew 13%
- Wells Fargo ended the year with 16.2 million active mobile users, a 14% increase over 2014
To put this in perspective, for the fourth quarter of 2015, JPMorgan’s online user base grew only 8% and Bank of America’s grew only 2.5%.
The popularity of mobile banking is clear and the trend is not slowing down. In fact, mobile banking is actually expanding into several different mobile channels. I came across a nice comparison chart from Wells Fargo that defines the tasks you can actually perform with each type of mobile banking channel, along with some of their features and benefits.
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