Citi Cards and Firethorn Holdings, a Qualcomm company, have announced a 'strategic relationship to enable Citi credit cardmembers to easily and securely access real-time account information anytime, anywhere on their wireless handsets. The new service is expected to be available to Citi credit card customers across the U.S. by the third quarter this year.'   » Continue Reading

Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm's Firethorn Holdings have announced that customers of Wachovia, SunTrust, FirstBank, and BancorpSouth, now have access to their accounts "in the palms of their hands."   » Continue Reading

Kelly Hill of RCR Wireless News interviews Tripp Rackley, CEO of Firethorn Holdings (being acquired by Qualcomm). "In 2008, Rackley said he expects to see more movement in what he calls the “alternative payments” space, including gift cards and money transfers, including international remittances. Also, he expects to see financial institutions making “mass decisions” in those areas, as well as laying out tactical objectives for their involvement in the mobile space."

Qualcomm has announced it has agreed to acquire Atlanta-based Firethorn Holdings for approximately $210 million in cash. Completion of the acquisition, which is subject to certain closing conditions, is expected within 30 days.   » Continue Reading

AT&T has announced "the launch of a comprehensive, easy-to-use mobile banking platform that will enable consumers to view account balances and history, transfer funds and pay bills from their AT&T mobile handsets."   » Continue Reading

Firethorn Holdings and Verizon Wireless have announced "a new strategic relationship that will provide Verizon Wireless customers with the ability to easily interact with their financial institutions using Firethorn's mobile financial services application."   » Continue Reading

Glenbrook's Bryan Derman filed the following report tonight from today's Finovate 1.0 Conference in New York City.   » Continue Reading

AT&T has added a page to its website describing the mobile banking services it is introducing in partnership with Firethorn as part of a strategic alliance announced last November. The page features a banner saying "Safe Banking on the Go", emphasizing security and lists BancorpSouth as currently offering mobile banking with Wachovia, SunTrust, Synovus, and 1st Bank listed as "coming soon". Brandon McGee writes a bit about it on the Mobile Money & Banking blog.

Firethorn and CheckFree have announced that "Ogden, Utah- based America First Credit Union, one of the nation's 10 largest credit unions, will offer the Firethorn mobile banking solution to its 432,000 members."   » Continue Reading

Business Week takes a look at mobile banking and payments - including Citibank's pilot with Obopay, PayPal Mobile, Firethorn and First Data's efforts including last week's investment in VIVOtech.

Firethorn Holdings has confirmed that "Verizon Wireless is working with Firethorn to introduce its mobile banking and payments solution. The announcement demonstrates growing support among the nation's leading wireless carriers for Firethorn's unique federation strategy for making the mobile banking and payments marketplace."   » Continue Reading

AT&T and Firethorn have announced that Wachovia, Regions and SunTrust Banks have selected Firethorn's mobile banking and payments solution to provide their customers with anytime, anywhere access to their financial information and transactions capabilities.   » Continue Reading

Earlier this month, Firethorn announced a partnership with CheckFree to deliver mobile banking and bill payment services to financial institutions. Subsequently, Firethorn announced it was teaming with Cingular Wireless for its service and announced Synovus as its initial financial institution customer. In this article, we take a quick look at Firethorn's new mobile banking service based on the information on the company's web site and from its press releases.   » Continue Reading

Firethorn Holdings has announced an agreement with Synovus to offer its mobile technology solution to the financial services company's customers by the end of second quarter 2007. Synovus will be one of the first financial institutions in the country to offer the Firethorn application.   » Continue Reading

Firethorn Holdings has announced a strategic alliance with Cingular Wireless to bring mobile banking and payments services to Cingular Wireless customers. Atlanta-based Firethorn says it is the only mobile banking and payments provider Cingular has authorized on its network. Sarmad Ali reports on the Firethorn/Cingular deal for the Wall St. Journal.   » Continue Reading

CheckFree has introduced a suite of Online Channel Optimization Solutions the company says is "designed to help financial institutions expand their reach and generate opportunities to acquire new customers at reduced cost, build deeper customer relationships to increase retention, and drive revenue growth and profitability by leveraging up-sell and cross-sell opportunities."   » Continue Reading

CheckFree and Firethorn Holdings have announced an exclusive partnership agreement to deliver mobile banking and bill payment services to financial institutions.   » Continue Reading