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Eight Tech and Policy Trends That Will Impact Financial Inclusion This Year
The use of digital financial services will continue to be one of the main drivers for financial inclusion in 2015, says John Owens of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). He discusses eight interesting trends AFI has noted - both on the technology and policy sides - that should have a direct impact on advancing financial inclusion through digital means this year.
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In Zimbabwe, All Bets Are On Mobile Money & Data As SMS Declines and Telecoms Shifts
Numbers don’t lie, especially in business, and when the right sort of numbers are going up it becomes a celebrated truth.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodacom Adds EMV Banking Card to Complement M-Pesa Mobile Money Service in South Africa
Leading digital security company, Gemalto has announced the deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Twitter Confirms Acquisition of India’s Missed Call Marketing Platform ZipDial
Last week TechCrunch reported Twitter was in final talks to acquire ZipDial for between $30 million and $40 million, and today the company announced the deal has closed. ZipDial allows people to call a special phone number for a business, hang up before they incur a charge, and then receive a phone call or SMS with information about the business. This “missed call” marketing platform allows people to access content for free, which is especially useful in the developing world where many can’t afford data plans.
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Press Release: WorldRemit and MTN Agree to Major Mobile Money Partnership
Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have signed a global partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s Mobile Money customers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MasterCard and Movistar Launch Peru’s First Mobile Money Service
With the goal of promoting financial and social inclusion in Peru, Movistar, in alliance with MasterCard, has announced the launch of “Your Mobile Money” (Tu Dinero Movil), the first electronic money service in Peru, which will offer users significant savings in their money transfers.
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- Latin America
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PRESS RELEASE: Unified Signal, Inc’s Mobile Wallet Software Solution Chosen to Launch Mobile Payments in Serbia
Unified Signal, Inc. (OTCQB: UNSI), a leading software system in the telecommunications and mobile payments industry, today announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Serbia to enable the country of Serbia with its 7+ million population with the company's innovative and secure mobile wallet technology. Once deployed, the technology will allow Serbian expats in the US to move money to people living in Serbia and vice versa. Money will be transferred in real time to the recipient and for a fraction of the cost of industry competitors. The system will also allow for all people living in Serbia to freely pay for goods and services using their mobile phone.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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What’s So Different About China’s Mobile Payments’ Ecosystem
There’s plenty of differences between the mobile commerce market in the U.S. and the mobile ecosystem seen in China.
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- South Asia