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Three Regions, Three Perspectives on Regulating Digital Financial Services: AFI shares regulatory trends from Africa, Latin America and the Pacific islands
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s recent Global Policy Forum and Digital Financial Services Working Group meeting gave policymakers the opportunity to share regulatory trends in digital financial inclusion from several regions around the globe. John Owens focuses on perspectives from Africa, Latin America and the Pacific islands.
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Gates and World Bank Back Tech-Aided Access for the Underbanked
A partnership between the World Bank and the Gates Foundation is encouraging the creation of a digital payment system.
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Econet Wireless partners with Western Union in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE’S largest mobile telecoms company by earnings and subscribers Econet Wireless and Western Union Company, a leader in global payment services, have teamed up to offer consumers fast and reliable international money transfers.
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Can M-Pesa Succeed in India?
This case study looks at how M-Pesa, a service that originated in Kenya, was tweaked for India and whether it can succeed.
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PRESS RELEASE: GSMA Introduces Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers
The GSMA today launched a Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, outlining a series of common business principles to enable the development of safe and responsible digital financial services.
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Safaricom of Kenya Braces for Competition on Key Cash Earner
Safaricom Ltd., East Africa’s biggest cellular-network operator, is bracing for competition in its key mobile-money business that helped boost first-half profit by 30 percent, CEO Bob Collymore said.
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Equity says 200,000 have signed up for its mobile money platform in Kenya
EQUITY Bank yesterday said it has “quietly” registered over 200,000 customers on its mobile money transfer platform, Equitel, in the ongoing rollout.
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Dusty Tanzania Market Shows Next Step in Mobile Banking
Like millions of Africans, Sebastian Adam uses M-Pesa, a service that lets him pay bills with his mobile phone. With his wife pregnant, Adam decided it was time to start saving -- and to earn interest on the money he saves -- so he switched to a newer offering called M-Pawa.
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