– PayMate becomes the second Indian mobile payment co to enter Sri Lanka: the company has tied up with Bank of Ceylon (BOC) for enabling bill payments – electricity, water and phone bills – via SMS. Paymate intends to grow its merchant network in the island nation in the coming weeks. Paymate has partnered with Fortunaglobal in Sri Lanka. [via release] Prior to Paymate, MChek had tied up with Dialog and NDB Bank.
— Barclays Bank has launched Mobile Banking, called “Hello Money”, entirely on the USSD platform, so it doesn’t require GPRS and SMS. I’m not a Barclays customer (though they representatives do call me quite often), but I did give the service a go by dialing *598*#. The service is available in Hindi and English, but there’s a problem – they’re charging customers Rs. 30 per month, and available only on Airtel, Voda and Idea networks.
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