We are glad to announce that Mobbeel, Biometric security solutions for smartphones, is exhibiting at MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 in Barcelona-Spain, dated 27th February 2012 – 01st March 2012.

As you probably know, Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the must-attend annual gathering of the mobile industry, offering the opportunity to meet with more than 50.000 key decision-makers from more than 200 countries and representing exhibitors from at least 50 countries and all facets of the mobile world, while showcasing all existing and new business opportunities, leading the world into the mobile future.

Mobbeel is happy to invite you to our Stand CY22, Courtyard 3.0! It would be a great opportunity to meet you all there in person, in order to discuss and discover new business opportunities and give you solutions, based on your own exact needs.

You’re always welcome to schedule a meeting with us in date and time of your preference through our website.

Happy to meet you all in MWC 2012, Stand CY22, Courtyard 3.0!

On June 15th 2011, Bankinter and Mobbeel jointly presented its groundbreaking broker application for smartphones. The applicationan identifies the user by using a biometric iris recognition system (developed by Mobbeel).

This unique technology allows clients to access their brokerage accounts on their smartphones through an iris recognition system which only requires the use of the smartphone’s camera, without needing additional hardware or external sensors. This new technology is an important step forward when compared to traditional username plus password identification and authentication protocols. Read more…

We are glad to announce that Bankinter Broker Iris project has won the prestigious Financial World Innovation Awards, presented at the Grand Connaught Rooms ,Covent Garden, London, on Thursday 1 December 2011.

Bankinter won in the category ‘Most Innovative Application of Technology – Customer Facing Functionality’.

Chris Ray, Director of Communications and Alumni Services at the ifs School of Finance:
“The 14th annual Financial World Innovation Awards saw some outstandingly creative initiatives from many of the UK’s largest companies. The innovation in financial services shown by the winners across all of the categories was truly impressive.
In these challenging economic times, innovation in the products and services offered to customers is extremely important, and defines who the market leaders are, and who customers can turn to. We would like to congratulate Bankinter therefore for their achievement in what was a very competitive category.”

About Bankinter
Bankinter, Spanish sixth-largest bank by size, is a reference entity in the financial market by its high technological development, quality of service above the industry average and a clear commitment to innovation and the use of alternative channels in their relationship with customers, complementary to the traditional branch network, telephone banking, Internet and mobile.

About Mobbeel

Mobbeel is a leader company in the development of biometric security solutions for mobile devices. Its technology allows the user of a mobile phone a convenient and secure access to sensitive information or digital services through a unique feature of the individual, as opposed to traditional unsafe passwords or PINs. Its mission is to bring high security using a device like the mobile phone to any user, anytime, anywhere.

About ifs School of Finance

The event was organized by ifs School of Finance, a registered educational charity incorporated by Royal Charter. It has a remit to provide the financial services industry with a skilled, effective and competent workforce whilst also promoting a better understanding of finance amongst consumers.

Mobbeel has been invited to participate in CARTES & IDentification 2011 , the World leading business event in digital security and technological innovation, which will be held in Paris from 15 to 17 November. The conference programme is available here.

Our CEO, José Luis Huertas, will give a speech together with Paul Frausto, CISO of IDéPhone project and Jean-Marie Saura, Senior Consultant at Pragmatic Product Management, within the subject “Security, Trust & Privacy – New Challenges”, about mobile biometry and its combination with PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).

His lecture “Secure Authentication with the Mobile Devices: Cost Effective PKI Enabled Security with Multi-Platform Authentication” will be about the use of certificates to turn a smartphone into a strong authentication device, the combination with biometry to add an extra security layer without increasing the difficult for the user and about how the authentication systems can give support to the marketing targets.

If you want to organize a meeting with Mobbeel during the event please contact us here, via Twitter (@mobbeel) or Facebook (facebook.com/mobbeel).

About CARTES & IDentification 2011

Every year in Paris, CARTES & IDentification brings together more than 500 international companies that offer the most exhaustive range of products, equipment and services related to digital security.

In 2010, the event was attended by 450 expositors, welcoming more than 20.000 visitors and representing nearly 150 countries.

Mobbeel, Extremadura Avante and CDTI has announced that Mobbeel closed its first round of funding totaling €0.5M.

The funding will enable Mobbeel to improve the current state of its biometric recognition technologies (iris, handwritten signature and voice), research and develop new ones such as face and hand geometry recognition as well as positioning the company for continued growth and future investment.

Part of the funding has been received from the Spanish CDTI NEOTEC program. The CDTI (Centre for Industrial Technological Development) is a public company which is affiliated with the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. NEOTEC supports the creation and consolidation of new spanish technology companies.

Extremadura Avante has also invested in this seed round. Extremadura Avante is a public enterprise of the regional goverment of Extremadura whose aim is it to lend funds as well as making equity investments. Its objective is to support important local businesses in surviving and growing in the economic crisis.

On Thursday, June 30, Mobbeel attended the XVI Extremadura Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, presented by “El Periódico Extremadura”. In this event, Mobbeel received the award for the best Digital Initiative. We want to thank the organization and the jury for considering us for these awards.

For more information, see here and here news of “El Periódico Extremadura”.

On June 15, Bankinter and Mobbeel jointly presented its’s groundbreaking broker application for mobiles, an application that identifies the client by using a biometric iris recognition system (developed by Mobbeel).

