Bling Nation
Twitter: @blingnation

Meet Bling Nation – a mobile payments company. They just presented at Under the Radar: Mobility.
Missed it? That’s okay – here’s their company profile and pitch:

Company Description | Bling Nation brings mobile payments to consumers and merchant points of sale, offering lower costs, increased efficiency and improved security compared to credit cards, debit cards, checks and cash. The Bling Nation service also enables financial institutions and merchants to offer consumers robust rewards programs and real-time redemptions, promoting loyalty and convenience and supporting “shop local” initiatives.

Competitors | VISA, MasterCard, Revolution Money, Tempo Customers | The State Bank
Partners | Viaero Wireless, PhoneFactor, Integrated Bank Technology and Clickatell

Presenter | Wences Casares | Co-CEOEO
Wences Casares is co-CEOEO of Palo Alto, Calif-based Bling Nation, a payments network provider for community banks nationwide. Casares is also a founding partner of Santiago, Chile-based MECK, Ltd., a private investment firm. In 1994, he launched Argentina’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), Internet Argentina S.A., and later founded online brokerage Patagon, Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet financial services portal. Casares founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population, which today is the largest private microfinance and payment institution in Brazil.

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