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Why different parts of Africa have widely different levels of success with mobile banking
Why are different parts of Africa experiencing widely different levels of success with mobile banking, despite years of experience in Kenya? Panellists at the IPS conference in London offered a range of explanations
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Kenya: Regulator sets tough conditions for mobile firms
Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore is facing hard options, following last Friday’s approval of his company’s quest to acquire rival yuMobile’s assets under tough conditions.
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Where is Bitcoin legal?
In most countries around the world, Bitcoin is neither illegal nor totally unregulated. It's somewhere in between. Bitcoin and similar virtual currencies are computerized money not backed by any official authority. Governments haven't given it their blessing, and they're trying to figure out how to deal with it.
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Zimbabwe: Econet, mobile money agent association head for clash
The Mobile Money Transfer Agents Association of Zimbabwe and Econet are heading for a possible clash over the latter's recent directive that each of its agent should register at least five new customers per day as per their contract.
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Firms form new units to tap into mobile payment business in Indonesia
A number of businesses have set up new units to provide mobile payment solutions to an expanding list of financial service institutions and telecommunications operators in Indonesia amid the projected sharp increase in mobile payments.
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Mobikwik Eyes Big Chunk Of India’s Mobile Wallet Market
Smartphone growth has led to the growth of many companies and MobiKwik is one of them. Started in 2009, MobiKwik is a closed wallet company which records around 100,000 transactions every day.
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PRESS RELEASE : BRAC Launches Innovation Fund to Make Mobile Money Work for the Poor
On March 30, 2014 BRAC officially launched the BRAC innovation fund for mobile money at the Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Digitally in Savar, Bangladesh. BRAC is experimenting with transitioning from cash and exploring new development strategies enabled by mobile money with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Vodafone Brings Africa’s M-Pesa Mobile Money to Europe
The launch targets 7 M in Romania who mainly use cash and M-Pesa has 16.8 M active customers in emerging markets.
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