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| Our Vision
Empowering everyone to make Mobile Payments
Utiba believes it is only a matter of time before a user is able to pay for physical goods and services using tap and pay.
Users should be able to Remit money to another person anywhere in the world knowing only their Mobile Phone Number.
Users should be able to pay Bills anywhere in the world from the mobile phone.
All of these using any sources of funds.
Utiba will make this vision a reality |
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Customer News : OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES AND UTIBA PARTNER TO OFFER SECURED MOBILE MONEY SERVICES
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| on 2010/2/16 13:07:42 (373 reads) |
OBERTHUR TECHNOLOGIES AND UTIBA PARTNER TO OFFER
SECURED MOBILE MONEY SERVICES
New Delhi - February 15, 2010 - Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of smart cards solutions announced today a partnership with Utiba, a leading supplier of mobile commerce platforms to create a complementary suite of secured Mobile Money Services and Money Transfer Solutions to mobile operators and financial institutions.
This offer combines Oberthur Technologies’ SIM OTA server, SIM browsing gateway and SIM secured gateway together with Utiba’s transactional platform in a global solution which can be possibly operated from any of Oberthur Technologies’ certified datacenters.
This Mobile Money Solution proposes a suite of secured end-to-end payment and money transfer services helping mobile operators and financial institutions to offer innovative financial services in mobility such as microfinance, domestic and international money transfer, airtime sharing, e-payment or e-banking.
This solution addresses both matures countries, where mobile subscribers are often banked with features phones, and developing ones where banking services and money transfer for under-banked and unbanked can be proposed to large populations through secured applications in the SIM card.
Xavier Drilhon, Managing Director of the Card Systems Division at Oberthur Technologies commented, “With 20 years experience in securing financial transactions and mobile operators traffic, we started a couple of years ago to secure mobile money transactions. With the technology provided by Utiba, who has a proven track record in mobile commerce, we expand further our range of Mobile Money Services for both mobile operators and financial institutions.”
Richard Matotek, CEO, Utiba says “Our objective is to enable the subscriber to remit funds to anyone, anywhere knowing only their mobile telephone number. Today, Utiba boasts of an exhaustive knowledge in creation of mobile finance systems. Utiba aims for an ambitious vision of “Empowering everyone to make Mobile Payments” and we see fostering this relationship with an industry expert like Oberthur as a giant leap towards achieving that aim.”
About Oberthur Technologies
With sales of 882 million Euros in 2008, Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality services ensure Oberthur Technologies’ strong positioning in its main target markets:
• Card Systems: The world’s second largest provider of security and identification based on smart card technology and associated services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence markets.
• Identity: Leading international supplier for the manufacture and personalization of secure identity documents such as passport, identity card, driving license or health care card - traditional and electronic - and associated services for both governmental and corporate markets.
• Security printing: World’s third largest private security printer specialized in high security for the production of banknotes, checks and other fiduciary documents in more than fifty countries.
• Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM.
Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an industrial and commercial presence across all five continents.
Oberthur Technologies S.A. is a limited liability company (société anonyme) registered in France with its registered office at 50 quai Michelet 92 532 Levallois Perret, France. Oberthur Technologies S.A.’s corporate registration number is 340 709 534 R.C.S. Paris.
Website: www.oberthur.com
Media Contact at Oberthur Technologies
Matthew Stroud
Press Contact
Telephone: +33 1 47 85 58 06
Email: m.stroud@oberthur.com
About Utiba Pte Ltd.
Utiba was founded in 2001 with the objective of creating true mobile commerce ecosystems, where users should be able to remit amounts to anyone anywhere in the world, knowing only their mobile phone number. Utiba products are focused around providing mobile transaction and payment solutions to: - Banks - Mobile Operators - Micro Finance Institutions - Payment Service Providers. Utiba’s products are successfully deployed across 4 different continents with more than 15 customers including banks and MNOs.
For details, please visit www.utiba.com.
