Genuine technological revolutions are rare, but when they come along they create amazing opportunities for investors. One such revolution is gaining momentum right now – mobile payments.
Mobile banking, which allows consumers to perform a range of activities from checking balances to making transfers and payments over mobile devices, is exploding across the globe, including rapidly expanding India and China.
· The Deccan Chronicle of India reported on Jan 23 rd this year that the Indian mobile payment industry, which is in a nascent stage, is growing at a rate of about 100 per cent quarter-on-quarter. The leading players in the industry are trying to leverage the huge base of over 300 million Indian mobile users out of which they have so far captured only about one to two per cent.
· In the US, Bank of America's web-based mobile banking service is close to reaching 2 million users, up 1 million over May 2008 – a growth rate of 100%. The number of mobile banking users represents a mere 10 percent of the bank’s 29 million online banking users.
· Overall, the number of people in the U.S. that use mobile-banking services grew to 3.1 million in 2008 from 400,000 in 2007, and that number is expected to hit seven million this year, according to ABI Research, a technology-research firm based in New York. At the same time, the number of U.S. banks that offer mobile banking is expected to jump to 614 this year – still only about 4% of all banks in the country - from 245 in 2008, according to Aite Group, a Boston-based financial-services research firm.
Controlling the patent for what is expected to become the primary global process for managing the provision of goods, services and payments in the consumer-driven world makes Xcellink (XCEL) an exceptional investment opportunity.
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