The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global money transfer services. Together with its Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded money transfer services, Western Union provides consumers with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, as well as send payments and purchase money orders.

It operates through a combined network of more than 379,000 Agent locations in 200 countries and territories. Famous for its pioneering telegraph services, the original Western Union dates back to 1851. For more information, visit www.WesternUnion.com.

 

EnStream LP is a mobile commerce company working to bring transformational wireless payment solutions to market together with its carrier partners. With anytime–anywhere money transfers and payments representing a new frontier of wireless services, EnStream’s mandate is to develop standardized, secure, and easy–to–use mobile commerce services that work across Canadian wireless carriers and with existing credit, debit, and prepaid capabilities offered by financial institutions. EnStream is a joint-venture company owned by Canada’s three leading national wireless operators – Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications Inc., and TELUS Corporation. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. For further information, please visit www.enstream.com or www.zoompass.com.  

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, M-Com is an international mobile banking and payments solution provider with live Fortune 500 banking customers across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and North America, including Canada’s Scotiabank.  M-Com’s core proposition is centered on helping financial institutions and payment processors deliver world class adoption and revenue metrics from the mobile channel.   For more information, visit www.mcom.co.nz. 

 

Monitise Americas is a joint venture between Metavante Corporation, a leading provider of banking and payments technologies to financial institutions and businesses worldwide and Monitise plc (MONI.L), a specialist in mobile banking technology. Monitise Americas provides mobile banking and payment services to North American financial institutions predicated on an "ecosystem" principle, which allows multiple mobile carriers and financial institutions to deliver services over a single platform. It has a sister ecosystem in the United Kingdom, MONILINK, developed by Monitise plc in partnership with VocaLink. Current partners of MONILINK include: HSBC, first direct, Alliance & Leicester, Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile and Hutchison 3G. For more information on Monitise Americas and details of how to benefit from participating in its cross-America ecosystem, please visit http://www.monitise.com.

 

Mondato is a portal for knowledge about international transfers of value (including money transfer, airtime top-up, and bill payment) serving multiple audiences. For consumers, www.mondato.com provides a comprehensive search function to investigate ways to send money internationally. This allows individuals to find options, get pricing, timing, and other parameters of interest, and understand what best fulfills their needs via increased transparency.

Mondato is also a business-focused information source for investors, analysts, and others who need to stay on top of the industry from the perspectives of mobile operators, banking and financial service providers, regulators, NGOs, and more. We provide advisory services, existing and custom reports, custom portal build options (e.g., for public sector entities who wish to replicate a Mondato-like information source for a particular target audience), and access to custom technologies for ubiquitous transfer settlement that is participant neutral. The Mondato Newsletter is a bi-weekly, free offering, available for subscription through the website, created to provide timely insight into the complex and ever-evolving world of cross-border value transfer.

 

Founded in 2005, Excellis Consulting Corporation is a privately held business and information technology consulting firm. With deep experience in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Apparel and Utilities industries, Excellis provides a broad array of business and technology services and solutions.

It is our relentless dedication to excellence and our deep passion for success which has enabled Excellis to become a preferred business partner to many leading Fortune 2000 companies. Since inception, our integrated business practice model has been instrumental in delivering solutions to our clients in the areas of ERP, eServices, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and RFID.

Looking forward, as the market shifts from bottom-line cost cutting to driving top-line growth, we will continue to strengthen our industry depth by employing and partnering with senior subject matter experts, technical architects, and delivery personnel, to help our clients stay focused on their business.

 

Extreme Venture Partners (EVP) is focused on providing early stage venture capital and management expertise to help propel start-ups into the big-leagues. We work with smart people who have great ideas for disruptive businesses, and the energy and ability to deliver.

EVP has deep roots in the technology and investment communities. We get involved as early as possible and beyond the financial support that we provide, we like to take a hands-on approach, bringing a depth of technical and business expertise and resources with us. We are a lean and fast moving organization, so we are able to move quickly to identify the great ideas and get them set on a path towards a successful, sustainable future.

 

 

Sensidea helps clients understand the digital consumer and deliver web and mobile strategies, systems, and applications that spell digital success. From content management, commerce, advertising, and video systems to buiding rich and engaging web and mobile applications and solutions, Sensidea helps you get digital.

Sensidea's pro-active method of evaluating digital strategies and technology, combined with experience gained from working with some of the world's leading companies puts the company in a unique position to help clients develop and deploy value-based digital media solutions better, faster, and smarter ensuring rapid ROI and happy customers today and in the future.

 

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