WITHOUT fanfare, Scotiabank on Monday launched Scotia Mobile Banking services to customers across the Caribbean including Barbados, The Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago. Customers can now check their balances, transfer funds and pay bills from the convenience of their Internet-enabled mobile phone.
Popularity: 28% [?]
Mobile Mania: Maybe the only marketing trend that is hotter than social media is mobile mania. Why? Globally there are four-times more cellphones than PCs worldwide. Locally, the mobile penetration is 100% in Jamaica. Generally it’s the favorite product of Gen Y. Factually, worldwide 130 billion texts will be sent a month. And I could go on and on but you’ll have to start paying me for that info. LOL.
So whether it’s mobile payments; mobile banking; mobile remittances; creating a Mobile App for a client, offering customers mobile coupons or text message campaigns; mobile loyalty programmes; the ability to build their fanbase and community – 2010 is going to be Mobile Marketing’s big year in Jamaica, the Caribbean and Globally – Are you in on or will it pass it you by?
Why 2010? What’s different in 2010?
-The phones are smarter.
- the networks are faster.
- an open development ecosystem is leading to faster innovation, deployment of ideas.
- and digital marketing and mobile agencies have built up a solid knowledge base of what works.
Popularity: 5% [?]
LIME, one of the Caribbean’s full service telecomms provider, has partnered with ECIC Holdings Ltd and a number of Eastern Caribbean banks to launch a Mobile banking solution. It will allow LIME’s customers with accounts at any of the member banks, to access their bank information, pay bills and conduct other banking transactions from their mobile phones securely.
Popularity: 3% [?]
This SiliconCaribe TV video blog is an exclusive prelaunch demo. It’s about a Jamaican startup called Software Architects that has built a mobile phone app that works with even the most basic phone on the market and does things like this:
- allows you to top up on your prepaid minutes from you chosen mobile service provide -LIME, Digicel and send some to a friend too
-allows you to transfer funds between bank accounts
-allows you to pay your bills.
and more to come.
We caught up with them at the entrance of the Digicel Electronics Show weeks go. They were not exhibitors just curious attendees like ourselves. We’ll have more on this Jamaican startup led by CEO Damion Daley pretty soon.
Popularity: 5% [?]
