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May 16, 2008

A Look at Mobile Wallets in India

Tags » India, mChek, Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayMate

MSN India reports on mobile wallets and payments in India saying that "current payment players in India are mChek, Obopay and PayMate." The article notes that the Reserve Bank of India is currently formulating the regulatory guidelines for mobile payments with the final draft expected by June 2008.

April 24, 2008

Obopay Confirms $20 Million Financing Round

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced the closing of its fourth round of venture funding, raising $20 million along with adding two new board members. Essar Communications Holdings Limited, the telecom subsidiary of Essar Global Limited, led the round. The two new board members are K B Rajendran, Senior Vice President, Essar Global Limited and Robert G. Hottensen, Jr., Senior Vice President for Public Equity at Olayan America Corporation.   » Continue Reading

April 17, 2008

Obopay Reportedly Gets $20 Million to Send Money via Mobiles

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham writes that "Obopay has scored $20 million in additional funding, CEO Carol Realini told me this afternoon. She and other Obopay executives contributed to the round by wiring their investments to the company coffers by way of their Obopay accounts on their mobile phones." [Editor's note: We've not yet found an official press release from the company announcing the financing.]

April 08, 2008

Obopay Selects iovation For Fraud Protection

Tags » Card Fraud, iovation, Mobile Payments, Obopay

iovation has announced that mobile payments provider Obopay is implementing iovation ReputationManager, iovation’s device-based fraud management service, 'to reduce the risk of online payment fraud by enhancing its ability to proactively identify devices that have been associated with fraudulent activity.'   » Continue Reading

April 04, 2008

A Profile of Obopay's Carol Realini

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, Payments Blogs

In an article titled 'Turning your cell phone into a wallet', Fortune Small Business writer Jonathan Blum profiles Obopay's CEO Carol Realini. Also, earlier this week, Obopay launched the 'Official Obopay Blog'.

April 02, 2008

Citibank, Obopay to Pilot Mobile Person-to-Person Payment Service

Tags » Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Obopay, Online Banking, p2p - Person to Person Payments

Citibank has announced that it will make Obopay’s mobile person-to-person payment service available to Citibank checking account customers on a trial basis. Citibank says it is the first U.S. retail bank to trial an integrated mobile payment service.   » Continue Reading

March 27, 2008

Obopay Partners with YES BANK in India for Money Transfer

Tags » Mobile Payments, Money Transfer, Obopay, p2p - Person to Person Payments

Obopay has announced the launch of its instant money transfer service in India through an alliance between wholly-owned subsidiary Obopay India and YES BANK, an Indian private sector bank.   » Continue Reading

March 18, 2008

Obopay Enables Money Money Transfer from Existing Accounts

Tags » Checking Accounts, Mobile Payments, Obopay, p2p - Person to Person Payments

Obopay has announced that "customers can now use their existing bank accounts to send and receive money via their mobile phone. With Obopay's mobile money transfer, non- customers can pick up payments without signing up for Obopay. These innovations make it easier than ever for any bank customer to conveniently send and receive payments from their mobile phones."   » Continue Reading

February 14, 2008

Mobile Commerce Gets Ready for the Next Big Step in India

Tags » India, mChek, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Obopay

Abhineet Kumar reports from Mumbai for livemint.com on the evolution of mobile banking and payments in India - including the regulatory oversight of that evolution. "Californian mobile payment service provider Obopay Inc. and Bangalore’s mChek India Payment Systems Pvt. Ltd are among a fast-expanding breed of mobile payment service providers which have planned offerings that work within the guidelines and bring the convenience of mobile transactions."

January 17, 2008

Obopay Adds Mobile Payments Support for Blackberry Users

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced that it is adding support for BlackBerry smartphones. According to the company, "the new Obopay application for BlackBerry users provides fast, customizable access to Obopay's full suite of mobile payment services."   » Continue Reading

January 08, 2008

Obopay Enters Indian Market

Tags » India, Mobile Payments, Obopay

India's Economic Times reports that "Obopay, the US based pioneer in mobile payment services, on Tuesday said it has signed up with six banks and three mobile telephone providers, including BSNL, for its formal entry into the Indian market."

