Eko India Financial Services limited, India's leading end-to-end Financial Inclusion services provider for unbanked rural markets announced a strategic collaboration with VeriSign, a trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. 

This alliance with VeriSign is a part of Eko’s mission to promote financial inclusion and to provide an easy way to send money home using a simple interface and secure access, ensuring the highest levels of customer care and satisfaction. The alliance would enable the unbanked population of the country do banking transactions securely by using even low-end and low-cost mobile phones.

The service, to start with, would be aimed at low income users. In the later stages it would be extended to medium income households and other segments as well.