Michael Whelan Director at txtNation Mobile Billing and Messaging March 42013 What type of services do txtNation provide in Africa txtNation provide Mobile Billing services via SMS Payments and Short Codes in Nigeria and Ghana These services include SMS Voting for TV Radio and also Mobile App stores What is txtNations presence like in Africa at this time txtNation has direct connectivity serving as a Mobile Aggregator across multiple markets in Africa the biggest being Nigeria and we also have a presence in Ghana and soon to be Cameroon How does operator billing work using txtNation in Africa Clients typically connect ...[...read more]

Derrick Kwaku Dankyi Executive Director of Logiciel Ltd Derrick will be presenting Mobile Banking in Ghana Personal Experience at the MobileMoneyExpo in Lagos on Feb 6th 7th The regulatory environment for micro finance and mobile financial services in Ghana Prior to January 2012 when the Bank of Ghana announced its intention to regulate the operations of microfinance institutions in Ghana MFIrsquos were mainly self regulating themselves via smaller associations like the Ghana Microfinance Network GHAMFIN the Ghana Susu Collectors Association GSCA and the Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies GAMC Obviously membership in ...[...read more]

Francis Salvesen Director Mobile Money Project Finance VeriFone Mobile Money ndash A VeriFone Joint Venture Francis will demo the VeriFone Mobile Money integrated PointofSale POS solutions for mobile financial services at theMobileMoneyExpoin February 2013 at Lagos Orientals Hotel Nigeria How relevant is the ability to integrate POS systems into existing mobile money deployments in Africa Consumer Benefits Having an integrated POS system is key to having a mobile money system that works for the consumer as well as for the entire mobile money ecosystem of partnerships For consumers to accept and frequently use mobile money we hav...[...read more]

Peter Ollikainen SVP MistralMobile Finland Peter will present Efficient mobilization of financial services overcoming challenges in reaching themaximum userbase at the MobileMoneyExpo in Lagos Nigeria on Feb 6th 7th What are the barriers to adoption faced by the consumers in the mobile money space in Africa As wersquore talking about money the biggest barrier is probably the consumer understanding and trust on the services provided Wersquore talking largely about transitioning from cash to an electronic form of money and this sense they need reassurances their money will be safe even they cannot feel and touch it anymore Esta...[...read more]

Emeka Okoye CEO Vikantti Software He will be disussing Technology and Applications during the MobileMoneyExpo 2013 in Lagos Nigeria Assessment of mobile money in Nigeria As a technology innovator I am not too impressed with the Mobile FinancialServices MFS landscape in Nigeria Prior to the announcement of the 16 licenses for the implementation of Mobile Payment service in Nigeria by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN a lot of noise were made on the fact that over 70 of our population do not have any form of access to any kind of financial or banking services and that a Mobile Money Transfer MMT initiative will be needed to bridge ...[...read more]

Simon Aderinlola National Coordinating Consultant WASPANigeria Gte He wil be speaking at the MobileMoneyExpo on Feb 6th 7th at the Lagos Orientals Hotel What is your assessment of the Nigerian and West African mobile payment space Protracted early days Slow growth High churn rate of players justifies CBNrsquos not locking the licensing to just the earlier licensees Mobile Money in Nigeria had much more promise than what we presently see I am not taken in by the of customers or transaction volumes the MMOs bandy around happily At this stage in the evolution of the service it should have seeped deeper into our daily consciousness I d...[...read more]

Eugene Adogla Director of Operations MicroEnsure Ghana He will be presenting on Reflections on Mobile Money Lessons Learned From The MobileBased Microinsurance Trenches at the MobileMoneyExpo 2013 Lagos Nigeria What are your comments on the spread of MicroEnsures mobile insurance offerings in Africa At present MicroEnsure offers mobile insurance products in Ghana Tanzania and Kenya all the countries we have dedicated offices in on the continent With our new strategy of leveraging our experiences to serve wider regions from these established offices the potential to serve more customers in other African markets especial...[...read more]

DAILY NATION January 7 2013 After many years working in the construction industry in Dubai Oscar Ikinu decided to return to Kenya with one goal in mind mdash to start a money transfer and transaction service His idea would give birth to Tangaza Pesa in 2006 ldquoWhat I found out at the time was that the biggest challenge in Kenya for most people and what contributed to poverty was lack of access to financial servicesrdquo Mr Ikinu who is also the chief executive officer of Tangaza Pesa toldMoney Besides addressing financing challenges the 45yearold was also on a mission to create jobs by establishing a firm that now moves an ave...[...read more]