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Why banking is changing for good

November 22, 2011   Editor   No comments

Steve Bertamini CEO of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered The way we manage money is about to change beyond recognition. Banks who fail to embrace this are in for a rough ride, predicts Steve Bertamini, CEO of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered Imagine having instant and total control of your money. To spend, save, invest

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Where’s the money in mobile government?

November 22, 2011   Editor   No comments

James Middleton Telecoms.com If mobile government services in Africa are to be more sustainable than previous e-government initiatives, they must benefit all stakeholders. Today, the business model is uncertain. To put it bluntly, governments have limited budgets and the end users with most to gain from mobile government are often living in poverty in remote

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Stanbic IBTC drives financial inclusion with E.susu

November 01, 2011   Editor   No comments
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Stanbic IBTC Bank has reiterated its commitment to facilitating financial inclusion in Nigeria by making banking easier and more accessible to operators in the informal sector through its E.susu product and service provided by the banks agent network. According to a statement by the bank, E.susu is an easy to use transaction and savings account

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Africa’s mobile banking revolution: the poor now have access to financial services

October 17, 2011   Emmanuel Okoegwale   1 Comment
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Frank E. Afful Mobile banking and mobile money are revolutionising the face of personal and business banking in Africa. There is no need to carry a bank card orcheque book on you. You do not even have to visit the local bank branch to transfer or withdraw money. All you need now is a mobile

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Mobile money to grow with new entrant in Uganda

October 14, 2011   Emmanuel Okoegwale   No comments
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Faridah Kulabako As revenues from making calls continue to dive following the recent price wars and the volatile economic environment, more telecoms are exploring the mobile money transfer platform as a supplementary revenue stream. Orange Telecom Uganda chief officer strategy, Mr Edouard Blondeau, told Daily Monitor on Wednesday that the firm is in advanced stages

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Mobile money faces tighter control under CBK

September 06, 2011   Emmanuel Okoegwale   No comments
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  GEOFFREY IRUNGU Users of mobile money transfer services will soon pay more for the convenience under a proposed law aimed at bringing all payment instruments and systems under one regulation. If the National Payments System Bill 2011 becomes law, customers will not lose their money if a service provider — ­­such as an online

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August 07, 2011   Editor   No comments
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After the award last January of the price “first on the market” for its service Tchotcho Mobile [2.5 millions of dollars], Haiti Mobile Money Initiative (HMMI) created in June 2011, has handed last Friday to the phone operator Voilà, a check of 1, 5 million dollars for “Second on the market” for its mobile payment

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OpenMarket Raises £1m Via SMS for East Africa Appeal

August 07, 2011   Editor   No comments
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        Figure is over 500 per cent more than the DEC has raised from texting in the past OpenMarket  has revealed that it has raised more than £1m for the Disasters  Emergency Committee’s (DEC) East Africa drought appeal through SMS donations, via its mobile payments and campaign management platform. The fund has been

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Unbanked Africa summit 2011 PDF Downloads

July 31, 2011   Emmanuel Okoegwale   1 Comment
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Here are the Event PDFs for the Unbanked Africa Summit. Please fill the form below and select some OR all of the Event files to get them e-mailed to you.

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Connecting the Dots in the Developing World

July 24, 2011   Emmanuel Okoegwale   No comments
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          Menekse Gencer CEO, mPayConnect, Managing Partner, Arc Spring Group Mobile payments are transforming the way people interact with money and changing the landscape of financial services.   Safaricom’s revolutionary M-PESA solution in Kenya has gotten the world’s attention. A mobile person-to-person money transfer service, M-PESA became tremendously popular in a

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