Tagattitude Mobile Payment Alliance

Great trip to Cairo

2012-02-09T16:57:00.003+01:00

Hervé and Yves went for two days to Cairo to visit customers. The trip was very frustrating because we had no time to see anything from great Cairo. Place Tahir was unreachable (and maybe a little dangerous).The Pyramids and the Sphinx were completely in the dark when we succeed to drive close to them. The weather was very cold with a beautiful sand storm. Nevertheless we come back with this

Tagattitude greets 2012 with new deployments, new technologies, and a growing team.

2012-01-23T19:31:00.000+01:00

On behalf of everyone at Tagattitude, we wish you a very happy and successful 2012. This past year, the mobile money landscape has undergone some important evolutions. Tagattitude is thrilled to have been involved in many of the new services, technology trends, and deployments that took place in 2011. We wish to share some of Tagattitude's 2011 highlights as well as our hopes and vision

2011-12-23T17:39:00.003+01:00

Merry Christmas to all our partners!

PayPal & NganLuong start NSDT Field Pilot in Viet-nam

2011-11-17T12:19:00.005+01:00

NganLuong & Paypal Viet-Nam have launched! Last week a field pilot of NSDT was carried out offering online businesses and end-users a new way of authentifying online transactions using NSDT. Ngan Luong is one of the biggest online payment portals in Viet-Nam and is the PayPal partner in Viet-Nam. https://www.nganluong.vn/# NganLuong.vn is operated by PeaceSoft, a company who is also operating

2011-11-14T15:17:00.000+01:00

Tagattitude has a booth at Cartes 2011 in Paris, the world's famous exhibition for payment card industry from november 15th to 17th. This year, we are showcasing NFC2.0, our new contactless technology dedicated to smartphones. Join us at Cartes booth 3E411.

Tagattitude launches next generation NFC technology: NFC2.0™

2011-10-13T13:11:00.000+02:00

San Francisco, Paris - Tagattitude is thrilled to announce its latest technology, NFC2.0™. NFC2.0™ is an elegant, universal and easy-to-use technology that enables contactless mobile transactions across any network using any smartphone. This purely software-based alternative to classic Near Field Communication (NFC) allows application developers to extend the advantages of NFC to all

Our booth at MMT Mumbai

2011-09-27T12:02:00.002+02:00

Yves EONNET and Isabelle BERNER on our Booth, at MMT South Asia in Mumbai.

Tagattitude exhibiting in MMT Mumbai, India

2011-09-26T10:53:00.002+02:00

Tagattitude's CEO, Yves EONNET, and Head of Marketing, Isabelle BERNER, will be this week in Mumbai, India for MMT South Asia conference and exhibition.Tagattitude will demonstrate TagPay new software version as well as unveil new technology developped for smartphones.Come and join us at MMT South Asia!

TagPay Community Empowerment Program

2011-09-09T18:03:00.000+02:00

Tagattitude has launched the TagPay Community Empowerment program. This program is designed to provide partners with various resources to help them build a thriving mobile money service. With over 30 projects worldwide, TagPay Community Empowerment aims to leverage the success, experiences, and expertise of each partner to inspire and drive their collective growth. More and more

Funny history of payment

2011-07-23T13:30:00.005+02:00

Mobile payment is a serious business. However, I invite all of you to watch this nice video:

Version 3.2 Officially Released

2011-07-13T18:51:00.000+02:00

Tagattitude has officially released Version V3.2 of the TagPay platform. V3.2 includes important improvements and new functionalities relating to the types of money transfer available to clients, the accounting and financing of agent and merchant accounts, and the linking of Agent and Client entities. V3.2 also includes various improvements in the architecture and infrastructure of the platform,

BFM Academy Finals

2011-06-27T10:21:00.000+02:00

Yves made it to the finals of BFM Business Radio's entrepreneur contest! The finals were recorded on Tuesday in front of a live audience and were aired Saturday at 12pm (podcast here). We were up against Canibal, a company proposing recycling solutions for enterprises. After a short presentation and interesting Q&A session, the 250 audience members were invited to vote. Yves was a few votes

