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Ding was founded to change billions of lives by accelerating mobile access. As the number one international mobile top-up platform in the world, Ding has been keeping people connected since 2006, when we launched this first-of-a-kind service. Today, Ding’s users have successfully sent over 300 million top-ups globally, via the app, online at Ding.com, and in-store at over 600,000+ retail outlets worldwide.

The number of prepaid mobile phones is growing and now accounts for 76% of the world’s five billion phones, with one quarter in need of top-up at any one time – highlighting the need for Ding’s frictionless and instant mobile top-up. In fact, Ding delivers a top-up every second, via 500+ operators, across 140+ countries – helping families and friends around the world to stay connected. 

 

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Jan 09, 2019

Ding and Logista join forces to offer International top-up across Spain

 

9th January, 2019 – Ding, the largest international mobile top-up platform, is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Logista, the leading distributor of products and services to proximity retailers in Southern Europe, to provide international top-up services through over 10,000+ retail locations serviced by Logista in cities across Spain.

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Ding doubles footprint in France as it rolls out top-up platform

Oct 10, 2018

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Ding reaches extraordinary milestone of completing 300 million top-ups

Sep 03, 2018

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In an industry first Ding releases API and opens up mobile top-up market

Jul 12, 2018

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Jun 27, 2018

Ding unveils future-proofed app as top-up demand soars

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Jun 19, 2018

Ding offers millions of Cuban diaspora the ability to buy Cubacel SIM & handsets online for family back home

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May 02, 2018

Ding expands global footprint to meet top-up demand with New Jersey office

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Jan 23, 2018

Ding appoints Jonathan Rockett as Chief Financial Officer

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Dec 04, 2017

Ding wins Eir Spider Elevation Award

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Jul 03, 2017

New survey finds 45% of Ghanaians living abroad say their spouse is the first they call with good news (infographic)

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Jun 27, 2017

Ding partners with operators in Kyrgyzstan to enable diaspora to support their loved ones from abroad

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Jun 20, 2017

Irish Fintech Company Ding Empowers Refugees with Prepaid Phone Credit for World Refugee Day

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Jun 09, 2017

Ding partners with Ethio Telecom to offer international mobile recharge to Ethiopia

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May 22, 2017

Ding brings international mobile top-up to ZOOM stores across the UAE

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Mar 13, 2017

The world’s largest mobile recharge network, Ding, brings Latin American superstars to Calle Ocho Festival in Miami

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Jan 06, 2017

New survey finds 60% of Jamaicans living abroad use WhatsApp as their primary way to stay in touch (infographic)

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Jan 03, 2017

Ding expands reach in Africa with addition of CVMovel Cape Verde

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Sep 21, 2016

Ding expands network reach to over 400 operators globally

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Aug 10, 2016

Ding acquires French retail mobile top-up company TransfertCredit

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Jun 07, 2016

New survey finds 70% of Cuban internet users use local WIFI hotspots every week (infographic)

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May 30, 2016

40 million Chinese diaspora abroad can now instantly transfer airtime via Ding

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May 25, 2016

Ding partners with Bangladeshi operators to empower diaspora abroad to support loved ones at home

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May 19, 2016

Ding CEO Mark Roden interviewed by Money Matters

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Oct 08, 2015

New service allows Cuban Nauta accounts to be recharged internationally

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Jul 05, 2015

Ding joins forces with iSend

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Jun 18, 2015

Mobile top-up company lowers unplanned birthrates in Haiti

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Jun 01, 2015

Topping-up educations in Pakistan this Ramadan

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May 20, 2015

Ding.com introduces 10 new languages making it even easier to transfer mobile top-up around the world

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May 18, 2015

An innovative approach to Aid in Nepal

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May 03, 2015

The critical role of the mobile phone in alleviating poverty

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Apr 30, 2015

Ding partners with Expresso Senegal making it easier for Senegalese abroad to stay connected with home.

