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OPINION: Cryptocurrencies Can Transform Financial Services
Can an open protocol-based network technology transform a cartelized, oligopolistic and highly regulated industry by transferring power from large corporations to individuals?
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Twitter Top Ten for 12-07-14: Our favorited Tweets of the week past
In the raging sea that is Twitter, here are a few Tweets that stuck in our filter this past week.
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How Responsible Is Digital Finance?: 10 insights from CGAP’s Global Pulse Survey
How responsible is digital finance today? Though there’s broad agreement that this question deserves more attention, there are significant gaps in our knowledge of consumer risks with digital financial services globally. In response, CGAP conducted a survey among policy makers, financial service providers, consumer advocates and foundations involved in providing digital financial services. Here are the top ten survey insights.
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The Past and Future of Mobile Finance in Africa: Part two of our Q&A with Henry Maloba at Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator
Henry Maloba leads Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator in Uganda, which aims to bring financial services to rural Ugandans by forging collaboration between telcos and banks. In part two of our Q&A, Maloba discusses the tensions between these sectors and among telcos themselves, and shares his views on the recent past and future of mobile financial services in Africa.
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Timor Leste’s First Mobile Money Pilot Launched to Expand Access to Financial Services
BNU, in partnership with Timor Telecom, and with support from the Inclusive Finance for the Under-Served Economy (INFUSE) Programme and MicroSave, launched Timor-Leste's first mobile wallet product called BNU Mobile.
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Strange Bedfellows: A Grameen Foundation initiative aims to bring telcos and banks together to deliver mobile financial services to rural Uganda
In many countries in the developing world, telcos and banks have clashed as they compete for the growing mobile finance market. But in Uganda, Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator is promoting a different approach, facilitating collaboration between the two sectors in an effort to bring mobile financial services to rural communities. We spoke with Henry Maloba, who leads the initiative, in this two-part Q&A.
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United Bank of Africa, Airtel to Launch Mobile Financial Services Across Africa
United Bank for Africa (UBA) is partnering with telecoms firm, Bharti Airtel to provide mobile-based financial services across Africa through Airtel Money.
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Firms, Aid Groups Help Filipinos Borrow From Banks Instead of Sharks
Housewife Jenny Orquiza, whose home was damaged by super typhoon Haiyan, did not imagine that the Philippines' biggest natural disaster would lead to her getting something she never had - a bank account.
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