Regions Bank customers can now take advantage of Apple Pay, an innovative, safe and convenient way of making purchases. Regions now offers debit, consumer credit and reloadable prepaid card customers access to Apple Pay. Apple Pay will work with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, in participating stores. When paying for goods and services within
Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, announced that it has enabled the world’s first domestic interoperable mobile financial service between Airtel Money and Tigo Pesa in Tanzania. The service allows customers to send and receive money directly between the mobile money accounts of these two service providers. The new service made the
The latest generation of the Vodacom m-pesa electronic platform provides an ideal mechanism for employers to pay staff salaries and ad-hoc expenses via mobile phone. As more countries develop simple remuneration calculators online the whole system can be managed from a phone. With m-pesa, companies have a low-cost and easy solution for making payments to all staff, even
The GSMA launched a Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, outlining a series of common business principles to enable the development of safe and responsible digital financial services. The first mobile network operators (MNOs) to endorse the Code are Airtel, Avea, Axiata, Etisalat, Millicom, MTN, Ooredoo, Orange, Telenor, Vodafone and Zain. Together, these MNO
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. announced that its Net1 Mobile Solutions (“N1MS”) business unit has launched a mobile-based payment solution, branded Shmart!Pay Mobile Card, in India together with its partner, TranServ Private Limited (“TranServ”). This mobile-based payment solution is the first of its kind in India and intends to address the growing need to pay
MoneyGram, one of the largest money transfer companies in the world, and Safaricom, the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya,announced the launch of a new service that enables consumers in over 90 countries outside Kenya to send money directly to M-PESA, Kenya’s leading mobile money transfer solution. The new offering makes it easier,
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is working to introduce a mobile payment platform to support intra-African trade and payments, Jean-Louis Ekra, President of the Bank, announced in Lusaka. In an address at the opening of Afreximbank’s annual Seminar/Workshop on the Fundamentals of Structured Trade Finance, Mr. Ekra said that the successful introduction of the initiative
WorldRemit announces the global rollout of its new mobile App, enabling customers to send fast, secure and low-cost money transfers from their Android devices. The App makes it possible for people to send money to more than 110 countries across six continents. Transfers can be received as a bank deposit, cash pickup, Mobile Money or
Mobile commerce and marketing services innovator goSwiff launched its new Duo + card reader, which features compatibility across all smartphones and tablets. With the ability to connect seamlessly to any mobile device with both Apple and Android operating systems, the Bluetooth-enabled card reader is set to eliminate one of the most common frustrations for merchants
Established Namibian ICT provider, Paratus Telecom, has diversified its offering by launching a new mobile airtime distribution service called “Katiti”. The service runs on Nomanini’s popular cloud-based mobile point of sale platform and is designed to be used by informal traders and budding entrepreneurs. John D’Alton, Managing Director: Namibia, Paratus Telecom, explains: “We wanted to
