Mobile Money: Consumers almost ready to swipe everything

TORONTO - Canadian smartphone users are dying to use their devices more to bank, shop and send money to family and friends.In fact, well over a third (38%) use a banking app already and those banking this way love it, with 96% of them reporting satisfaction with their mobile banking applications. Why? It’s easy, portable and fast.Solutions Research Group surveyed 419 smartphone users in late April to gauge their usage of, and interest in, the various mobile money options in the market now – and ones whose launches are imminent for its 2011 Mobile Money and Banking Report.In 14 months...