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Apr 01, 2015

Ding extends reach to service half the planet’s mobile phones

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Mar 05, 2015

Mexican Diaspora send 200% more top-up

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Feb 05, 2015

New startup fund embodies required spirit

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Jan 29, 2015

Ding and Movicel Angola launch brand new service

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Jan 26, 2015

Senior appointments signify Ding growth trajectory set to continue

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Dec 01, 2014

Ding- a convenient alternative as remittance costs increase for Indians

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Nov 28, 2014

Ding mobilise Liberian Diaspora as Ebola spreads

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Oct 24, 2014

Mark Roden named EY Entrepreneur of the Year

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Oct 09, 2014

Ding expands its presence in the Cuban market

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Oct 08, 2014

Ding expands its reach in Italy

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Sep 11, 2014

Nigerian Diaspora send more support home than ever before

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Sep 03, 2014

Mobile phones to exceed human beings in 2014

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‘Stay at it. Opportunities will present themselves when you least expect it’

Feb 04, 2019

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Spanish deal a good call for mobile top-up firm

Jan 14, 2019

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Ding out to ring up lucrative French deal

Jan 14, 2019

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Sodexo, Ding.com and JCDecaux win France-Ireland Business Awards

Jan 10, 2019

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It’s back to the future for Ding as Roden returns to the hot seat to drive expansion

Nov 08, 2018

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Return of the Ding king: top-up firm’s founder maps out diversified future

Nov 08, 2018

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INTERNATIONAL TOP-UP PLATFORM DING ROLLS OUT IN STORES IN FRANCE

Oct 10, 2018

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Ding considers plan to raise €40m in growth equity

Jul 19, 2018

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Ding opens API to allow others offer mobile top-up

Jul 12, 2018

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Irish mobile firm Ding opens New Jersey office

May 28, 2018

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Irish mobile top-up company opens new US office

May 28, 2018

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Ding opens New Jersey office to facilitate growing top-up demand

May 28, 2018

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The FT 1000: the complete list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies Ding features for first year

Apr 11, 2018

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Ding creates 50 new jobs

Apr 11, 2018

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Ding makes two high-profile hires as part of growth strategy

Apr 11, 2018

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Business Person of the Month, September 2017: Mark Roden, Chairman, Ding

Nov 22, 2017

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Irish make a song and dance at Mobile World Congress

Mar 02, 2017

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How A Chance Encounter Led To The Creation Of A New Global Sector

Nov 21, 2016

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Dublin’s Ding acquires French mobile top-up player Transfert Credit

Nov 16, 2016

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Video: Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli speaks to Mark Roden at MoneyConf

Jun 21, 2016

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Meet Ding: the company taking on the mobile top-up market

Apr 22, 2016

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Ding’s Mark Roden talks Dubai, Elon Musk and the importance of sticking to what you know with Harriet Green

Apr 22, 2016

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Why Better Questions Make Better Businesses

Jul 23, 2015

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Roadmap To Success: 10 Useful Entrepreneurial Traits

Jun 10, 2015

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Warts and all: the best and the worst bits about starting companies around the world

Jun 06, 2015

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Activists use Dublin company to top up phones in Amazon

Apr 05, 2015

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Rusell Padmore on Mobile Phones in Emerging Markets

Apr 01, 2015

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Pakistani Diaspora transfer an all-time high of $60 million to mobile phones back home

Feb 25, 2015

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Al Ansari Exchange conducts business talks with world’s largest mobile top-up provider Ding

Feb 03, 2015

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Dublin: Europe’s Tech Capital

Jan 02, 2015

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Onto a sure ding: phoning home proves a global success

Dec 07, 2014

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Ding founder Mark Roden on making a dent in mobile credit transfer market

Nov 28, 2014

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Ireland’s Largest Start-Up, Ding Ranked 2nd in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2014

Nov 27, 2014

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Entrepreneur of Year: Business skills should be taught in schools

Nov 24, 2014

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Ding App: Receive ‘value instantly’

Nov 14, 2014

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Deloitte Fast 50 announces Inhance Technology as fastest growing tech company

Nov 10, 2014

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Startups say skills, not taxes behind Ireland’s draw

Nov 07, 2014

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How new businesses can be driven by an online presence

Oct 26, 2014

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Mark Roden celebrates EY Entrepreneur of the Year award

Oct 24, 2014

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Meet Mark Roden, Ireland’s Entrepreneur of the Year

Oct 24, 2014

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Ding’s Roden named EY Entrepreneur of the Year

Oct 24, 2014

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Mark Roden: Ding founder is Entrepreneur of the Year 2014

Oct 24, 2014

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Mark Roden crowned as Ireland’s top go-getter 2014

Oct 24, 2014

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Entrepreneur of Year: Business skills should be taught in schools

