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ClairMail Chosen by PNC to Enhance Mobile Banking Services
Top 10 U.S. Bank Incorporates ClairMail's Comprehensive Solution to Provide Customers With Security Alerts, Expanded Mobile Access to Accounts
| Source: ClairMail, Inc.
NOVATO, CA--(Marketwire - November 19, 2008) - ClairMail,
Inc., the leader in 2-way mobile phone-based customer interaction,
today announced that PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE : PNC ) expanded its mobile
banking services by integrating ClairMail's comprehensive mobile banking
solution.
The breakthrough ClairMail
System leverages any mobile phone's existing text messaging (SMS --
short message service) software and capabilities; no new mobile phone
software is required. As a result of the ClairMail System's modular design
and complete mobile banking services, PNC now enables its customers to
conveniently access their accounts using virtually any mobile
communications device -- regardless of manufacturer, model, operating
system or wireless carrier.
The ClairMail System also provides the application intelligence and
delivery mechanism for sending numerous
security-related alerts to PNC customers, including alerts for when a
user ID, password, security question or contact information (e.g. address,
telephone, number or e-mail address) is changed. Additional alerts will be
available to PNC customers in the future, including alerts when an
overdraft occurs or when a balance falls below a customer-defined amount.
The ClairMail System incorporates a powerful Event Engine that can easily
handle the potential transaction volumes from banks of any size and deliver
alerts in real-time. ClairMail will collaborate with PNC to augment PNC's
offering with more alerts and other mobile
banking functionality over time.
"A mobile banking solution should be available to all bank customers and
provide both account information and security alerts," said Thomas S. Kunz, senior vice
president, director of e-Business for PNC. "By leveraging the existing text
messaging on all mobile phones and delivering security alerts via the
ClairMail solution, PNC is providing convenient, secure and on-demand
mobile banking services to our customers."
"ClairMail is privileged to partner with PNC to give their customers
secure, 24/7 account access and dynamic, real-time security alerts," said
Joseph
Salesky, CEO of ClairMail. "PNC customers will benefit from our
complete mobile banking services on any mobile phone, using the text
messaging functionality they are already familiar with."
ClairMail was recently recognized as a leader in the mobile banking and
payments industry by TowerGroup, a financial services research firm.
ClairMail was positioned as having the highest strategic extensibility of
any vendor and one of the best market execution ratings given its recently
announced partnerships with Fidelity National Information
Services and WAUSAU and agreements reached with major
customers in the United States.
About ClairMail
ClairMail is the only comprehensive 2-way mobile platform for banking,
payments and card services. Deployed either
on-premise or as a managed service, ClairMail optimizes any mobile phone
for 2-way customer interaction. Only the ClairMail System offers 2-way
mobile banking, payments and card applications that utilize any phone's
existing messaging and mobile web software and extend the capabilities of
third-party client applications. On one platform with a single
implementation, ClairMail empowers financial institutions to generate and
deliver 2-way Actionable Alerts to their customers and provide easy and
immediate account management, secure transactions and no-hold customer
service. Unlike other 1-way, proprietary and inflexible point solutions
which lack the application intelligence to generate 2-way alerts, the
ClairMail 2-way System is a turnkey, standards-based 2-way offering that
seamlessly and securely integrates with existing systems, delivers the
fastest time to value and provides an alternative to more costly channels
like call centers and IVR. Founded in 2004, ClairMail is headquartered in
Novato, Calif. The company is privately held and funded by Norwest Venture
Partners, Outlook Ventures and JAFCO Ventures. For more information call
(415) 884-7270 or visit www.clairmail.com.