October 26, 2007

Obopay Video Profile

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Tony Russomanno reports for San Francisco's CBS5.com about Obopay - and using its person to person money transfer service instead of Western Union. Although currently US only, Russomanno reports the company plans international support for moving money.

October 04, 2007

Obopay, Yodlee Partner for Instant Bank Account Verification

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, Yodlee

Obopay has announced it has partnered with Yodlee to facilitate instant bank account verification, letting Obopay customers immediately link their existing bank account to Obopay.   » Continue Reading

August 25, 2007

Net Settlement for Your Social Network

Tags » Obopay, Personal Financial Management

Obopay's BillMonk has introduced what they call "debt shuffling" - but it's really all about computing a net settlement position for social debts owed to a network of friends.

August 14, 2007

A Look at Obopay

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

In an article titled 'Prepare to Lose Your Wallet", Conde Nast Portfolio's Sam Gustin profiles Obopay based on an interview with CEO Carol Realini. Gustin writes "Obopay's service is simple. For 10 cents, anyone with a cell phone can send up to $1,000 per week to anyone else with a cell phone. No bank account or credit card is required, and the company plans to raise the limit."

August 09, 2007

Interview with Obopay's Aditya Menon about Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

PodTech has posted an interview with Aditya Menon, Chief Information and Technology Officer of Obopay India. "Will mobile phones be the future for cash payment? Will mobile payment usher in a cashless society? Are services like Western Union threatened by mobile payment? These are all the questions that Aditya answers in this podcast."

August 01, 2007

TowerGroup Explores Verizon Wireless and Obopay Mobile Payments Deal

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, TowerGroup

TowerGroup has announced a new research report titled "Mobile Peer-to-Peer Payments: Verizon Wireless and Obopay Take a Short Step Down a Long Road" that finds that "while online peer-to-peer payments and their mobile counterparts are not new to the payments arena, the use of mobile devices to exchange payments between consumers is still in its infancy. The newly announced deal between Verizon Wireless and Obopay is novel, given the fact that a major U.S. mobile operator has chosen to partner with a startup technology vendor to support peer-to-peer payments by means of a downloadable application on mobile phones."   » Continue Reading

July 27, 2007

Citi, Obopay to Begin Pilot of Mobile Payment Service to Consumers

Tags » Citi Cards, Mobile Payments, Obopay

Citi has announced that it will begin piloting a new mobile peer to peer payment service with Obopay to select new and existing Citi customers as part of a limited consumer trial in Boston and Chicago.   » Continue Reading

July 12, 2007

Obopay Closes $29 Million Third Round Venture Funding

Tags » Mobile Banking, Obopay

Obopay has announced the closing of its third round of venture funding, raising $29 million. The round was led by Richmond Global Cellular, an affiliate fund of Richmond Management LLC. Other new investors included AllianceBernstein L.P., Citi, Societe Generale.   » Continue Reading

June 21, 2007

Obopay Adds Merchants to Mobile Merchant Platform

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced the addition of several new mobile merchants and application providers to its Mobile Merchant Platform - including" innovative wireless community and media services provider Xringer Inc., mobile recycling program RIPMobile, online marketplace provider Chegg.com, mobile gaming platform developer Exit Games, and mobile search and advertising firm 4INFO."   » Continue Reading

June 20, 2007

Leave the Cash at Home - Verizon, Obopay Partner for Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

In a press release headlined "Leave the Cash at Home", Obopay has announced that "Verizon Wireless customers will soon have another option when they shop other than just cash or credit -- they will be able to pay using their wireless phones."   » Continue Reading

Verizon to Announce Deal with Mobile Payment Firm Obopay

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Jessica E. Vascellaro reports for the Wall St. Journal that "Verizon Wireless plans to Wednesday announce a deal with mobile-payment company Obopay Inc. to allow subscribers to transfer money and make purchases via their mobile phones."

May 14, 2007

Obopay Introduces Mobile Payments for AOL's AIM Users

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced the availability of a new AIM Obopay plugin for users of AOL's AIM service, the largest instant messaging community in the U.S. According to the company, "this new plugin allows eligible AIM users to launch Obopay and use it to make payments directly from the AIM Buddy List feature. Users can sign up for Obopay and download the free AIM Obopay plugin at http://www.obopay.com/aim."   » Continue Reading

May 08, 2007

Let the Phone Pick Up the Tab

Tags » Firethorn, First Data Corp., Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, Vivotech

Business Week takes a look at mobile banking and payments - including Citibank's pilot with Obopay, PayPal Mobile, Firethorn and First Data's efforts including last week's investment in VIVOtech.

