Tokenized Payment Service Registration

1 - 7 . (canceled)

8 . A method comprising:

receiving by a computer an intent to register message from a user;

requesting by the computer identification information from said user;

requesting by the computer a financial institution identifier from said user;

sending by the computer a temporary code to said user;

receiving by the computer said temporary code from a known point of sale terminal, said known point of sale terminal having been previously registered with said payment service;

sending by the computer at least a portion of said identification information to said known point of sale terminal;

receiving by the computer an identity verified message from said known point of sale terminal; and

receiving by the computer tokenized external fund transfer information from a financial institution identified by said financial institution identifier.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein:

said intent to register message is received via a text message sent from a mobile phone associated with said user; and

said temporary code is sent to said mobile phone via a text message.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein:

said identity verified message indicates a type of know your customer procedure that was performed to verify an identity of said user;

said tokenized external fund transfer information places a limitation on transfers from an account managed by said financial institution; and

a degree of said limitation is based on a level of verification provided by said type of know your customer procedure.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein

said identification information and said financial institution identifier are requested via an interactive voice response system.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

verifying said identification information against a government database prior to sending said temporary code to said user.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein

said portion of said identification information is a government identification number.

14 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

verifying said identification information against a financial institution database managed by said financial institution prior to sending said temporary code to said user.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein said portion of said identification information is a government identification number.

16 . A method comprising:

sending by a computer identification information to a known terminal;

receiving by the computer an identity verified message from said known terminal; and

receiving by the computer a token comprising tokenized external fund transfer information from a financial institution;

wherein:

said identity verified message indicates a type of know your customer procedure that was performed to verify an identity of a user;

said token places a limitation on transfers from an account managed by said financial institution; and

a degree of said limitation is based on a level of identification verification provided by said type of know your customer procedure.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein

said receiving said token from said financial institution is conducted after receiving said identify verified message from said known terminal.

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein:

said identification information is an account number for an account held at said financial institution; and

said known terminal and said financial institution share a CODEC used to generate said token.

19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein

said identity verified message indicates said type of know your customer procedure indirectly based on an identity of an operator of said known terminal.

20 . The method of claim 16 , wherein

said degree of said limitation is also based on a location of said terminal.

21 . The method of claim 16 , wherein

said limitation limits a number of transfers that can be made in a given day from said account managed by said financial institution.

22 . The method of claim 16 , wherein:

said type of know your customer procedure that was performed involves reviewing a government issued ID of said user.

23 . The method of claim 16 , wherein:

said type of know your customer procedure that was performed involves obtaining biometric information from said user.

24 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

receiving by the computer an upload of identification information for a group of users from said financial institution, said group of users having a set of accounts with said financial institution, said user being in said group of users, said account managed by said financial institution being in said set of accounts, and said identification information being in said upload of identification information.

25 . The method of claim 24 , further comprising the steps of:

sending by the computer a temporary code to said user; and

receiving by the computer said temporary code from said known point of sale terminal.

26 . The method of claim 25 , wherein

said temporary code is sent to said user after receiving said upload of identification information for said group of users from said financial institution.

27 . The method of claim 24 , wherein

said token is received contingent upon said identity verified message being received.

28 . The method of claim 25 , wherein:

said temporary code is sent to said user via a mobile phone of said user.