The latest Online Banking Report: 2010 to 2019 Online & Mobile Banking Forecast is now available. It will mail next week to OBR subscribers. It's also available online here. There's no charge for current subscribers; others may download it immediately for US$495.

The report includes our latest 10-year online banking and bill pay forecast. For the third year in a row, the forecast was bumped up a few percentage points to reflect a more robust outlook for adoption, thanks primarily to mobile banking. For example, we now project 73 million U.S. households banking and/or paying bills by online or via mobile in 2013 (note 1). 

The report also includes a revised 10-year forecast for U.S. peer-to-peer lending. After experiencing a 30% decline in 2009, we expect healthy growth next year with a record amount of loan originations.   

Top ten innovations & trends of 2009 and of the decade
The report includes a summary of the top ten innovations of the past year, including the surge in mobile banking usage, the amazing tools coming out of the iTunes App Store, and of course, the surprising adoption of Twitter, with nearly 1000 financial institutions worldwide tapping the real-time info stream (note 4). 

We also listed the top 25 innovations of the decade topped by the invention of simple online payments by PayPal ten years ago (note 2) and the advent of modern mobile banking (note 3) which appeared in the United States just three years ago at Citibank (powered by mFoundry) and BancorpSouth (powered by Firethorn).

Notes:
1. Mobile banking access is included in the overall online banking numbers, but it's also shown as a separate line item. 
2. Technically, this launched in mid-Nov. 1999, but that seems close enough to 2000 to make the all-decade list.
3. There were a number of earlier mobile efforts, including from Citibank, in the 1999 to 2001 period, but they were ahead of their time and shuttered in 2001/2002 for lack of interest. The "modern era" began in 2007 in the United States.
4. Follow them all on Twitter via The Financial Brand's financial institution lists.