Who Wants Mobile Money?
Whilst mobile money is an important offering for the unbanked and underbanked, it can also be popular in countries that have more established banking infrastructure.
Visa Uses Phone Location To Verify Payments
From April, Visa will use software on mobile phones to check the customer’s location when they make a credit card payment.
Following the Money
For the last couple of years, I have worked for a financial institution. The finance industry has a lot of common with the telecom industry,…
The Tao of Bitcoin and Mobile Money
Bitcoin, the virtual currency, is the most underestimated threat to the mobile industry. To find out why, and how it has something to do with…
Revisiting the Beginnings of M-Pesa
In March 2006, I resigned from British American Tobacco (BAT) to head into a new job in a new industry (as a product assurance analyst…
Bitcoin: Threat to the US Dollar?
Recently I wrote about how peer-to-peer internet currency Bitcoin could emerge as a long-term threat to mobile banking and money transfer services. Since then I…
