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Vodacom has big M-Pesa plans in South Africa
Vodacom aims to push the envelope with its revamped M-Pesa in 2015, a year in which it hopes it will emerge as the most disruptive player in the local mobile money space.
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NexThought Monday – 12/8/14: Safaricom, share your M-PESA data!: Why we need data philanthropy in Kenya
With 15 million users and 2 million transaction per day, Safaricom has achieved historic success with its M-PESA mobile money product in Kenya. It has also compiled a historic amount of data, and the granularity is electrifying. This data would be a treasure trove to financial inclusion actors, says James Schintz of MIX, in an impassioned plea for Safaricom to engage in "data philanthropy."
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How Responsible Is Digital Finance?: 10 insights from CGAP’s Global Pulse Survey
How responsible is digital finance today? Though there’s broad agreement that this question deserves more attention, there are significant gaps in our knowledge of consumer risks with digital financial services globally. In response, CGAP conducted a survey among policy makers, financial service providers, consumer advocates and foundations involved in providing digital financial services. Here are the top ten survey insights.
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The Past and Future of Mobile Finance in Africa: Part two of our Q&A with Henry Maloba at Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator
Henry Maloba leads Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator in Uganda, which aims to bring financial services to rural Ugandans by forging collaboration between telcos and banks. In part two of our Q&A, Maloba discusses the tensions between these sectors and among telcos themselves, and shares his views on the recent past and future of mobile financial services in Africa.
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Strange Bedfellows: A Grameen Foundation initiative aims to bring telcos and banks together to deliver mobile financial services to rural Uganda
In many countries in the developing world, telcos and banks have clashed as they compete for the growing mobile finance market. But in Uganda, Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator is promoting a different approach, facilitating collaboration between the two sectors in an effort to bring mobile financial services to rural communities. We spoke with Henry Maloba, who leads the initiative, in this two-part Q&A.
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Ghana Teams Up With Better Than Cash Alliance In Move Towards Cashless Economy
The Government of Ghana today took steps towards enhancing fiscal transparency and promoting the financial inclusion of its citizens by committing to a United Nations-backed initiative that supports countries’ transitions to electronic payments.
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Five Digital Payment Innovations with the Potential to Transform Development: Visa and NetHope grant recipients illustrate the power of digital payments
Development organizations have begun to embrace digital payments in areas that range from health and education, to food security and poverty alleviation. Visa is working with NetHope to help expand the impact of organizations working in these areas, by supporting programs that utilize electronic transfers and/or payments. These five grant recipients show how digital payments can enhance development and relief efforts.
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It’s About Launching Ecosystems, Not Just Products: Insights on the next generation of mobile financial services from the Mondato Summit Asia
As the explosive growth of mobile financial services (MFS) reshapes economies around the world, the Mondato Summit Asia brought an impressive line-up of speakers and panelists from all parts of the ecosystem to explore the next generation of MFS in Southeast Asia. Chris Connolly delivers some highlights - and tweets - from the recent conference.
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