{"id":127709,"date":"2019-04-18T23:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=242911"},"modified":"2019-04-18T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:34:01","slug":"t-mobile-makes-fresh-financial-services-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/18\/t-mobile-makes-fresh-financial-services-play\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile makes fresh financial services play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tT-Mobile US revived its mobile banking ambitions with the formal launch of T-Mobile Money, a move first rumoured [1] in November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The service is being offered in partnership with BankMobile, a division of Customers Bank, and while it is open to all consumers, T-Mobile&#8217;s post-paid customers get a preferential interest rate.<\/p>\n<p>Among the services on offer through a mobile app are cheque deposits and payments; direct debits; bill payments; and transfers. Accounts can be linked to Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, with Mastercard supplying debit cards.<\/p>\n<p>John Legere, T-Mobile CEO, said in a statement \u201cas more and more people use their smartphones to manage money, we saw an opportunity to address another customer pain point\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to marking the operator&#8217;s return to the financial services sector after it abandoned a previous banking effort in 2016, T-Mobile Money is also its latest play to capitalise on opportunities in verticals outside its traditional wireless business.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the operator made moves around mobile TV [2], as well as home broadband [3] and merchant payments [4] plays.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, Legere said the operator was targeting disruption [5] in a number of segments including the medical industry, banking and consumer goods.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/t-mobile-us-poised-for-second-banking-bid\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/t-mobile-makes-tv-play\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/t-mobile-commences-home-broadband-trial\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/t-mobile-makes-merchant-payments-play\/<br \/>\n[5] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/t-mobile-eyes-another-outside-play\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile US revived its mobile banking ambitions with the formal launch of T-Mobile Money, a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/t-mobile-makes-fresh-financial-services-play\/\">T-Mobile makes fresh financial services play<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/18\/t-mobile-makes-fresh-financial-services-play\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,4654,2047,2329,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-xdP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127710,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127709\/revisions\/127710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}