I dismissed this company as froth when I first looked at it. Since then the sp has doubled and continues to steadily rise. I looked again and when I saw the countries and contracts this firm is in---I was impressed and bought some to tuck away. anyone else bought in or interested?

The webcast link above is from the Times supplement of last Tuesday.

The supplement was put together by Raconteur well worth a look.

Monitise and Cognizant Form Mobile Money Alliance

TEANECK, N.J., and LONDON, UK, October 4th, 2012-Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Monitise (LSE: MONI) today announced a global alliance that will help financial institutions embrace the mobile channel of interaction, and develop effective and innovative mobile banking, payments, and commerce solutions.

Combining Cognizant's extensive financial services and mobility expertise with Monitise's leading mobile money platform, the alliance will help global financial institutions speedily respond to the mobile money opportunity that is gathering significant momentum. By leveraging an interoperable platform instead of solutions from disparate products and mobile operating systems, financial institutions will be able to lower the total cost of ownership, and drive newer revenue streams through enhanced mobile adoption.

Wait till 2pm for the yanks to run with this good news.
A serious alliance for both Moni and Cognizant.

Monitise reveals new record for mobile banking adoption
StockMarketWire.com
Monitise has revealed a new record for the adoption ob mobile banking by Desert Schools Federal Credit Union.

Monitise - a leading technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments and commerce networks worldwide - said DSFCU reached 30% mobile banking adoption in 90 days.

Monitise says this is a new record in rapid adoption.

DSFCU also reported that early adopters of its mobile banking solution were two times more profitable than traditional banking members, and were averaging 46 interactions a month with the mobile banking application.

At 1:06pm: (LON:MONI) Marconi Corporation share price was +0.63p at 39.63p


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Trading Update
Monitise plc (LSE: MONI) will hold its Annual General Meeting in London at 10.00 am today. At the meeting, Chairman of Monitise, Duncan McIntyre, will provide the following update on trading:

"Trading at Monitise remains strong and is in line with expectations. We saw continued momentum in the business during the first quarter, including our Memorandum of Understanding with Bank of China (Hong Kong) and our recently announced global alliance agreement with Cognizant. We are delighted with the integration of Clairmail and our Monitise Americas business continues to perform well. Today, over 17 million registered customers globally have access to services delivered by our Monitise Enterprise Platform."

Just wont climb over 40p though ,tried to get through twice now..

On the rise with volume, it seems the bottom of this cycle is over

now 33.75p

MACD is bullish now as the MACD is divergence and rising over 0

Statement regarding press speculation

Monitise plc (LSE: MONI) ("Monitise" or the "Company" or the "Group") has noted the press speculation regarding a possible fundraising and confirms that the Company is in discussions with Canaccord Genuity and certain institutional and strategic investors with regard to a proposed partially underwritten fundraising of up to £100 million in order to take advantage of significant opportunities represented by mobile banking, payments and commerce.

Proceeds from the proposed placing would be used to fund new Mobile Money opportunities for financial institutions and payments companies looking to capitalise on accelerating global demand for mobile banking and payments services and in particular mobile commerce capabilities.

For Harry from the update.

"An application to move from AIM to the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities is under consideration for calendar 2013."

BMO Bank of Montreal and Monitise Partnership
RNS
RNS Number : 9331T
Monitise PLC
19 December 2012







News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



BMO Bank of Montreal and Monitise to Partner on Mobile Money Solutions for BMO Customers



TORONTO and LONDON, December 19, 2012 - BMO Bank of Montreal and Monitise plc (LSE: MONI) today announced they have entered an alliance to develop new Mobile Money services, using Monitise's market-leading technology platform that encompasses mobile banking, payment and commerce services.



The alliance will allow BMO Bank of Montreal to offer customers intuitive and advanced Mobile Money services. The collaboration builds on an agreement formed in 2010 with Clairmail, the U.S.-based mobile banking and payments provider acquired by Monitise in 2012.



As BMO Bank of Montreal's technology provider for the mobile channel, Monitise will work with the bank across its smartphone applications, mobile web offerings and SMS services, using its platform capabilities to provide added convenience for new and existing customers.



"With the size of the Mobile Money opportunity growing by the day, and the enhanced experience and convenience this channel provides to our customers, we plan to continue to build on our success in this area to date," said Andrew Irvine, Senior Vice President, BMO Bank of Montreal. "We are extremely pleased with the response we've seen to our mobile banking and payments services so far and, with the support of Monitise and its technology platform, we look forward to delivering more innovative solutions across this space and beyond."



"We are delighted to be supporting BMO Bank of Montreal via our platform capabilities and network connections," said Frank D'Angelo, President of Monitise Americas. "As cash becomes increasingly digitised, we are committed to providing integrated, strategic Mobile Money solutions to financial institutions, with a line of sight for the development of cutting-edge services in the future. The Monitise Enterprise Platform is central to this approach."