Oct 24, 2014

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Ding’s Roden wins entrepreneur’s award

Oct 24, 2014

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Mark Roden celebrates EY Entrepreneur of the Year award

Oct 24, 2014

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Ding: Irish company becomes number one mobile top-up provider in Cuba

Oct 13, 2014

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Ireland’s Biggest Start-up

Oct 11, 2014

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Mobile phones to exceed human beings in 2014

Sep 04, 2014

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Ray Nolan aims to treble size of mobile payments firm Ezetop

Apr 24, 2014

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Ezetop: Mobile cash dials up a ding

Apr 20, 2014

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Mobile Payment Market

Apr 11, 2014

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Cuba: el auge de las redes sociales por SMS

Apr 07, 2014

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Mobile phone top-up firm ezetop sees revenue rising 25 pct in 2014

Mar 20, 2014

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Dec 18, 2018

Mobilising the next one billion

Ding founder and Chief Executive Mark Roden looks back at a transformative year for the company and the market, and looks ahead to how mobile will be the driving force to bring billions into the financial fold – while unveiling the plans he’s hatching for Ding in 2019.

We also feel this is just the tip of the iceberg as the prepaid mobile phone market continues to scale new heights – hitting close to 80% of the more than five billion phones in the world, or 90%+ in emerging markets. Our users enjoyed connecting family and friends in greater numbers than ever before with billions in top-ups sent around the world.

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In September 2018, Ding’s users sent their 300 millionth top-up

Ding has been making connections possible since its launch in 2006

76% of the world’s phones (or 5 billion and growing) are of the prepaid variety

Ding has a network of over 500+ operators, across 140+ countries

Our platform is available in 600,000 retail locations around the world

We have 200+ employees, coming from 28 countries around the world

Today we have eight offices – Ireland, Barcelona, Bucharest, Dhaka, Dubai, New Jersey, Miami, and Paris

Ding delivers a top-up every second, in 3 seconds – connecting loved ones around the world

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Mark Roden

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Mark founded Ding in 2006 to enable foreign workers abroad to instantly recharge mobile phones of family and friends back home. Today he is CEO and has been instrumental in the global expansion of the business, which today reaches billions of phones, through a network of 500+ mobile operators, in more than 140 countries.

Prior to setting up Ding, Mark founded easycash, which deployed 500 in-store cash ATMs in SPAR stores and ESSO filling stations around Ireland and easycash became the country’s largest independent cash ATM operator and was acquired by RBS in 2004.

In 1991, Mark helped Denis O’Brien establish Esat Telecom which broke the monopoly of telecoms services in Ireland in 1994, won the second mobile phone licence in 1995, listed on NASDAQ in 1997, and was acquired by BT in 2000.

In October 2014, Mark was announced as overall winner in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year in Ireland.

David Hargaden

Non-Executive Director


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David is Executive Chairman of Unity Technology Solutions, a leading provider of managed technology services in Ireland. He is a former Non Executive Chairman of CarTrawler.com (sold to ECI in 2011), myHome.ie (sold to The Irish Times in 2006) and eWare (sold to Computer Associates in 2004). He was Managing Partner of Hargaden Moor, Chartered Accountants from 1992 to 2001 which was merged with BDO in 2001 where he was Head of Corporate Finance.

Ray Nolan

Non-Executive Director


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Ray is a non-executive Director at Ding, a role which he has held since 2014. He is currently CEO of xSellCo.

Ray is a serial IT entrepreneur and has founded and led of a number of software companies including Raven Computing, Coretime.com (acquired by Sage Group in 2003), Hostelworld.com (acquired 2009, returning $500m), and Ultimate Rugby.

Winner of the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of The Year 2003 and IIA Net Visionary 2006, Ray served as chairman of Skyscanner (acquired by Ctrip $1.6BN) and chaired Whatclinic.com, and Asavie. Ray qualified in Electronic Engineering at DIT.

Dermot Halpin

Non-Executive Director


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Dermot Halpin is currently a President at TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website and has previously held a variety of senior management and Board positions across a number of global and venture-backed consumer internet businesses. These companies include Expedia where he was President of Expedia Europe, Middle East and Africa and a Board member of both Voyages SNCF, a joint venture with the French national rail operator and of e-long, a publicly-held Chinese online travel business.

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