Dear Subscriber,

In today’s newsletter, guest author Lee Cottle of Push Technology looks into the popularity of mobile banking, and the dilemma that banks experience when trying to juggle the joint demands of data and consumers on their mobile banking apps.

Plus, did you know that you will soon be able to use voice commands to shop right from your car? Alara Basul reports on a collaboration between Amazon and Ford Motors that will allow consumers to make purchases from behind the wheel using Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant, Alexa.

Enjoy!

It’s no secret that customers increasingly prefer to use mobile banking apps to manage their cash ‘on-the-go’ over online banking.

The increase of ATMs installed away from bank branches is being driven factors including the banks’ efforts to be more cost-effective and the rise of independent ATM deployers, new research from RBR suggests.

Ford Motor Co and Amazon have announced a collaboration that will see Amazon’s Alexa integrated into Ford vehicles as a voice-activated digital assistant.

IZettle, Square’s European rival, has raised €60m ($63.4m) in new funding and has also appointed a new CFO, Maria Hedengren.