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Think M-PESA Blog: How M-Shwari determines your credit score

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Dec 1, 2012. How M-Shwari determines your credit score. M-PESA users can sign up to the M-Shwari interest bearing savings account or apply for micro loans, provided by CBA, directly through the M-Pesa menu on their phone. If successful, the loan money is sent by CBA to your M-Pesa account immediately. So how does CBA know how much loan to give you? Posted by Peter Gakure-Mwangi. Peter Gakure Mwangi, publisher. Paddy Micro-Investments launches Mobile Money loan service: Mobikopa. Mastercard Mobile Payment...

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Think M-PESA Blog: How Kopo Kopo is Driving Mobile Payments Acceptance in Small Businesses

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Apr 8, 2014. How Kopo Kopo is Driving Mobile Payments Acceptance in Small Businesses. Kopo Kopo provides tools to facilitate mobile payments through existing platforms, focusing on merchant payments that enable small and medium businesses to accept mobile money payments from their customers. Having now reached over 12,500 merchants in East Africa, the team aims to expand to new markets, working with mobile money providers interested in rolling out merchant payments. Posted by Peter Gakure-Mwangi. Thought...

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Think M-PESA Blog: The Helix Institute of Digital Finance to Present Cutting-Edge Data on Mobile Money Agents in Uganda

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Jan 15, 2014. The Helix Institute of Digital Finance to Present Cutting-Edge Data on Mobile Money Agents in Uganda. The Helix Institute ofDigital Finance. Speaking at the same event, Mr. Samson Odele, the Uganda Country Manager at MicroSave. Noted that ‘…the financial sector in the country stood to gain immensely from the research findings and the courses offered at The Helix Institute of Digital Finance.". The other African countries surveyed in. The cutting-edge research project, a collaboration betwee...

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Think M-PESA Blog: Agent Network Accelerator Survey: Tanzania Country Report 2013

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Apr 30, 2014. Agent Network Accelerator Survey: Tanzania Country Report 2013. The Helix Institute has launched the report for theTanzania the agent network accelerator survey held in 2013. The Tanzania Country Report is based on a national representative sample of over. 2,000 mobile money agent surveys. Carried out in 2013 all over the country. The report depicts Tanzania a. Key findings from the report:. Posted by Peter Gakure-Mwangi. Peter Gakure Mwangi, publisher. Peter Gakure Mwangi is a mobile payme...

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Think M-PESA Blog: Success and Struggles of Mobile Money Agents in Tanzania

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Apr 30, 2014. Success and Struggles of Mobile Money Agents in Tanzania. Since the launch of mobile money in Tanzania five years ago, the country has witnessed exponential growth with. 8216;less than 1% of the adult population having access to mobile financial services in 2008, to 90% access by September 2013. 8217; The country is now on the cusp on the next stage of evolution, integrating banks into the ecosystem, and offering services like merchant payments at retail stores. Released in January 2014), a...

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Think M-PESA Blog: Airtel Money Partners with Grameen Foundation to Provide Mobile Financial Services to Savings Groups in Uganda

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Nov 17, 2013. Airtel Money Partners with Grameen Foundation to Provide Mobile Financial Services to Savings Groups in Uganda. Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced that it is working with the Grameen Foundation to initiate a project to provide mobile financial services to Savings Groups in Uganda. 8220;In some cases, women cannot save their earnings because they are obliged to give any money they ha...

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Think M-PESA Blog: Emerging Trends for Mobile Money Agent Networks in 2014

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Jan 19, 2014. Emerging Trends for Mobile Money Agent Networks in 2014. Talking about the world’s most ambitious research project on agent networks, Mike McCaffrey, Head of Digital Financial Services - Africa at Microsave. Highlights three key trends to watch out for agent networks in 2014; inter-connectivity, liquidity tethering and fraud. Mike also introduces The Helix Institute of Digital Finance. A world-class training institute for digital finance (mobile money and mobile banking) practitioners.

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Think M-PESA Blog: 3G Direct Pay and Kopo Kopo Partner to Bring Mobile Payments to The African Online Travel Market

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Feb 7, 2014. 3G Direct Pay and Kopo Kopo Partner to Bring Mobile Payments to The African Online Travel Market. 3G Direct Pay Limited, a leading online payments service provider, today announced a strategic business partnership with Kopo Kopo, a merchant services platform for mobile network operators in emerging markets. Eran Feinstein, Managing Director, 3G Direct Pay Limited signed the partnership agreement which he said would bring innovative payment options for the regional travel industry. While the ...

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Think M-PESA Blog: Paddy Micro-Investments launches Mobile Money loan service: Mobikopa

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May 10, 2013. Paddy Micro-Investments launches Mobile Money loan service: Mobikopa. Paddy Microinvestments has introduced a money-lending service dubbed Mobikopa, which enhances the ease and convenience of acquiring affordable loans countrywide. Through this innovation, loan applicants can now apply online and receive the loans via mobile money. The company has been offering Microcredit services in and around Nairobi, and Mobikopa has recently been launched in order to extend the services countrywide.

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Think M-PESA Blog: Resource Centre

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Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Peter Gakure Mwangi, publisher. Peter Gakure Mwangi is a mobile payments professional based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a strong advocate for the use of mobile technologies in financial transactions. Mwangi’s posts on M-PESA are consistently near the top of the Google rankings for very specific and focused topics of interest to advocates of mobile money. Paddy Micro-Investments launches Mobile Money loan service: Mobikopa. How To Get Your M-PESA Mini Statement.