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The Frontrunners in mWallet Trust

"Consumers need to trust the infrastructure that underlies the mobile-commerce transaction long before they use a service," says Alastair Lukies, CEO and founder of Monitise. "When voice over IP came along, people immediately gravitated to the Internet to make phone calls. That won't happen with mobile payments in the same way, because people require a higher level of trust in the infrastructure that manages their money and financial information."

Trust Revisited: How Banks Can Redefine Relationships One Swipe at a Time

Banks today have a golden opportunity to use this frequent mobile engagement to regain the trust of their consumers. As the plethora of new companies come onto the scene touting mobile payment offerings or mobile commerce content, it's important for banking institutions to leverage their foundations and offer consumers the peace of mind of trust via regulated, safe, guaranteed, consumer-centric experiences in delivering payment and commerce services.

Five-Year Forecast: The mPayments Landscape

"There are so many folks still engaged in (mobile) commerce, there won't be one winning industry. But we do believe with great conviction that the financial services entities, the banks and payments companies, will have a very, very strong, dominant role in this," said Carl Tsukahara, chief marketing officer at Monitise.

American Savings Bank's Remote Deposits Jump 40 Percent as Customers Embrace Mobile Banking

"Mobile is showing overwhelming value as a tool to drive new account openings as well as cement existing account relationships. It also increases the reach for smaller regional and community organizations where having complete physical coverage is not possible," said Carl Tsukahara, chief marketing officer at Monitise.

The Mobile Money Space: Bdaily Meets Monitise

Monitise executive vice president Lisa Stanton explains the evolution of the Monitise service offering: "It's changed quite a lot but always remained true to the original concept: bank anywhere, pay anyone and buy anything. That's been our strategy over the years, but it's certainly more tangible today than it was in the early stages. This nascent industry that we chose to become involved in has actually become almost mainstream."

Platform Play

"Our aim, with our evolving interoperable platform and ecosystem of partners, is to enable consumers to bank anywhere, pay anyone and buy anything," said Carl Tsukahara, Monitise's Chief Marketing Officer. "There's a lot of disruption in the marketplace, so our role is to enable banks and payment companies to defend their position and extend their service offerings. As a white-label offering, we are the picks and shovels in the mobile money gold rush. We deliver the tools to enable them to bring their innovations to market."

Mobile Banking: Seven Keys for Success

Lisa Stanton, executive vice-president of Payments, Monitise, calls 2013 "the year of mobile commerce." "Consumers are comfortable with using mobile, so this is a great opportunity for banks to augment payments with the commerce side of the equation, and bringing merchants and consumers together."

Visa Inks $59M+ Deal To Extend Mobile Money Partnership With Monitise In Europe

Visa believes that by 2020 more than half of all payments made in Europe will be done through mobile devices, so it is continuing to put more investment into how it will remain a central part of those transactions. In the latest development, mobile money specialist Monitise has announced an extended deal in which Visa Europe will license all of Monitise's technology in an agreement it says will bring in a minimum of €45 million ($59 million) in the next three years, "with greater revenues as certain user generated thresholds are achieved."

Monitise: The Story of a UK Mid-Market Champion

A rapid overseas expansion, achieved by forming partnerships with some of the world's biggest finance companies, has been key to the success of Monitise, the AIM-listed mobile payments firm that is one of the UK's brightest technology prospects. Read the definitive profile of Monitise.

How Mobile Commerce is Changing Indonesia

Only 40 per cent of Indonesians have a bank account, but over 90 per cent have a mobile phone. That represents a big opportunity for both entrepreneurs and multinational companies such as Monitise, which is partnering with Astra. In this video, Calvin Lim, Director of AGIT Monitise Indonesia, discusses the importance of consumer trust and how the industry will quickly accelerate once consumers become used to the process.

BlackBerry Launches BBM Money Pilot in Indonesia

BlackBerry may be launching a new platform in certain markets to try to win back users, but it's focusing on service additions in other places where the BlackBerry install base remains strong. Today it's officially launching BBM Money in Indonesia, in partnership with PermataBank and Monitise to bring real-time mobile payments to BlackBerry's platform-specific social network and messaging service.

The Future of Mobile is in Young Hands

Richard Johnson, strategy director at Monitise, looks back over the history of the Mobile World Congress show, the mobile financial services arena and what can be expected at the 2013 show, with many young hands still on the tiller of this fast-developing new channel.

Monitise Triples Mobile Banking Figures

Monitise, the world's biggest mobile money company, has more than tripled the value of transactions flowing through its systems over the past year. As the digital banking revolution gathered pace, some $31 billion moved through Monitise's systems in two billion transactions in 2012, compared with $10 billion in 480 million transactions a year before.

CGI and Monitise Form European Mobile Money Alliance

The alliance between the two companies combines Logica's – now part of CGI – established IT and consulting services, payments expertise and local market knowledge in Europe with Monitise's bank-grade Mobile Money capabilities.

