The plunge into mobile banking is quickening – adoption, said the experts, is occurring much faster than happened with online banking, which took 10+ years to become entrenched in our lives.

Mobile is doing it twice as fast, and the data points keep exploding. A for instance: Bank of America just put out a press release celebrating its 10 millionth mobile banking customer (active users have grown by 3 million in just the past year). The release quoted a B of A executive saying the institution now sees more than $1 billion in mobile transactions every week.

Mobile is becoming the globe's dominant form of Internet access – by 2015 more people in the U.S. will access the Internet via mobile devices than any other way, said researchers at IDC in a report a few months ago, and if anything that day may come sooner.

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