PayGo solar expert Azuri Technologies, leading mobile network operator Tigo and principal cellular retail operator Lotus Africa announce at Mobile World Congress their strategic partnership to bring integrated pay-as-you-go energy and mobile payment services to rural households in Tanzania. The partnership aims to bring solar power, mobile phone charging and mobile money services to over
Despite a fair number of attempts at elaborately fleshing out Mpesa for readers, in this article I outline 5 more things left out by: Claudia McKay & Rafe Mazer did an article for the CGAP titles “10 Myths About Mpesa: 2014 Update” – a follow up to a previous article by Claire Alexandre “10 things
Visa Inc. and Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, announced a partnership to bring innovative mobile payment services to seven markets in Africa including Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tanzania. Visa and Airtel will build on the existing capabilities of Airtel’s Mobile Money
Fujitsu delivers on its new Connected Retail strategy in enabling major international retailers and their customers to go mobile with a range of omni-channel services for the modern retail environment. By extending its revolutionary FUJITSU Market Place omni-channel Point of Service (PoS) application to mobile, Fujitsu offers PoS and clienteling solutions to measure customer engagement
The mobile payments company Fortumo is revealing its Emerging Markets Payment Index. Fortumo’s Index is intended to be used by web, game and app developers for benchmarking their revenue in markets with high smartphone growth and low credit card penetration. The Emerging Markets Payment Index focuses on markets highlighted by GfK in its global forecast
Visa Inc.announced that it has partnered with several leading financial institutions around the world to offer new mobile payment services. BBVA and Cuscal launched new issuer-branded mobile payment applications for mobile devices running on the Android operating system. Additionally Banco do Brazil, PNC Bank, N.A., and U.S. Bank intend to launch similar capabilities in the
Boku, the global leader in carrier billing-based mobile payments, has released Phone-on-File, a new cross-platform solution that allows a consumer to store their mobile phone number as their preferred payment method to enable a streamlined checkout experience for one-time and subscription purchases. While one tap purchases using carrier billing have existed exclusively on mobile for
Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that Bank of the West, a $71.7 billion asset bank with locations in 22 states, has added the Snap-to-Pay capability to its mobile banking app. Snap-to-Pay enables customers to pay bills with a snap of their smartphone cameras and is currently offered through
Millions of M-Pesa and Tigo Pesa customers in Tanzania will soon be able to send and receive money directly into each other’s wallets. This follows the recent signing of a mobile money interoperability agreement between Tigo and Vodacom. The agreement announced, will for the first time see four million Tigo Pesa users exchanging money directly
Parche, a Chicago-based startup that provides a cashless, on-demand valet parking experience on mobile devices,officially launched – ending the days of waiting in valet lines in the freezing Chicago winter and dashing to the ATM for cash to pay attendants. Parche’s free mobile app allows consumers to seamlessly pay and tip for valet parking, and