This unique technology allows clients to access their brokerage accounts on their smartphones through an iris recognition system which requires only the use of the smartphone’s camara, without the need for additional hardware or external sensors. This new technology is an important step forward when compared to traditional username plus password identification and authentication protocols.

Iris recognition is the most reliable form of biometric recognition, as it is practically impossible to find two identical irises, and thus offering an extremely high degree of security. This security, together with a simplified user experience, makes for the technology to be an ideal solution for mobile financial services and mobile investment brokerage solutions.

Generally speaking, iris recognition works in the following manner: Upon capturing a close-up image of the face, the application isolates the eye and proceeds to identify the exterior and interior borders of the iris, codifying these through complex imagery treatment algorithms. The entire process for recognizing the iris is performed on the mobile device, from the image capture of the iris, to biometric pattern identification and user matching and identification.

Bankinter is the first bank to use this technology, which in its initial phase has been deployed onto iPhone 4 given the significant penetration of these smartphones amongst its customer base: 55% of Bankinter’s mobile banking customers have an iPhone.

In the following phase, and depending on technology acceptance by users and rendering in terms of usability and security, Bankinter does not rule out using this same technology for other digital remote channels: ATMs, Telephone Banking, Internet Banking, etc.

This pioneering application in Spain is a significant advancement in the value-added mobile banking services that Bankinter has implemented over the years for its customers, such as the possibility of accessing accounts, engaging in financial transactions and real-time trading, or advanced functionalities such as geo-location through augmented reality.

On May 25, 2011 the Entrepreneur XXI Award (Emprendedor XXI), organized by the Regional Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Innovation, was presented by Ana Maria Alejandre, General Business Director of Competitiveness and Jesus Alonso, General Director of Science and Technology.

Mobbeel has been awarded the EmprendesXXI Prize thanks to the developement and comercialization of biometric recognition technologies (iris, handwritten signature…) for mobile devices that ensures users can access their devices and sensitive information in a secure and reliable way.

The EmprendesXXI category is intended for companies from 0 to 2 years. The prize consists of 5,000€ and a scholarship for a Cambrige University entrepreneurship course.

In the CrecesXXI category, for companies between 2 and 7 years, the winner was IGO SOFTWARE. The company is developing Glob3, a multiplatform technology for GSI 3D maps. Its prize consists of a commercial mission to Silicon Valley, a scholarship for the Executive Growth Program (an ad-hoc course designed by ESADE and IESE) and the participation in the final national contest.

Warm thanks to all those whose support continues to help turn our dreams into reality.

The EmprendedorXXI Award

The EmprendedorXXI Award was founded in 2007 with the aim of promoting the development of new innovative companies and identifying those with the greatest potential for growth in each region. It is the only award of its kind that has a regional phase, implemented in each region at the instigation of more than 30 local and regional organizations linked to business creation and entrepreneurship.

With this year’s EmprendedorXXI Award, “la Caixa” and ENISA take a step forward in their strategy to socially recognize and highlight those entrepreneurs who have launched a business initiative and need a boost in order to establish themselves permanently in the marketplace.

For more information download the press note.

Mobbeel is pleased to present a new product specially designed to ease and secure your browsing experience on the Internet. It is called BioWallet2Browser and we think you’ll like it.

BioWallet2Browser lets you store your passwords on your phone and use them anywhere with a browser. BioWallet2Browser allows you to surf the web from your desktop browser safely, without having to remember any passwords. Your info is only stored on your phone (inside BioWallet). The browser (only Google Chrome for now) will connect with your phone requesting the user/pass for the site you are visiting, and BioWallet will send this data back to the browser. Easy and secure! You can also store new user/pass information in BioWallet Signature on your phone, directly from the browser.

With BioWallet2Browser you can:

• Store your passwords on your phone using BioWallet Signature..
• Access them anywhere you want from a browser.
• Protect your passwords and sensitive information using biometric encryption on your phone.
• Save new passwords automatically
• ...
• more features

BioWallet2Browser is in Beta and you can try it for free.

All the information is available here.
Go ahead and Try it for free!


Let us know what you think about BioWallet2Browser. You can do so through twitter/biowallet, using our userEcho or by mail to info(at)mobbeel(dot)com

Demonstration Video

In this video you can see how BioWallet2Browser works and check out how easy and convenient browsing in a secure way is without having to remember a series of different, long or randomized passwords.

We’re pleased to announce that BioWallet Signature has been updated to 1.0 version.

The v1.0 version includes these major changes:

• Attachments. Now you can export/import all your attachments (photos, videos) and create full back-up copies.
• Protect your exported files with a password.
• Enable invisible signature. Nobody will see how you sign.
• Enable/Disable Password Access to the application.
• Disable your signature's template adaptation once you feel comfortable with your signature.
• BioWallet2Browser Compatible.

With the new version of BioWallet Signature you can access, save and use all your passwords directly from your browser. Find out more here.

If you have any comments, suggestions, criticism or you want some new features in BioWallet Signature, please let us know. You can do so through twitter/biowallet, using our userEcho or by mail to info(at)mobbeel(dot)com

You can download the application directly from the Android Market, from the download section or scanning the QRCode below …

In July 2010 we announced that Mobbeel took part in the “Somos Extremadura” online advertising campaign.

We are now delighted to announce we are participating in the campaign again as one of the TV’s spots main protagonists.

We want to thank Marca Extremadura for trusting us and for their great efforts promoting the image of Extremadura.