BlackBerry news from FierceFinanceIT

Will other banks follow Morgan Stanley's (NYSE: MS) lead and launch more iPhone and iPad apps? The "Morgan Stanley Research App" allows institutional clients to view analysts work on more than 2,600... Read more...

Better late than never. TD Bank is the last of the top 10 U.S. banks to embrace the mobile revolution. But it's bent on entering the arena in a huge way. It's fair to say the latecomer has gotten... Read more...

Card issuers seemed like winners in the mobile payment derby, as most systems depended at some point on charging a debit or a credit card. But an inchoate movement is promoting not credit or debit... Read more...

Banks have long standardized their smartphone plans on the BlackBerry. It was after all email-addicted investment bankers that gave BlackBerry-maker RIM its initial dedicated core of high-profile... Read more...

The Bank of Montreal, PayPass and RIM are teaming up to offer an adhesive strip that can be added to BlackBerries, to enable contactless payments. The firms are rolling out the technology in a trial... Read more...

USAA Federal Savings Bank is a single branch operation in San Antonio, Texas, in a military-focused niche, but it offers a view of how smaller institutions might be able to leverage technology to... Read more...

We noted recently that E*Trade was bent on beefing up its mobile offering, relying in part on technology from Vaultus and BlackBerry. Now it has launched an iPhone and iTouch app. It seems that more... Read more...

E*Trade and other discount brokerages seem to be betting on mobile trading as a must-offer solution. While mobile trading is hardly new at the online brokers, E*Trade made a big move late last year... Read more...

New software from a few companies can turn an iPhone into a machine that can authorize credit card payments via the iPhone and iTouch handsets, according to Finextra. So you could be your own mobile... Read more...

We've long noted that the key to BlackBerry defending its Wall Street turf against the iPhone and other competitors may be applications--both in-house and external. Will some of these apps be... Read more...