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Bharti Airtel Starts First Cross-Border Mobile Money Transfer in Niger
Telecom giant Bharti Airtel today launched a cross-border money transfer service for its mobile wallet customers in Niger -- a first in the country by a telecom company.
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Why a Common Platform is Within Reach: Mobile finance and the emergence of a comprehensive ICT4D mHub platform?
Currently there are numerous applications but they are not synced with each other. What is truly needed (and possible) is a comprehensive mHub type of platform that is multi-sectoral (e.g. agriculture, health, education, etc.) and multi-functional.
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An Essential for Essential Surgery: Low-resource optimized anesthesia machines needed to help fill global need
The majority of health care facilities in sub-Saharan Africa do not have reliable access to electricity. If they have access at all, these facilities face weekly or even daily outages that make putting a patient’s consciousness during surgery in the hands of an electricity-dependent anesthesia machine a dangerous proposition.
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Kenya’s Safaricom Might Have to Spin Off M-Pesa, the World’s Largest Mobile Money Business
The Kenyan government is introducing new regulations this week in parliament that could lead to the break-up of Safaricom, the country’s leading telecom company.
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Central Bankers Shouldn’t Fret Over Mobile Money: Research says it doesn’t cause inflation, and could be beneficial in monetary policy
Research conducted by the University of Oxford for the Gates Foundation shows that the growth of mobile money will be neutral or (if anything) beneficial to the conduct of well-designed monetary policy. The authors believe this will be "a solid new brick in our fact base around digital financial services."
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NexThought Monday – Three Winning Conditions to Enable Mobile Money Interoperability
Interest is growing in the topic of “interoperability” in mobile money and its potential impact for the nascent sector. A handful of deployments, such as in Indonesia and more recently in Tanzania, have garnered attention. Amitabh Saxena, who led mobile money at MasterCard in Latin America, and Selma Ribica, who leads interoperability strategy at Vodafone’s global M-Pesa team, provide nuance on some of the industry perspectives currently being advocated.
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Illicit Financial Flows: Digital Pirates Costing Africa Big Bucks, but Mobile Banking Could Surprisingly Save the Day
Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) are moving to the forefront of the international agenda, as governments worldwide join forces to combat money laundering, tax evasion, and international bribery, which make up the bulk of such flows.
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Africa Leads Mobile Money Boom
New data from Juniper Research has revealed how Service Providers are benefiting from the boom in mobile money transfer services - with $2bn in revenues forecast for this year and $4bn annually 2018...
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