Eartholeum will chart Nigeria’s Mobile Financial Landscape – Interview with Management
Bola Adeyinka
Chief Executive Officer.
Peter Afam Emeleogu
Chief Visionary Officer
MMA: Share with Africans the strong compelling reason for eartholeum’s foray into technology and mobile payment systems?
The banking infrastructure in Africa is low compared to the developed countries of the world, in terms of bank branches, point of sales terminals and ATM points. However, there is a high [...]
MobileMoney: Shape of things to come in Nigeria
Emmanuel Okoegwale
The Nigerian Financial Regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria had since last year released the regulatory framework to guide the operations of potential mobile money operators in Nigeria. The policy guidelines though with some flaws but like all regulatory positions, prevailing situations always shape and influence review on a consistent Basis or on a need [...]
BSP Media will stimulate Mobile Commerce in West Africa – Benjamin Pius
Benjamin Pius
Share with Africans the vision of BSPMEDIA?
Our vision is to provide unparalleled access to critical business information that business executives across Africa need to achieve competitive advantage in their business.
How are your events impacting on the sector in Africa?
We believe that we are in the business of helping business and organisation grow in [...]
Mobile Money Fundamentals Training – Nigeria
Mobile Money Fundamentals – MMF 101
Venue: Victoria Crown Plaza Hotel,Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island. – www.vcp-hotel.com
Date: March 10th, 2010
Nigeria,in coming months will join the likes of Kenya where Mobile Money is changing the way people access financial services.More than 8Million people are actively served by the MPESA MMT System in Kenya alone and 15 percent [...]
XIPWIRE,will keep money where it belongs – Sibyl Lindsay
Interview with Sibyl Lindsay
XIPWIRE
VP of Sales and Marketing
www.xipwire.com
MMA: Share XIPWIRE’s background?
XIPWIRE was founded by Sharif Alexandre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sharif has been in the IT world for 15 years working for companies such as MTV, Sprint and Lockheed Martin. Watching the rest of the world embrace mobile payments Sharif decided that he wanted [...]
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YellowPepper, a provider of mobile financial services in Latin America, has launched YellowPepper Mony, a mobile financial product for the unbanked, as part of a strategic alliance with Fundamo.
YellowPepper said that the new YellowPepper Mony enables financial institutions and corporate clients to deliver secure accessible financial services to consumers, such as mobile money transfers, international [...]
M-PESA, which broke new ground when it was launched in Kenya by Safaricom in partnership with Vodafone in March 2007, was feted at the ongoing GSM Association’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain where it was named Best Mobile Money Service.
M-PESA won in a tight field of 105 nominees at the 15th Global Mobile Awards [...]
Splash Mobile Money Limited (“Splash”), a leading mobile payment system provider, and MoreMagic Solutions, a leading mobile payments platform provider, announced today the expansion of Sierra Leone’s first mobile money transfer system, enabled by MoreMagic Solutions industry-leading MWallet platform. Splash is now available from all network operators in Sierra Leone, including Africell, Comium, and Zain, [...]
Three of Kenya’s rapidly growing network of young ICT innovators and entrepreneurs have been selected to make showcase presentations on their products at AITEC’s forthcoming Banking and Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. They are Agosta Liko, Founder of PesaPal, Danson Muchemi, CEO of Web Tribe and Philip Nyamwaya, Head of Business Development – [...]
Oberthur Technologies, the world’s second largest provider of smart cards solutions announced today a partnership with Utiba, a leading supplier of mobile commerce platforms to create a complementary suite of secured Mobile Money Services and Money Transfer Solutions to mobile operators and financial institutions.
This offer combines Oberthur Technologies’ SIM OTA server, SIM browsing gateway and [...]
CellTrust Corporation, a provider of secure mobile messaging and applications, has introduced its SecureSMS Mobile Banking and Payment Pilot for the African region. Sometime back, the company had entered a partnership with a Nigerian company named Maxim-Pro Ltd. Under this partnership, CellTrust was to secure and mobile-enable Maxim-Pro’s banking platform so that the secure [...]
Emmanuel Okoegwale
The Nigerian Financial Regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria had since last year released the regulatory framework to guide the operations of potential mobile money operators in Nigeria. The policy guidelines though with some flaws but like all regulatory positions, prevailing situations always shape and influence review on a consistent Basis or on a need [...]
Benjamin Pius
Share with Africans the vision of BSPMEDIA?
Our vision is to provide unparalleled access to critical business information that business executives across Africa need to achieve competitive advantage in their business.
How are your events impacting on the sector in Africa?
We believe that we are in the business of helping business and organisation grow in [...]
MOSES KEMIBARO
I have worked as an Internet service provider for over a decade, yet this is the time Kenya is finally getting onto the e-commerce bandwagon.
There have been many obstacles to making e-commerce a reality in the country, including a lack of legislation, adequate Internet infrastructure and innovation.
But it appears 2010 will be the [...]
KUI KINYANJUI
The East African mobile phone market is set for a period of growth as operators tap into the largely unexploited masses.
Experts estimate that out of the total population of 121.9 million only 37.6 million or 30.8 per cent are active subscribers.
However, as operators widen the net to capture the mass market, the average [...]
