Wayra Start-up Ensygnia acquires Mustard Digital and Snaptaps retail price drop platform

Plans to create showcase site for Onescan mobile payments with 70 major brands London, December 17, 2013: Ensygnia, the Onescan mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today announced that it had acquired Mustard Digital, and its subsidiary retail price drop site Snaptaps, in an all share deal for an undisclosed sum.

As a result of the transaction, Ensygnia plans to turn the Snaptaps site into a multi-brand showcase of household-name retailers for the Onescan mobile payments service.

Ensygnia co-founder and CEO Richard H Harris said: “This is a very significant and strategic move that gives us tremendous control of the next stage of our business growth. By integrating Onescan into our own retail sales platform, covering some 70 household name consumer retail brands, we gain a relationship with those brands and real world consumer experience and insight.

“It is a deal that takes both Snaptaps and Ensygnia Onescan to the next level,” Harris added.

Mustard Digital launched the Snaptaps service on the back of developing a proprietary platform for managing web-based alerts and notifications for its own clients.

Mustard Digital co-founder Bede Feltham said: “Snaptaps was conceived as an easy way to seek out bargains – it constantly monitors a wide range of popular sites to pick up price drops and alert shoppers to all the great deals on offer.

“We are already talking with the brands and our partners about how we can work together to integrate Onescan with Snaptaps so that their consumer customers could go from bargain-hunting to bargain-shopping with just one scan," Feltham added.

As part of the acquisition, Feltham becomes Ensygnia’s VP for Payments and Loyalty programmes while Mustard co-founder Ben Osborne continues as Technical Architect working alongside the Ensygnia engineering team to focus on developing the combined Snaptaps and Onescan proposition.

“This acquisition adds more brilliant people and complimentary technology to the Ensygnia proposition,” added Richard H Harris. “What’s more, working with Snaptaps’ existing customer base and technology platform will allow us to develop and enable Onescan solutions across a wide range of customer engagements from acquisition, through payments and onto loyalty programmes.”

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Ensygnia ramps up UK launch and plans global expansion

Adds ex-Hutchison 3 CFO to Board
Expands customer service team as roll-out accelerates

London, December 12, 2013: Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica through its Wayra business accelerator initiative, today announced new additions to its main board and management team as the company gears up its service roll-out and prepares for a major investment round as part of its global expansion.

Ian Cleverly, formerly the CFO of Hutchison 3 in Ireland, has joined Ensygnia as its Chief Financial Officer and has been appointed to its Board. He adds strong strategic and financial expertise and credibility to the company as it plans to launch operating businesses in the USA and China and prepares for a major investment round in 2014.

Cleverly is a proven hands-on technology and telecoms CFO who led the investment of more than €530m in the 3 network in Ireland, and was also instrumental in the investment of a further €223m relating to the Government’s National Broadband Infrastructure development.

In addition to Hutchison 3, Cleverly has held senior financial positions at Meteor Mobile Communications, NTL (Virgin Media), Energis Communications and Procter & Gamble.

“Ian brings to the Ensygnia board not only tremendous experience of developing start-up organisations and building successful businesses across the UK and Europe, but also of attracting and managing significant investment funding,” said Ensygnia CEO Richard H Harris. “We are delighted to have secured someone of Ian’s industry credentials and stature to our main board.”

Ensygnia boss scans the future of mobile payments

Sick and tired of queuing up to buy goods? Fed up, perhaps, from having to tap in your credit or debit card details every time you want to make an online purchase? Richard Harris, CEO and co-founder of UK start-up Ensygnia, reckons he has the answer. “We allow users to go from looking to buying in under 10 seconds,” he told Mobile World Live in a recent interview.

Ensygnia fills out advisory board

Adds mobile, financial and security expertise to Advisory Board London/November 21: Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today announced the first round of appointments to its Advisory Board.

Announcing the appointments, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Neira Jones – a partner with Accourt and former Director of Payment Security and Fraud for Barclaycard said: “We are looking to create a robust and experienced Advisory Board for Ensygnia. These first eight members meet all our requirements bringing business and entrepreneurial expertise from across key areas of our business.”

The first eight members appointed to the Board are Mark Adey (Telefonica), Elaine Deste (Telefonica), Stuart Hillston (Constellation Capital), Caroline Gorski (Telefonica) Phillip McGriskin (WorldPay), Stuart Neal (Boku), Ben Nicholson (Royal Bank of Scotland), and Stanley Skoglund (Credorax).

