ASB is set to transform the way New Zealanders send and receive money with the launch today of a major upgrade to its popular mobile banking app. ASB Mobile uses the latest innovations in banking technology to allow customers to make payments from their smartphone in seconds using mobile telephone numbers and email addresses instead of a bank account number. With the launch of the upgrade, ASB becomes the first New Zealand bank to offer mobile and email payments on both Android and Apple smartphones.

Over the course of the development processes, ASB talked extensively to customers and tested a number of new concepts and features in order to provide the best possible user experience.

"ASB's Mobile App provides a solution that puts banking straight into our customers' hands, giving them greater control of their money, plus faster and more convenient ways to pay," says ASB's General Manager Brand Experience & Digital Channels, Anna Curzon.