May 03, 2007

Cellular South, Obopay Launch Mobile Payment Service

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Cellular South and Obopay have announced the availability of Obopay's mobile payments solution on Cellular South handsets. With Obopay, Cellular South wireless customers can now instantly and effortlessly receive, send and spend money directly from their wireless device to anyone, anywhere, anytime.   » Continue Reading

March 28, 2007

Obopay Introduces Obopay Checkout

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced the introduction of Obopay Checkout, calling it "an industry-first capability that enables mobile merchants to offer consumers effortless, instant payments that monetize digital and physical offerings."   » Continue Reading

March 27, 2007

Obopay Launches M-Commerce Solution for Mobile Merchants

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced the launch of an m-commerce payment solution for mobile merchants and application providers that are looking to engage consumers via their mobile phones.   » Continue Reading

February 28, 2007

Citi, Obopay to Pilot Mobile Person-to-Person Payment Service

Tags » Citi Cards, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Money Transfer, Obopay

Citi has announced an agreement with Obopay to pilot an "innovative, real-time Person-to-Person mobile payments service later this year. The service will be offered to new and existing Citi credit and debit card customers. Further details, including cities for the consumer pilot, are to be confirmed and announced at a later time."   » Continue Reading

February 26, 2007

Who's News - Payments Professionals Management Changes

Tags » Announce Yourself!, Obopay

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

  • Dave Johnson has been named CFO at mobile payments provider Obopay. Earlier, Johnson held roles as chief operating and/or financial officer at PayPal.
Announce yourself! Have you recently taken on a new position in the payments industry? If you'd like to share the news with your colleagues, be sure to tell us about it. Are you looking for a new payments-related job? Or are you needing to find someone great? Checkout the Payments Jobs job board.

February 20, 2007

Mobile Payments For Teens From Obopay

Tags » Cards For Teens, Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced a new Sponsored Accounts feature that the company says "allows anyone under 18 to benefit from the fun, convenience and security of sending and receiving money in real time via the mobile phone. Through this new family enhancement, parents can provide each child with an Obopay account linked to his or her own mobile phone. With Obopay, kids can now enjoy the freedom of spending cash in a cool new way, while parents get the tracking and control they need to ensure fiscal guidance." Obopay has also announced it is now offering a new "Refer-A-Friend" program to incent signups. It rewards Obopay users who refer their friends to signup with Obopay with $5 for each successful referral.   » Continue Reading

January 30, 2007

Obopay Updates News of BillMonk Acquisition

Tags » Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Obopay

As reported earlier this morning on Payments News, mobile payment service provider Obopay has announced its acquisition of BillMonk, calling the company "a pioneer in "social money" services." According to Obopay, the acquisition "will provide on-the-go consumers -- who want fast and easy access to their money -- with services that fit their mobile lifestyle."   » Continue Reading

BillMonk Acquired By Obopay

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Over on the Notes from the BillMonk blog, there's news that BillMonk has been acquired by mobile payments provider Obopay. "When we first talked to the Obopay team it was clear to us that they care deeply about making it easier to deal with money. Given that BillMonk’s goal is to make money painless between friends, the match couldn’t have been better."

January 23, 2007

Obopay Enters Indian Market For Mobile Payments

Tags » India, Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced that it is entering the Indian market for mobile payments and has appointed Aditya Menon as chief information and technology officer for India "as part of an international expansion to bring mobile payments to banks, carriers and consumers all over the world."   » Continue Reading

January 04, 2007

Where's The PayMart For Payments?