Orange African Social Venture Prize, a perfect fit for TagPay

2011-06-09T15:52:00.000+02:00

For those who love TagPay but don't quite know where to get the funding to deploy a service... Orange has just launched the African Social Venture Prize that targets: "Entrepreneurs running companies since no more than 2 years ... The companies or projects are required to target at least one of the (17) African countries of Orange’s footprint. Their core business has to use technology in

Mobipay Testimonial

2011-05-26T09:21:00.002+02:00

Mobipay, our partner in Kenya since end of 2009, has explained in a short video why they have chosen to work with TagPay. This video has been made during MMT Africa Conference in Nairobi, 2 weeks ago:Mobipay Testimonial par tagattitude

MP2011

2011-05-23T16:37:00.007+02:00

Last week, Tagattitude was exhibiting at Mobile Payment 2011, the largest Mobile Money event organized in France. We announced and demonstrated our new "Bank in a Box" offer. This event included both a Conference and an Exhibition and this year, we shared our booth with two partners: Widmee (France) and Payfair (Belgium). Widmee (www.widmee.com) is developing smartphone applications and was

From Nairobi, Kenya

2011-05-12T08:33:00.000+02:00

Tagattitude is currently on MMT Africa conference, in Nairobi.Here Below are some pictures from the event:Mobipay, our partner in kenya, had a booth at MMT. a part of the team was there:Exhibition is a great opportunity to spend nice time with nice people coming from different countries! On that picture, Charles (Tagattitude, France, right) with Mike (Mobipay, Kenya, center) and Kingston (

MMT Africa booth

2011-05-10T18:01:00.005+02:00

We have a booth at MMT Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya. This is one of the major conference in the Mobile Money space.A lot of key players are coming at this event: MPESA of course but also large kenyan banks and people coming from almost all Africa but also India or Europe.On the picture, Isabelle berner, Head of Marketing is setting-up our booth.On the picture below, Isabelle is presenting "why

MPESO, in Nicaragua, has made smart TV ads

2011-04-24T11:36:00.005+02:00

We invite you to watch the very nice ads made by our partner MPESO, in Nicaragua. The different ads are presenting different use cases of TagPay: pay bills, send money, account topup etc..After Mobipay in Namibia, MPESO is the second service making public advertisment film. In a near future, we know a lot of our partners will make owsome TV ads presenting all the possibilities of Mobile payment

SAS from Portugal visiting Tagattitude

2011-04-06T18:36:00.003+02:00

On April the 6th of 2011, engineers from SAS company (Clipodromo group) from Portugal came in Rocquencourt to work with Tagattitude project team on their mobile payment project.Charles Ozanne (left on the picture) and them have worked during 3 days on technical specifications.Taking advantage of their presence in our office, they have lunched in a nice restaurant in "Parc du Château de Versailles

Yves interviewed in Colombia

2011-04-01T11:13:00.004+02:00

During his visit in Colombia, Yves has been interviewed by the main TV channel in the country. Here is the video.

Yves Eonnet in Sao Paolo, Brazil

2011-03-23T08:18:00.003+01:00

Tagattitude is exhibiting at MMT Americas. Conference and exhibition in Sao Paolo, Brazil.Come to meet Yves Eonnet, CEO on our booth.MMT Americas is the a major event in America for Mobile money market. Key actors and market players will share experience during 3 days of intense work. Among those visitors, Michael JOSEPH, the mobile money pioneer (for CEO of MPESA in Kenya).At MMT Americas,

Tagattitude at WGSM Congress in Barcelona

2011-02-16T19:05:00.002+01:00

From monday 14th february 2011 to thursday 17th, Tagattitude is pressent on a booth located on french pavilion, Hall 2. Join us too see demonstration of last version of TagPay V3, including lots of new features.Isabelle, Head of Marketing, Charles, Director of Projects and Yves, Tag's CEO will welcome you.

