Sponsors & Exhibitors

GOLD SPONSOR

SEMOPS-UAE


SEMOPS-UAE was established as a joint-venture between ITSS co. the SEMOPS regional agent, and key UAE business men in order to supply the UAE market with SEMOPS mobile money transfer, in addition to the billing and payment solutions from ITSS co. SEMOPS-UAE is planning to launch SEMOPS and ITSS billing and payment solution to cover a range of services such as:
1- Fighting counterfeiting, money laundering and Mobile Banking Solutions
2- Enterprise Government notification engine - ENMS
3- M-Government service automation
4- Micro and macro value money transfer
6- Small and large Shops Mobile POS solutions
7- Micro payment for fast food restaurants
8- Parking – Ticketing – Vending machines – KIOSK (NFC enabled)

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR

Mi-Pay


Mi-Pay provides an innovative range of products and services that enable consumers around the world to undertake safe and secure financial transactions from their mobile phones. Based in the UK, Mi-Pay also has offices in Dubai, Romania, India and Pakistan, bringing a global perspective to the provision of secure transactions from the consumer’s handset through to settlement.  Mi-Pay has vast expertise and service offerings that span pre-pay topups, mobile initiated payments, mobile banking, mobile money transfer, handset based authentication and consultancy.  For more information visit: www.mi-pay.com.

DRINKS RECEPTION SPONSOR

Affinity Global Services


Affinity Global Services provides mobile financial services to the underserved around the world. Affinity's MADE platform enables secure mobile transactions and offers turnkey managed services for customers such as mobile network operators, financial institutions, retail merchants and remittance companies in order to provide faster time to market, with reduced risk and greater profitability. For more information about Affinity Global Services Mobile, visit http://www.affinityglobalservices.com.

LANYARDS, NOTEPADS AND PENS SPONSOR

MoneyGram International


MoneyGram International is a leading global payment services company whose purpose is to help people and businesses by providing affordable, reliable and convenient payment services. MoneyGram has 157,000 money transfer agent locations in 180 countries and territories around the world. Our network of agent locations include retailers, international post offices and financial institutions. The company's global headquarters is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it has been in business since 1940. MoneyGram trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker MGI.

EXHIBITORS

A Little World


A Little World Private Limited (ALW) was incorporated in March 2000. The Company is presently headquartered at Worli in Mumbai, India. A Little World leverages new generation technologies; mobile networks and a last mile local entrepreneurship ecosystem to integrate a micro-banking model with a brand-new multi-bank payment network (ZERO) for inclusion of the vast un-banked population into mainstream banking.
The ZERO platform converts new generation low cost mobile phones with large storage capacities as a secure, self-sufficient bank branch, with biometrics based customer ID, for customer enrollments for no-frills accounts and all types of transactions in the village with the local Customer Service Point operator acting as a Teller.


atom Technologies Ltd


atom technologies is a mobile payments service provider. Focusing on innovative use of technology in the mobile transactions ecosystem, it has created multiple “patent pending” products & services for mobile payments, mobile banking for the unbanked, IVR based payments & mobile based service distribution framework.
Being highly sensitive about security needs for the customers, atom was one of the first mobile payments companies to acquire PCI DSS, VISA PABP & other security certifications.
It is a part of The Financial Technologies Group, which specializes in creation of digital marketplaces globally & creation of high transaction density backbone and solutions for financial intermediaries.


DonRiver


DonRiver is a management consulting and software development firm with deep expertise in the Mobile Financial Services industry.  Our consultants help Mobile Network Operators, Banks, & Application Providers, design and develop Mobile Financial Service products, as well as operational support systems.  Our expertise ranges from providing strategy guidance, to new Mobile Money industry entrants, to developing Mobile Money solutions for international remittance providers.  DonRiver also operates a Mobile Financial Services Industry news & information portal that publishes industry insight and breaking news to industry professionals around the world (www.mobile-financial.com).  For more information about DonRiver, please email us at mobilemoney@donriver.com.


Fundamo


Established in 2000, Fundamo is a specialised mobile banking and payment solution provider who has been visionary in predicting the trend towards providing mobile financial services and the impact this will have on the delivery of financial services globally.
With over 20 successful blue chip client deployments already completed and further deployments underway in 2008, Fundamo’s technology and deployment strategies are proven.
As a leader in the industry Fundamo has established relationships with global organizations, such as the GSMA, to facilitate key programs on a global scale, as well as with reseller partners in countries such as Pakistan and Brazil.


iPay


Firmly established as a global provider of stored value cards, iPay Holding is a rapidly growing entity aimed at offering prepaid payment solutions taking advantage of its unique mobile functionality platform.  iPay Holding is targeting the global market with geographical scope expanding across the GCC, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, Africa, and Asia, with the regional head office in Dubai.
Vodatel is the major shareholder in iPay with extensive experience in telecom value added services and prepaid retail distribution with over 20 million prepaid phone cards sold annually. Apart from turnkey services, the Vodatel Group's many brands include Inteltec and Skyband. www.ipay4all.com

ISYS Global


ISYS is a global based company that brings technology and customized solutions to consumers. ISYS innovative solutions include; mobile payment services, contents, consultancy and applications to third parties and telecom companies. Based on leaded concept, ISYS focuses on a standard model, to keep its solutions seamless location or region, and serve better the financial, and telecom consumers. For more information about ISYS, please email us at info@isys.mobi.