Tags » Card Payments, Emerging Payments, Glenbrook, Google Checkout, Obopay, Payments Views, PayPal

Dave Birch picks up the discussion about the question we asked a few weeks ago in our Creating Wealth from Payments Innovation post: why isn't there a Wal-Mart for payments? Dave blames regulation - and that's certainly a factor. Reminds me of the days when airline fares in this country were heavily regulated, preventing a Southwest from emerging. On the other hand, the most successful new entrant in payments in recent history - PayPal - navigated the regulatory waters (state money transmitter laws primarily) relatively easily. One could argue regulation wasn't much of a barrier for their entry. Google Checkout - acting not like PayPal as a money transmitter but, rather, as a master merchant - seems to have avoided any financial regulatory issues. On the other hand, mobile payment provider Obopay's job description for a VP Treasury Operations includes being responsible for "compliance with Federal banking regulations such as Anti Money Laundering, Patriot Act, Regulation D and E, and the FFIEC guidelines" and for "state money transmitter regulations".

December 28, 2006

Obopay Seeking VP Treasury Operations

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, Payments Jobs

Obopay, a Redwood City, CA-based mobile payments service provider, is looking for a Vice President, Treasury Operations. A summary description for this position follows.   » Continue Reading

December 20, 2006

Obopay Launches Mobile Payments On Helio

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced partnering with Helio to offer the Obopay end-to-end mobile payments solution to Helio members.   » Continue Reading

November 26, 2006

Mobile Phones Replacing Cards, Cash, And Checks

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, Tempo Payments, Visa, Wells Fargo, Yodlee

Mark Schwanhausser writes for the San Jose Mercury News about mobile payments - saying that "eventually Americans will be able to choose among high-tech alternatives that will transform how they shop, pay for goods, borrow money, dole out allowances, transfer cash around the globe and manage their finances." Schwanhausser reports that San Francisco "Bay Area companies are playing influential roles mapping the way, from old-school titans such as Wells Fargo and Visa USA to New Economy ventures such as PayPal, Obopay and Yodlee." In a sidebar, Schwanhausser takes a look at some of the experiments underway.

November 16, 2006

Wolfensohn & Co. Invests In Obopay

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced it has received an add-on investment to the strategic round announced last September from Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C.   » Continue Reading

October 19, 2006

Operator Deals, NFC Could Help Obopay Stand Out

Tags » Contactless Payments, Mobile Payments, Near Field Communication (NFC), Obopay

Digital Transactions reports on Obopay's launch with Amp'd Mobile earlier this week and last week's agreement with Vivotech to connect to contactless payments at the point of sale. According to the article, Obopay "is promoting signups now with an offer of $5 for each account as well as $5 for each account referred by current users. Each Obopay accountholder receives a MasterCard debit card linked to the funds in his account and issued by First Premier Bank, allowing users to get cash from ATMs and spend it in stores."

October 17, 2006

Obopay Goes Live With Mobile Payments On Amp'd Phones

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Tomorrow morning Obopay is announcing that it has gone live on all Amp'd Mobile devices - delivering what the company calls "the first operator-supported mobile payments service in the U.S." As a part of a co-marketing initiative, Amp'd will feature Obopay's mobile payments service on its home page where visitors can sign up and receive a $25 bonus in their newly created Obopay account.   » Continue Reading

October 09, 2006

ViVOtech, Obopay Partner For NFC Mobile Phone Payment Options

Tags » Contactless Payments, Mobile Payments, Near Field Communication (NFC), Obopay, Vivotech

ViVOtech and Obopay have announced a partnership to "allow Obopay users to access the ViVOwallet to conveniently and securely pay for retail goods by waving their near field communications (NFC) mobile devices in front of the more than 160,000 retail outlets equipped with a ViVOtech point-of-sale device."   » Continue Reading

September 05, 2006

QUALCOMM Leads $7 MM Obopay Financing Round

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Mobile payments provider Obopay has announced a $7 million strategic investment round led by wireless technologies innovator QUALCOMM. Other participants in this round include investors Redpoint Ventures, ONSET Ventures and Richmond Management, which all contributed to the series A round of $10 million last February.   » Continue Reading

August 08, 2006

Use The Web To Pay For Things Using Your Cell Phone

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile

Adam Balkin writes for News 10 Now in Syracuse, NY about how to use your cell phone for payments - highlighting both PayPal Mobile and Obopay.