BFM TV Interview of Tagattitude

2011-01-12T14:49:00.003+01:00

Yves and Hervé were interviewed by Michel Picot for BFM Television's Paris Business Club report on "How a business idea is born and developed". The interview was aired live on January 7th, 2011 at 9pm. A video of the interview is available here. During the interview Yves and Hervé present Tagattitude's strategy and explain how the technology works. Yves highlights how Tagattitude's innovation is

Tagattitude at LEWEB10

2010-12-09T16:12:00.005+01:00

Tagattitude has been selected for a contest at LEWEB10. The 16 selected startups were presenting their solutions on a booth during the event. On that picture, Yves is interviewed by a french TV channel.

Tagattitude's Website gets a Makeover!!!

2010-12-02T16:20:00.000+01:00

I wanted to draw your attention to our new and (much) improved website: www.tagattitude.fr. Lots of new content is available as well as a publications section to download useful documentation. I encourage you to check it out: Attention partners: If you would like us to include your testimonial on our references page please send it to us!

Tagattitude selected as promising startup at LEWEB10

2010-11-15T11:12:00.003+01:00

Tagattitude has been selected among 16 promising web startups for a competition organized during LEWEB10 conference in Paris next 8th and 9th of december.Tagattitude will present TagPay, its unique Mobile Payment solution and in particular the launch of TagPay as Internet Payment tool in Emerging countries .Tagattitude will try to be selected among the 3 startups who will compete during a final

Tagattitude shows off TagPay and NSDT™ at the Mobile Money Transfer Global Summit in Dubai

2010-11-03T16:58:00.017+01:00

Last week Yves, Hervé, and Isabelle presented TagPay and NSDT™ at MMT. Many of the key market players were present: banks, telcos, PSPs, and platform vendors and a series of quality speakers participated including: Obopay’s Deepak Chandnani, Safaricom Limited’s Michael Joseph, and Nokia’s Malcolm Vernon. It was a relatively small exhibition (around 300 attendees and 30 stands) and nonetheless

Yves and Hervé visit Kenya for the launch of M-Pesa retail transactions

2010-11-02T18:08:00.002+01:00

On October 24th, M-Pesa went live with a new retail payment component of its mobile money transfer service. This service is offered in partnership with two of Kenya’s leading retail chains (Uchumi and Naivas) and allows Safaricom subscribers to buy goods and services in these stores using their M-Pesa wallets. During their trip to “M-Pesa land” (Kenya) to see their partner Mobipay Yves and

Charles Ozanne Joins Tagattitude’s Team As Project Director

2010-10-14T11:07:00.003+02:00

Tagattitude is pleased to welcome Charles Ozanne as our new Project Director. Charles is an engineer by training with specific expertise in the telecoms industry. After graduating from ENSERG engineering school in 1993, Charles spent 10 years working in the PBX industry and over 6 years working with Telecom operators and integrators in France. During the last 2 years Charles developed new IP

MobiPay™ Namibia

2010-09-07T09:37:00.005+02:00

Mobicash Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd, trading as MobiPay™, is Namibia’s first mobile payment solution, licensed and authorised by Bank of Namibia in terms of section 5 (4) of the Payment System Management Act, 2003 (Act No. 18 of 2003) to provide the following services (All from the use of any cellphone!);1. Transfer money2. Buy cellphone airtime and3. Buy prepaid electricityIt works on all

Congratulations Audrey!

2010-09-06T13:17:00.014+02:00

Tagattitude’s software engineer Audrey who has helped develop the TagPay Java application is a proud new mom:) Timothé was born happy and healthy on June 3rd. The Tag team had a chance to meet little Timothé last week when his parents brought him to the office. Timothé was cooing and smiling until he met his mother’s other baby… the TagPay1200 terminal. Suddenly, sibling rivalry kicked in and

CelPaid preparing to launch in Ivory Coast

2010-07-05T16:26:00.009+02:00

Tagattitude is today very proud to announce a strategic partnership signed with CelPaid in Ivory Coast.CelPaid is the first non Telco company with a Regional Central Bank agreement for developing Mobile Payment solutions. On the picture on the left, Mr. Mamadou SANOGO, funders of CelPaid and Yves EONNET, CEO of Tagattitude are signing the partnership contract. Based on this agreement, CelPaid

