First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG) launched a new mobile banking app for iPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerrys.
The app allows users to access account information, pay bills, execute internal transfers, and find branch and ATM locations. The banking company plans to add more features throughout 2013, including remote deposit capture, person to person payments, and an iPad app.
“We are truly thrilled to roll out mobile banking at First Niagara,” First Niagara Retail Planning Director Jay Clark said in a news release. “We have worked tirelessly to develop a service to exceed our customers’ expectations. We live in a highly mobile world. People are mobile, and now their banking is as well. We at First Niagara are committed to meeting the evolving needs of our customers.”
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First Niagara Bank has 430 branches, $36 billion in assets, and 6,000 employees in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
First Niagara is number four in the Syracuse metro area deposit market with 21 branches, more than $808 million in deposits, and a deposit market share of more than 7.5 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The bank is also number four in the Utica–Rome market with nine branches, $405.9 million in deposits, and a market share of about 11 percent.
The bank is number two in the Binghamton market with 10 branches, $342.5 million in deposits, and a market share of 12.8 percent.
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