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Featured Event – SEEP 2014 Conference : Scaling Impact in Inclusive Market Systems
The SEEP Network’s 2014 Annual Conference will serve as a platform to promote learning and exchange around proven and emerging approaches, strategies and models for reaching substantial numbers of poor and vulnerable populations on a sustainable basis. The conference will explore scalable solutions that involve inclusive business models, private sector partnerships, technology applications, and new investment and financing models.
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Xpress Money Joins Hands with Safaricom to Boost Mobile Remittances in Kenya
Xpress Money, the world's most dependable money transfer brand, today announced its tie up with Safaricom to offer money transfer services on the latter's popular M-PESA platform in Kenya.
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How to manage all your financial affairs from a $20 mobile phone
“I feel like a caveman who’s just been handed a Bic lighter,” reported Charles Graeber, a writer for Bloomberg Businessweek who recently went to Nairobi to check out M-Pesa, Kenya’s dominant mobile-money provider.
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Nigeria: Stakeholders Raise Concern Over Slow Adoption of Mobile Money
Stakeholders at the ongoing Card, ATM and Mobile Expo, which opened in Lagos on Tuesday, have raised concern over the slow adoption of the mobile money payment system in the country.
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Something New in BoP Housing: A new OMJ study explores four key business models tailored to low-income consumers
In a study just published by the Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), researcher Christy Stickney highlights several promising approaches to penetrating the BoP housing markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on 11 cases from Colombia, México, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Peru.
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Competition takes toll on mobile money agents’ profits
NAIROBI, KENYA: The huge number of mobile money agents may have played a significant role in growing the mobile money in Kenya but the sheer numbers are also the reason the local agents are making less than their counterparts in the East Africa region.
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BNP Paribas, Orange Partnership Reaffirms Growing Significance Of Mobile Money In Africa
VENTURES AFRICA – UK-based telecom giant, Orange and the French banking group, BNP Paribas have teamed up to roll out mobile money services for Africans, joining the growing pool of mobile money providers and reaffirming the increasing prominence the innovative service is taking in the continent’s financial sector.
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Bank of Ghana backs down on microfinance freeze
The Bank of Ghana says it has abandoned its initial plans to suspend the issuance of new operating licences to microfinance companies.
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