Calpian’s Money-On-Mobile Grows Processing Volume 27% in March with Cumulative Unique Users Hitting 131 Million
14 April 2015 - 1:51PM
Business Wire
India’s Leading Mobile Payments Service
Provider Now Offered Through 252,815 Locations Throughout India
Calpian, Inc. (OTCQB: CLPI) announced that for the month
ending march 31, 2015, its Mumbai-based
subsidiary, Money-On-Mobile, increased transaction processing volume to
Rs 1.762 billion Indian Rupees, or about $29.3 million US Dollars,
an increase of 27.1% from February’s Rs 1.386 billion Indian
Rupees. Money-on-Mobile has been accessed by more than 131 million
cumulative unique users since its inception, an increase of 3.5
million unique users accessing the service from February. The
company had 7.4 million total users in February, with 3.8 million
repeat users. Money-On-Mobile is a mobile payments service provider
that allows Indian consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for
goods and services, or transfer funds from one cell phone to
another using simple SMS text functionality.
Money-On-Mobile is now offered to Indian consumers through
252,815 retail locations throughout India, an increase of 5,344
stores from February’s 247,471 stores.
“Money-On-Mobile services continue to grow in volume. We
introduced Domestic Remittances (person-to-person transfers) in
December, 2014, and in March, we saw approximately $5.8 million in
volume with over 98,000 transactions. Domestic remittances have
grown over 100% per month on average since launch. This is
remarkable growth is part of the increase in overall volume this
month,” said Shashank Joshi, founder and managing director of
Money-On-Mobile.
“The overall success of our business model is playing out across
India,” commented Calpian CEO Harold Montgomery. “This month, our
prepaid mobile phone time sales, known as mobile top-up, increased
22% - and the average transaction size increased form Rs58 to Rs 95
– a 67% increase.”
About Calpian, Inc.
Calpian, Inc. (CLPI) is a global mobile payments technology and
processing company offering mobile payment services through Indian
subsidiary Money-On-Mobile and domestic transaction services
through Calpian Commerce. Money-On-Mobile is a mobile payments
service provider that enables Indian consumers to use their mobile
phones to pay for goods and services, or transfer funds from one
cell phone to another using simple SMS text functionality. Calpian
Commerce provides the U.S. merchant community with an integrated
suite of payment processing services and related software products.
For more information, visit www.calpian.com.
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Investors:PCG AdvisoryAdam Holdsworth,
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