Ensygnia CEO and co-Founder, Richard H Harris welcomed the appointments and said they were further evidence of the traction that the company is getting in the market.

“The quality of the individuals and organisations represented on our Advisory Board speaks volumes,” he said. “We are gathering momentum all the time, assembling and expanding a rich group of partners, winning awards and industry recognition, extending our patent portfolio, and readying for commercial launch. These are exciting times for us in a market that is readying for explosive growth in 2014.”

Mark Adey – Having started at Motorola research where he secured international patents Mark has over 20 years international experience in the mobile industry. He held various senior technology roles at Vodafone focusing on customer experience before joining a US network analytics company that was subsequently acquired by comScore, a global leader in measuring the digital world. He is now head of service management transformation at Telefonica UK.

Elaine Deste – Elaine is an experienced Finance professional who has recently taken on the role of CFO responsible for the B2B Sales channels at Telefonica UK, having headed up the Financial Control and Operations team since joining the company in 2005. Prior to this, Elaine’s experience has been gained from senior finance roles in various large PLC’s within the Retail Sector. Elaine has also held a Non Exec role on the Board of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust up until the recent NHS reorganisation.

Stuart Hillston - As CEO of Constellation Capital, Stuart is a hands-on technology investor and a specialist advisor to early stage entrepreneurs primarily in the software, medtech, digital and mobile sectors. He is a mentor to a number of start-up accelerator initiatives, including Wayra, and has experience of both managing and rapidly building start-up companies.

Caroline Gorski - A strategic consultant of more than 15 years client experience with a background in market development and commercial decision-making at FTSE 100 board-level, Caroline has just taken on the role of Managing Partner at Telefonica UK’s Retail and Leisure practice. At Telefonica, she is responsible for delivering transformational mobility and customer engagement technologies into retail and leisure businesses in the UK.

Phillip McGriskin - With more than 13 years in the online payments market, Phillip is currently Chief Product Officer for WorldPay – a global leader in payment processing, operating in more than 40 countries. WorldPay pioneered online payments for small and medium sized businesses and currently process millions of online payments every day. Previously Phillip was CEO at Envoy Services, an e-commerce payments company acquired by WorldPay.

Stuart Neal - The Chief Financial Officer at Boku, the leading global direct operator billing mobile payments company, Stuart is a prominent figure in the European payments market with specific expertise in deploying innovative payment solutions. He joined Boku from Barclaycard where he was responsible for growing the merchant acquiring division.

Ben Nicholson - A strategic business transformation professional with over 25 years experience in banking and financial services, including 10 years as a management consultant at firms including: PA Consulting and KPMG, delivering major global process, integration and strategy initiatives. Recently spent five years as the Head of Operational Excellence at Barclays Investment Bank and is Six Sigma Black Belt trained.

Stanley Skoglund - Currently Chief Risk Officer at Credorax - one of the world's first hi-tech companies to become a Principal Member of Visa Europe and MasterCard and a financial institution licensed under the PSD (Payment Services Directive) - Stanley brings to the Ensygnia Advisory Board more than 25 years of development and implementation experience in corporate and customer compliance, control programs and risk profiling.

New York and Wired

In October, Ensygnia took part in its first two exhibitions. The company both exhibited and spoke at the GSMA’s Mobile Money Summit in New York. Founder and CEO Richard H Harris shared the conference stage with Visa, Paypal and Groupon and after recounting a horror story retail experience in New York wowed the audience with a live demonstration of Onescan. A lively panel debate followed which you can read about here.

^{Ensygnia's Bede Feltham demos Onescan at Wired 2013.}

At the same time, in London the Ensygnia team staged a great live demo in the O2 Labs at Wired 2013 in the Tobacco Dock conference centre. The Ensygnia team allowed visitors to the booth to order drinks using Onescan during the exhibition’s networking cocktail reception. Visitors scanned the giant screen for their drink of choice which was then immediately delivered by the booth team. It was probably one of the most popular Onescan demos ever devised – but that could just be the drink talking.

Recognition on both sides of the Atlantic

The recent visits by Ensygnia team members to New York have certainly helped to spread the word on both sides of the Atlantic.  And there’s good evidence of the company’s growing reputation in the shape of two business and industry award schemes that are building to a conclusion this month. In the USA, Ensygnia has been shortlisted in the Annual Meffy Awards.   Organised by the MEF – the global trade body with a mission to help companies to monetise their products and services through the mobile channel – the Meffys are in their 13^th year and attract entries from all over the world.

