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Philippines’ Quezon City and USAID Launch Mobile Money System
The Local Government of Quezon City, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy Manila’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has launched an innovative mobile money system.
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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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Bank of Mexico opens the way for money transfers via mobile devices
The goal is to give bank customers the ability to move funds "with greater ease and safety via cellular phones or other devices that have a linked mobile telephone line," the central bank said in a statement.
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Big banks see rich opportunities in world’s poorest
When the Afghan government used mobile phones instead of cash to pay some of its policemen, the officers thought they'd just had a 30 percent pay rise. In truth, they had just been paid the full amount, with nothing skimmed off by middlemen, for the first time.
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Mobile banking: will Kenya export its revolution to India?
The rise of a new generation of technologies performing many financial transactions from mobile phones is a game-changer, opening a new avenue for development. Kenya is probably the best model on the continent. But only specific conditions made it possible. Can this model be exported?
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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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bKash looks to dethrone M-PESA as the world’s top mobile finance provider
bKash Limited is looking to become the largest mobile banking service provider company in the world within the next few years, chief of the company said.
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Mobile Payments Gain Traction Among India’s Poor
South Asia is a fertile market for the concept. The region consisting primarily of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan accounts for the largest number of offices actively providing mobile money services, 3.8 million compared with 805,000 in all of Africa and 1.8 million in East Asia and the Pacific.
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