Mobile phones have increasingly become tools that consumers use for banking, payments, budgeting, and shopping. Given the rapid pace of developments in the area of mobile finance, the Federal Reserve Board began conducting annual surveys of consumers’ use of mobile financial services in 2011. This 78-page report, “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services” (March, 2015) examines trends in the adoption and use of mobile banking, payments, and shopping behavior and how the emergence of mobile financial services affects consumers’ interaction with financial institutions.
InfrasoftTech Provides Mobile Banking to Bank of Maharashtra
InfrasoftTech today announced that Bank of Maharashtra has gone live on InfrasoftTech’s Mobile Banking Solution, enabling Bank of customers to avail banking services on-the-go.
Bank of Maharashtra has a large customer base and wanted to mobile-enable its services in keeping with evolving customer expectations. The solution had to be scalable, both in terms of increase in mobile banking usage as well as expansion in portfolio of services offered.
InfrasoftTech’s Mobile Banking Solution has helped Bank of Maharashtra to provide its clients a highly flexible way of banking. With this solution, Bank of Maharashtra’s customers can view account related information, make secure fund transfers, send funds through NEFT, make merchant and utility payments, raise service requests like debit card request, debit card pin regeneration, credit card request, block debit card and many other such services that a customer needs on day-to-day basis. The 2FA authentication makes the transactions secure and safe. The solution also provides value added services like mobile passbook, complaint lodgement and change of PIN. It also provides location-aware features such as branch/ATM locator for required set of services.
Bank of Maharashtra was able to meet all its business and technology goals for this automation project, and thus allowing its 20 million+ customers to avail the benefit of banking on-the-go. In 2013-14, InfrasoftTech launched its mobility solution suite on hosted platform, offering it on SaaS model. This has greatly benefited Bank of Maharashtra to quickly launch the mobile-based services without having to worry about initial capex requirements and procurement delays that come with any infrastructure deployment.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. M.C. Kulkarni – GM-IT, Bank of Maharashtra stated, “We are confident to achieve our objective of delivering highly scalable mobile banking solution on InfrasoftTech’s mobility platform that will enhance our customer reach and allow our customers to avail of many services 24×7. InfrasoftTech has worked round the clock to develop and deliver the mobile banking solution, within strict timelines. I am confident of quick adoption of mobile banking amongst our large customer base since the solution is very user friendly.”
On the occasion, Mr. Hanuman Tripathi, Founder & Group Managing Director, InfrasoftTech, said, “We are very glad to see Bank of Maharashtra going live on our mobility platform, since this is the need of the hour for any bank wanting to improve its service capabilities. The bank had set very strict deadlines for itself and I am happy to note that both the teams have made it possible. The project offers one of the best case studies for mobile banking solution on a hosted platform inIndia.”
Mr. Rajesh Mirjankar, CEO, InfrasoftTech, said, “InfrasoftTech has invested in a state-of-the-art solution and infrastructure for a hosted mobility and payments platform and desires to be the market leader in this segment. We will continue to upgrade the features of our mobility solutions in line with the needs of today’s generation of clients.”
Source: PR Newswire
Mobile Banking & Payments for Emerging Asia Summit: Oct. 8-9, 2012 – Conrad Bali, Indonesia
Clariden Global presents the inaugural Mobile Banking & Payments for Emerging Asia Summit to discuss the roles of m-banking and m-payments for emerging Asian markets, how industry stakeholders can move towards enabling implementation & adoption while managing regulatory & interoperability barriers.
This 2012 event will discuss the roles of m-banking and m-payments for emerging Asian markets, how industry stakeholders can move towards enabling implementation & adoption while managing regulatory & interoperability barriers in the drive to provide anytime, anywhere banking services to the emerging Asian population.
The Mobile Banking & Payments for Emerging Asia Summit 2012 brings together Asia’s mobile banking & payments stakeholders to discuss the roles of m-banking and m-payments for emerging Asian markets, how industry stakeholders can move towards enabling implementation and manage regulatory & interoperability barriers, in order to penetrate the emerging markets in Asia.
Key Highlights for the conference:
- 3 Day Dedicated Mobile Banking & Payments Summit
- 5+ Key Emerging Market Case Studies: Indonesia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya
- 18+ Mobile Banking and Payments Ecosystem Frontrunners
- 20+ Solutions Driven Presentations for Mobile Channel Stakeholders
- 24+ Hours of Professional Learning & Networking Opportunities
- 2 Industry Practitioner Led Workshops to Maximize Your Mobile Banking & Payments Deployments in Emerging Asian
More information: Clariden Global.
Nokia Launches Mobile Wallet in India
The Finish mobile giant has launched its Nokia Money service. The service saw pan-India launch and can be used on any mobile. The Nokia Money platform allows you to do number of financial transactions such as payments for utility bills, tickets, top-ups and insurance premiums that can be conducted on the mobile phone itself.
You can register for the Nokia Mobile by registering with a local Nokia outlet and depositing cash there. From there your cash will be converted in to digital cash and you can avail the service through SMS.
Read more, via MSN India.
Nokia Ships Phones With Banking Application in India
Nokia has started shipping mobile phones in India that are preloaded with its banking application, in a bid to popularize mobile banking in the country.
India is the first market where Nokia is preloading the Mobile Money client on its phones, a company spokeswoman said on Monday.
Nokia has already teamed up with Union Bank of India, and Yes Bank, and rolled out a mobile banking service based on the Obopay mobile payment platform, on a revenue-sharing basis. [Read more…]
HDFC Bank to Introduce Mobile Banking in Andhra Pradesh
HDFC bank has introduced mobile banking services in Andhra Pradesh, in south-eastern India. Approximately 26% of HDFC Bank’s customers visit branches and the rest depend on ATMs, the internet and mobiles for their banking needs. HDFC has 450 to 500 ATMs in AP and up to 20% of customers use internet banking.
via Voice & Data.
Indian Banks Introduce Instant Mobile Retail PaymentsIndi
A new mobile retail payment system backed by some large banks in India will allow fund transfers between different banks and the use of SMS to make transactions from even low-end phones — features that are expected to make the system popular with consumers.
Because the Interbank Mobile Payment Service IMPS from National Payments Corporation of India NPCI can support transactions from even low-end phones, the service will be accessible to a larger number of Indian consumers, A.P. Hota, managing director and CEO of NPCI, said on Tuesday.
via Indian Banks Introducing Instant Mobile Retail Payments – PCWorld.

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