It’s the first time Ensygnia has entered the Meffys and the Onescan app has been shortlisted in the Consumer Trust category.  The winners are announced later this month.

Meanwhile, back in the UK the companies and individuals making up this year’s Smart100 have been announced.  Designed to help young businesses, Smarta is backed by a number of entrepreneurs and high profile companies – including main sponsor O2.

Ensygnia has already made this year’s list of the top 100 Smarta companies in the UK; and is now in the running to be voted the UK’s best new mobile business!  The team will be out in force, with our fingers firmly crossed, at the Smarta 100 Winners party in London hoping to hear our name called.

Watch this space for more news on both the Meffys and the Smarta awards.

New York State of Mind - Ensygnia invades the Big Apple

The Ensygnia team is making New York its temporary home for much of the month of October. In what is an exceptionally busy time for the Onescan team, co-founders Matt Deacon and Richard H Harris are both taking to the New York stage this month. But Broadway fans can rest easy - neither of them will be singing. Matt is first up, when he speaks in the "rising stars" showcase of the Founders' Forum event in the first week of October. In front of a stellar audience of private investors, VC companies, IT and Internet entrepreneurs, and successful founders, Matt gets a chance to tell the crowd about Ensygnia and why Onescan will be the next big thing.

The invitation to speak at the event came direct from Henry Lane-Fox, one of the founders of the Forum and brother to Martha Lane-Fox of Last Minute dotcom fame. Henry said that one of the last UK companies to speak at the New York FF event in the rising stars section was the team at Raspberry Pi - the guys behind the credit-card sized computer that plugs into a TV. We're sure Matt will get the same enthusiastic reaction enjoyed by the Raspberry Pi team.

Later in October it's Richard's turn to take centre stage. Richard is speaking at the NFC and Mobile Money Summit organised by our friends at the GSM Association - the world trade body for the mobile network operator community. Richard is making a presentation in the conference session on "innovation in Mobile Retail Point of Sale - you can expect him to reference our integration work with Verifone GlobalBay.

Richard is also taking part in a panel discussion on the topic where he will be alongside senior execs from PayPal and Groupon among others.

Ensygnia is also exhibiting and demonstrating Onescan in New York at the summit - showing the delegates how we help to turn looking into buying in less than ten seconds.

While in New York, both Matt and Richard also have a series of meetings with potential investors and distributors of Onescan so all in all, a high flying time awaits. Whisper it quietly, but the end of the month sees them in Silicon Valley on the West Coast, but we do need them back here in the UK between times.

John Metzger joins Ensygnia as new VP Infrastructure

Expands Onescan development and engineering team in ramp up to launch London, October 2: Ensygnia, the Onescan mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today confirmed that John Metzger would be its new VP of Infrastructure.  Metzger joins from the Microsoft and Accenture joint venture IT consultancy Avanade.

Metzger’s most recent assignment was to successfully oversee the back-end integration of Skype with Microsoft Outlook.com and to embed Skype calling capability direct from Outlook.com.  Metzger’s responsibilities included architecture design, development, operational integration and ongoing management.

Prior to the Outlook.com Skype project he was key member of a small team that was responsible for migrating one of the world’s most visited consumer web sites, Harry Potter, to Windows Azure.

“My experience is centred on scaling platforms to reliably manage high volumes of interactions and engagement,” Metzger said.  “At Ensygnia, we are building the Onescan platform and payment process to meet the highest standards of banking security, while at the same time completing millions of transactions at record speed.

“We’re effectively building the world’s largest mobile fast lane transaction service – with bank-grade security at its heart,” he added. “We want both the banks and the consumers to look at Onescan and know they will get simple, fast, secure mobile transactions – every time and all the time.”

Welcoming John’s appointment, Ensygnia co-founder and CTO Matt Deacon said: “John brings a wealth of knowledge around scaling platforms to cope with the very highest levels of consumer and business demand.  He will work closely with our expanding engineering team to ensure the Onescan mobile payment platform is robust, secure and ready - from the first day - to manage the operational and regulatory compliance requirements of global market.”

