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Sutherland Global Services (www.sutherlandglobal.com), a leading provider of technology-enabled Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, announced a partnership with Tyfone (www.Tyfone.com), a global provider of unified mobile secure transaction infrastructure for mobile banking, mobile identity management and mobile contactless NFC payments.

April 7, 2011

Salt Lake City will be the first to experiment with Isis, a system that will allow payment for transit fares with the wave of a handheld device. Though the city is expected to be generally receptive to the technology, one problem may be the limited number of financial services companies involved. Consumers who don’t have the right credit card may be unwilling to open a new account just to use the system.

April 8, 2011 |

Anytime, anywhere: that’s today’s financial services mantra and it is unavoidable fact. John Fiore, CEO of the $730 million Motorola Employees Credit Union in Schaumburg, Ill., said as much in a statement where the 39,000-member credit union announced rollout of its mobile apps for a range of smartphones. “We’re very pleased to be able to deliver this mobile banking solution and provide members the information they need anytime, anywhere,” he said.

Tyfone (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.

April 26, 2011
Tyfone Inc.(tyfone.com),this week launched what appears to be the first solution from a third-party vendor that allows any consumer with a mobile device to enroll in, and then use, mobile banking directly from a handset.

Tyfone (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.

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.

There is a lot of noise in the market about electronic wallets, mobile wallets and NFC these days. There is the Google Wallet, the Isis Wallet, the Visa Wallet and of course the impending much speculated Apple Wallet, which will probably be called the, you guessed it, iWallet. Electronic wallet, mobile wallet and NFC are often used interchangeably by various wallet junkies, including yours truly, which become a source for confusion when it comes to privacy, security and convenience – the things which are most important to the consumer.

August 1, 2011

Star One Credit Union The CU’s 86,000 members are geographically scattered but still mailing in paperbased checks. A mobile solution that integrates tightly enough with the core system yet still allows customization. Executives at Star One Credit Union knew it was time to reestablish mobile banking for their members. For starters, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based institution’s five branches reside within the most famous tech corridor in the world, Silicon Valley.

Tyfone (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.