Paying With Your Data: The Real Promise of Mobile Wallets

Mobile wallets will live or die on the utility they provide. The winners will be those with digital wallets that are compelling, intuitive, integrated to all a consumers' key needs, secure and regulated, says Monitise CEO Al Lukies in this opinion piece.

BMO, Monitise Team Up on Mobile Money Solution

Andrew Irvine, senior vice president, BMO Bank of Montreal said that a growing mobile money opportunity presented the bank with a new opportunity to serve customers. "We are extremely pleased with the response we've seen to our mobile banking and payments services so far and, with the support of Monitise and its technology platform, we look forward to delivering more innovative solutions across this space and beyond," he said.

Hawaii Bank Hopes Mobile Success Can Turn Data to Dollars

American Savings Bank plans to add a number of payment-related mobile capabilities in the coming year as it penetrates further into electronic commerce, adding marketing alerts and special offers. Most of its mobile technology is hosted by Monitise.

BMO / Monitise Team on Mobile Money

BMO Bank of Montreal and Monitise have entered into an alliance to develop mobile money services via the latter's platform. The collaboration builds on an agreement formed in 2010 with Clairmail, the US-based mobile banking and payments provider acquired by Monitise in 2012. The two will work with together across the bank's smartphone applications, mobile web offerings and SMS services.

Monitise and Intuit Partner to Mobilize Mint

"Our feeling is when you start to think about mobile payments and mobile wallets, Mint brings another element of personal financial management," says Carl Tsukahara, head of marketing for Monitise Americas. Tsukahara says the use case for PFM in mobile banking includes the ability to check finances and budgets while redeeming merchant offers that are becoming increasingly mobile and an important part of merchant acquisition strategy for card issuers in a more heavily regulated industry.

Monitise Adds Mint to Its Mobile Money Platform for Banks

Offering a view of all of the customer's financial data (loans, credit cards, savings, etc.) with Mint as part of the bank's mobile app could be a huge weapon for banks in the budding digit wallet wars, says Carl Tsukahara, Monitise's chief marketing officer. "One advantage for the financial institutions is the info they have about a customers' financial health," he points out. "If I [as a customer] have a mobile offer for a purchase, I can look at my accounts, and see if I can afford this… A stand-alone wallet can't do that."

Monitise Strategy Director Richard Johnson Interviewed by The Paypers

Richard Johnson discusses the Monitise approach to issues in the Mobile Money market.

War of the Virtual Wallets

Card networks are also taking stakes in innovative firms to keep an eye on potentially disruptive technologies. Visa owns part of Square, which recently struck a deal with Starbucks to make its mobile-payment service available in 7,000 of the coffee chain's outlets in America. Visa has also invested in Monitise, a mobile-banking specialist.

Monitise CEO Alastair Lukies Interviewed on CNBC

Alastair Lukies, Monitise CEO and co-founder, likens Monitise to sellers of picks and shovels during the Gold Rush in this interview on CNBC.

Reaching for the Desert Sky in Member Mobile Adoption

Desert Schools pulled the trigger this summer – uploading apps to the Apple Apps Store, Android Play, and even the BlackBerry Apps store – and 90 days later it has a stunning number to report: "30% of our online banking users are now using our mobile apps," said Cathy Graham, vice president at Desert Schools Federal Credit Union.

Monitise, Cognizant to Partner on Mobile Technology

"Mobile is, without question, the channel of the future," said Alastair Lukies, chief executive of Monitise Group, in a statement. "Our strategy involves extending our Monitise Enterprise Platform to the world's leading banks and payment companies to help them improve and expand their customer relationships. As money becomes increasingly digitized amid exploding demand in the highly-competitive mobile money space, we look forward to collaborating closely with Cognizant to support financial institutions across the world in developing strategic, effective, and timely mobile services."

Monitise Buys U.S.-Based Clairmail

The acquisition of Clairmail for $173 million gives Monitise a strong customer list, solid management team and strong sales momentum in the important U.S. market.

Monitise Buys US Rival Clairmail for $173 Million

British mobile banking technology and services firm Monitise has agreed to buy privately held U.S. rival Clairmail for $173 million, expanding its reach on the key North American market.

Monitise Makes Good Match with Clairmail

"It seems like a big development," says Aaron McPherson, practice director of financial services at IDC Financial Insights. "Combining the [companies] gives them more scale, which is always good in an emerging market. You want this to happen."

Mobile Banking Consolidation: Monitise Buys Clairmail for $173 Million

One more sign of the mobile money space continuing to grow up: some significant consolidation underway. Today, the UK-based mobile banking specialists Monitise announced that it is buying Clairmail, a U.S.-based competitor, for $173 million, as part of its global expansion.

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