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Report: Blockchain, AI to shape fintech’s future
The report highlights emerging products and services, technology-enabled sub-segments, new business models, and innovations that are set to disrupt the industry.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press release: Accion and MetLife Foundation Announce Expanded Partnership to Advance Financial Inclusion
MetLife Foundation provides $5.4 million to Accion for programs in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia to leverage digital solutions to enhance underserved customers' financial capabilities and engagement
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- Finance
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Report: Africa’s mobile money operators lean towards regional interoperability
Although mobile money interoperability inside most African markets is staggered, mobile money platforms in East, West and Central Africa have opened up cross border mobile money transfers.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Deciphering the Data Deluge: Making Data More Useful for Financial Inclusion
Data can have a transformative impact on financial inclusion efforts. But it will reach its full potential only if industry stakeholders can truly understand and utilize it for the benefit of customers. In this Q&A, Camilla Nestor, CEO of MIX, discusses how MIX's FINClusion Lab is making data available to financial services providers, regulators, policymakers and others in a format they can actually use.
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- Finance, Technology
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Uganda telecoms, government fight over Shs44 trillion mobile money industry
While Uganda has multiple telecom companies, the fight to defend business secrecy appears to have been left to the two telecom giants -- MTN Uganda, which says it controls 55% of the telecom market share or about 11.2 million subscribers, and its main challenger; Airtel Uganda.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya won’t force a spin-off of the world’s leading mobile money service after all
Almost exactly a year ago, a report from an independent consultant to Kenya’s telecoms regulator, sparked uproar and panic. It recommended the government look into breaking up the dominant mobile operator Safaricom by spinning off the even more dominant mobile money service, M-Pesa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India adopting to mobile wallets faster than US, UK; beats China too
Mobile wallets had emerged as an e-commerce payment tool in India but post demonetisation, are being used for day-to-day transactions at supermarkets, grocery stores, street vendors, tea stalls, fuel stations, and even inside taxis and auto-rickshaws.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Press release: DOCOMO Digital Partners with Safaricom to Launch the First App Store Integration with the World’s Most Popular Mobile Money Service
The integration, which is powered by DOCOMO Digital’s mobile commerce enabling platform using Google Play’s payment API, allows M-PESA customers to use the mobile money service to pay for goods and services from the app store.
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- Finance
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- digital payments, fintech