MFoundry signs City-County Federal Credit Union; reports Affinity Mobile alliance

Source: Mfoundry

Mobile banking and payments leader mFoundry today announced that City-County Federal Credit Union (CCFCU) has selected the mFoundry platform for mobile banking.

CCFCU will leverage mFoundry's Spotlight Financial Platform software to offer mobile banking services to their members, including the ability to securely access account balances, to transfer money between accounts, and the ability to find the nearest branch and ATMs. City-County Federal Credit Union is the seventh largest credit union in the state of Minnesota. It has more than 66,000 members and nearly $500 million in assets. The credit union operates nine full-service offices in the Twin Cities area.

"CCFCU continually strives to make banking easier and more convenient for our members. Offering 24/7, real-time access to banking services through mobile is a great addition to our offerings," said Dean Nelson, president of CCFCU. "mFoundry's platform offered us an elegant solution that will give our members a secure, responsive, easy to use mobile banking application. It was the only platform that gave us multiple distribution options and complete control of the security model."

"mFoundry is very pleased to be working with a leading credit union like CCFCU.," said Drew Sievers, CEO and co-founder of mFoundry. "Their adoption of our platform is a testament to the fact that our solution is suited for financial institutions of all sizes."

Earlier this year, mFoundry announced that PSCU Financial Services, the nation's largest credit union services organization adopted the mFoundry platform to deliver mobile banking and payment services to credit unions and their membership. The mFoundry platform has become the leading mobile banking platform for financial service technology providers. In addition to PSCU, mFoundry also has partnerships with Fidelity National Information Services, ACI Worldwide, First Data and others.

Separately, mFoundry, the award-winning mobile financial platform provider, and Affinity Mobile, a global provider of mobile financial services to the world's underbanked, announce a new alliance to pursue the expansion of mobile wallet services to prepaid and underbanked markets. Affinity Mobile's MADE solution will be paired with mFoundry's Spotlight Financial Platform software to create a comprehensive mobile wallet solution for the U.S. and international markets.

The combination of the two companies' world-class capabilities to span both prepaid and postpaid subscribers' needs will further adoption by mobile operators, financial institutions and consumers globally.

The platform from mFoundry enables full mobile banking, payments, coupons, loyalty, contactless services and any transaction type. In addition to providing mobile banking solutions to banks of all sizes, the platform serves as an ideal foundation for mobile wallets. With this alliance, Affinity Mobile will be the provider for international money transfers, airtime top-ups, instant access prepaid debit accounts, bill pay and other services, targeting 75% of the global population that lacks access to traditional financial services.

"The majority of mobile subscribers around the world use prepaid services and lack financial system access," said mFoundry chief executive officer and co-founder Drew Sievers. "Our platform is made to be open and flexible so that best of breed providers can come together easily and seamlessly. With Affinity Mobile's open technology and solutions, we will bring to market an even more comprehensive and compelling mobile wallet solution to address these unmet needs."

"Mobile financial services is an enormous opportunity to empower the underbanked markets and address the real need for more cost effective and accessible financial services," said John Carney, chief executive officer for Affinity Mobile. "We see great potential in our alliance with mFoundry to deliver a comprehensive set of postpaid and prepaid solutions that banks and mobile operators can take advantage of in these markets."

As a part of the alliance announced today, mFoundry and Affinity Mobile will be a preferred provider of each other's mobile financial services technologies where such technologies are applicable to the promotion and marketing efforts to each company's targeted customer base. The companies plan to deploy their services in Q3 of 2008.

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