Media Contact at Utiba
Ritesh Andley
Director-Product Marketing
Email: ritesh.andley@utiba.com
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Customer News : Unbanked India could give traction to e-wallet - The Economic Times
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 on 2010/2/2 6:30:00 (378 reads) |
The article is about mobile commerce could just be the game changer that can bring formal and easy banking within the reach of unbanked citizens of the country.
Ritesh Andley, Director, Product Marketing, Utiba Mobility's said "Mobile is a superior medium to reach the large masses of unbanked and it is beneficial to both the banking fraternity - which can cover significantly more customers than it could by setting up physical branches - and to the unbanked, who are unlikely to otherwise have a formal bank account",
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Customer News : MTS chooses Utiba to launch E-top-up services in India
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| on 2010/1/21 9:20:27 (403 reads) |
MTS chooses Utiba to launch E-top-up services in India[/img]
Gurgaon, 11 , January, 2010: MTS, the mobile telephony services brand of Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL) has tied up with Utiba ,a leading global supplier of mobile financial transaction platforms for mobile operators and financial institutions, for electronic top-ups and m-commerce platforms.
The Electronic top-up solution brings distinctive advantages over the conventional voucher based pre-paid recharge options. It offers MTS subscribers complete independence from the fixed recharge denominations and stock out situations enabling them to any time choose any amount top-up. The technology offers a secured access between the retailer’s phones to the backend system thereby totally negating any risk or revenue leakage in the system. The retailer benefits from a reduced burden of inventory management at lesser investment in stock inventory and quick, on the call availability of the airtime stock. In future, Utiba’s platform can also be used to offer mobile based financial services like bill payments, P2P money transfer etc which MTS foresees to have a huge potential in the Indian market.
Mr. Vsevolod Rozanov, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) said, “We are happy to partner with Utiba and we want to create a strong customer proposition for our services based on cutting edge technology and business processes.India has a large Pre-paid base and an Electronic top-up platform will play a significant role. We look forward to working closely with Utiba, who have strong credentials and a scalable product portfolio in the domain”.
Justin Ho, CEO, Utiba says “We are very happy to be part of MTS as it provides us with an opportunity to work with global giants in the Telecom industry. With our fifth installation in India we have proved the resilience and flexibility of our platform and its ability to adapt to the unique market dynamics of the Indian subcontinent. MTS has a very customer-centric approach towards the business and we are sure we will be able to align our technology to match their objectives. We wish great success to this venture and would like to thank MTS to have offered this opportunity to work with them.”
MTS is well recognized in India and worldwide for its commitment to high quality and innovative solutions. In a short span of time, MTS has secured over 3 million subscribers in the telecom circles of Kolkata, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa & Mumbai.
About Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (operating under the MTS brand)
Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL) is a joint venture between Sistema {LSE: SSA} of Russia and the Shyam Group of India. Sistema is the majority share holder in this joint venture with a 74% equity stake, along with the Shyam Group holding a 23.5% stake and the remaining 2.5% being publically held. SSTL has spectrum to provide mobile telephony services in all the 22 circles across the country.
MTS is a globally acclaimed telecom brand, the 8th largest telecom brand in the world. MTS has recently been ranked by Millward Brown as 71st out of the top 100 brands in the world.
About Utiba Pte Ltd.
Utiba was founded in 2001 with the objective of creating highly scalble top-up platforms and versatile mobile commerce ecosystems, where users should be able to remit amounts to anyone anywhere in the world, knowing only their mobile phone number. Utiba products are focused around providing mobile transaction and payment solutions to: - Banks - Mobile Operators - Micro Finance Institutions - Payment Service Providers. Utiba’s products are successfully deployed across 3 different continents with more than 15 customers including banks and MNOs.For details, please visit www.utiba.com.
Press contacts:
MTS India Contact:
Ratna Vira, Deputy Director, Corporate Communications
Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd
Mobile: +919136001437
ratna.vira@mtsindia.in
Utiba India Contact
Ritesh Andley, Director-Product Marketing
Utiba Pte Ltd.
Mobile- 0910973662
Ritesh.andley@utiba.com
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