Mobile Money Movers
Kyla Yeoman of Mercy Corps interviews some of the leading thinkers in the digital finance sector, recorded at the 2013 Mobile Money: Technology to Transform Transactions conference.
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Thursday
December 5
2013Mobile Money Movers – Part 1: A conversation with Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Head of Strategy for Financial Services at Safaricom
M-Pesa is the world’s leading mobile money system, and one of the biggest success stories in the history of BoP business. Launched in Kenya by Safaricom in 2007, it’s now used by over two-thirds of Kenya’s adult population - and it is expanding to other countries in Africa and beyond. In Part 1 of our Mobile Money Movers series, Kyla Yeoman interviews Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Head of Strategy for Financial Services at Safaricom.
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Wednesday
December 11
2013‘I had 250 angry police officers banging at my door’: The CEO of Roshan on the promise and perils of providing mobile money in Afghanistan
As the CEO of Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, Karim Khoja has been at the front lines of that country’s struggles to modernize its economy - and his experiences have been both inspiring and nerve-racking. In Part 2 of our Mobile Money Movers series, he talks with Global Envision’s Kyla Yeoman about the lessons he’s learned about mobile money’s potential to transform lives.
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Interviews
Wednesday
January 8
2014The Power of Interoperability: An interview with Zahir Khoja, CEO of MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions
Lack of interoperability is widely seen as a key barrier to mobile money’s global uptake. But MasterCard’s Mobile Payment Solutions thinks it has found an answer. In this interview with Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman (part 3 of our Mobile Money Movers series), CEO Zahir Khoja discusses the challenges of working with telcos, banks and merchants, and the ways that an interoperable payment tool can impact people’s daily lives at the BoP.
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Thursday
January 16
2014Mobile Money Movers – Part 4: An interview with Greg Chen, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP
In Part 4 of our Mobile Money Movers series, Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman and Greg Chen, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP, discuss the benefits of moving toward a cashless society, and the ways that financial service providers are using technology and innovation to onboard (and maintain) new clients and increase uptake among the unbanked.
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Thursday
January 23
2014“It is high time for mobile network operators to transform”: The CEO of Eko, on bridging the bank/telco divide
There is no love lost between banks and telcos in many countries. But Eko has found a way to leverage the strengths of both to bring needed banking services to underserved customers. In Part 5 of our Mobile Money Movers series, Eko CEO Abhishek Sinha discusses his company’s unique branchless banking model, and the need for telcos to evolve - perhaps by emulating Facebook.
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Wednesday
February 19
2014The Other Driver of Financial Exclusion: Poverty alone isn’t keeping people unbanked, says Ignacio Mas
Much of the discussion in financial inclusion revolves around poverty. But in Part 6 of our Mobile Money Movers series, thought leader Ignacio Mas explains why poverty itself isn’t the biggest thing keeping the unbanked out of the formal financial system. Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman interviews Mas in this fascinating and wide-ranging video Q&A.
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Wednesday
March 26
2014The Right Way to Talk About Money: Ignacio Mas discusses the impact words can have on financial behaviors at the BoP
Words can have a major impact on the way people think and feel about their money, says Ignacio Mas. In this Q&A with Mercy Corps’ Kyla Yeoman, he discusses how financial service providers should take customers’ psychological needs into account when designing products - and how the words used to describe these products can affect the way they’re used.
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