Mobile Money: Margin or Scale
Last week I was in India discussing the future of mobile money with experts from around the industry. It’s an interesting time in India right now. The introduction of the national mobile payment...
View ArticleAddressing interoperability: Mobile money in Ghana
CGAP recently posted an article about how interoperability is being tackled in Ghana. With 6 live branchless banking deployments, the regulators (namely the Bank of Ghana) are actively trying to ensure...
View ArticleFree webinar: The path ahead for mobile money and mobile financial services
Next week we are excited to be working with the team at Telecoms.com to bring you a free webinar on mobile money and mobile financial services. Date: Thursday 10 May 2012 We will take a look at the...
View ArticleLooking to the future
It was great to hear Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone, talking about where he sees the mobile industry going. Vodafone has distributed 100K smart passes in Italy and is planning to roll out NFC in five...
View ArticleA Crossroad for the Mobile Payment Market in Latin America
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, characterized by heterogeneous financial services, is in a strategic crossroad in terms of the payment business. With a high growth population ready to...
View ArticleMoving towards interoperability
This is the second in our series of articles on the topics covered at the Mobile Money and Digital Payments Africa event that was held in Johannesburg at the end of last month. During the two-day...
View ArticleGSMA launch State of the Industry Report 2015
The GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked Working Group released their annual State of the Industry Report during Mobile World Congress 2016. Key findings: There are now over 411M registered mobile money...
View ArticleInternational Remittances via Mobile Money
The GSMA recently released an infographic showing the importance of international remittance and the potential of mobile money for these transactions. “International Remittances: The fastest growing...
View ArticleShowcasing Big Data at Mobile World Congress 2017
The GSMA recently launched a first of its kind IoT Big Data directory for developers and third parties worldwide. The directory makes multiple data sources available to the IoT community to encourage...
View ArticleDefragmenting mobile money ecosystems
Can mobile financial services make money? With 113 live deployments and 88 planned deployments across the globe, the momentum currently propelling mobile financial services is proof that mobile money...
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