ClairMail Provides 2-Way Triple Play Mobile Banking for Alerus Financial

By Editor Wireless and Mobile News on August 19, 2008 12:45 PM

ClairMail, Inc., announced that Alerus Financial, a Midwestern-based financial services company offering banking and wealth management services, selected ClairMail to power its new mobile banking offering - Alerus Mobile Access.

Alerus Mobile Access will enable Alerus Financial bank customers to connect to their accounts via text messaging (SMS) or mobile web. The service is free to all Alerus customers and allows users to access any Alerus account, including checking, savings, money market, CDs and loans. Customers will be offered a host of secure banking capabilities and alerts on their mobile phones through ClairMail's secure solution.

ClairMail's mobile banking and payments solution delivers 2-way mobile banking functionality on all mobile phones and across all three mobile user interface types - messaging, mobile web and client applications - known as the "2-way triple play."

The ClairMail System's modular design and complete 2-way mobile banking services will enable Alerus Financial customers to access account information and conduct transactions by leveraging any mobile phone's existing messaging software and mobile web capabilities - regardless of the device's manufacturer, model, operating system or wireless carrier.

The ClairMail System also features an Event Engine which can process hundreds of thousands of transactions every minute from Alerus Financial's back-end systems and enable customer-defined 2-way actionable alerts. The ClairMail Event Engine offers a broad set of alerts that Alerus Financial customers can opt-in to receive, including alerts when balances get low, a check clears, a withdrawal exceeds a customer-defined dollar amount, a statement is available and confirmations for deposits or withdrawals. The ClairMail Event Engine empowers Alerus Financial to provide these time-sensitive, 2-way alerts which their customers can respond to with a simple text message in order to easily and securely resolve issues and manage all aspects of their personal finances from their mobile phone.