OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2012.  MasterCard, Intervale and the Bank of Moscow launched the MasterCard Mobile Payment Service in the market which is available via Internet from the cell phone and PC.

MasterCard (NYSE:МА), Intervale and the Bank of Moscow inform of the launch of MasterCard Mobile, a new convenient and safe service, which makes it possible to pay for the goods and services using the Internet-connected cell phone or PC on a real-time basis. The service is developed for the Russian market and available for the MasterCard® and Maestro®* bank cards issued by any Russian bank.

The project is initiated by the MasterCard payment system within the framework of the Mobile Money Partnership global program, which was launched early in 2012. The goal of the program is to provide the customers with innovations, safe and comfortable payment solutions so as they could pay for the services and purchases, transfer money, etc, from the cell phone, which is really becoming a multifunctional payment tool. MasterCard Mobile is a new advantage for the MasterCard payment system card holders, and another contribution to the development of the cashless society.

Intervale is a developer and service-provider of the MasterCard Mobile platform and the Bank of Moscow is the first settlement bank of the service, the bank acquirer and an issuer of the virtual prepaid cards.

MasterCard Mobile enables to perform various payment operations, pay for the goods and a wide range of services – to replenish personal accounts of the cell communications subscribers, pay for the housing and public utilities, power energy, cable television and have access to the Internet. It is also possible to acquire air and railway tickets, pay for education and entertainment services. MasterCard Mobile enables you to transfer money between the cards by means of the MasterCard® MoneySendТМ technology and issue virtual cards.

As at the date of launch the services is adjusted for the IPhone, IPad, Android and Samsung Bada mobile platforms. The service is available for subscribers of any federal and regional cell networks.

MasterCard Mobile is simple in use and provides wide opportunities. Especially, the user can
hook up one or several cards to the service;
choose and form a list of payments fro a certain region depending on the user’s location;
create a list of selected payments;
if you create an account in at least one of these interfaces (mobile application or web-application), you will get an easy access to your personal page, manage settings and make payments on any interface;
transfer money and buy virtual cards via several interfaces: web application, mobile application or mobile portal;
you can pay for the Internet and housing and public utilities just by two clicks – "specify the amount" and "confirm".

You can get an access to MasterCard Mobile via mobile.mastercard.ru, mobile portal m.mobile.mastercard.ru, and also via the mobile application for the telephone. Applications can be downloaded to mobile.mastercard.ru, and to Apple Store and Google Play.

Intervale as a service provider is certified for the conformity to the standards of the PCI DSS payment cards industry data safety.

The service supports MasterCard® SecureCodeТМ technology and international standards of data coding.

*Maestro® shall be accepted for payment, if the card supports MasterCard® SecureCode™.

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Intervale, – is the largest service provider in the area of the electronic and mobile commerce both for the state and commercial organizations and individuals. The company is a certified provider according to the PCI DSS safety standard. Solutions of Intervale are used a basis for the development of recommendations and standards by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for making the remote financial transactions in the mobile networks and NGN. Intervale acts as a coordinator of this work and an official editor of the created recommendations and standards in the area of “Safety of Financial Transactions in the New Generation Networks (NGN)”. The recommendations and standards are developed in close cooperation with ISO. Intervale’s solutions were used by payment systems as a basis for development of specifications for making transactions in the mobile networks. Intervale is an official resident of the IT-cluster of Skolkovo Fund for creation of the information & payment system supporting mobile and e-commerce based on the overcast technologies. The serviced region geography of the company includes the whole of the Russian Federation, Europe, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Kirgizia.