Even as the financial services industry undergoes significant disruptions, USA’s credit unions face a two-fold problem.

It’s no secret that digital has been and will continue to rapidly drive change across retail banking. What was cool and new last year is ho-hum today, and banks are finding themselves searching for cutting-edge technologies that will help them create amazing digital experiences.

Mobile banking is becoming an increasingly important part of digital banking strategy around the world, particularly in emerging economies where a mobile phone is often a consumer’s best or only Internet access device.

Considering we were just named a mobile banking leader by IDC, mobile banking and digital payments have been front and center in our minds this week. In honor of that, this week’s This Week in Mobile focuses primarily on mobile banking news. Good thing there’s a lot of it, right?

We are incredibly excited to announce that Kony’s been named a Leader in the 2017 IDC MarketScape Mobile Banking Report, which assesses how vendors compare with one another along with the criteria that are most important to financial institutions.

We had some big news here at Kony yesterday when it was announced that Diebold Nixdorf and Kony have entered into a strategic partnership. Everyone here at Kony is incredibly excited about the opportunity this partnership brings, including our CEO Tom Hogan.

According to Forrester’s 2016 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark banks have broadly succeeded at enabling customers to manage transactions. However, within the same report, Forrester points out, too, that one key area that requires development is banks’ capabilities to deliver additional value-added services to customers.

Sifting through all of the content regarding mobile and apps can be a chore. There’s so much information out there, it’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store, eyes wide and mouth gaping at all there is to see. Thus, we thought we would share with you the content we found to be the most interesting and/or noteworthy over the past week. We’ll do this every Friday, so be sure to check back often for some light, Friday afternoon reading to ease your way into the weekend.

The adoption of mobile banking will continue to surge across Europe, says a recent ING International Survey – Mobile Banking 2016 report. In its annual survey, ING shows that the share of mobile device users in Europe who bank by mobile has swelled to 47% – up from 41% in 2015 – with another 16% expected to adopt the technology in the next 12 months.