Monitise's Enterprise Platform has been developed to deliver bank-grade integrated and scalable Mobile Money solutions that embrace all devices, operators and networks. For more information visit: www.monitise.com/solutions





About Monitise

Monitise plc (LSE: MONI) is a leading technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks worldwide. Monitise enables financial institutions and other payments companies to defend and extend their market position by protecting their existing customer relationships and transactions while enabling new forms of mobile commerce revenue.



Monitise powers bank-grade solutions that are delivered on premise, or via cloud services, handling more than a billion transactions and over US$25bn worth of payments and transfers on an annualised basis. Monitise has a global reach and unique set of partners and clients using its completely adaptable platform. More information is available at www.monitise.com.



About BMO Financial Group



Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified North American financial services organization. With total assets of $525 billion as at October 31, 2012, and more than 46,000 employees, BMO Financial Group provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

I assume therefore that the deal with Montreal was already in the ClairMail sp at the time of takeover?

Harry - did you see post 160 - while you were away I think.

Making inroads after the placing that brought the share price down

Ah, thanks skinny. Sp still looks reluctant to break out of this trading range though. Not sure I am happy buying yet as chart would suggest 26p looms again.

CREDIT SUISSE > 5%

Appointment of CFO and Board Director

Monitise (LSE: MONI) ("Monitise" or the "Company") the technology and services company delivering mobile banking, payments and commerce networks worldwide is pleased to announce the appointment of Brad Petzer as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Brad Petzer's appointment will take effect from 1 April 2013. This follows a search process undertaken following John Brougham's retirement in October 2012.

Brad joins Monitise from Telecity Group plc, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, a FTSE 250 company, where he held the position of Group Financial Controller. In his role at Telecity over the last eight years, Brad has supported the business through its successful Main Market listing on LSE and subsequent period of rapid organic and inorganic growth, and taken responsibility for reporting, planning, policies, risk and control for the group. Prior to joining Telecity Brad held senior finance roles at Create Services, an online credit card provider which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, and other technology and payments companies. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Notification of Interim Results Date

Monitise (LSE: MONI) ("Monitise" or the "Company") the technology and services company delivering mobile banking, payments and commerce networks worldwide, will report Interim Results for the half year ended 31st December 2012, on Monday 11th February 2013.

London, UK, January 23, 2013 - CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, and Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) have joined forces to offer reliable and proven Mobile Money solutions to banking and payments companies using Monitise's best-of-breed technology platform. The alliance between the two companies combines Logica's, now part of CGI, established IT and consulting services, payments expertise and local market knowledge in Europe with Monitise's bank-grade Mobile Money capabilities.

Mobile banking is one of the fastest growing areas for financial services businesses and is becoming a "must have" in an increasingly competitive market. The alliance will offer clients proven mobile banking, payment and commerce solutions designed to make mobile banking a main-stream service. The CGI and Monitise approach will help banks capitalise on the true potential of mobile as an intrinsic customer channel and stay competitive in an increasingly tough battleground for consumer engagement.

Through their alliance, CGI and Monitise will deliver cutting-edge functionality from straightforward payment and statement services to complex processes such as buying insurance policies. They will work together to provide seamless consumer experiences that make bank customers' lives easier on a daily basis and, in turn, drive greater take up and use of banks' mobile offerings.

The alliance between CGI and Monitise will initially focus on European retail banks in the UK, Benelux, Nordics, Germany and France.

Interim Results

Financial Highlights

· H1 FY 2013 revenue of £27.8m, up 63% on H1 FY 2012; up 22% on an organic basis2.

o Strong growth in user generated revenue on a reported and organic basis, up 164% and 70% respectively, rising on a reported basis to 51% of total revenues from 31% in H1 FY 2012 and 37% in H2 FY 2012.

· Gross margins increased to 72% from 64% in H1 FY 2012, driven by a greater proportion of user generated revenue.

· EBITDA3 in Live Operations4 of £5.3m (H1 FY 2012: £5.1m).

· EBITDA loss of £14.7m (H1 FY 2012 loss: £4.2m), in line with management expectations, reflecting the acquisition of Clairmail Inc., continued investment in scaling of the Monitise Enterprise Platform and Group service delivery capabilities.

· Group pre-tax loss of £24.4m (H1 FY 2012: profit £1.1m).

· Free cash outflow5 was £21.6m in H1 FY 2013, compared to £22.6m in H2 FY 2012.

· Gross cash of £106.4m as at 31 December 2012.

Monitise partners BlackBerry and PermataBank

Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) announces that the world's first mobile payments service for BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) that it has helped to develop will shortly launch following a commercial pilot in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country.

Still waiting for this to catch fire ,just does'nt want to go up at the moment.