Calpian, Inc. announced that for the month ending October 31, 2014, its Mumbai-based subsidiary Money-On-Mobile has been accessed by more than 112 million cumulative unique users since its inception with a total of 8.4 million unique users accessing the service in October. Money-On-Mobile is a mobile payments service provider that allows Indian consumers to use
Since the launch of Apple Pay, Apple’s new mobile payments offering, other mobile payment solutions in the US, like Google Wallet and Softcard, have noted that Apple has helped create general awareness of mobile payments, including for their services. Apple only released its mobile payment system in October, but the feature is already gaining traction
Ericsson announced that MTN Uganda has deployed the Ericsson Converged Wallet platform, enabling the operator to quickly introduce relevant, new and differentiated mobile financial services offerings for seven million MTN Uganda mobile wallet users and 50,000 agents. MTN Uganda is part of MTN Group, a multinational telecommunications group, connecting approximately 219 million people in 22
Safaricom has announced the launch of M-Ledger, an Android based application that provides subscribers on the company’s network with a simple and easy to use financial journal to track and monitor their M-PESA transactions. Developed in partnership with a local start-up Dynamic Data Systems, the partnership is the first in an anticipated series of partnerships
Popular social app, Snapchat has announced that it will be partnering with mobile payments start-up Square to launch ‘Snapcash’, a service that allows people to send money to their friends via their phone. The service is currently available to Snapchat users in the US, over the age of 18, with an expectation that it will
ImageWare Systems, Inc., a leader in mobile and cloud-based, multi-modal biometric identity management solutions, announced that their GoVerifyID software application will be demonstrated within an omni-channel workflow transacting with the FUJITSU Retail Solution Market Place. The demo, with GoVerifyID identity authentication running on the FUJITSU Cloud IaaS Trusted Public S5, will be shown at next
Ericsson announced that Tigo Senegal has launched Tigo Cash service based on the Ericsson Wallet Platform Solution. The rollout brings simple, mobile financial services to Tigo Senegal’s subscribers throughout West Africa, including those who do not have access to traditional banking services. Ericsson Wallet Platform supports the launch of services that makes sending money as
Recently I’ve seen a number of articles saying the same thing we’ve been experiencing at Kopo Kopo in the past couple of years. Mobile payment acceptance alone is not enough. By that, I mean that most merchants that we work with in East Africa have adopted digitized payments somewhat reluctantly, and only when they saw
SimplePay has announced it is offering new UBER Lagos users two free rides. To get the free rides, SimplePay enjoins new users to click the “Get Uber” button in the latest version of the SimplePay web and mobile apps. SimplePay in a statement said its new users could also get the free rides when they
The Merchants Payments Coalition will host a briefing for members of Congress, their staffs and the press from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17 in room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. A panel of experts moderated by Steptoe & Johnson Partner Douglas Kantor will help attendees understand the past and prepare for
