PermataBank, BlackBerry and Monitise Join Forces to Bring Mobile Payments Services to BlackBerry Messenger

PermataBank, BlackBerry and Monitise Join Forces to Bring Mobile Payments Services to BlackBerry Messenger

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — (Marketwire) — 02/26/13 — Indonesian financial institution PT Bank Permata Tbk (PermataBank), BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY)(TSX: BB) and Mobile Money leader Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) announce the commercial pilot launch of BBM Money. With BBM Money, customers have the ability to create and access a mobile money account from their BlackBerry smartphone and make real-time payments to their BBM contacts who are also signed up to the service. They can also buy mobile airt