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) September 24, 2009 -- CashEdge, Inc. (www.cashedge.com), the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ products for financial institutions, announced today that Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank (www.53.com) has launched TransferNow™ Me-to-Me Transfers, CashEdge's industry-leading online money movement solution.

) December 2, 2008 -- Maxis Communications Berhad ("Maxis"), Malaysia's leading mobile telecommunications operator, and Transfer To™, a leading global airtime provider, have teamed up to launch two promotions to reward Maxis and Hotlink i-Share customers during the Aidil Adha (Hari Raya Qurban) festive holiday from 1 to 15 December 2008, and during Christmas week from 15 to 30 December 2008. Hotlink i-Share is a first-in-Malaysia service by Maxis that was launched in April this year and enables its prepaid subscribers to share airtime credit with their friends and family to several countries, including Indonesia and the Philippines through an easy-to-use "shared top-up" application developed jointly with Transfer To™.

) October 7, 2009 -- CashEdge, Inc. (www.cashedge.com), the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ products for financial institutions, announced today that Bank of the West, one of the 30 largest banks in the United States, has launched CashEdge's online funds transfer solution for its banking customers. The TransferNow® Product Suite provides a single point of access for multiple easy-to-use consumer transfer routes, including Me-to-Me Transfers and Third Party Transfers. These transfer routes enable banks and credit unions to offer their customers secure funds transfer services for inter-institution transfers between their own accounts or directly to third parties.

) October 16, 2008 -- Privier's Patent Pending iTransfer® and Privier mPayment® will allow bank customers to electronically transfer funds using mobile banking or online banking to a recipient who is then able to withdraw the funds without needing a card or bank account.

"We equip ATM screens with an icon, which reads 'Pickup Cash'. All the recipient needs to do is press this icon, which will automatically activate the ATM for a Privier iTransfer® or mPayment® transaction," said Charles Polanco, CEO of Privier Inc.

) November 24, 2008 -- Transfer To™, a leading global airtime network, announces good results on the first Ramadan promotion for international top-up thanks to a cross-border collaboration between Malaysian mobile operators and PT Indosat Tbk. ("Indosat"), a leading telecommunications and information service provider in Indonesia.

During the holy month of Ramadhan, all Indosat customers, who received an 50,000 Indonesian Rupiah top-up from a relative living and working in Malaysia, were rewarded with an additional 5,000 Indonesian Rupiah top-up. The joint advertisement through SMS broadcasting in both Indonesia and Malaysia increased 8 times the usual amount of top-up sent per day.

Global Sky Inc., a top provider of call center solutions in the Philippines, is selling one of its offices as a completely turnkey solution. We have expanded to a location suitable for 500 agents and we are selling this 70-seat office because we want to consolidate everything in the new location. says James Stinson, CEO of Global Sky Inc. It's rare for a successful call center to sell a completely functional office. Usually if a call center is selling it is because they are going out of business and in a scenario like that you should be suspicious of what you are buying. says Anthony Stinson, COO of Global Sky Inc.

) September 30, 2008 -- A new analysis by Juniper Research of the rapidly evolving market for money transfer and remittances via mobile phones forecasts that in excess of 100m users globally will use their mobile phones to make international money transfers by 2013. These cross border mobile money transfers are currently in their infancy, but are expected to gain traction over the next two to three years, especially on migration routes such as Philippines/Middle East and Mexico/USA.

) June 16, 2009 - RegaloCard, Gift Card that allows the US Hispanic Community to instantly send their relatives back home what they need absolutely free, announced that the RegaloCard service will be available to the public starting this month. RegaloCard is a prepaid gift card that you can buy in the United States but whose PIN to redeem the gift card is delivered instantly via mobile technology to the person you choose in Latin America, to make purchases at leading local retailers.

) March 27, 2009 -- SizzleMoney™ might just be the hottest thing to hit the stored value market in years.

Sure a cell phone can be used to surf the Web, send emails and update a MySpace page, but can it really be used to buy a pair of jeans or a baseball cap? With a new product just released by Denarii Payments, Inc., it can.

