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tahaemsd

HomeSend launches remittance service with Hello Paisa in South Africa - 0 views

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Fintech Africa Payments modernization Service

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  • About Hello Paisa Since being licensed by the South African Bank, Hello Paisa has successfully launched the remittance offering to migrants living and working in South Africa. Hello Paisa offers a convenient, secure and affordable means for migrants to send cash home. With Hello Paisa we have taken the world’s most expensive remittance corridor and turned it on its head, by lobbying legislation and most importantly leveraging technology to drive down the cost of remitting funds and making it accessible to all, by taking into account the constraints that exist in our target market, with Hello Paisa you can transact via our Android App, our call centre but most importantly we have built a USSD dial string which is FREE  for the customer to dial and transact overcoming  the access barrier that existed before, thus we have successfully managed to solve a problem where many have failed before and changed the face of remittance in South Africa forever.
    • tahaemsd
      tahaemsd on 13 Feb 21
       
      the mission of hello paisa is to offer migrants living and working in south africa a secure, cost effective way of sending money to heir loved ones all around the world
mohammed_ab

Products and Services - Pula - 0 views

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Pula Insurance Farmers Africa Fintech

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  • We design and deliver best in class agriculture index insurance products to protect farmers
  • Pula handles end to end management of the delivery of insurance to farmers, including field operations, farmer onboarding/education and claims assessment and payouts.
  • mohammed_ab on 13 Feb 21
     
    Pula products offerings target African farmers who have difficulties paying for expensive insurance. They act as an intermediary between local insurance and global reinsurance companies and farmers to minimize weather risk on their crops.
chaimaa-rachid

MTN pumps millions into MoMo as it nears 2m users in SA | ITWeb - 1 views

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MoMo two-million Finetch

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  • According to Kamenga, key success factors of mobile wallets are distribution networks and building an ecosystem around the product to encourage usage and transactions.“These are the areas where the previous deployment was lacking. The new MTN Mobile Money service comes with new innovative features that cater to the current economic landscape and consumer behaviour.
  • The MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) platform is closing in on a total of just over two million users since its relaunch in February.
  • mohammed_ab on 12 Feb 21
     
    This article emphasizes the importance of a good ecosystem and distribution networks for the success of mobile fintech solutions. I liked how the article linked between the telecommunication systems and fintech solutions like MoMo.
  • chaimaa-rachid on 13 Feb 21
     
    The new platform (MoMo) has reached 2 million users as it is easy and secure, with no monthly expenses, you can also use it even if you don't have a bank account.
ghtazi

Ethiopia: Ethio Pay to Push Visa Cards Out | MFW4A - Making Finance Work for Africa - 2 views

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VISA card ATM

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  • The utilisation of Ethio Pay branded electronic cards will harness the hard currency payment to foreign companies, according to the company's management.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 11 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because EthioPay cards are being implemented more and more in commercial banks and are controlling the different payments to foreigners.
  • Currently, over six million people are using ATM Visa cards. Founded in 2011, with a capital of 80 million Br, Eth-Switch facilitated transactions worth 2.9 billion Br in the past fiscal year.
  • The utilisation of Ethio Pay branded electronic cards will harness the hard currency payment to foreign companies, according to the company's management.
    • sawsanenn
      sawsanenn on 13 Feb 21
       
      this article shows that ethiopay is taking control not only of inter-banks and companies but foreign ones too.
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  • Eth Switch, established by the 17 commercial banks to integrate Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Point of Sale (PoS), has already implemented Ethio Pay cards in five commercial banks so far, whereas the remaining are still use visa cards. Until now, the banks have been paying a lot of money for using the trademark of the VISA cards.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it explains how 17 commercial banks decided to integrate Ethiopay electronic cards in all the banks of the country, at the expense of VISA cards which have been dominating the market thus far.
  • Eth Switch S.C, the consortium of private banks, is to implement electronic cards belonging to the same brand- Ethio Pay, in all the banks of the country. Eth Switch, established by the 17 commercial banks to integrate Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Point of Sale (PoS), has already implemented Ethio Pay cards in five commercial banks so far, whereas the remaining are still use visa cards. Until now, the banks have been paying a lot of money for using the trademark of the VISA cards. The utilisation of Ethio Pay branded electronic cards will harness the hard currency payment to foreign companies, according to the company's management. Currently, over six million people are using ATM Visa cards. Founded in 2011, with a capital of 80 million Br, Eth-Switch facilitated transactions worth 2.9 billion Br in the past fiscal year. Source: All Africa
    • ghtazi
      ghtazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      this is important because it shows us that there are 5 commercial banks that have implemented Ethiopay cards so far.
  • mehdi-ezzaoui on 13 Feb 21
     
    Using Ethio Pay branded electronic wallets, according to management, the business can use hard currency transfers to international companies and could push VISA out
mehdi-ezzaoui

Pula: Insuretech Startup Closes $6M Series A Funding to Scale Up Business Across Africa - 1 views

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PULA FinTech Festival

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  • Funding Pula: Insuretech Startup Closes $6M Series A Funding to Scale Up Business Across Africa 0 SharesShareTweetSharePin The African Insuretech service provider, Pula, has recently closed a US$6 million Series A funding round led by TLcom Capital and had participation from Women’s World Banking. It specializes in digital as well as agric insurance to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa. This new round of investment to the insuretech startup will be used to scale up operations in the company’s existing 13 markets across Africa. Pula has so far impacted over 4.3 million farmers on the continent and the new funding will help push its expansion into Asia to power resilience and profitability for Asian smallholder farmers. Pula was launched by Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru in 2015, to design and deliver innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholders farmers improve their farming practices, endure climate risks and bolster their incomes. This has become necessary because for smallholder farmers in emerging markets, the traditional method of calculating insurance through farm visits is often expensive, meaning they are often neglected from financial protection against climate risks.
  • mehdi-ezzaoui on 13 Feb 21
     
    This new round of investment to the insuretech startup will be used to scale up operations in the company's existing 13 markets across Africa. Pula has so far impacted over 4.3 million farmers on the continent and the new funding will help push its expansion into Asia to power resilience and profitability for Asian smallholder farmers.
hibaerrai

RegTech Definition - 0 views

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Fintech Strategy Regtech Digital Regulations

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  • Regtech is the management of regulatory processes within the financial industry through technology. The main functions of regtech include regulatory monitoring, reporting, and compliance. Regtech, or RegTech, consists of a group of companies that use cloud computing technology through software-as-a-service (SaaS) to help businesses comply with regulations efficiently and less expensively. Regtech is also known as regulatory technology. Financial institutions and regulators both use Regtech to deal with complicated compliance processes.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      Employing regtech strategy to monitor, regulate and comply all fintech related processes and activities .
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