Vodafone MONILINK free m-banking

Rating: gimme gimme gimme moni, moni, moni

Vodafone is offering free access to banking services via the (most innovatively named NOT) Vodafone Internet On Your Mobile. Free banking will be available until the end of the year for some UK banks including HSBC.

From the press release
Al Russell, Head of Vodafone Internet On Your Mobile said: “With the launch of the Vodafone Internet On Your Mobile we want to give customers access to all the services they see as essential, in the palm of their hand. Banking is one of the most important services that our customers use and by partnering with the MONILINK network we can ensure that all of our customers are able to access their bank accounts on the move, whenever they wish.”

The MONILINK service has been developed by Monitise, a specialist in mobile banking technology, and VocaLink, the transaction specialists behind the UK’s ATM network, processing over eight billion transactions per year including 15 per cent of Europe’s automated payments. Monitise is currently working with partners across the world, including Metavante in the United States and T-Systems in Germany, to create a single mobile banking and payments ecosystem for the global population.

What we think
Lloyds and Barclays are missing from the list of UK top banks – so we won’t be using the service then. Enough said.

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