mFoundry has announced the launch of the industry’s first bilingual mobile banking application with the Laredo-based flagship bank of International Bancshares Corporation - IBC Bank. IBC is offering its mobile banking application as a free service to customers in both English and Spanish languages. READ MORE »

In India, Oxigen Services Pvt Ltd has announced OxiCash - described as "a prepaid stored value wallet accessible through the mobile or PC allowing users to make payments for a host of services such as prepaid mobile & TV recharges, telephone bill payments, travel services, e-commerce sites, mobile videos, music, games and other utility/insurance bill payments." READ MORE »

TransUnion has announced newly updated TransUnion Account Management and TransUnion New Account scoring models claiming that "both models experienced improvements, over the previous versions, in their ability to identify bankrupt accounts -- in some cases by as much as 32 percent." READ MORE »

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