Mobile payments solution provider Obopay is deploying its Mobile Money for Banks solution to STAR Network to enable real-time transfers between STAR accounts. Those unfamiliar, myself included, should know that STAR Network offers transaction speeds that are not possible with Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers, which often take several days to process. With this service,…
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Obopay unveils Mobile Money For Banks
Obopay, the mobile payments pioneer, which we’ve covered for quite a few times in the past, unveiled a new offering – Mobile Money for Banks. The new offering is slated to push banks and other financial organizations in the realm of mobile payments. The solution is made to allow banks to deploy their own branded…
Kenya’s yu unveils mobile money transfer service – yuCash by Obopay
Another big win for Obopay as they push to conquer the African market. Their “partners in crime” are local telecommunications service provider Essar Telecom Kenya Limited’s yu branded mobile network and Equity Bank, who have a large countrywide network. The service is branded “yuCash by Obopay” and it’s “positioned to change the landscape of mobile…
Obopay now has its own iPhone app
Mobile payment company Obopay now has an iPhone client. The dedicated application features include: Send money to anyone with a US phone number Send money to your kids or anyone 13 years of age or older and track how they spend the money all from your iPhone View full transaction history Receive money free of…
Obopay honored with World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2010 award
We love the mobile banking and payment provider Obopay, and perhaps more importantly, Nokia loves them — hence they’ve launched the Nokia Money service in partnership with Obopay. In that sense, I’m glad to report that Obopay has been chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer 2010 for its “innovation, transformational technology,…
Nokia just became PayPal with the launch of Nokia Money; built on top of Obopay
Nokia just announced “Nokia Money” which will be shown off next week at Nokia World. We told you about the Nokia Money trademark a little over a month ago, and it looks like the service is going to launch some time early next year. Similar to how Nokia purchased Twango and rebranded it Ovi Share,…
Mobile Money Summit: Interview with Obopay’s Carol L. Realini
If you’ve been reading IntoMobile carefully, you know about Obopay. They are a mobile payment service provider that got its funding from such companies as Citibank and Nokia Ventures. That fact by itself should be a reason enough to think they’re onto something. At the Mobile Money Summit, I had an opportunity to sit with…
Nokia Invests in Obopay Mobile Payments
Obopay, a company which facilitates payments by SMS in the U.S. and India, just recieved a cash infusion from handset giant Nokia for the estimated sum of $70 million. As a result of the investment, Nokia’s head of corporate business development, Teppo Paavolo, will have a seat on Obopay’s board. How Nokia flexes their muscle…
Citi and Obopay pilot person-to-person mobile payment service
It was back in July of last year when we first posted about Obopay and Citi’s partnership. Now Citi announced that it has launched a pilot program to provide mobile person-to-person money transfer service to all its customers in the U.S., with a focus on Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. Citibank customers participating…
Obopay, Grameen Solutions partner to Bank a Billion
Mobile payments solution provider Obopay has announced partnership with Grameen Solutions, the company globally recognized for promoting economic and social development through information and communications technology, to deliver mobile banking services to a billion of the world’s poorest people by 2018. The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative will provide access to affordable financial services, including…