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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s MPESA now has 9 Million customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ZACHARY OCHIENG
Banking in Kenya is fast moving away from brick and mortar as more customers embrace
m-money services. Notably, M-Pesa, Kenya’s pioneer mobile money transfer service
operated by listed mobile operator Safaricom, has so far registered 9 million customers.
The service—launched in March 2007—has revolutionized money transfer services in the
country by providing Safaricom subscribers with a fast, safe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1572</link>
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		<title>Technology savvy fraudsters prey on M-pesa’s runaway success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology savvy fraudsters have stolen an estimated Sh21 million from Kenya’s revolutionary mobile phone-based money transfer system, M-pesa.
Michael Joseph, the chief executive of Safaricom — the telecoms operator that owns M-pesa — said the operation has reported suspected or actual fraud in 0.006 per cent total transactions since its inception three years ago.
“Suspected or actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1562</link>
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		<title>MobiCash unveils its Strong Web Authentication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Gordon

A bit of 2010 good news for Mobicash in its seemingly endless innovation, is the proudly announcement of our mobile secure online payment which propose a more elegant way to look at electronic security that renders the value of card account information useless to attackers and brings assurance to consumers.
85% of Internet users are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1560</link>
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		<title>Mobile Union Launches Online Remittance Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mobile Union Ltd announces the launch of its new online remittance service (http://www.mtxpress.com), mtxpress, which uses a secure SMS platform to provide a low-cost and convenient solution for people in the UK to send money to friends and family abroad.
According to the most recent DFID UK Remittance Market Report, the UK is one the top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1555</link>
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		<title>Mobile transfers save money and lives in Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sahra Abdi

NAIROBI &#8211; About a year ago, Muqtar Ali&#8217;s brother was shot dead by gunmen in the busy Bakara market of Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu, and his $200 in cash was stolen.
Ali says that if a new mobile money transfer service unveiled by Somalia&#8217;s biggest mobile telecoms firm last month had been in place then, his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1553</link>
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		<title>Vodafone and Afric Xpress to launch mobile payment services in Ghana</title>
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Vodafone,last month signed an agreement with Afric Xpress (AX) to introduce txtnpay services which would allow Vodafone customers to purchase airtime anytime, anywhere via sms message to short code 1075.
The mobile phone-based secured and convenient payment system, created by New York-based Afric Xpress, would also enable registered users to send money to anyone with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1549</link>
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		<title>Visa courts phone firms for slice of mobile banking pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON GIKUNJU

Global payments technology company Visa International is courting mobile phone network operators with a view to tying up partnerships that could give the company a foothold in the emerging mobile phone banking services, the group’s general manager for Sub Saharan Africa has said.
Charles Niehaus says the company, which develops plastic card technology for use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1540</link>
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		<title>Equity to join mobile banking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scola Kamau

Equity Bank has announced its intention to join mobile banking.
This was revealed last week by Equity Bank Uganda’s Executive Director Apollo N. Njoroge during the official opening of the bank’s branch at Oasis Mall in Kampala.
The service, dubbed Eazzy 24/7, targets Equity Bank customers with mobile phones.
“It will enable customers to conduct all transactions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1538</link>
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		<title>Mobile money transfer is now the new ‘bank of the poor’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ MICHAEL OUMA 
Mobile phone-based money transfer and banking solutions have been recognised as the avenue to take banking services to people outside the formal financial industry.
The services have helped reduce the cost of access to financial services for 2.3 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 per day and cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1536</link>
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		<title>iPay becomes second service to offer mobile online shopping in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL OUMA 
The success of mobile phone-based money transfer services in the region is inspiring the development of online payment services by IT companies.
Taking advantage of the proliferation of money transfer services in the Kenya — Safaricom’s M-Pesa, Zain’s Zap and Yu’s yuCash — Intrepid Data Systems has launched a real-time online payment service called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mobilemoneyafrica.com/archives/1534</link>
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