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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Hundreds of Zain Telecommunications and Zenith Bank workers, as well as subscribers and customers, on Saturday 23rd January 2010, held a thrilling float parade along the major streets of Freetown.The march pass commenced from the far east and ended at the west end of the capital city.
The procession held to celebrate the companies’ new ‘Zap’ [...]
Justus Lyatuu
Warid Telecom will this year unveil its mobile phone money transfer service in Uganda.
Mr George Shine, Warid Telecom’s head of marketing, said work on the service is in its final stages.
“We have evaluated this venture [mobile money services] and we are ready to take it on this year. We have set aside the resources [...]
One of the leading and safe money transfer systems in Sierra Leone, Splash Money Transfer, has revealed plans of risking the cash sum of five million Leones to be raffled for by Splash.
Splash Money transfer on Thursday 21st January 2010 unveiled for its customers a new promotion code named “SPLASH FOR CASH”.
Splash for Cash is [...]
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 [...]
Ese Awhotu
A former staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the development and implementation of the Microfinance Certification Program in the country, Peter van Dijk, has revealed that 60 per cent of Nigerians are under banked.
Dijk, who made this disclosure in his paper “Inclusive Finance [...]
Citizens of the world,woke up on the 12th of January to find the country of Haiti under the ruins, due to the effects of devastating earthquake.Thousands of people were reported killed and many still unaccounted for and millions are without food,water,medicines and shelter.
Matching action with words,President Obama made pledges and millions of dollars donations flowed [...]
Kenya Wednesday made a big leap into the world of electronic commerce with the conclusion of a deal for an online payment portal that allows consumers to buy goods from the internet in local currency using credit and debit cards.
I&M Bank unveiled plans to establish the electronic payment platform in partnership with the global financial [...]
XIPWIRE announced today a new feature of its mobile payment platform to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. This features enables individuals to pledge up to $500 by sending a simple text message to 56624. In addition it allows the donor to direct the funds to any of the following charitable [...]
SMS Helps Provide Instant SOS During Times of Crisis – Clickatell and Ushahidi Urge Support to Haiti
SMS Unmatched When Communication is Imperative; Visit http://haiti.ushahidi.com to Donate, Volunteer, Submit a Report, Track Information, Register Missing Persons, and Receive SMS alerts
Clickatell, in partnership with its customer Ushahidi, is expanding the call for assistance for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, emergency services deployed to assist those in crisis, as well as all the [...]
First National Bank (FNB) Cellphone Banking hit record levels during the festive season, with R1 billion worth of banking conducted in 10 million transactions. This exceeded the previous year’s Cellphone Banking use by more than 100%.
“Cellphone Banking has truly come of age in South Africa and is now becoming the preferred choice of banking. [...]
