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Ugandan mobile money agents in the spotlight
The Helix Institute of Digital Finance launched its first country report on agent networks in Uganda as part of its Agent Network Accelerator (ANA) research project. According to Helix Institute, “ANA, a collaboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MicroSave, is the largest research project on agent networks in the world, designed to determine what drives their success and scale.”
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The Telecom That Developed M-Pesa Is Boxing Competitors Out Of The Mobile Money Market
Kenyan Telecom rejects push by competitors to use its money transfer agents.
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Mobile: Africa’s debit card
In the countries where mobile money has been particularly successful like Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, the next unfolding wave of growth is payments integration.
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Ugandan startup making it simpler for African migrants to send money home
A Ugandan startup is looking to change the way people transfer money from abroad by enabling remittances directly to mobile phone wallets. Redcore Interactive operates Remit, a platform that enables real-time debit and credit card and mobile money transfers from across the world to registered mobile money users in Uganda.
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Uganda developing law governing mobile money
The government through the Uganda Law Reform Commission (ULRC) is developing a law that will govern how mobile money and internet banking transactions are conducted in the country.
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Are Kenya’s mobile banking services unfair?
Safaricom's latest venture M-Shwari hits a speed bump, threatening Kenya's leadership in the global race for mobile money and banking adoption.
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China Is Developing A Nationwide Mobile Payments Infrastructure
China has a new national mobile payments platform. The system, which the People's Bank of China began testing last year, provides a ubiquitous mobile payments infrastructure for financial institutions and mobile operators.
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Namibia: MTC Partners With Mobipay for MTC Money
The country's largest mobile network operator - MTC, has entered the mobile payment market in partnership with MobiPay in a first step taken by a Namibian mobile network operator.
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