New Delhi, India – April 22, 2016 –BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure mobile communications and Digitsecure, a leading mobility, identity and payments platform company today announced that they are bringing the immediacy and reliability of BBM™ to HotRemit digital money transfers in India.

HotRemit, a social wallet app developed by Digitsecure, simplifies money transfers, including sending and requesting money, mobile top-up and DTH recharge using phone numbers. It is now available on BBM. Starting today, BBM users can initiate instant mobile payment transfers in BBM and receive customized expense reports for personal and professional expenses.

HotRemit enables real-time, secure and seamless digital financial transactions. Users can seamlessly send money to any of their BBM contacts using HotRemit without the complications of traditional money transfer. HotRemit is operated in a PCI-DSS certified environment, ensuring security of transactions and data, both in rest, and transmission.

“BBM provides a convenient and instant social platform for money transfers, top-ups and expense tracking to both individuals and organizations. HotRemit is committed to social financial transactions and adding more social features that simplify day to day mundane tasks,” said Jay Krishna, Founder director, DigitSecure.

“BBM is trusted by customers across the world for its reliability, control features and immediacy. There’s a growing appetite for mobile payment solutions and supporting mobile wallets, and HotRemit is another great example of how we are developing the BBM ecosystem to successfully integrate chat, social and commerce,” says Matthew Talbot, SVP, BBM at BlackBerry.

The BBM-enabled HotRemit app is available as a free download for BlackBerry®, Android™ and iOS devices from BlackBerry World, Google Play and App Store.

About HotRemit

HotRemit simplifies money transfers, money pooling, requesting money, donating, mobile and DTH top-ups using phone numbers or BBM. It is free to download on BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices.

About DigitSecure India Private limited

Digitsecure is a mobility first LastMile enabling company specializing in end to end platform for Identification, Payments, Money transfer and Tracking. ‎Launched LastMile platform in year 2015 which is an end to end secure platform consisting of secure Handhelds and secure platform connected with Banks & Aadhaar. Digitsecure works with clients in banking, insurance, ecommerce, logistics and government.