In a continued effort to make banking more convenient and digitally
accessible for its customers, Huntington (NASDAQ: HBAN; www.huntington.com)
announced today the launch of its new iPad® application.
Huntington’s new iPad application (https://www.huntington.com/mobile/apps.html)
is free to download and is available now in the Apple App Store by
searching "Huntington iPad” on its site.
"At Huntington, our top priority is to create the best experience for
our customers. Consumers are now relying more on smart phones and iPads
for many things, including banking, which is why we’re introducing our
new iPad app,” said Mary Navarro, Huntington’s director of consumer and
business banking. "Our new iPad application is the next important step
for Huntington as we continue to build out our digital platform to
better meet our customers’ evolving needs.”
With Huntington’s new iPad application, users can search for a branch or
ATM, contact customer support and service areas, as well as learn more
about Huntington anytime, anywhere from their iPads. And customers
enrolled in Huntington Online Banking can pay bills, transfer funds, and
view real-time account balances and account activity from their iPads.
Jeff Dennes, Huntington’s online and mobile services director who joined
the bank last year as chief digital officer, was recently named the No.
1 innovator in 2011 by Bank Technology News (http://tinyurl.com/426ev2k)
and featured on the cover of its June issue. Dennes and his team
have developed an integrated digital roadmap for the bank. The adoption
of an innovative, cross-functional POD environment and development
center, a feature of many digital businesses in Silicon Valley, allowed
for more agile development of the bank’s iPad application.
"Our customers will eventually touch mobile devices, including tablets,
more often than a physical branch or an ATM. And they will increasingly
access their money and account information this way,” said Dennes. "We
want to make that experience consistent across all our mobile channels
and ensure it’s the best it can possibly be. Our new iPad application,
along with our recently-introduced mobile applications for Android and
iPhone, help us continue to deliver on what our customers have told us
they want in the mobile space."
Building Huntington’s new iPad application was led by the bank's new
digital development center in Columbus, Ohio. It developed the iPad app
utilizing leading mobile application platform provider, Kony Solutions.
Kony’s proven "Write
Once, Run Everywhere” platform enables applications to be changed
once for all channels, ensuring faster adoption of new operating
systems, devices and standards as they are introduced, while eliminating
maintenance, upgrade and future development costs.
"Having product, IT development and testing all sitting in the same POD
created a much more cohesive, collaborative environment that allowed us
to work together in an agile methodology. It made us more productive and
we were able to develop the app and deliver it to our customers more
quickly,” Dennes noted.
Huntington’s investment in convenience, including new mobile technology,
will continue and is an important part of the bank's differentiated
"Fair Play Banking" philosophy announced last fall with the introduction
of 24-Hour Grace®, and highlighted this May by the
introduction of Asterisk-Free Checking™.
To download Huntington’s new iPad application, go to one of the
following sites:
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Huntington’s website: https://www.huntington.com/mobile/apps.html
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Apple iStore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/huntington-mobile-for-ipad/id475408749?mt=8
Huntington’s "Fair Play Banking” philosophy, which is centered on
providing greater transparency and value for customers, is working and
will continue to influence the bank’s future banking products and
services.
For more information about Huntington, its iPad and mobile applications,
24-Hour Grace or Asterisk-Free Checking, visit https://www.huntington.com
or call 1-800-480-2265.
More About 24-Hour Grace®
24-Hour Grace is the first-and-only service of its kind and gives
Huntington consumer customers additional time during the next business
day to cover overdrafts on their checking accounts. With 24-Hour Grace,
Huntington will automatically waive the overdraft fee as long as the
customer makes a deposit during the next business day to resolve the
overdraft status. The deposit must be received before Huntington’s
cut-off time, which ranges from noon to 10 p.m. depending on how the
deposit is made. The balance after all transactions for the account are
processed the next day must not be negative. Does not waive return fees
or extended overdraft fees. 24-Hour Grace is automatically included with
all Huntington consumer checking accounts.
About Huntington
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $55 billion regional bank
holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Huntington National
Bank, founded in 1866, provides full-service commercial, small business,
and consumer banking services; mortgage banking services; treasury
management and foreign exchange services; equipment leasing; wealth and
investment management services; trust services; brokerage services;
customized insurance brokerage and service programs; and other financial
products and services. The principal markets for these services are
Huntington’s six-state banking franchise: Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. The primary distribution channels
include a banking network of over 650 traditional branches and
convenience branches located in grocery stores and retirement centers,
and through an array of alternative distribution channels including
internet and mobile banking, telephone banking, and over 1,300 ATMs.
Through automotive dealership relationships within its six-state banking
franchise area and selected other Midwest and New England states,
Huntington also provides commercial banking services to the automotive
dealers and retail automobile financing for dealer customers.
Member FDIC. The logo mark, Huntington ® and
24-Hour Grace ® are federally registered
service marks of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated. Huntington
Welcome™, Asterisk-Free Checking™ and Huntington Plus Checking ™ are
service marks of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated.
iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other
countries. App Store is a service Mark of Apple Inc.