Tagattitude announces deal with BRED bank in Smart Insights magazine

2010-06-25T13:08:00.014+02:00

Tagattitude has just announced a deal with Bank Populaire Group's BRED bank who plan to use NSDT technology to offer mobile contactless transactions at their merchants' points of sale. This week's Smart Insights publication features an interview of Yves Eonnet about the major contract with the French bank. Smart Insights is a leading payment industry publication that puts out weekly newsletters

Professor Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, grants audience to TagPay

2010-04-24T10:37:00.008+02:00

TagPay is working on changing the world of payment for the unbanked. The most emblematic success in this field is certainly Grameen Bank, with Professor Yunus who invented microcredit and contributed to the world wide success of MFIs.Thanks to the fantastic work of Micious (a non profit dedicated to social business - http://www.micious.org/) Professor Yunus met with us for a half hour during his

Yves Eonnet interviewed in GSMA WC 2010 in Barcelona

2010-04-21T10:42:00.003+02:00

TagPay1000 SMS: Phone-to-phone retail transactions just got better...

2010-04-20T17:51:00.006+02:00

We are proud to announce an exciting development in the TagPay1000 function. The TagPay1000 *SMS* offers improved user experience for face2face transactions between a merchant and a client using the cell phones that they already have. Unlike more sophisticated TagPay terminals such as the TagPay1600, TagPay1000 uses a merchant's existing phone as a terminal without any applications or limitations

TagPay Scenarios

2010-04-15T12:32:00.015+02:00

The TagPay product offers a turnkey solution for a broad range of mobile payment needs. I wanted to share a new collection of marketing documents that describe 12 different TagPay-based solutions/services. From money transfer to e-commerce, TagPay solutions are unique in their security, accessibility, and simplicity. Explore the TagPay Use Scenarios for a glimpse of the different solutions

MobiCash Successful Exhibition at Cards 2010 & Mobile Money World in Sandton, Johannesburg/South Africa

2010-03-29T11:11:00.006+02:00

Cards Africa Exhibition was a place where innovation was showcased, solutions were found and learning was done and Mobile Money World Africa 2010 was a one-day conference discussing the technology strategies shaping mobile commerce in Africa.South Africa-based global player MobiCash powered by Tagattitude focuses on mobile payment solutions for a broad range of markets, including banked,

"20 Minutes" french newspaper

2010-03-19T19:30:00.005+01:00

Today, the french free newspaper "20 Minutes" is presenting the new mean of payment. A video is presenting TagPay. Read the article here...

Mikemusa prepping to launch money transfer in Zimbabwe

2010-03-12T11:37:00.003+01:00

The Zimbabwe market is ripe for mobile payment and we are excited to share that our partner, MikeMusa will soon unveil very attractive mobile money service.MikeMusa is preparing to launch mcash, a TagPay-based mobile money service offering secure and accessible remittances, bill payments, airtime top-up, and more! UK-based Zimbabweans will use mcash to send money to Zimbabwe where the recipient

Tagattitude present at Mobile 2.0 in Paris

2010-03-09T15:59:00.011+01:00

Yves Eonnet was invited by Christophe Romei to participate to a debate on Mobile Payment. More than 300 persons were attending in the "Cité des Sciences et de L'Industrie" in Paris.Next to Yves was sitting Eric Duprat who is the General Manager of PayPal Mobile.Philippe Poux was the moderator of the debateAfter the usual introductions, the discussion focused on where and how mobile payment will

World GSM Congress closed

2010-02-19T16:28:00.013+01:00

The Mobile World Congress show is now finished. This year, we had a booth on the french pavilion, Hall2, among 108 other French hi-tech companies. These four days were a trumendous success for Tagattitude: We met more than 350 people for more than 45 countries. We noted a significant presence of people from Latin America. It seems that Mobile Payment in that continent is now taking off! More

How to pay with TagPay on the Web

2010-02-15T10:04:00.003+01:00

We just issued a short video showing how to pay on the Web with TagPay. Enjoy it! Click here...

World GSM Congress

2010-02-13T08:40:00.002+01:00

Hello All, Tagattitude will have a booth on World GSM Congress next week in Barcelona. Please come to join us and see Yves Eonnet, Isabelle Berner and Hervé Manceron.

