Kenya’s Equity Bank hopes the launch of its mobile virtual network will remove confusion from the country’s mobile financial services sector, and aims to have all consumers using two SIM cards on their mobile. HumanIPO reported in April the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) issued mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licences to three applicants, including
TSYS has announced that Philip W. Tomlinson has decided to retire as chief executive officer, and that M. Troy Woods has been elected by the TSYS board of directors as president and chief executive officer, effective July 31, 2014. Tomlinson will continue to serve as executive chairman of the board of TSYS until the 2015
The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) and Tremont Capital Group have released the “U.S. ATM Industry Overview”, an updated version of the ATM Deployer white paper first published in 2010. This comprehensive report begins with a review of the ATM industry’s history over nearly five decades. And with the exception of 2006 – 2007, it’s remarkably
‘mPOS attitudes and adoption’, carried out by research firm MobileSquared on behalf of Kalixa Group, reveals that only 2% of micro-businesses in the UK use a Mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) to accept payments. It also identifies the number one barrier to business growth is cash flow. mPOS solutions enable businesses to accept a card payment using
NCR Corporation has announced that it has signed a software professional service agreement with Hua Xia Bank to transform its banking services with NCR’s latest multi-vendor software application, NCR APTRA Activate. The software will run on the bank’s entire fleet of multi-vendor ATMs, self-service kiosks for card issuance and account enquiry kiosks nationwide. NCR will
A year after launching its successful Zimbabwe Money Transfer service, FNB has added an additional affordable cross border service, this time to Mozambique. This service is available to qualifying FNB customers in SA to send money to residents in Mozambique instantly, through its Cellphone and Online Banking channels. “We have seen with the FNB Zimbabwe
Leading Kenyan operator Safaricom is planning to deal with issues surrounding the releasing of the M-Pesa API by relocating the main server back to Kenya. This is according to Safaricom head of innovation Veronica Ogeto, who was speaking at the ongoing PIVOT East event in Nairobi yesterday as part of a fireside chat which saw
Having successfully completed phase 1 and 2 of the cash-less policy in six pilot states and the Federal Capital Territory, the Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that phase 3 of the policy’s implementation will commence as scheduled on July 1 2014, in the remaining 30 states. As was the case in
The 2014 Debit Issuer Study, commissioned by PULSE, found sustained growth in both consumer and business debit in 2013. Financial institutions weathered the Target data breach and are looking for solutions to enhance security, with many issuers now planning to implement EMV debit, the study shows. Debit program performance continues to improve, as active cardholders
A global fraud study of more than 6,100 consumers across 20 countries revealed that one in four consumers is a victim of card fraud in the last five years. The study, conducted by ACI Worldwide and Aite Group, also highlighted that 23 percent of consumers changed financial institutions due to dissatisfaction after experiencing fraud. Card
