MYOB Signs Five Year Agreement with Mint Wireless
MYOB Signs Five Year Agreement with Mint Wireless
Licensing and distribution agreement to cover Australia and New Zealand
Sydney, 20 August 2013 - Mint Wireless Limited (ASX: MNW) (“Mint Wireless”) is pleased to announce that MYOB, a leading provider of business management, accounting, payroll and tax solutions in Australia and New Zealand, has entered into an agreement with Mint Wireless for MYOB to distribute, license and integrate Mint Wireless’ mobile payment solutions with MYOB’s software products.
Under this agreement, Mint Wireless will receive an annual license fee from MYOB and a proportion of the monthly and transaction fees from the users of the mobile payment solution incorporated into MYOB’s software products.
This five year exclusive agreement will cover Australia and New Zealand.
About
Mint Wireless Limited
Mint Wireless Limited is a
global mobile payments and transactions processing company
listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: MNW).
Mint Wireless has a mobile payments technology platform that
enables corporate enterprises to accept credit and debit
card payments on various mobile phones, tablets and mobile
devices. The Company has invested and built bank grade
payments technology and infrastructure that has allowed it
to become a multi-channel and multi-national payments
organisation. Mint Wireless is headquartered in Sydney,
Australia with offices and operations in London and
Singapore. Mint Wireless has won many hardware and software
awards including Microsoft and IBM’s Consensus Awards in
2008. In 2009, Mint Wireless was recognised as one of
Australia’s best performing small-to-medium companies,
ranking 4th in the BRW Fast 100 awards, and ranking 5th in
the SmartCompany.com.au Smart 50 awards.
www.mintwireless.com
About MYOB
Group
MYOB is a leading provider of business
management, accounting, payroll and tax software in
Australia and New Zealand, supplying its software, services
and support to small and medium sized enterprises
(“SMEs”) and public accountants. MYOB's solutions extend
online, delivering innovation through cloud accounting
solutions such as LiveAccounts and AccountRight Live. This
enables its clients to be more productive, supporting more
streamlined connections with their staff, business partners,
business advisors and customers. MYOB estimates it currently
holds a market share of approximately 60–70% for SMEs and
approximately 60–70% for public accountants, by revenue
from sales of these products and services in Australia and
New Zealand. MYOB believes clients value the ease of use,
reliability, integrated nature, ongoing regulatory
compliance updates and client support services that it
provides. MYOB commenced operations over 20 years ago and
now supports well over 1.2 million businesses, predominantly
SMEs, and more than 40,000 accountants across Australia and
New Zealand. MYOB employs more than 1000 staff and is
headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It has four key
business divisions, which are supported by group functions
including finance, strategy, marketing, IT, legal and human
resources. Funds advised by Bain Capital became the majority
owner of the MYOB Group in September 2011. Bain Capital has
a significant history of advising on investments in software
and business services companies
globally.
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