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Pay from your mobile
Electronics For You, December, 2007
e-Commerce and travel portals, FutureBazaar.com, Indiatimes.com, SifyMall.com and Yatra.com have offered the mChek mobile payments solution to all customers on Airtel with Visa or MasterCard credit cards.
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Indian ideas for the mobile world
Information Technology, December, 2007
"Mobile technology is making communications possible anytime, anywhere. Now with mChek, the idea is to also make payments anytime, anywhere. With mobile phones crossing 200 million in India, enabling mobile payments will be a transformational change in India and the world," says Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek.
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mCommerce to be the next transacting tool
Business Standard, November 29, 2007
mChek is India’s first m-commerce firm to achieve the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards 1.1, a global standard aimed at stamping out debit and credit card fraud. As with any electronic payment service, data security is a crucial requirement of such a service.
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Goodbye eCommerce, welcome mCommerce
Rediff News, November 29, 2007
A growing number of mobile phone subscribers is making a strong case for the success of mCommerce, which can be termed as ‘transacting on the cellphone’, a technologically superior cousin of eCommerce. Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek, says: "With mChek, a user can link a financial instrument (MasterCard/Visa credit cards) and create his own mChekPIN. Subsequently, the user only has to enter the mChekPIN on his mobile phone to authorise and complete a transaction."
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No more paper or plastic, just your mobile phone
Hindustan Times, November 05, 2007
mChek, an ISO27001 and PCI-DSS certified company specializing in mobile security and payments, announced that leading e-Commerce and travel portals, FutureBazaar.com, Indiatimes.com, SifyMall.com and Yatra.com have introduced the mChek mobile payments solution to enable a secure and express payment option for consumers. The service is initially available to all customers on Airtel with Visa or MasterCard credit cards and will subsequently be expanded to customers of other telecom operators as well as to debit cardholders.
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mChek unveils growth plans
The Economic Times, November 3, 2007
Mobile payments and security company, mChek is all set to expand its operations in the country and is now looking to raise $5-15 million in its second round of funding. Earlier funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the company is likely to rope in another private equity player for its second round of expansion. Rolling out its third expansion plan, mChek is now launching its services with four merchants — indiatimes.com, futurebazaar.com, sify mall and yatra.com. “By enabling payment through the mobile gateway, the customer can now complete transactions without filling in his card details every single time.
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Mobile Money
The Telegraph, October 29, 2007
Visa International has joined hands with mChek, Corporation Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank to extend its existing card-to-card Visa Money Transfer service to the mobile telecom platform. Sanjay Swamy of mChek said, “Visa is already providing a card-to-card money transfer facility in association with a number of banks. Under the existing system, customers of a bank (offering the Visa Money Transfer service) holding a Visa debit or credit card can send money to another Visa cardholder with some other bank using the ATM or internet banking platform of their own bank. The new service will be an extension of the existing facility wherein Visa card holders can send money from their handsets.”
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Banks switch to anytime mobile transaction
The Economic Times, October 26, 2007
Citi India, along with mobile solutions provider mChek, has tested a pilot project which allows clients of a leading brokerage to respond to margin calls, or enhance their credit limits, by authorising transactions over their mobile phones. Citi and mChek are also exploring the possibilities of providing similar products for the MF platform. They have also launched a mobile-based application which enables farmers to receive money for sale of farm produce through their mobile phones. Here, an ‘intent to pay’ is communicated to the person on his mobile phone, which he can redeem at the partner-bank’s cash counter.
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Pay your bills on the move
Living Digital, October, 2007
Amidst the fast paced life of ours, we somehow fail to remember things like paying our bills on time and even if we remember, then going to the payment center to pay bills is a pain. mChek is an innovative solution that takes away this pain of visiting the payment center for paying your bills. You can use mChek to pay your phone bills anytime, anywhere.
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A Mobile Wallet
The Times of India, September 27, 2007
Airtel has tied up with mobile payment company mChek, and now allows postpaid customers to pay their bills by sending a simple SMS. But customers need to have a valid Visa credit card issued by any Indian or MNC bank to avail of this facility. MChek is in the process of adding MasterCard also to its payment option. After which debit cards will become an acceptable payment option. Says Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek, “Instead of standing in queues or wasting time going to a particular place to debit the amount, people will prefer to make the payments from the comfort of their homes, by simply typing out an SMS. But these are still early days and there is a long way to go before it becomes a way of life for Indians.”
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Using your mobile to make a payment
The Hindu, September 27, 2007
On September 6, mChek, an Indian ingenuity-fuelled player in mobile solutions announced that its secure and on-demand mobile payments platform, would be used by the nation’s largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel to launch an ‘anytime anywhere’ bill payment facility. It will allow an Airtel customer with any make of hand phone (who is also a Visa credit card holder) to pay the mobile phone bill using a simple SMS and to receive instant acknowledgement. mChek is known to have already signed up with State Bank of India and ICICI Bank and their customers can expect to be offered similar services in the near future.
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mChek achieves PCI-DSS standard
The Hindu Business Line, September 11, 2007
mChek is India’s first m-commerce firm to achieve the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards 1.1, a global standard aimed at stamping out debit and credit card fraud. As with any electronic payment service, data security is a crucial requirement of such a service. The PCI DSS standard represents the best practices defined by Visa International, American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB and MasterCard Worldwide covering requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures.
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mChek gets DSS Standards certification
The Hindu, September 11, 2007
mChek is India’s first m-commerce firm to achieve the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards 1.1, a global standard aimed at stamping out debit and credit card fraud.
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Dialog and NDB introduce mChek
Voice & Data, September, 2007
mChek, an ISO 27001 company, today announced that its patent-pending, on-demand mobile payments solution, mChek/Payments, has been commercially introduced in Sri Lanka by Dialog Telekom, the leading telecom operator, in partnership with NDB Bank. This is the first commercial launch of a Card Present mobile payment platform in the world. The mChek/Payments platform is immediately available to all customers of Dialog and NDB Bank and enables secure payments ranging from utility bills/pre-paid top-ups, over-the-counter and remote commerce, and mobile banking.
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mChek’s mobile payments platform
PC Quest, September, 2007
mChek announced the commercial availability of mChek/Payment which enables consumers to shop with their mobile phones in a convenient and safe manner, either across the counter or with remote merchants by bringing together the ecosystem of merchants/content owners, banks and telecom operators.
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Easy mobile payment
Mid-Day, August 17, 2007
mChek, an innovator in mobile security and payments, today announced the commercial availability of mChek/Payment, its patent pending, inter-operable, on-demand, secure mobile payments platform. mChek/Payment enables consumers to shop with their mobile phones in a convenient and safe manner, either across the counter or with remote merchants by bringing together the ecosystem of merchants/content owners, banks and telecom operators.
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Mobile, Voice or Finger?
The Economic Times, August 11, 2007
mChek is a mobile payment platform that has been developed in collaboration with Visa. It allows users to link an existing phone and their existing Visa credit card issued by any Indian bank to their mobile phone. All transactions are secured by an mChekPIN that must be entered on the mobile phone in the course of the transaction.
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