Less than one percent of financial institutions have a blog according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research.

Consumers born between 1982 and 2000 are accustomed to using the Internet to access financial services, according to Celent Communications "The Millennials, Financial Services and the Web" report.

Over 75 percent of U.S. and Canadian consumers polled said they were more likely to do business with organizations that offered self-service, according to a study from BuzzBack Market Research for NCR.

Financial institutions of all sizes are opening virtual branches that offer higher savings yields and lower interest rates in an effort to lure more customers.

Online banking is growing 27 percent yearly, which is faster than other retail banking channels, according to TowerGroups’s "Delivery Channel Volumes in the United States, 2006-2010: From ‘In Line’ to Online" report.

One of the biggest conferences in terms of Web Analytics, the Emetrics Summit, is quickly coming up at the end of March (this time in London). 

In a report titled “Online Banking 2006: Surfing to the Bank,” the Pew Research Center declared that the number of Internet users who bank online is on the rise. Unfortunately, their most recent in-house data appears to be from December of 2005.

Clients of some investment firms will soon have the opportunity to download podcasts of financial research for easy listening.