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The 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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- Financial Inclusion
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MasterCard takes controlling stake in mobile remittance service
MasterCard has teamed up with mobile payment solutions provider eServGlobal and Belgacom’s carrier services unit BICS to extend the capabilities of their international mobile remittance platform HomeSend. The three firms have set up a joint venture which uses the HomeSend platform, in which MasterCard will have a controlling share.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Bon Voyage, Bitcoin: Digital Currency Companies Leave the U.S.
After clashing with regulators and being blacklisted by many banks and credit unions, many emerging-payments companies are seeking a warmer welcome outside the U.S.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Mobile money and virtual currencies for cross border remittances: opportunity or risk?
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya making progress in fighting financial crimes
Jackson Kitili, interim director of Kenya’s Financial Reporting Centre, a specialised government agency set up in October 2012 to deal with money laundering and other financial crimes, talks about progress in fighting financial crimes.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin American Nations Increase Usage of Bank Card and Mobile Payment in Online Commerce
Research and Markets' new Latin America Online Payment Methods 2013 - Second Half 2013 report indicates that online payment continues its growth in the emerging markets of this dynamic region.
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- Education, Financial Inclusion
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- Latin America
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‘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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- Financial Inclusion, Technology
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Research and Markets: Global Mobile Payment Methods 2013 Research Report
Mobile payment for goods and services continues global growth.
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- Education, Financial Inclusion
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