The Red Herring editorial team selected Monitise Americas from a pool of hundreds from across NorthAmerica. The nominees were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financialperformance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration intotheir respective industries.

“Monitise Americas is truly honored to be recognized by Red Herring as one of their Top 100 companies,”said Soren Bested, managing director of Monitise Americas. “At a time when mobile banking, payments,and commerce is maturing as an industry, the selection serves as validation of our unique mobile financial services model, which provides our financial institution partners and their customers with an unmatched user experience and value proposition.”

"This year was especially difficult," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Despite theglobal economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. We know that thisyear’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far."

Winners for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award were selected based upon theirtechnological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies inthe telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award.

The Finalists were invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Conference in San Diego, June 22-24, 2010. The Top 100 Winners were announced at a special awards ceremony on June 24 at the event.