Canadian Firm To Supply Mobile-Banking Services To Monitise

Everlink Payment Service Inc., a Canadian provider of electronic transactions and payments services, today announced an agreement with Monitise Americas LLC to distribute a mobile-banking suite of services to financial institutions in Canada, including 375 credit unions. Monitise recently signed similar agreements with five United States-based financial institutions to distribute the suite of services through the NYCE electronic funds transfer network (CardLine, 2/4). Users can check account balances, view recent transactions, transfer funds and receive text-message alerts. Everlink hopes to add bill payment and person-to-person mobile payments in the future, the company says in a statement. Several domestic and foreign subsidiary banks in Canada and independent service organizations also will offer the service, the statement says.