SelfBank Mobile is leading the industry in the movement to changing the way that people will do their banking and it is on the fast track to moving into the U.S.  Link all of your bank accounts and credit cards to your mobile phone (no matter what brand of phone or which carrier).  Send and receive money via text or WAP.  Make purchases just like you would with a credit or debit card except all you need is your phone.

For those of us that have been patiently waiting for SelfBank Mobile to launch in the U.S. we still have a little more waiting to go.  Don’t fret though, it appears that they are planning to begin the U.S. deployment by the end of the year according to the president of SelfBank Financial Jonathan Anderson.

If you live in Canada then you can already use their services, since the SelfBank corporate offices are located there.  Canada is currently in beta-live phase.  The beta testing is going smooth so far and they are working out the bugs before they open into the larger U.S. market.

As of July 2009 SelfBank Financial has expanded their Montreal offices and opened up new offices in Ecuador and Dallas, TX.  The current expansion strategy includes opening Mexico and the UK as well as more in the U.S.  Along with expanding the SelfBank facilities, the website is new and improved and you can begin to start using some of the new features.

Expected features to be coming soon are iphone and blackberry apps, Facebook and Twitter integration as well as other social networking sites.

So log in or sign up for a new account and view the latest webinar in your backoffice to get all the new details.

To the future of technology,

Matt Bryant

Social Commerce is business via social channels.  In order facilitate instant Person to Person transactions in a social setting, financial tools and applications in what we call ‘SelfBank‘ will serve as extensions to your social activities and allow you to empower  your ‘HALO’, your circle of influence.  Your Halo is your social network around you, with you in the center as the ‘Aura’.  Cities and villages of today, cities like Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Tokyo, etc,  have been built with what is referred to as ‘Concentric Rings’ and now with the power of the digital age with INTERNET and mobile communications, new digital communities are being built, hence the birth of what we call Social Commerce.

This is why The SelfBanking and Financial Intelligence Group Inc.  has developed  a social mobile-commerce platform, a M-Commerce Social Utility called SelfBank, P2P, for the people and by the people, designed  for a global audience, anywhere and everywhere you may be, your very own SelfBank!

SelfBank is a revolutionary approach to common banking and payment practices, which is a new era in financial intelligence, the world’s first banking platform that is truly personal and social. It is the cutting edge of technology and SelfBank Mobile is the first to integrate your mobile phone, social networking, loyalty, and social entrepreneurship into a banking and payment platform.

-Users can make bill payments, do mobile banking, make P2P transfers and make retail purchases using their cell phones.

-Designed to integrate to credit, debit(Interac), and stored value cards, as well as your current bank accounts for loading.

-SelfBank Mobile customers can also load their accounts at participating Merchants.

-Technology Is hardware and carrier independent

-100% Identity theft proof & Secure. No financial data is stored on your phone. Is a Pin based solution. 128 bit encryption and higher.

-Built-in Cash Back and Advance Rewards consumer loyalty program. (SelfBank Rewards Club)‏

-Send P2P money transfers instantly, globally** at a fraction of the cost (Western Union)‏

-Ability to donate a % of Cash Advance Rewards to charity ($ that usually goes to the banks)‏

-Integrates into online social networks (Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Hi5, Orkut) You can Buy and Sell items right off your user profile.(M-Commerce Social Utility called Meet Franklin)‏

-Refer all your friends and get paid through our affiliate program

-Worlds first FREE* banking and payment system that is personal and social.

-Built in Merchant account allowing every SelfBank to instantly become active with merchant account capabilities and accept payments from customers

- a TRUE mobile banking and PAYMENT solution, allowing you to make payments not only online but also at the POS.It actually functions like regular debit and credit systems today, not by adding to a phone bill or something, relying on a carrier or specific billing system.It isn’t a ‘make shift’ system by simply ‘re-routing debit and credit transactions via a wireless connection, causing no savings in interchange costs and still relying on a credit/debit card processor and still requiring you to use a card.

Visit selfbankmobile.com for more information