NOVATO, CA, Nov 04, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- ClairMail, Inc., a leader in mobile banking and payment solutions,
today announced that it has signed a development and deployment
agreement with Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), the world's largest retail
electronic payments network, that allows ClairMail to integrate Visa
mobile services into the mobile banking and payments infrastructure
that ClairMail provides to leading financial institutions.
ClairMail bank customers who are also Visa clients can take immediate
advantage of Visa's mobile services by adding them to an existing
mobile banking deployment and creating a more comprehensive mobile
banking offering. Visa mobile services include applications that
support mobile payments, tailored merchant offers, and near-real time
transaction alerts and notifications.
The agreement adds new functionality to ClairMail's best-of-breed
mobile banking and payments platform, and expands the value of
ClairMail services to its bank customers. The ClairMail platform
provides end users with comprehensive mobile banking and payments
functionality, optimizing user experience across any delivery method
-- SMS, email, mobile web or Smart Client application. The ClairMail
platform also delivers personalized and conversational alerting
capabilities that empower users to conduct transactions, and respond
to or resolve account activity within the mobile channel.
"Today's agreement with Visa, the world's preeminent payment brand,
represents another significant milestone for ClairMail and further
extends our leadership in the industry," said ClairMail Chairman Joe
Salesky. "This will let our customers easily offer a richer set of
mobile features to their Visa account holders as an integral part of
their mobile banking experience."
"Mobile devices are quickly becoming an essential financial
management tool for consumers around the globe," said Tim Attinger,
head of product innovation at Visa Inc. "Integrating Visa mobile
services into ClairMail's platform will help consumers to better
manage their Visa accounts and has the potential to speed the
deployment of these services for Visa issuers."
About Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. operates the world's largest retail electronic payments
network providing processing services and payment product platforms.
This includes consumer credit, debit, prepaid and commercial
payments, which are offered under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink
and PLUS brands. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world,
and Visa/PLUS is one of the world's largest global ATM networks,
offering cash access in local currency in more than 170 countries.
For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.
About ClairMail
ClairMail is the leading provider of proactive mobile solutions for
banking, payment and card services, driving new levels of customer
trust and loyalty, facilitating cross-sell and enabling near term,
measurable cost savings. Financial institutions of all sizes can now
take command of customer interactions through the use of actionable
alerts, workflows and personalized, 1:1 touch across multiple mobile
channels, all via a single integrated platform. ClairMail maximizes
mobile adoption, leverage and ROI through its unified, simple
approach to mobile banking -- regardless of the mix of mobile
devices, carriers or back-end financial systems. Founded in 2004,
ClairMail is headquartered in Novato, Calif. For more information
call (415) 884-7270 or visit www.clairmail.com.
For media inquiries, please contact:
LaunchSquad for ClairMail
Gavin Skillman or Peter Evers
Clairmail@launchsquad.com
(212) 564-3665 or (415) 625-8555
For Visa:
Elvira Swanson
globalmedia@visa.com
(415) 932-2564
SOURCE: ClairMail, Inc.
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