BICS, a leading global provider of international carrier services and a pioneer in the mobile financial services market, today announced an agreement with Airtel Africa, a provider of mobile communications services to the African market, to facilitate mobile money transfers throughout Africa. This agreement applies to all of the markets covered by Airtel in the African region and it will allow Airtel Money subscribers to send and receive money transfers over the operator’s network.

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BICS, a leading global provider of wholesale carrier services and a pioneer in the mobile financial services market, today announced an agreement with Xpress Money, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, to open new mobile remittance corridors towards Africa.

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The Vodafone Group, one of the largest mobile communications companies in the world, today announced an agreement with BICS to join the HomeSend remittance hub. 

Vodafone customers will soon be able to receive funds to their M-Pesa account from friends and family abroad following the closing of this deal. Vodafone will now have access to the network of service providers connected to HomeSend, contributing to BICS' goal of building a truly global mobile remittance ecosystem.

The Vodafone release is available on the Vodafone website at:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/media/group_press_releases/2012/m-pesa-homesend.html

Thanks to the agreements we signed with our partners in Nepal and the Philippines, we can proudly say that we expanded the receiving community of international remittances with the important Nepalese and Philippine markets where we can now offer complete coverage.

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BICS has successfully undergone the ISAE 3402 Type I audit for HomeSend. This audit provides our partners assurance regarding the adequacy and completeness of our controls and procedures. More information on the new ISAE 3402 standards can be found on the website: http://isae3402.com/.

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BICS and CONTACT system, the leading money transfer organization in Russia operated by RUSSLAVBANK (est. 1990), have signed an agreement for the use of the HomeSend hub to enable remittances towards Russia and the CIS countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan).

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CGAP has published a new study on international remittances through mobile. What do international remittances mean for Mobile Money and which role plays HomeSend in the market?

You can discover the article here, or you can download the white paper.

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Lycamoney, the Financial Services division of the Lycamobile Group, and BICS, part of the Belgacom Group and a prominent international provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, today announced that they have launched new remittance corridors between the UK, Morocco and the Philippines. Lycamoney users will be able to send money instantly and cost effectively to their friends and family anywhere in Morocco and the Philippines, through the HomeSend remittance hub.

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BICS, a leading global provider of wholesale carrier services and a pioneer in the mobile financial services market, and Tranglo, a prominent international mobile financial transactions hub operator in Malaysia, today announced that Tranglo has connected to the international remittance hub, HomeSend. This partnership will enable new HomeSend corridors across Asia, specifically from Malaysia as well as towards Indonesia and the Philippines.

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BICS, a leading global provider of wholesale carrier services and a first mover in the mobile financial services market, and mHITs Limited, a pioneering developer and operator of mobile payment services, today announced that mHITs has connected to the international remittance hub, HomeSend.

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Qtel, a leading mobile operator group with presence in the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia, and BICS, a prominent international provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, signed a strategic agreement to enable cross border mobile remittance services through the HomeSend hub.

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Wafacash, subsidiary of the Attijariwafa Bank Group and Moroccan leader in international money transfers, and BICS, part of the Belgacom Group and a prominent international provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, announced today that they have launched a new remittance corridor between Belgium and Morocco.

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The Philippines' leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and BICS, a prominent international provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, announced today a new remittance corridor for HomeSend, which will make it easier to send money from Belgium, Qatar and the UK to Smart Money, Smart’s mobile wallet service.

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BICS, a leading global provider of wholesale carrier services and a pioneer in the mobile financial services market and F1 SOFT, a provider specialized in e-Channel and m-Channel in Nepal, Singapore and Thailand, today announced that eSewa has connected to the international remittance hub, HomeSend.

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SMARTPAY, the pioneer of Chinese electronic payment services and leader in the mobile payment industry, and BICS, part of the Belgacom Group and a prominent international provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, announced today the signing of an agreement for the use of the HomeSend hub to enable mobile remittances towards China.

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BICS, a leading global provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, and VNPT EPAY, a VNPT affiliate and Vietnam's expert in Mobile Wallets and Payment Services, today announced that VNPT EPAY has connected to the HomeSend international remittance hub.

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MTN and BICS have announced today that they will launch International Remittances services with MTN Ghana, utilizing HomeSend, a mobile centric remittance hub operated by BICS and powered by its technology partner eServGlobal.

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Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) and BICS, a leading global provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, will be collaborating in the international remittance business through mutual sharing of their payment networks to enhance their services.

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EastNets, a leading global provider of compliance and payments solutions and services, has announced that it has recently signed a partnership with BICS, a leading global provider of Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services, to connect its newly launched mobile remittance solution known as en.MoRe to BICS' HomeSend solution.

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eServGlobal Limited (LSE: ESG & ASX: ESV), a global telecoms software vendor specializing in Mobile Money and Value-Added Services (VAS), and BICS, a leading global provider of voice, data and value added services, today announce that Provident Capital Transfers Limited has connected to the HomeSend international remittance hub.

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Belgacom International Carrier Services  (BICS), a leading global provider of voice, data and value added services, and eServGlobal Limited (LSE:ESG & ASX: ESV), a provider of smarter transaction management solutions in Payment, Retention and Value Added Services, today announced that Maroc Telecom is live on the HomeSend remittance service.

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Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS), a leading global provider of voice, data and value added services and G-Xchange (GXI), a fully-owned mobile-commerce subsidiary of Philippines’ Globe Telecom, have signed an agreement to expand GXI’s existing number of remittance corridors, using BICS’ HomeSend Remittance Hub.

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Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the facilitation of foreign currency exchange for mobile remittances. Belgacom ICS, a leading global provider of voice, data and value added services, are pleased to announce that they have signed an MoU with The Royal Bank of Scotland that will form the basis of a co-operation deriving mutual benefit from RBS's FXmicropay System and Belgacom ICS' HomeSend solution. Belgacom ICS’ HomeSend solution, built in partnership with eServGlobal, is the first mobile centric global hubbing service for international remittances, while RBS’s FXmicropay System enables efficient and secured foreign exchange transaction processing with limited currency exposure.

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Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS), a leading global provider of voice, data and value added services and eServGlobal Limited (LSE: ESG & ASX: ESV), a provider of end-to-end solutions, enabling smart communication and payment services, have successfully tested their joint service, HomeSend, and performed a first international money transfer through the mobile phone.

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The GSMA today announced new developments in its Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) programme, an initiative that leverages mobile to facilitate access to money transfer services. Complementing the successful alliance that has been in place with The Western Union Company for the past eighteen months, the GSMA has selected Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) and its technology partner eServGlobal as a new remittance provider in the MMT programme. To add further flexibility for operators, the GSMA has also chosen the RBS Group, a global bank, as a remittance partner and is working with them to finalise the offering.

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