) June 16, 2009 -- With recently acquired Banking Charter status, new World Energy Capital OFC now provides full financial and banking services including term deposits with Triple AAA & AA rated Banks Paying up to 7.5 percent exclusively to World Energy Research partners and investors.

Designed to privately service partners and investors of World Energy Research, World Energy Capital OFC includes a treasury company and a financial services company in a growing number of countries. Chartered in New Zealand, World Energy Capital OFC offers a host of financial services in an exceptionally discrete manner.

The next wave cities or ICT hubs are regarded as strategic investment locations for ICT and BPO services. Amidst the looming global financial crisis, industry leaders still regard the Philippines as a

) July 31, 2009 -- For Northeast Bank customers the world is their home now with the launch of mobile banking for personal banking customers, including a new application for iPhone® users. Customers can safely access their accounts, transfer funds, and search for branches or ATMs using their web-enabled cell phones.

Mobile Banking iPhone App

To expand to current operations to 1000-seats center in Manila, Philippines, by end 2009.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, the craftsmen (and women) at Askinosie Chocolate unveil their new Davao, Philippines 77% chocolate bar. The first cacao brought to Asia in 1600 was grown in the Philippines and Askinosie Chocolate is the first to export Filipino cocoa beans in nearly twenty-five years. The beans used to make this tantalizing bar are very exclusive, making the Davao, Philippines chocolate bar uniquely exotic. There has never before been a single origin bar from the Philippines and the purveyors at Askinosie Chocolate can now add this new bar to their list of many firsts. (PRWeb Jan 31, 2009)

Meternet Corporation will donate internet voicemail accounts to selected OFW family support groups in the Philippines.

) November 18, 2008 -- With launch of the new M&I Mobile product, Kansas City-area M&I Bank customers can manage their finances while on the go using any mobile phone with Internet access.
"M&I Bank sees a bright future for mobile financial services. Similar to the growth seen between 2001 and the present in online banking usage, mobile banking growth will accelerate significantly in the coming years," said Jeff Chambers, vice president of marketing for M&I Bank's Kansas City Region.

) April 16, 2009 -- CashEdge Inc., the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ products for financial institutions, announced today it has extended its agreement with Digital Insight, an Intuit Company. Digital Insight is the leading outsourced provider of online banking and financial management capabilities to banks and credit unions in the United States. Through this agreement, CashEdge will provide its industry-leading, online money movement solutions to more small to mid-sized banks and credit unions.

) April 30, 2009 -- iVeri Payment Technologies (pronounced "ivory"), a leading provider of multi-channel e-payment solutions, has licensed its Payment Gateway and MiCard™ e-payment processing solution to Dashen Bank SC, a private commercial bank in Ethiopia. iVeri's Payment Gateway will help Dashen Bank to become the first bank in Ethiopia to acquire mCommerce, eCommerce and Mobile merchant transactions. The bank has also chosen iVeri's MiCard™ software which for the first time will enable Dashen Bank account holders to interact with the bank via SMS.

) January 8, 2009 -- Bank marketing and customer service budgets have been hit hard with the financial meltdown. Customers are starting to feel the pinch. According to a new report released today by Change Sciences Group, bank web sites and their users are generally worse off than they were a year ago. Bank web sites are generally harder to use, less informative and less persuasive overall.

Bank home pages have improved to some degree. There are fewer instances of unprofessional design. Home pages are 14% more informative. But home pages have also become 21% less welcoming as more than a few have replaced inviting imagery with notices of takeovers and acquisitions.

While there are some people saying "...Wow, I've found an Unlimited Calling Plan to Call Philippines" ...BUT...after a while those people may probably realize that ....

The death toll from flooding in the Philippines climbed to 140 Monday as a tropical depression in the Pacific sparked new fears of flooding.

) October 1, 2008 - PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services, Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) has introduced "Wallet World: The Virtual Adventures of Kash & Flo," a new online game.

Wallet World Homepage

) June 10, 2009 -- Q2 Software, Inc., a progressive financial services technology company, announces that The Commercial Bank in Honea Path, SC with over $112 million assets has successfully launched Q2 Software's electronic banking solutions. The bank reached its' online banking users goal quickly and after six months almost every new user was actively banking online. "I thought a large number that tried online banking services may not use it regularly, but everyone is," said Tim Thompson, SVP of The Commercial Bank.

