The latest Online Banking Report: 2008 to 2017 Online Banking & Bill Pay Forecast, is now available. It was mailed yesterday to subscribers. It's also available online here. There's no charge for current subscribers; others may access it immediately for a charge of US$395.

The report includes our latest 10-year online banking and bill pay forecast. This year we bumped our long-term usage forecast by 10% to 15% due to a more robust outlook for adoption, especially from mobile-only users (see note 1). For example, we are now projecting 64 million U.S. households banking and/or paying bills online by 2012 compared to last year's forecast predicting 56 million in the same period.

We're still not quite as bullish as Forrester, who's calling for 72 million online banking households by 2011 (post here), but we've closed the gap (note 2). 

In addition to the forecast, we summarized the top ten innovations of the past year. Thanks for the input from all the readers who answered our call for nominations in late December. We'll publish the list here in a few weeks, after subscribers have a chance to see it first.

Note:

1. While we show mobile usage as a separate line item in the forecast, mobile-only banking users are included in the overall online banking forecast. 
2. By comparison, our forecast for 2011 is 62 million.