M-payment innovators Ensygnia work with GlobalBay on integration

Development team to integrate smart mobile payments with leading iPad retailing system London September 25:  Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today confirmed it was working on an integration project with Mobile solutions vendor VeriFone GlobalBay.  The two companies plan to offer a range of flexible mobile payment solutions in stores.

Announcing the strategic initiative, Ensygnia CEO Richard H Harris said: “Onescan, our secure smartphone app, and VeriFone GlobalBay’s iPad retailing system make perfect partners.  Consumers will be able to take goods direct to shop-floor staff and quickly check-out using Onescan without going anywhere near a till queue.  It will be as simple as shop, scan and go.”

VeriFone GlobalBay is the iPad and tablet-based retail kiosk solution that is now central to global payment processing giant VeriFone’s mobile retailing portfolio following its acquisition of Globalbay in late 2011.  VeriFone is a global leader in secure electronic payment solutions including point of sale terminals for merchants and consumer-facing self-service payment systems.

Ensygnia’s VP for Payments and Loyalty Solutions, Bede Feltham is working closely with VeriFone GlobalBay and the development team to design the joint solution.  “We’ve all been pushed for time and walked away from a store queue when it moves too slowly,” said Bede, “but VeriFone GlobalBay’s mobile solutions and the secure Onescan app will enable shoppers to become queue-busters and check-out in their own mobile fast lane. What’s more, the system will recognise returning customers and be able to automatically deduct discounts or add loyalty points to transactions.”

Independent Industry consultant and former CTO of high street sandwich chain, EAT, Rene Batsford, who is advising Ensygnia and VeriFone GlobalBay on the project, added: “As soon as I saw Onescan I wished that I’d been able to offer that to our customers when I was at EAT.  It removes so many barriers for retailers and consumers alike, and I believe that the integration of Onescan with the VeriFone GlobalBay offering will create a must-have retail solution that will speed payments and fuel loyalty schemes.”

Neira Jones to chair Advisory Board of mobile payments company Ensygnia

Partner at Accourt and Former Director of Payment Security & Fraud at Barclaycard to lead Advisory Board12-strong Advisory Board to consist of mobile and financial industry experts

London August 6, 2013:  Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today announced that its new Advisory Board will be chaired by Neira Jones, Partner at Accourt and until recently Director of Payment Security & Fraud for Barclaycard.

Ensygnia – which recently closed a $3.3m seed funding round and further extended the international patent portfolio for its Onescan mobile payments app – said that the Advisory Board will consist of experts from the payments, banking, mobile and marketing industries with many major brand names already lined up to join the team.

CEO Richard H Harris said: “We are delighted that Neira has agreed to join and chair our Advisory Board and we are now working with her to choose and invite the other members.  Neira brings tremendous experience and knowledge to our team and to have attracted someone of her experience and calibre speaks volumes for the strength and quality of our proposition.”

Jones is a senior partner at leading payments consultancy Accourt having left her position as director of payment security & fraud at Barclaycard earlier this year.  Harris believes her knowledge and experience of the latest trends and issues in the payments market will be invaluable to Ensygnia as the company moves from Beta trials to commercial launch later this year.

Jones herself said: “As identification and authentication are set to dominate the headlines for the foreseeable future, Ensygnia and the Onescan application are well placed to trigger a revolution in mobile payments both online and in-stores.  I have been very impressed by the company’s progress so far – in terms of the execution of its application, the strengths of the management team, and the level of funding and support it has secured.

“The future looks very bright,” she added, “and I am excited about the prospect of helping the company to achieve its ambitions.”

Mobile payments company Ensygnia secures second UK Patent

Capitalises on International Patent Pending status with 59-country filing Patents cover secure payments and log-in technology

London July 9:  Ensygnia, the mobile payments company backed by Telefonica’s technology start-up accelerator Wayra, today confirmed it had been granted its second UK patent.  The company, which recently closed its $3.3m start-up funding round, added that its granted UK patents now covered both log-in and payment processes.

Ensygnia also confirmed that it had now acted on its International Patent Pending status, filing its Patent application in some 59 countries chosen for their high degree of Internet and e-commerce usage.  An international patent search was conducted prior to the granting of the UK Patents.

Announcing the granting of the second patent, CEO and co-founder, Richard H Harris said: “We continue to make rapid progress – with the extension of our patent portfolio, with our product development, and with our customer discussions.  The attention and traction we are getting in the marketplace currently is exceptional and the support of Telefonica and Wayra has been very influential,” he added.

