Tigo announced the first of its regular quarterly payments worth 3bn/- (US $ 1.8 million) to Tigo Pesa users. This payment comes three months after the company paid a staggering profit of TZS 14.25 billion (US $ 8.64 million) accumulated in the Tigo Pesa Trust Account to become the first mobile money service in the
Entrust Datacard announced that it has launched the first integrated instant issuance kiosk solution in South Asia with State Bank of India (SBI). State Bank of India opened its first set of seven outlets immersed with digital capabilities in prime business districts and shopping malls in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. The
MasterCard and Zwipe have announced their partnership for the launch of the world’s first contactless payment card featuring an integrated fingerprint sensor. The launch of the card comes after a successful live pilot with Norway’s Sparebanken DIN, aligned to the Eika Group, as an answer to the complex challenge of providing a fast, convenient payment solution
Equity Bank and American Express have announced the launch of the first American Express Cards in Kenya. Equity Bank now offers Kenyan consumers the Equity Bank American Express Green Card and the Equity Bank American Express Gold – both of which carry rich rewards and benefits. The launch builds upon Equity Bank’s reputation for offering
The ATM Industry Association has announced that the first African ATM operator has been internationally certified for the industry’s professional online ATM operational training. Riyaadh Alexander, Contact Centre Team Leader of Spark ATM Systems, based in Cape Town, has been awarded the industry endorsed International Certificate for ATM Operators. Mike Lee, CEO of ATMIA stated, “I
Bank of Khartoum and telecoms company Zain have launched Sudan’s first mobile money service called Hassa. The bank said the service is available to all registered Hassa mobile account customers in Sudan. Customers can carry out several financial transactions on the mobile money service using their mobile phones, Bank of Khartoum’s automated teller machines or
Vend, a cloud-based point of sale and inventory, customer management software company, is officially opening its first office in Toronto. Since its establishment in 2010, the New Zealand-based company has grown, and continues to expand in size with more than 10,000 customers worldwide and offices in Auckland, Melbourne, and San Francisco, CA. Vend will also
Ingenico Group, global leader in seamless payment, has joined with FreedomPay, a state-of-the-art commerce platform and payment processor, and ScanSource, Inc., the leading international value-added distributor of specialty technology products, to release the first Payment Card Industry-certified, fully-functional, point-to-point encryption payment solution in North America. Leveraging secure devices, applications and processes – Ingenico’s On-Guard and
Zain Group, a pioneer of mobile telecommunications in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces that its mobile operation in Sudan has launched the country’s first ever mobile Mobile Financial Service called ‘Hassa’, in partnership with the Bank of Khartoum. The easy, instant and secure service allows all Zain customers in Sudan to
Rakuten Bank Ltd. announced the launch of Japan’s first*1 money transfer service using Facebook, “Transfer by Facebook*2”. With the aim of providing a service enabling customers to transfer money from one bank account to another with ease, Rakuten Bank launched “MailMoney” in November 2002.The service allowed the sender to transfer money without knowing the recipient’s
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