Comviva To Offer Mobile Financial Services Globally On A SaaS Model
Bangalore: Comviva, an organization that provides mobile financial and VAS solutions, today announced its readiness to provide it’s widely recognized mobiquity mobile financial platform as a hosted model. This new approach will provide reduced operational costs, faster time to market and a fully managed mobile financial platform to the Banks and Financial Institutions and Network Operators in Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. This will further extend benefits to the partners in the ecosystem retailers or merchants or billers and end consumers, towards rapid uptake of mobile payment services in these countries.
Srinivas Nidugondi, Head of Mobile Financial Solutions of Comviva commented, "We are delighted to announce the availability of our mobiquity mobile financial solution as a hosted model. In today’s competitive world, it is imperative for banks, financial institutions and network operators to keep up to speed with changes in the mobile payment systems that they rely on for their continued operations. We believe that our offering will have a far reaching and positive impact on the economic and development indices of the markets we plan to launch our hosted services.”
“Today, approximately 35 percent of mobile phone users have no access to formal financial services. In a world with 7 billion people, there are over 6 billion mobile phone connections, but only 1.8 billion bank accounts. Comviva’s mobiquity mobile financial platform on a hosted model will enable banks and mobile operators to address this major market gap by delivering affordable financial services to unbanked and underserved segments,” further added Srinivas.
Comviva has partnered with best in class service providers to offer highly available mobile financial services platform to banks, financial institutions and network operators, to meet their customer requirements and for faster adoption of electronic payments in these countries.
The mobiquity mobile financial solution is deployed by over 55 service providers and banks across the globe, enabling over 490 million end customers across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to access mobile financial services. It empowers banks and mobile network operators to cater to the diverse financial needs of both banked and unbanked customers. The solution is designed to ensure high availability, integrity, scalability, security, flexibility and deliver ease of use for its end users.