Harris also pledged that Ensygnia would work to protect its patent portfolio and confirmed that one potential international competitor had already withdrawn from the UK marketplace.

“We want to work with potential partners and even competitors,” explained Harris, “but we will of course act to protect our interests.

“I would characterise our position as being more interested in licensing than litigation,” he said, “and we’d certainly rather be reaching agreements in boardrooms than court rooms.  Having said that, we will do what is necessary to protect our position and the interests of our shareholders such as Telefonica.”

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About Ensygnia

Ensygnia (www.ensygnia.com)  is a mobile payments, log-in and authentication company which allows any connected device with a camera to interact and transact with any connected device with a screen.  The company raised a total of $3.3m in it seed funding stages.  As well as its investing management team, the company’s investors include Jesus College Cambridge, Rhoddy Swire of Pantheon Ventures, and Telefonica through its Wayra Business Accelerator Academy.

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Ensygnia at Accelerate 2013 in Liverpool

Onescan from Ensygnia - Proud to be Involved in Accelerate 2013

Accelerate 2013 in Liverpool demonstrated the creativity and entrepreneurial skills currently involved in starting up businesses in the UK.

Brushing shoulders with some of Britain's finest entrepreneurs and business minds, we were in our element, and already looking forward to returning next year!

Simon Devonshire, Head of Wayra Europe

Wayra, the in-house business accelerator of Telefonica, took to the stage, presenting various projects and recent investments. And, the one startup they were 'most proud of' and 'excited about'? Onescan from Ensygnia.

Ensygnia closes seed funding stage with $3.3m total

Onescan company completes one of UK’s largest pre-revenue seed rounds Telefonica’s Wayra Accelerator joins investors in final round

London, June 20, 2013:  UK start-up Ensygnia – the onescan mobile payments company – today confirmed it had successfully closed its final seed funding round raising more than $3.3m  in cash and services, in phased investments, in little more than a year since commencing operations at the start of 2012.

Among the principle investors is Telefonica’s start-up business accelerator Wayra who is providing office space, Board-advisors, support and mentoring, as well as access to key Telefonica services and a significant cash contribution.

Ensygnia – which already has a granted UK patent for its onescan process – said the investment would be used to move out of private beta, accelerate its business internationally and with key merchant and payment partners.   The company will also further develop its UK & international onescan patent portfolio.

Co-Founder and CEO Richard H Harris said: “We have just completed one of the most successful and largest seed funding rounds for a pre-revenue, pre-product company in the UK this year and have now secured a market valuation of more than $20m.

“We are already moving quickly with a wide range of potential onescan partners and customers and this backing is helping us to accelerate even faster – by expanding our development team for example,” he added.

“Through Wayra we have also secured a very powerful global mobile partner in Telefonica and I believe we are ready for take-off.  With this level of support and backing I believe we will very quickly demonstrate our market traction and move towards a significant Series A VC investment round as the next stage in our international growth.”

Harris confirmed that in addition to Wayra, other backers in the final seed round included both the founders, all the members of the investing management team, a personal investment by Rhoddy Swire the founder partner of Pantheon Ventures[and Jesus College Cambridge] among others.

For Wayra, UK Academy director, Charmaine Eggberry commented: “We are delighted to have onescan in the London Academy – their solution, their approach, and their plans are a strong strategic and cultural fit with Wayra and also with Telefonica.  We firmly believe we can help accelerate their business and get them to the next stage.

“More than 3,400 companies applied to Wayra in this selection round,” she added, “and the companies we have chosen represent the cream of the crop.”

Ensygnia invited to Mobile World Commerce 2013 'Dragon’s Den'

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, UK-based start-up Ensygnia was one of just six companies competing to be chosen as the mobile innovation with the most potential impact. In the Next Generation Mobile Innovation session, one of the most anticipated and attended sessions of the entire show, Ensygnia presented its patented Onescan solution for 'frictionless' mobile commerce.

Founder and CEO Richard Harris, who led the company’s 'Dragon’s Den' style pitch, said today that the worldwide potential of the Ensygnia platform and the Onescan mobile solution made this years Mobile World Congress the perfect stage to showcase this revolutionary product. With Onescan, customers can shop from any digital screen without the need for anything more than the app, making technology like NFC virtually redundant.

