Friday, March 12, 2010

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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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Vodacom has launched a new service, where its clients will be able to buy electricity that trades as Luku through its electronic cash service known as Vodafone M-PESA.
The mobile phone service firm said yesterday in a statement that the project was a joint venture with Tanesco, the national power utility company.
“Vodafone M-PESA is an electronic [...]

International mobile money services provider, Mi-Pay, and Small World Financial Services, European global money transfer business, have partnered to provide operators with a fast track solution for immediate global mobile money transfer and international prepay phone top up to over 30 strategic country corridors.
Mobile operators can meet growing customer demands for accessible financial services using [...]

Interview with JOHN V. OWENS ,Chief of Party
Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
Intramuros, Manila, Philippines

MMA:Please share with Africans your experiences in the Philippines Micro Finance sector?

I have been working in the microfinance sector in the Philippines for the past ten years, before that I spent two years in Bolivia and also worked for nine years [...]

Shaun Campbell | Business Development Director, sub-Saharan Africa | Sybase 365
Share with Africans, your experiences so far in the African Market?

The African market is leading the world in mobile commerce solutions for the unbanked, semi-banked, rural and low income groups. The rural and low income groups are specifically the people that benefit most as such [...]

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Aleeda Fazal is a pioneer and highly regarded expert in mobile financial services with implementation experience in over 10 countries across Africa & the Middle East. As Product Manager for M-PESA in Kenya and as Head of M-Paisa in Afghanistan, she was instrumental in the development of the technology and gained valuable practical experience in [...]

Macalla has extensive footprints across the world. What are your experiences in Africa compared to other continents?

Informa states that ‘Unbanked’ consumers in developing markets will help grow figures of mobile banking services worldwide to 977 million users by 2013. This is a dramatic increase from approximately 67 million at the end of 2008. [...]

New Developments Set To Establish Mi-Pay’s Mobile Money Services In North, East and West Africa

Mi-Pay, the global mobile money company, is building on its African achievements by confirming three new contract successes, which it expects to announce in detail over the next few months.
With its international and domestic remittance services going live in North and [...]

Simon Cavill – Director – Strategy
www.Mi-Pay.com
Mi-Pay is a leading Mobile money Remittance and Global Top provider in Africa with footprints across West Africa and Central Africa.Simon Cavill of Mi-pay shares His insights of the African Market and opportunities with MobileMoneyAfrica

MMA :Is Africa ready for mass migration from cash based economy to mobiles, judging from [...]

Africa, The Indian Ocean Region and the Network Enterprise.
The Road Ahead for Mobile Commerce.
Kaustuv Ghosh
Mobile Commerce Executive, Singapore
Advisory Board Member,Mobilemoney Africa.

There is considerable excitement in the telecommunications and investment communities regarding Africa today, the kind reserved only for the Silicon Valley not very long ago. The success of mobile banking [...]

ROLLCOMM is a company founded in December 2006, based in Hungary, Budapest, and
offers global Bluetooth mobile device-based solutions in two core areas:
communication and payment.
The mobile payment solution, the ROLLPAY is an end-to-end Bluetooth mobile payment solution, that includes an authorization host, and can be used in all payment situations (point of sale, vending machines, internet, [...]