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New Bank of Ghana rules excite mobile money vendors
Companies in the mobile money business are in an anticipatory mood for the implementation of a new Bank of Ghana regulation on mobile payment systems, which they contend will help to boost payment transactions using the mobile phone.
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Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless and the making of Africa’s first cashless society
Will Zimbabwe be Africa’s first cashless society?Strive Masiyiwa, founder of the pan-African telecommunications company, talks about extending finance to the unbanked.
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Using mobile money to increase financial inclusion in Indonesia
With the rapid growth of the middle-income population and a better-educated demographic bonus, Indonesia is expected to experience a more sustainable economic growth. One of the ways to achieve this is by increasing people’s involvement in the financial sector, otherwise known as financial inclusion.
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Ericsson to power Mobile Money project for ASBANC in Peru
Telecom equipment vendor Ericsson will design and implement the mobile money project, Peru’s largest private initiative for financial inclusion for the National Bank Association in Peru.
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Ending M-Pesa’s solo story
M-Pesa lacks interoperability with any of the rival services run by the country’s three other operators: Airtel, Orange and yuMobile. But Safaricom is now under pressure to change its ways.
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Beyond microcredit in Nepal
For Nepal's microfinance sector, the time has come to look beyond microcredit and find ways and means to turn individual entrepreneurs into small, medium and maybe big entrepreneurs over time.
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Saving for Change: Why is it so difficult for people of all income levels to save money – and how can financial institutions help?
Saving money is hard - particularly for the poor. And with a lack of formal savings options, many poor people end up hiding cash, investing in assets such as livestock or land, or engaging in informal savings arrangements. Yet for those who can stow away even a little money, the benefits can be enormous. Roxanne Bauer explores why saving is so difficult, and what financial institutions can do about it.
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OPINION: By making ATM transactions expensive, the Reserve Bank of India is contradicting its own stance
On Thursday, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) permitted banks to charge customers for using other bank ATMs more than thrice a month and that of own-banks more than five times, the apex bank was contradicting its own stated policy stance of encouraging public to alternative banking channels and, then gradually, to paperless banking.
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