By Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet –

CellTrust Corporation, a provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones, has announced that it showcased its SecureSMS messaging solution in the Mobile Money Hub at the AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa conference in Nigeria.

Company sources added that it also highlighted the special features of its data-based and menu driven Secure Mobile Wallet. CellTrust’s (News – Alert)SecureSMS platform is popular in Africa and it is being leveraged by banks and other payment system providers to meet new transmission channel security requirements of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

On February, 2010 the company launched its SecureSMS Mobile banking and Payment Pilot for the African region through a partnership with Maxim-Pro Ltd. based in Nigeria. The solutions offer consumers the ability to make secure mobile cash transfers, payments and also securely access other microfinance banking products.

‘CellTrust’s secure mobile banking platform is gaining significant momentum in Africa, where banks are cracking down on fraud and enforcing new security requirements for mobile financial management,’ said Sean Moshir (News – Alert), Chairman and CEO of CellTrust in a release.

‘CellTrust’s Secure Mobile platform brings significant value to the financial industry, as well as consumers in Africa, providing a secure and simple way to transfer money and make payments,’ Moshir added.

CellTrust company officials explained that the SecureSMS solution offers end-to-end privacy on the mobile device via a highly encrypted, tamper-proof process besides allowing message sizes up to 5,000 characters. CellTrust SecureSMS Appliance is an enterprise appliance which offers secure SMS communication for handset to handset and enterprise applications to handsets with highly encrypted end to end security in compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, and Sarbanes-Oxley.

This capability ensures that information is kept secure and private and only delivered to the intended recipient. CellTrust’s SecureSMS Gateway (News – Alert)features the SecureSMS Appliance and a suite of mobile applications which are capable of providing advanced secure mobile messaging and information management across 200+ countries and over 800 carriers.

The company’s services are preferred by the financial services, healthcare, government, education, energy, information technology, marketing, and travel industries owing to the secure and trusted exchange of information CellTrust solutions provide on mobile devices.