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Globacom’s new direction for mobile money development in Nigeria
Globacom is in a renewed push to scale up mobile money services in Nigeria, through the formation of a new partnership ecosystem, comprising of leading financial services companies, and a robust nationwide agent network.
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Financial Capability isn’t Built in a Day: Can a secured credit card help entrepreneurs build credit and positive financial behaviors?
Can a secured credit card help entrepreneurs build credit and positive financial behaviors? FIELD at the Aspen Institute wrestled with this question as part of an 18-month initiative called the Asset Building through Credit pilot, funded by the Citi Foundation. FIELD director Joyce Klein, with Luz Gomez, discuss the research and its implications.
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M-Pesa To Monitise: How Necessity Is Pushing FinTech Innovation From Africa To The UK
Necessity is often said to be the driver of innovation. Nowhere is this clearer than with the mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service, M-Pesa, in Kenya, wherein the need to provide financial services to the under-banked population resulted in a truly transformative fintech solution.
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Kenya’s telecom regulator moves to increase competition in money transfer business
Communications Authority of Kenya ( CAK) has said it will not reverse its decision to allow Equity Bank to introduce mobile money transfer services despite protests from integrated communications service provider, Safaricom.
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Mobile Payments Pioneer: I’m Betting on Bitcoin For Emerging Markets
For mobile payments pioneer and venture capitalist Carol Realini, the financial world is divided into three camps: those who believe in bitcoin, those who don’t understand it and those have yet to consider or study its technology.
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Mexico summit pledges to serve microfinance clients better
The 17th Microcredit Summit held in Merida, Mexico, last week discussed ways to better serve the next generation of clients and promote client-centred microfinance.
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Safaricom and Equity take Row over Thin SIM to Parliament
Kenya’s biggest mobile network operator, Safaricom, and biggest bank in terms of customer base and reach, Equity Bank, appeared before a House committee on their push and pull over Equity’s bid to offer mobile money services.
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Unexpected players entering the telecoms space in Africa
New developments in Africa’s technology industry show how technology is disrupting the way business is being done on the continent.
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