. of locations louisville ky dubai u.a.e. mena region caribbean region founder s dave barram and jorge fernandes slogan s the next step in the evolution of money website http www.quisk.co launched 2007 quisk formerly known as mobibucks is a silicon valley based start up that digitizes cash and enables financial institutions and others to provide cash less transactions and safe simple and secure financial services to anyone with a mobile phone number . quisk inc. developed the first and only patent pending mobile payments solution that uses just a mobile phone number and pin eliminating the requirement that a consumer carry cash credit cards or even the physical mobile phone in order to purchase goods redeem coupons and receive reward incentives . the company is an innovator in the digital cash and mobile money space and has developed a digital services and transaction processing platform for integrated mobile payments and marketing loyalty programs . deploying patent pending cloud based technology the quisk digital cash platform not only works with any mobile phone number on any type of mobile phone but also leverages existing core banking and retail pos infrastructure . quisk headquarters are in silicon valley with additional offices in louisville ky and dubai u.a.e. quisk inc. developed the first and only patent pending mobile payments solution that uses just a mobile phone number and pin eliminating the requirement that a consumer carry cash credit cards or even the physical mobile phone in order to purchase goods redeem coupons and receive reward incentives . the company is an innovator in the digital cash and mobile money space and has developed a digital services and transaction processing platform for integrated mobile payments and marketing loyalty programs . deploying patent pending cloud based technology the quisk digital cash platform not only works with any mobile phone number on any type of mobile phone but also leverages existing core banking and retail pos infrastructure . quisk headquarters are in silicon valley with additional offices in louisville ky and dubai u.a.e. contents 1 history 2 funding 3 references 4 external links history edit the company formerly known as mobibucks corporation was founded in 2007 with a mission to develop a solution to provide cash less transactions and safe simple and secure financial services for anyone with a mobile phone number . quisk opened an office in dubai u.a.e. in early 2009 and by early 2010 quisk and hypercom were bringing mobile payments to restaurants there . in mid 2011 abu dhabi commercial bank adcb one of the largest banks in the u.a.e. launched the quisk solution called mobi in country . later in 2011 quisk partnered with advanced integrated systems ais to develop the first mobile money and payments platform for the caribbean . 1 in april 2012 quisk and adcb won the award for best mobile payment initiative for the first of its kind payment product for making purchases with a mobile phone number . 2 in late 2012 steve novak who served as chairman became the c.e.o. of quisk inc. formerly novak was the lead independent director at cybersource corporation an epayments processor serving on cybersource s board from the company s inception in december 1997 until its acquisition by visa inc. in 2010 . in 2013 quisk and its caribbean partner ais continued to make progress on their planned mobile money deployment in jamaica . 3 in 2014 quisk completed the integration of the middle east payment services meps a consortium of seven arab banks providing payment services in the middle east to the central bank of jordan . the company remains known as mobibucks fz in the middle east . 4 in addition quisk developed the 2nd generation of its digital cash platform and was selected to demonstrate on stage at the finovate spring event in san jose ca. 5 the company continues to develop additional digital cash functionality such as ecommerce bill pay and remittances and is expanding its geographic scope into other regions of the world . funding edit quisk inc. has received funding of over 15 million in series a preferred and notes convertible into series a. references edit http www.aiswebnet.com node 85 http www.zawya.com story adcbs pioneering quisk mobile payment service wins best mpayment initiative award at the mobile show 2012 zawya20120423111837 http mobile.jamaica gleaner.com gleaner 20130710 business business4.php http www.quisk.co 2014 03 central bank jordan authorizes integration middle east payment services meps cashless payment services within platform via mobibucks http www.quisk.co 2014 04 quisk selected present innovative digitized cash solution finovate spring event external links edit quisk official website quisk on linkedin quisk blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title quisk & oldid 739358923 categories american companies established in 2007mobile paymentsfinancial servicessilicon valleye commercebanking 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