Yves presenting Mobile Payment in Top french Telecom Engineer School

2010-02-05T10:44:00.007+01:00

Yves was presenting yesterday evening Mobile Payment by Tagattitude during the monthly conference organised in famous french engineering School "Telecom Paris". About 30 people from Ecole Polytechnique, Mines de Paris and Telecom Paris were in the room listening to 3 keynote speakers presenting new payment solutions.Mr. Mung Ki Woo from Orange, responsible for Orange Money, presented how NFC in

Join Tagattitude at World GSM COngress in Barcelona

2010-02-05T10:36:00.004+01:00

Yves Eonnet (CEO), Hervé Manceron (COO) and Isabelle Berner (Marketing Manager) will be present on Tagattitude's booth in Barcelona. We will be very happy to meet you. Come to see us!

Tagattitude to revolutionize Online Payment

2010-01-19T10:39:00.008+01:00

Tagattitude is excited to announce the world premiere of a mobile payment e.commerce solution now included in TagPay V2.5.With a few clicks (and an NSDT™ “chirp”) TagPay customers can now make purchases online conveniently and in complete security. To test it, just visit http://shop.tagattitude.fr !For more info...

It's cold in Paris today!

2010-01-06T16:33:00.003+01:00

Dear All outside of France and especially in countries where temperature is above 30°, please see the picture taken today by Yves in Paris ! Happy NEW YEAR to all!!!!! May 2010 be the year of Mobile Payment in all continents!

New point of sale accepting Tagpay in Paris area

2010-01-02T15:41:00.004+01:00

Ali runs a bar in Montreuil, on the east suburb of Paris. He now accepts mobile payment thanks to "Tagpay Paris Bamako Remittance Program". The migrants use Tagpay to send money to their family in Mali. They can now use Tagpay with their own mobile phone just like in Bamako to pay for their drinks.Ali's bar is called "Le Café de L'Ecole" and is located right in front on the "Foyer Bara", rue

Colombia is taking off soon

2009-12-30T18:10:00.004+01:00

Dear All,We are very proud to announce we have signed an agreement with a great team of experienced professional in Colombia. Within a few months from now, a mobile payment platform nammed Viral Prosperity will roll out in Colombia.The main objective is to offer banking services to unbanked population.

Call for White Papers and Project Descriptions

2009-12-07T16:58:00.004+01:00

Dear Tagattitude Partners,I am working on a marketing document that describes the products and services being developed, piloted, or deployed by Tagattitude's various partners. I would like to feature your projects in this publication and need your help.Please send me an email with the following information and any white papers/marketing materials you have.Your company name & the mobile payment

Online Payment with TagPay

2009-11-30T12:32:00.005+01:00

Dear All,Online Payment in countries with a lots of unbanked people and where banking cards are limited to 5% of population is a big issue and the business is not yet developed. However there are in the same time lots of Merchants who could develop a significant business if people could securely pay on their web site. TagPay is the ideal platform to introduce Online Payment and so develop

Tagattitude in Mali

2009-11-25T09:59:00.007+01:00

Yves and Isabelle have just returned from a trip to Bamako, Mali. Tagattitude was invited to participate in a regional workshop on “Diaspora Money Transfers: which regulatory framework and which financial products for the Zone franc?” organized by the “Banque Africaine de Développement”, the “Agence Française de Développement”, and the “Club des Dirigeants des Banques et Établissements de Crédits

TagPay Agent Interface

2009-11-13T15:16:00.003+01:00

Hello Tagbloggers,I wanted to share a video that walks you through the TagPay agent web interface. It shows how a TagPay agent can transfer money on a client's behalf.Enjoy!Best,Isabelle

Mobipay Kenya Ltd in Rocquencourt

2009-11-10T17:39:00.011+01:00

On the picture on left, Michael from Mobipay Kenya Ltd and Guillaume, responsible for support at Tagattitude. Our new Customer in Kenya, Mobipay Kenya came last week visiting us for a standard 3 days training and business discussion at Tagattitude HQ, in Rocquencourt, France. The technical session went well and they now have a complete technical control on Tagattitude technologies and

Let me explain why I like NSDT a lot

2009-10-31T14:18:00.005+01:00