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Through a partnership with Portland-based mobile financial services firm Tyfone, OnPoint Community Credit Union today announced the launch of the iCashé Mobile Wallet program. iCashé Mobile Wallet provides OnPoint members with a simple and fun way to purchase gift cards on their mobile phones and send to anyone instantly by text message or email. OnPoint is the first credit union in the nation to offer the iCashé Mobile Wallet program to members. (more…)

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com) announced today the availability of iCashé™, a new mobile wallet and eCommerce engine that for the first time delivers purchasing power through any mobile banking application. Built entirely on top of Tyfone’s award-winning u4ia® mobile financial services platform, iCashé is the industry’s only service to blend comprehensive mobile banking features with convenient consumer purchasing, gifting and loyalty programs. With the option of adding Tyfone’s SideTap™ microSD secure element technology, iCashé also provides contactless NFC payments and the highest level of secure identity management.

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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, will be showcasing its mobile financial services technologies at the upcoming Pepcom MobileFocus® event in San Diego, California, October 11.  (more…)

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com) announced today an agreement with AboMem Technology Corp. (www.abomem.com.tw), Taiwan’s premier memory products manufacturing company, to manufacture, distribute and service Tyfone’s SideTap™ microSD NFC products. This partnership also includes a widespread distribution of SideTap microSD cards to consumers throughout The People’s Republic of China via AboMem’s extensive distribution network.

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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, will be exhibiting at the Symitar Educational Conference (SEC) held in San Diego, Calif., September 20-22, 2011. Tyfone’s mobile banking solutions integrate seamlessly with the Symitar Episys core. Tyfone will be showcasing its secure mobile banking technology, its unique revenue generation Mobile Wallet Service called iCashé and introducing SideSafe – its Secure Mobile Authentication solution at the event. (more…)

CoVantage Credit Union (CVCU), serving 17 counties in Wisconsin and Michigan, has chosen Tyfone to provide its comprehensive suite of mobile wallet services so that it may better serve CVCU members with their every day mobile financial services needs. Tyfone’s mobile wallet services include Symitar Episys core integrated mobile banking, enhanced strong ID authentication mobile security and NFC contactless payment technology. This comprehensive mobile wallet includes a neutral secure element in a memory card so the user experience is dictated by the Credit Union without disintermediation by the mobile industry. (more…)

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, today announced the issuance of a seminal patent for over the network provisioning of add-on smartcard secure elements.
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Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, today announced the expansion of the Tyfone team with strategic new hires. These newest additions to the Tyfone management lineup will be charged with expanding and marketing the NFC contactless payment and mobile banking offerings of Tyfone.

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Star One Credit Union, the ninth largest credit union in the US with more than $5 billion in assets, has signed an agreement with mobile financial solutions provider, Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), to deliver next generation mobile banking services to it members. (more…)

Tyfone (www.tyfone.com), a mobile financial solutions provider, today unveiled its next generation solution with industry-first features designed to make the mobile banking experience complete for consumers. Building on a vision that the mobile platform is far more than a channel of access, Tyfone, with leading-edge banks and credit unions as its partners, is defining the complete consumer experience on a handset. Tyfone Mobile Banking™ is built on top of the company’s u4ia® mobile financial services platform that also enables contactless payments using near field communications (NFC) and strong authentication ID management, providing banks with a multi-faceted roadmap for offering comprehensive digital wallet and payment services.

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