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ideas42 joining with USAID and CGAP to scale up financial heuristics
Project will scale-up pilots applying behavioral economics to create morecustomer-centric financial services
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Equity Bank Determined to Challenge M-Pesa’s Monopoly in Mobile Banking
Equity Bank is determined to challenge M-Pesa monopoly following an announcement made by Taisys Technologies where Equity Bank will be issuing a ultra-thin mobile banking smart SIM with patented technology from Taisys.
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Operational difficulties complicate India’s ambitious financial inclusion scheme
Banks in a tizzy over shortage of cards, duplication of accounts
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OPINION: Shared mobile money agents: Does this benefit the ecosystem?
It’s been reported that the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has pushed through an order compelling Safaricom, Kenya’s largest mobile operator, to share its mobile money transfer agents with the other mobile networks.
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Table-banking, a booming loan facility among Kenyan women
Initially when she needed a loan, Joan Mwashi would approach a group she belonged to under a microfinance institution.
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NexThought Monday – Borrowing from Yourself: Innovations that help low-income debtors become savers
There should be huge returns to helping more Americans raise the range of their cash positions – their financial zone of operation, writes Timothy Flacke of Doorways to Dreams. In some cases, moving that range even $500 or $1,000 higher might mean less frequent use of costly short-term credit - which could help prevent short-term borrowing from becoming chronic debt, as is so often the case with payday loans. But how?
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OPINION: Is mobile money the key to Africa’s cashless society?
As the story of the mobile phone and its contribution in bridging the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa unfolds, the device’s revolutionary role in facilitating transactions and wealth distribution in the region is shaping up in an unprecedented way.
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Bank of Ghana deadline unsettles microfinance companies
Some microfinance companies are doubtful of meeting the Bank of Ghana’s set deadline of June 2016 to shore-up their paid capital as per the revised regulations.
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