Bango hits 100 operator connections

Bango (AIM: BGO) now has 100 mobile operator payment connections globally. Bango continues to expand the reach of its mobile payments platform to deliver its frictionless payment experience as widely as possible for the world’s leading content providers.

Bango’s 100th operator connection was in Columbia, connecting Telefónica subscribers into BlackBerry World. Those subscribers can now pay for digital goods and services without needing cards, pre-registered accounts or having to send SMS messages, instead they pay with one-click operator billing, charging purchases to their phone bill. This 100th connection means that Bango now has active connections in 47 countries, including the leading mobile operators in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and many more, and extends Bango’s reach to more than one billion mobile subscribers. Continue reading

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Bango recognized as one of the hottest FinTech firms in Europe

Bango mobile payment and analyticsBango is proud to have been placed on the 2013 FinTech 50 Watchlist, a shortlist of fifty companies in Europe that are redefining FinTech, aka financial technology. The List, a collaborative project by The CEO Agenda, ICON Corporate Finance, Hotwire, Silicon Valley Bank and Fox Williams, is the first of an annual exercise to track one of the fastest moving sectors in technology.

The inaugural FinTech 50 Watchlist is based on the expertise of the Watchlist Panel, ten industry leaders from across the financial services and technology industry. The panel convened at the end of 2012 to debate and select the top companies that demonstrate the potential to become a “game-changer” in financial technology or the competitive staying power to continue being one. Continue reading

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Report and accounts for the nine month period ended 31 December 2012 and Notice of AGM

Click here to download the Bango Report and accounts for the nine month period ended 31 December 2012, click here for the Notice of Annual General Meeting and here for the associated form of proxy.

Click here to order a printed copy of the Bango 2012 Annual Report.

The Company’s AGM will be held at 2pm on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at the offices of Bango, 5 Westbrook Centre, Cambridge, CB4 1YG.

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Announcement: Final Results for the nine months ended 31 December 2012

Bango (AIM: BGO), today announces its Final Results for the nine months ended 31 December 2012.

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Announcement: Notice of Results

Bango will be announcing audited Final Results for the nine month trading period from 1 April 2012 to 31 December 2012 (“9m2012″) on Tuesday 19 March 2013.

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Announcement: £6.5 million Share Placing

Bango is pleased to announce that it has conducted a proposed placing with institutional investors of 3,250,000 new ordinary shares at 200 pence per share to raise £6.5 million (approximately US$10.2 million) before expenses (the “Placing”).

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Announcement: Bango and Telefónica announce global mobile payments partnership with Telefónica

Bango and Telefónica Digital today announce that they have signed a Global Framework Agreement. The two companies will partner globally to create an enhanced direct-to-bill payment experience for mobile app stores. The partnership will combine Bango’s frictionless payment experience with Telefónica’s BlueVia Payment APIs (Application Programming Interface), which will connect over 350 million chargeable customers worldwide through the Bango Payments Platform.

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