Macalla


Macalla provides mobile payments software and has extensive experience in both the mobile and banking sectors.  We offer the flexibility of hosted or local deployment.
The Macalla Platform provides many solutions including mobile wallet and payments.  It enables subscribers to transfer cash directly from their mobile phone to the mobile wallet of family and friends nationally or internationally.  It is a secure, fast, convenient method and a cheaper way of remitting cash than using traditional means.
The money received can be withdrawn at an ATM or transferred from a person or agent’s mobile wallet for cash.  www.macalla.com


mChek


mChek (www.mchek.com) is a mobile based secure authentication and payment platform that is both simple to setup and easy to use. It has enabled customers to use their mobile phones to make payments and for money transfers anywhere and at anytime through a variety of financial instruments including credit cards, debit cards and bank accounts. mChek consumers can complete payment transactions initiated across multiple touch points like customer mobile, merchant mobile, E-commerce site, IVR applications, Call-center terminal processes, ATM, POS, etc.
mChek is currently live on Airtel in India and Dialog in Sri Lanka. mChek won the prestigious GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2008 for Best Billing and Customer Care Solution.


Mondato


Mondato Ltd., global value transfer experts, operates under a two-fold objective – (i) providing consumers with a search function to find money transfer options (and in time other forms of value) and (ii) providing a business-focused information source for mobile operators, banking and financial service providers, regulators, agencies, investors, and analysts.
For those interested in industry news, technologies, new services and more, we provide both syndicated and custom reports as well as consulting services.  Mondato creates credible, well-analysed and actionable knowledge, through a professional team, using sophisticated tools.  Our free, subscription-based e-newsletter gives timely insights into the complex, ever-evolving world of cross-border value transfer.


mTranZact


mTranZact is a world-leading, robust, mobile-banking engine with cradle to grave functionality from transaction sourcing, authenticating and validating the user to processing and final confirmation of the transaction. mTranZact links a consumers bank / card account with his mobile phone number.
mTranZact is proven in Africa where we empower millions of consumers who access a comprehensive range of interactive Retail banking (mobile ATM facility), P2P payment, Bill payments, Direct airtime recharge and mobile merchant payment functionality. Our technology is approved by MasterCard, Visa and CGAP and delivers payment services to all classes of mobile consumers, across any type of phone, using any capacity of active SIM and without changing their usage behaviour!
mTranZact is the mobile business of the USD 30million Technology Associates Group, operating in Middle East and Africa.


Obopay


Obopay is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay’s mobile application, text message or phone web browser in real time. As the first comprehensive mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, Obopay works on any phone & with any cellular operator empowering consumers and businesses with convenience of secure, speedy mobile payments.
Obopay is bringing mobile payments to millions of consumers through several industry-first alliances. Obopay’s carrier partners in the US include Verizon, AT&T, and BlackBerry and has alliances with major carriers in India. It has tied up with MasterCard to deliver on-demand P2P mobile payment service in the US. Obopay has an alliance with Citi in the US to pilot real-time Person-to-Person mobile payments. Similar services with leading banks in India will be announced shortly. (www.obopay.co.in)


paybox solutions AG


paybox solutions AG (“paybox”) is the trendsetting company for mobile payment enterprise solutions.
Founded in 1999, paybox was the first to launch mass-marketable mobile payment solutions in five European markets. paybox set up operator-led, national mobile Payment standards in Germany and Austria.
In 2007, paybox was awarded the Int’ Stevie Award for Best Product in Telecommunications. Recognised for having the broadest mobile Commerce offering worldwide, paybox mobile payment enterprise solutions are deployed across Europe, North and South America, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
For more information on paybox, please visit www.paybox.net


PayMate


PayMate India Pvt Ltd is a Mumbai-based wireless transactions platform provider, is the first-of-its-kind mobile payment service in India. PayMate is an innovative, easy, secure and convenient mode of making payments through the mobile phone.
PayMate has created a viable ecosystem that enables wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and customers using a simple, secure and seamless technology. It is an IVR-based solution that transforms your phone into a wallet. It works on any handset without the need to upgrade the SIM or GPRS connectivity. One can make secure payments for a host of services at the retail stores, buy flowers, book tickets and even subscribe to magazines and newspapers.
For more information, visit www.paymate.co.in


UpCode
 

UpCode™ includes an optical reader that uses mobile phones/devices to add any electronic information or system to printed products and to electronic information on screens. With the application it is possible to integrate all businesses and all forms of eCommerce, with print and screen media.
The code (2D data matrix, QR-code, 1D barcode or colour code) or other type of tag (picture, OCR) gives mobile phone users multiple access and interaction, for an example but not only to internet content simply by pointing their phone at a code. Complete integration of localization, personalization, objects and other data.
Money Transaction, Credit Cards, Banking, Bill Payment, Ticketing, CRM Marketing, Payment Control, Intelligent System, Integrate Information, Direct Marketing, Ordering.
UpCode was awarded with the first place in the Global Mobile Competition held in San Jose, California and selected a finalist in the Mobile Rules 2008.


Utiba


Utiba empowers everyone to make Mobile Payments that can be executed anytime, anywhere, and for any amount.
Utiba has done ground breaking implementations such as G-Cash/Globe in the Philippines, Maxis Malaysia, True in Thailand and the Orascomm Group.
Utiba helps customers to increase ARPU by leveraging their merchant base, and providing new services for subscribers including Microfinance, Remittance, Salary Disbursement and Mobile Banking.
Utiba’s technology complements existing financial systems and offers mobile phone subscribers who have no bank accounts or access, a new way to pay. Financial institutions can also reach a new consumer base, which have a mobile phone based wallet, rather than a bank account or credit card.

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