Q2 Software

According to a new poll released by MoneyRates.com -- a leading source of information on CD rates, money market accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts and other investment topics since 1999 -- the financial crisis has left consumers feeling that bigger is definitely not better when it comes to banks. By a margin of four-to-one, poll respondents indicated that they felt more confident with local community banks and credit unions than with large national and international banks. (PRWeb Sep 8, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2836014.htm

) July 3, 2009 -- AXIS (a trademark of PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler) the rapidly growing national GSM and 3G cellular service provider in Indonesia, partners with Transfer To™ to implement cross-border mobile recharge service. This solution enables AXIS subscribers to receive airtime credit directly on their prepaid account from their relatives living outside Indonesia.

Using Transfer To™ service, the sender simply needs to enter the amount and destination number and send it via SMS. Transaction is processed in real-time through Transfer To™ secure platform; both sender and receiver are immediately notified by text messages.

) December 22, 2008 -- My Bank Tracker, the premier interactive banking and information website, announces the launch of their credit card comparison engine, allowing consumers to find and compare the best credit card offers available from the banking sector.

With credit cards playing a significant role in building personal credit, the addition of our credit card comparison tool, adds further value to the My Bank Tracker portfolio of products

) December 8, 2008 -- For those who want to anticipate where their money will go, rather than where it went, Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) has something new: Free Quicken Online - the Web's first forward-looking personal financial service.

www.Quicken.com

) March 9, 2009 -- Ubikwiti offers Facebook users a free, 'no strings' software-as-a-service (SaaS) Personal Expenses application - hosted on US-based Amazon.com servers.

Click here to find out more.

Ubikwiti's announcement enables Facebook users to use Facebook to record money-in ('Top up my balance') and money-out ('Record my expenses').

According to Ubikwiti CEO Tim Loving, "Given the current global economic downturn, Ubikwiti believes its new Personal Expenses application will assist individuals and families to budget and tightly manage their income and expenses."

) June 4, 2009 -- Why a merchant may need an offshore merchant account - Merchants, especially those that transact business internationally may find it beneficial to use an offshore or non-domestic bank to process their credit card transactions. This can benefit the merchant because many non-domestic banks have a lot of experience in multi-currency transaction processing and have high volume merchant account processing capabilities.

This month the work on the migration tool for bank accounts history has been completed. The tool allows customers to easily move the history of electronic banking accounts between different banks.

Frontier Bank wanted to attract both new consumers and serve and retain their current customers by offering the convenience of establishing new accounts online via their website. Using MeridianLink's user-friendly automated online system for new accounts and deposits, Frontier Bank reached $1,000,000 in deposits via the system just one month after implementation. (PRWeb Aug 17, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2750114.htm

) September 14, 2009 -- CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, today announced the addition of accounts receivable and cash management capabilities within its global trade and supply chain platform, Proponix360™.

) February 4, 2009 -- A new study by Juniper Research indicates that the mobile money transfer market will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of the global recession. The rapidly changing economic downturn is forecast to have an immediate impact on the gross value of mobile money transfers, with the market in the worst case scenario reaching $73bn by 2011. This is some 50% less than previously forecast, although strong growth overall is still expected in the long term.

The Juniper Research report determined that the short term impact of the recession is likely to be felt most severely in this market owing to the effect of job losses in the migrant worker population.

) September 24, 2009 -- Web-based large file transfer services are available without the use of email and without the hassle of FTP. Businesses and organizations can now send and receive large files regularly with fewer limitations and greater control.

) April 16, 2009 -- FlowTracker Analytics Inc. revealed they have developed customer behaviour tracking software for banks that analyzes the flows of funds within customer relationships. Research based on 1 million US households over a 3 month period, shows that 30% of all account balance changes are funded by transfers between customers' accounts. This discovery will dramatically alter the industry's understanding of customer behaviour, as well as marketing, sales and service performance by separating internal from "new" money flows for the first time.

) September 23, 2008 -- Branded Marketing LLC, the card program manager behind the Pr1macard Prepaid MasterCard® line of products, has announced the signing of its 12th retail distribution partner location in Northern New Jersey.

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