Can mPOS Platforms Succeed In Emerging Markets?

The success of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) offerings in the US and Europe has inspired the emergence of similar
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What Is The Role of Mobile Money In The OTT Debate?

With an influx of OTT providers pinching mobile operators’ revenues, how can telcos leverage mobile money to stay
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Remittance Titans Target The Financially Excluded

While Western Union and other remittance giants have made strides to build allegiance among immigrant populations, a legion
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Mobile Money For America's Unbanked

Underbanked is usually associated with underdeveloped. But limited access to traditional banking services has also proven a challenge
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Mobile Gaming & MFS Providers Join Forces

Though mobile gaming has been around for years, it has recently experienced a spike in popularity with the
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Betting On M-Payments: From Football To The Races

Super Bowl weekend has become a de facto “national holiday” in the United States, celebrated by attending parties,
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MFS: Transforming Healthcare In Emerging Markets

Mobile health (mHealth) deployments have grown dramatically in recent years, particularly in emerging markets, where base-of-the pyramid populations
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Using M-Pesa “Rails” To Enhance Healthcare Access

Of the three billion people who live on less than the equivalent of $2 per day, one billion
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FinTech Start-Ups: Can They Compete?

Maintaining the status quo is no longer enough in the financial services sector. With aging incumbents often failing
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Accelerators: The Key To Start-Up Success

There has never been a better time to be a start-up in the financial services world. While barriers
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Top Five Mobile Payments Trends of 2012

‘Tis the season for top-trends-of-the-year lists, and we are joining in on the action with our very own
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Innovators Leading The Rural Revolution

An array of mobile financial service providers – from start-ups to established financial institutions – have recently focused their attention
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The Year of the Tech Giants

Tech giants Google, Facebook and Apple already control a majority of our digital lives – from curating the content
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Reaching the Bottom 2.5 Billion

The majority of the world’s poor live in remote areas, with rural, bottom-of-the-pyramid populations estimated to total
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Tour De France: NFC Payments Style

It must be very frustrating being a French consumer these days. Every other day, a new supermarket chain
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Has The Time Come for NFC Mobile Payments?

For fast-paced urban dwellers, even shopping for groceries can be burdensome task. Keen to appeal to this demographic,
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Digitizing Democracy: Can Mobile Impact Elections?

A rise in digital donations has far-reaching implications beyond election season – influencing the electoral process and the inner-workings
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And The Winner Is...Mobile Donations

The votes are in and Barack Obama will be the President of the United States for the next
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"M" Is For Micro-Entrepreneurs

As the mobile gender divide gradually closes and women increasingly gain access to mobile phones, mobile money platforms
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MFS For Women: An Untapped Opportunity?

From school fees to groceries, women in emerging markets are often responsible for managing household expenses. However, a
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Facebook Makes M-Commerce Splash

The past month has seen a flurry of m-commerce developments from Facebook, as the social networking trailblazer aims
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The iPhone Effect: From Passbook to M-Payments?

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New Initiative Aims to Dethrone Cash

Cash payments to the poor, while well-intentioned, often prove costly, inconvenient and risky for both senders and recipients
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Harnessing Mobile Data for Financial Access

*As mobile access expands globally, unbanked populations are generating mountains of mobile data. How can industry innovators leverage
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