Monitise and DeviceAnywhere push for up-to-date mobile banking

DeviceAnywhere and Monitise today announced that testing for Monitise’s Mobile Money Manager will begin on the DeviceAnywhere platform. Monetise has chosen DeviceAnywhere to provide it’s testing process for the handset and operator end, to ensure that Monetise is always up to date with the latest developments.

DeviceAnywhere’s virtual testing platform supports over 2000 devices and 30 operator platforms. It provides an on-line database of physical models of all the handsets. Once you’re on the DeviceAnywhere system, you can test your product on any of those handsets from anywhere in the world. The Monetise system allows consumers to fully manage their money from their mobile phone - across any operators, handsets and financial institutions. Consumers can access their money on the move, make payments, pay bills and top-up pre-pay accounts with their mobile.

From the release:

“Our belief is that everyone should be able to manage their money on the move using their choice of financial institution, mobile operator and handset. So ever since we first launched our service in October 2006 we have ensured that our Mobile Money Manager is available on the widest possible number of handsets,” said Mike Keyworth, Chief Operating Officer for Monitise Group. “Our test team ensures that we are constantly up to date with the latest handset trends in every market that we operate in. We need to test on new devices both quickly and easily. DeviceAnywhere allows us to test across thousands of handsets and numerous operator networks in a simple, effective and straight-forward manner that ensures our service is consistently available on the handsets that consumers want.”

“Mobile banking has seen incredible growth in the past few years, and the need for compatibility, security, and functionality is key to its continued success,” commented Faraz Syed, CEO and Co-Founder of DeviceAnywhere. “In order to meet all of these requirements, mobile application testing is essential. We’re pleased to be working with Monitise in order to help them ensure that their service is always available to the mass-market of consumers.”

What we think?

I’m always excited by news concerning mobile banking and mobile payments. Monitise is working at an operator and bank level - that level of integration could lead towards a genuine mobile payment ecosystem. We can already route data and voice through other operators, if we could move money as well it would really open up the mobile shopping possibilities. Being able to quickly and easily pay for goods or services over the mobile would really give people another reason to use the mobile web.