July 12, 2006

Obopay, Amp'd Mobile Partner For Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced that said it has entered into an extensive partnership with Amp’d Mobile that "marks a milestone in the adoption and deployment of mobile payment systems in the U.S." The two companies said they will offer the new mobile payment service, Obopay-Amp’d to every Amp’d subscriber in the coming months. Amp’d will promote the service to all Amp’d subscribers In addition, the two companies agreed to an aggressive joint promotion on university campuses across the country this fall.   » Continue Reading

July 11, 2006

Mobile Commerce Back On The Move

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, TextPayMe

Michal Lev-Ram writes for Business 2.0 about mobile commerce - saying its time has finally come. In the article, Lev-Ram looks at BillMonk, PayPal Mobile, Obopay, TextPayMe, and MyTango. According to Dan Schatt, a senior analyst at Celent, "The stars are finally aligning. This will happen a lot faster than most people realize."

June 13, 2006

Using Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, TextPayMe

KLTV in Tyler, Texas takes a look at how a mobile payment service like Obopay, TextPayMe, or PayPal Mobile can be used to settle up among friends. "Each service operates differently, but the basic idea is the same. To pay someone...you text a code or command to the company along with the amount and the recipient's cell phone number."

May 31, 2006

Obopay Developing BREW Extension to Enable Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Obopay has announced that it will enable a new phone payment option for online retailers and BREW mobile application providers that provides merchants an easy and low-cost way to process mobile payment transactions and enables consumers to easily initiate purchases from their mobile phones with a simple touch of the keypad.   » Continue Reading

May 21, 2006

Pay By Phone: Money Just A Text Away

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, TextPayMe

Kirstin Cole reports for WCBS-TV in New York about using mobiile payments to transfer money among friends using Text-Pay-Me, Obopay, or PayPal Mobile.

April 26, 2006

You've Got Money: Paying via Mobile Text Message

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, TextPayMe

Mylene Mangalindan and Jessica E. Vascellaro of the Wall St. Journal review the new mobile payment services from PayPal Mobile, Obopay, and TextPayMe. Earlier this month, we posted the Payments News US Mobile Payments Players - Comparisons chart that also outlines the most important similarities and differences between these three mobile payments services.

April 10, 2006

Short Of Cash? Buy It With Your Cell Phone

Tags » Mobile Payments, Near Field Communication (NFC), Obopay, PayPal Mobile

Ryan Kim reports for the San Francisco Chronicle on last week's CTIA Wireless 2006 conference and the mobile payments initiatives launched by PayPal and Obopay as well as trials underway exploring the use of near-field communication (NFC) chips embedded in cell phones.   » Continue Reading

April 05, 2006

Comparing PayPal Mobile, Obopay and TextPayMe

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, PayPal Mobile, TextPayMe

At Glenbrook, we've put together a preliminary comparison table that compares a number of the attributes of PayPal Mobile, Obopay and TextPayMe. It will probably need to be updated after PayPal officially announces PayPal Mobile tomorrow - and we'd like to remind you again that we said this comparison table was preliminary or, as Google would say, it's in beta. We certainly haven't had time to "make it pretty" either! Comments/corrections/feedback appreciated! Click here to view the table.

April 01, 2006

Obopay Mobile Payments - A First Look

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, TextPayMe

We've posted a first look at Obopay's just announced mobile payments service. Click here to read the full text.   » Continue Reading

March 30, 2006

Obopay Announces U.S. Mobile Payment Service

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Click here for Glenbrook's analysis:
"Obopay Mobile Payments - A First Look"
containing more analysis and details on Obopay.

Palo Alto-based Obopay this morning is announcing what it calls the "first complete mobile payment service ever offered in the United States" saying that it will be "a milestone in a transformation in financial services that will make the mobile phone the central device consumers use to make purchases and share money."   » Continue Reading

March 20, 2006

More Job Openings In Mobile Payments

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay, Payments Jobs

San Francisco Bay Area-based mobile payments startup Obopay is advertising for a number of positions including engineering, quality assurance, business development, and risk management positions.

A number of other companies are also hiring for mobile payments positions including Sapphire Mobile Systems along with several undisclosed companies.

March 08, 2006

Obopay Plans Mobile Payment Service In US

Tags » Mobile Payments, Obopay

Palo Alto-based Obopay has announced closing a $10 million Series A financing round with investors Redpoint Ventures, ONSET Ventures, and Richmond Management. Obopay says it will soon bring to market "the first comprehensive mobile payment service in the U.S. that allows subscribers to get, send and spend money directly from their mobile phones."   » Continue Reading

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