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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Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) announced the launch of its globally accepted prepaid cards designed to facilitate global remittance. Prepaid Cards have recently emerged as new opportunity for remittance between the UK and Africa, offering the ability to instantly and conveniently share funds between cards using a registered mobile phone from anywhere in the world.
The MoneyShare [...]
Bankers from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) are converging in Nairobi this month to discuss the mobile banking boom.
Banks are under siege by mobile operators who have ’stolen’ the initiative from them in mobile banking and by micro-finance institutions, who are leading the way.
The first decade of the new millennium has [...]
Umniah – the fastest growing telecom service provider in Jordan – announced preparations to launch its new Mobile Money Transfer Service in the Jordanian market in cooperation with Eskadenia Software and a leading local bank partner.
Through this pioneering and innovative service, Umniah will utilize cutting edge technology to allow all Umniah subscribers to use [...]
In a bid to increase the penetration of banking services in Uganda, United Bank for Africa (UBA) is set to introduce a banking service that can facilitate transactions via mobile phones.
Mr Joseph Arinaitwe, the UBA Uganda head of Electronic Banking, said in an interview, that the bank will introduce a service that will enable [...]
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 [...]
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) announced Friday that it would launch next week a comprehensive study on mobile banking in Africa.
The launch will take place at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa as a side-event to the African Union Summit which is being organized this year under the theme, “Information and Communication [...]
EVELYN NJOROGE
The Heritage Insurance Company has consolidated its move into the retail segment by widening insurance premium pay options for people who are financially excluded to include the popular money transfer services M-Pesa and Zap.
The Insurance Company on Friday announced the new partnership with the two leading mobile network operators Safaricom and Zain that will [...]
Expanding International Airtime Top-up Service Helps Mobile Operators & MVNO’s Target Consumers With
Close Connections Abroad
Leading mobile money provider Mi-Pay is increasing its strategic partnerships with operators and MVNOs in key remittance corridors in order to support an anticipated rise in demand for international airtime top-ups and transfers in 2010. The company sees easy [...]
MTN Rwanda has made a soft launch of the Mobile Money service transfer, being the first operator to introduce the service in the country.
Yvonne Manzi Makolo the company’s Senior Marketing Executive said that clients are already using the service and that the commercial launch is set for next week.
Makolo said that the service is available [...]
Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) have said that agency banking will not cripple their industry but will strengthen it if proper regulations are put in place.
Speaking while receiving Sh9.6 million sponsorship for the Africa-Middle East Micro Finance Summit to be held in April from software company Craft Silicon, Lydia Koros of the Association of Micro Credit [...]
