They provided a central location for campaign events, for phone banking and for data collection.
In emerging markets, mobile phone banking is growing because of the lack of infrastructure.
Kenyan sugar cane cutters are earning more money because of a mobile phone banking system supported by IBM.
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We are looking for ways to expand mobile phone banking and to use local merchants to accept deposits through point-of-sale terminals.
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The bank has also introduced 24-hour phone banking to lure younger customers, and has started to diversify into leasing, insurance and annuities.
The McCain campaign, meanwhile, was having its volunteers in Virginia spend Election Day canvassing, phone banking and turning students out to vote, said Gail Gitcho, a McCain campaign spokeswoman.
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Retail bank branches may be the oldest legacy of all, but they have not been replaced by ATMs, direct deposit, standing orders for bill payment, travelers checks, credit cards, phone banking, Internet banking or mobile banking.
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The scheme will be administered by the Faster Payments service - which processed more than 800 million online and phone banking transactions in 2012 - and the Link network, which processed 3.1 billion cash machine withdrawals last year.
The organisation is a master of such long-established communication techniques as direct mailing, phone-banking and talk radio.
You can call and do phone-banking right from your living room, from the comfort of your own home.
Like driving people to the polls, phone-banking, walking door-to-door, etc.
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Instead of facing off with the police on Wall Street, if Occupiers wanted to do something really useful for the 99% they should have spent the day phone-banking for whomever they deem the more progressive candidate.
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In June 2012, 16 million customers of RBS, NatWest and Ulster bank had difficulties with cash withdrawals, phone and online banking and debit cards, which the bank blamed on a software update.
In particular, businesses such as cosmetics, automobiles, cell phone minutes and personal banking have become in high demand.
Still, Langone, no stranger to Wall Street, made a round of phone calls to top banking executives in the last few days to size up interest in pursuing a counter-offer for the NYSE.
Through some clever use of text messaging, a very basic phone can provide most basic banking services.
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But so are the phone system and our national banking networks.
According to the study, 21 percent of mobile phone owners have used mobile banking in the past twelve months, and an additional 11 percent think they will probably use it within the next year.
As CIO of the community bank, Wood is responsible for branches, ATMs, phone banks plus Internet and mobile banking.
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Nokia managed to more than quadruple its Windows Phone sales y-o-y banking, on the launch of just a couple of high-end Lumia models, the 920 and the 820.
That is when I realized in my lifetime it might be possible for everyone to have access to banking through his or her mobile phone.
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Rarely when questioned would a business person describe Africa as the continent that yields a minimum of 8% Returns on Investment, has 85% cell phone penetration in some countries, develops innovative banking solutions such as MPESA in Kenya, boasts robust stock exchanges in Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi or that the origins of PayPal are in South Africa.
Two-thirds of mobile banking users say they used their mobile phone to check an account balance or available credit before making a large purchase in the past twelve months.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail order, home banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
In the emerging world , the most famous mobile payments success is in Kenya, where M-Pesa , the P2P payments service of mobile phone supplier Safaricom, has effectively created an alternative banking and payments system.
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In Africa, where just about everyone has a mobile phone but only a minority have a bank account, banking on the move seemed the obvious answer to all sorts of problems.
What happened on the phone hacking scandal may be about to happen again on the banking scandal.
Research analysts at Goldman Sachs displayed commendable independence by dropping Vodafone from the bank's list of recommended shares, despite a close banking relationship between Goldman and the British mobile-phone giant.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail-order, home- banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Granted, your mobile banking application will load much faster, but if you lose your phone, that information will be available to anyone who finds it.
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