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Mobile Finance: The New Tsunami of Spending/Saving

Event Interactive 2011
Format Panel
Organizer Cyriac Roeding shopkick
Description From overdraft alerts to mobile coupons, in-stock alerts to one-time deals – smart phones are changing the way we manage, control, spend and save our money. Online personal finance apps and finance 2.0 have paved the way for money-minded startups to kick-start mobile innovation with traditional retailers and financial institutions. This panel will discuss the specific ways the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms have changed consumers’ spending/saving habits, how retailers and financial institutions are adapting, and the role technology startups have played—even identifying the open, tantalizing tech opportunities.
Questions
Answered
  1. How have mobile technologies changed the way consumers manage, spend and save their money?
  2. How has consumers’ confidence and trust in web-based financial technologies shaped the way they use mobile financial tools?
  3. How can iPhone, Android and Blackberry app developers create apps that capitalized on consumers that spend, save and/or manage their money via phones?
  4. What are financial institutions doing to adapt to the changes mobile technologies have created in personal finance? And where can new technologies still play a role?
  5. What are traditional retailers doing to adapt to the changes mobile technologies have created in consumer spending habits? And what technologies are still needed?
Level Intermediate
Category Other
Tags Mobile Technologies, personal finance, Shopping