“The Onescan app users allows users to make payments, login to corporate VPNs, register with cloud-based services or access their personal bank accounts with just one scan,”

he explained.

“Our process is simple, fast and secure, and makes shopping, registering or responding with a mobile a seamless one scan experience. It finally brings an end to the pain of lost passwords, endless forms and mobile shopping frustrations.”

The service runs on a patented process which uses the Ensygnia platform.The data held on the platform is encrypted and its security maintained throughout any transaction. The technology acts as a personal information exchange to transfer data stored by users of the Onescan app.

“Onescan simplifies shopping,” said Harris. “Retailers simply present an Ensygnia encrypted QR code alongside the product and by scanning an onscreen code with the Onescan App on their smartphone, shoppers trigger a transaction using their stored information. Better than that, it's designed not just for websites, but also for digital media such as cinema and screens, and can even be used in store for queue busting and mobile point of sale."

“Wherever the customer is, there's no more registering or entering financial details for every single transaction,” Harris added. “Just find a product, select it and scan it. And you're done.”

The app is not just for shopping, Onescan can also use stored personal data or credentials to provide swift and secure access to cloud-based services, to speed up log-on to corporate networks, or registration for real-world locations. Consumers too could use Onescan to access social media sites and networks to protect their personal data as they would not need to supply this on login.

“Everyone present could see that we have created a powerful underlying technology engine with many potential applications,” continued Harris. "Specifically, I hope they see the full potential of our solution. We will revolutionise the way people pay for goods and services, both online and in store and anywhere in between. We have in our hands a universal mobile wallet that is simpler, faster, and more secure than anything on the market today. The future is very promising and we're grateful for the opportunity afforded to us.”

Ensygnia enters MWC Dragon’s Den

Presents patented payment and log-in solution to investors and delegates Looks to win audience and investor vote with just OneScan

London, February 11:  At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, UK-based start-up Ensygnia will be one of just six companies competing to be chosen as the mobile innovation with the most potential impact.

Ensygnia will present and demonstrate its patented OneScan solution for log-in, registration and payments to conference delegates and a panel of investors in the Next Generation Mobile Innovation session – traditionally one of the best attended sessions of the conference.  The delegates vote at the end of the session for the innovation they believe will have the most impact over the next ten years.

CEO Richard H Harris, who will be making the company’s “Dragon’s Den” style pitch, said today that the worldwide potential of the Ensygnia platform and the OneScan mobile solution made the Mobile World Congress the perfect stage to showcase the innovation.

“With our OneScan app users will be able to make a payment, log-on to a corporate VPN, register with a cloud-based service or access their personal bank account with just one scan,” he explained.

“Our process is simple, fast and secure, and puts an end to the nightmare of an ever-increasingly complex set of user names and passwords or the need to go through additional levels of security and use bank-distributed devices.”

The service is provided using a patented process running on the Ensygnia platform.  The platform acts as a personal information exchange to transfer data stored by users of the OneScan App.  The data held on the platform is encrypted and its security maintained throughout any transaction.

“OneScan simplifies online shopping,” said Harris.  “Retailers simply present an Ensygnia encrypted QR code alongside the product or at the check-out page.  By scanning the onscreen code with the OneScan App on their smartphone, shoppers trigger a transaction using their stored information.

“No more registering or entering financial details onto a website,” Harris added.  “Just search for a product, select it, and scan it.  That’s it.”

Ensygnia and Onescan can also use stored personal data or credentials to log-on to a corporate network, or to access a cloud-based business service such as Linked-In, Salesforce.com or Microsoft 365.  Consumers too could use OneScan to access social media sites and networks to protect themselves from personal data hacking.

Harris is predicting a bright future for Ensygnia and OneScan and hopes the audience in Barcelona agree.  “I hope they can see that we have created a powerful underlying technology engine with many potential applications,” he said.

“But in particular,” Harris added, “I hope they see the potential we have to revolutionise the way people pay for goods and services, both online and in store, and that we can help create a universal mobile wallet that is simpler, faster, and more secure than anything on the market today.”

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Note to editors

The Next Generation Mobile Innovation Session is on Wednesday February 27 at 2pm in Hall 4 Auditorium 2 of the Conference Village at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s largest and most important mobile industry event.

About Ensygnia

Ensygnia is the company behind the revolutionary OneScan application – a patented process that allows users to scan images and used stored credentials to log-in to a service, register with a site or make a payment.

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