Petra Financial and Acotelsa, the financial services and telecommunications consultancy in Spain and Latin America launch in the region the most exclusive mobile banking solution at the FELABAN Annual Assembly in Miami, Florida from November 15-17, 2009.
Acotelsa, who recently opened a SWIFT Service Bureau in Mexico, signed a deal to market Petra Financials Touchstone Mobile in the Latin American and Spanish market. This partnership with Petra Financial was announced in September this year.
Petra Financial is a global software company developing solutions in payments and mobile banking. Petra Financial customers include HSBC, National Australia Group, ABSA, First National Bank and Mizuho.
FELABAN, the Latin American Federation of Banks, is a non-profit organization has members in 19 continents. It holds an Annual assembly every other year that has become a focal point for innovation, and customer service best practices.
Touchstone Mobile revolutionizes the interaction with banking services for customers with the Apple iPhone and iTouch; BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve; and 3G and WiFi enabled phones. Users have in the palm of their hand the easiest, most intuitive, secure and functionally rich mobile banking application available today. Touchstone Mobile comes with an international payment validation that uniquely validates data at the point of initiation, reducing errors, and resulting in a fully routed STP transaction from a mobile device.
We are confident that Touchstone Mobile can address the demands of the private banking and wealth management sector in Latin America, says Pedro Jose Aires, CEO of Acotelsacommented. Acotelsa is proud to shape the needs of the Spanish and Latin American mobile markets by initiating the shift from browser and SMS based mobile applications to an application that has an intuitive user interface that offers both sophistication and simplicity. A complete and easy to use mobile banking application is what the market needs, and we are happy to launch this technology at FELABAN.
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