It is 11 years since the first mobile payment service was launched in Africa, and it is now transforming economies across the continent. However, in the first five years or so, it was a solution in search of problems, with a scattering of case studies showing how it could make a difference. Most people associate
With the launch of the Pick n Pay smart shopper mobile app, customers can now access all the benefits of South Africa’s favourite rewards programme anytime. With about 12 million smart phones in circulation in the country, they¹re the one thing that many South Africans just can’t do without. With this in mind, Pick n
VeriFone Systems, Inc., and National Payment Card Association (NPCA) debuted a mobile payment and rewards solution that enables convenience store and petroleum retailers to provide customers with smartphone-based payment options at the pump. Utilizing VeriFone’s Smart Fuel Controller and NPCA’s mobile payment solution, c-store and gas station operators with VeriFone payment acceptance systems can quickly
The mobile payments company Fortumo is announcing partnership with Kyivstar, the second largest mobile operator in Central and Eastern Europe and one of the innovation leaders in the region. This partnership allows 25 million Kyivstar customers to make payments in games and applications in Kyivstar’s App Club app store without using a credit card. The
Ingenico a provider of payment solutions, announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Ingogo, the innovative Australian taxi services platform, to provide taxi drivers with a fully integrated and secure mobility payment solution. The wireless Ingenico device will allow taxi drivers in Australia using Ingogo App to turn their Android smartphones into a PIN@POS
Bango and MMIT have released M-Iflọ, a payment solution that enables online transactions for digital content. M-Iflọ navigates the mobile payment environment in Sub-Saharan Africa and is tailored to the needs of the industry leaders in mobile content. Africa’s growing population of smartphone users are young, tech savvy and early adopters by instinct. But when
Three million Zimbabweans who use the EcoCash Wallet can now also operate a savings account. Econet Wireless has launched a new service called EcoCashSave, which allows an EcoCash customer to move money from their eWallet to an interest bearing account in a matter of seconds. Whilst banks generally do not give interest on deposits of
App-based digital wallets have thus far met with limited consumer adoption due to several issues: consumers must typically download a dedicated app (often times an app for each merchant), how and where to use the wallet is complex and confusing, the functionality offered – payments only – is not broad enough for what consumers really need in a wallet.
Against a backdrop of recent developments in the mobile wallet and mobile payment device technology sectors, risk and fraud prevention specialist UKFraud has launched a new mobile wallet consultancy practice. The move reflects recent positive and influential developments from Google with their Wallet and more recently from Apple with the launch of its latest iPhone
Zapper.com’s new Scan-to-Pay app uses the camera on your smartphone to make paying your bills as quick and easy as taking a photograph. Zapper.com allows businesses to generate unique QR Codes for bills. When you receive a bill with a Zapper QR Code on, you just open the app, scan the QR Code and confirm the amount
