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KIVA online Service

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      mehdi-ezzaoui on 13 Feb 21
       
      I started Kiva in 2005 with my wife, Jessica. Kiva is an online lending platform that allows individuals in the developed world to loan to small business people in the developing world. Kiva operates in the microfinance space and works with a growing network of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in more than thirty countries. Our MFI partners post the profiles of their loan applicants to the website. Internet users in the United States, Canada, Europe, and beyond make small loans via PayPal to these businesses. The businesses pay the lenders back over a period of about a year. Since starting, Kiva lenders have funded $6 million in loans this way.
  • mehdi-ezzaoui on 13 Feb 21
     
    from an idea to a leader in lending platform
mehdibella

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M-pesa kenya Nairobi Fintech finance

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  • M-Pesa is Africa's most successful mobile money service and the region’s largest fintech platform. M-Pesa is the preferred way to make payments across the continent both for the banked and unbanked due to its safety and unmatched convenience.
  • It also provides financial services to millions of people who have mobile phones, but do not have bank accounts, or only have limited access to banking services. Now, M-Pesa provides over 42 million people with a safe, secure and affordable way to send and receive money, top-up airtime, make bill payments, receive salaries, get short-term loans and much more.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 12 Feb 21
       
      Even if people do not have bank accounts, they can still use M-PESA because it allows them to have access to financial services through their mobile phones.
  • In early 2020, Vodacom & Safaricom completed the acquisition of the M-Pesa brand from Vodafone Group through a newly created joint venture. The joint venture will accelerate the growth of M-Pesa through Africa by giving both Vodacom and Safaricom full control of the M-Pesa brand, product development and support services as well as the opportunity to expand M-Pesa into new African markets
    • ghtazi
      ghtazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      after that Vodacom & Safaricom acquired M-Pesa brand from the Vodafone group, they created a new joint venture that will help M-pesa to grow across Africa, which I believe is a big opportunity for the group
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  • M-Pesa is Africa's most successful mobile money service and the region’s largest fintech platform. M-Pesa is the preferred way to make payments across the continent both for the banked and unbanked due to its safety and unmatched convenience.
    • kaoutarchennoufi
      kaoutarchennoufi on 13 Feb 21
       
      Thanks to its large Fintech platform, M-Pesa has managed to target both banked and unbanked people. Also, what distinguishes it, is that it does not require people to have a bank account in order to have access to its financial services, they only need to have a mobile phone.
  • In 2019, our 41.5 million active customers carried out over 12 billion transactions
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      This article states that M-pesa is the continent's leader in mobile money services with over 41,5 million customers from all over the continent.
  • M-Pesa is Africa's most successful mobile money service and the region’s largest fintech platform. M-Pesa is the preferred way to make payments across the continent both for the banked and unbanked due to its safety and unmatched convenience.
    • sawsanenn
      sawsanenn on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it defines M-Pesa as Fintech Platform, their services, and their customer target
  • Send and receive moneyDomestic transfers: M-Pesa customers can send money in real time to any other M-Pesa customer with an account registered in the same country. In most markets customers can now send money to mobile money users on other networks as well.International transfers: Through our international remittance partners, M-Pesa customers can receive and send money across borders in real time.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt describes the core services provided by M-Pesa, namely domestic transfers and international transfers.
  • LoansM-Pesa customers build a credit score that enables them to access loans via our bank partners. Products include M-Shwari and KCB M-Pesa in Kenya and M-Pawa in Tanzania. We work hard to ensure customers not only have access to credit but are also educated so they understand the implications of a loan.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This particular excerpt explains how M-Pesa provides underbanked/unbanked customers with access to loans that would change their lives and ameliorate their condition.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This page is important because it enumerates all of the different product and service offerings provided by M-Pesa, which is important to know in order to acquire a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the company's actions.
  • What is M-Pesa?
  • M-Pesa is Africa's most successful mobile money service and the region’s largest fintech platform. M-Pesa is the preferred way to make payments across the continent both for the banked and unbanked due to its safety and unmatched convenience.  It also provides financial services to millions of people who have mobile phones, but do not have bank accounts, or only have limited access to banking services.
  • Established on 6th March 2007 by Vodafone's Kenyan associate, Safaricom, M-Pesa is Africa's leading mobile money service with more than 430,000 active agents operating across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania.
  • chaimaa-rachid on 12 Feb 21
     
    This service permits clients to store cash into an account put away on their cell phone, and send it utilizing an individual recognizable proof number and secure SMS. This makes it conceivable to pay for products and services and to guarantee standard payments.
hindelquarrouti

The Rise of the Robo-advisor: How Fintech Is Disrupting Retirement - Knowledge@Wharton - 2 views

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Strategy robo-advisors fitech

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  • Robos came on the scene about a decade ago, and two early startups were Wealthfront and Betterment. Today, there are dozens of robos in the market, Fisch said. There are pure robo services, as well as those that offer the option of talking to a human advisor, with or without an extra fee. Since they’re automated, robos can more easily avoid conflicts of interest that could beset a human advisor, who might push investments that pay the highest commissions.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 13 Feb 21
       
      Having Robo-advisors in EasyEquities would prevent the risk of having conflicts with "human" advisors. Digital assistance is the key.
  • Robo fees can range from zero — if the investor has less than $10,000 to invest — to as high as 0.89% of assets under $1 million in some cases, said Brett Hammond, research leader of Capital Group. But 0.25% to 0.30% of assets is more typical, he added. (The fee is on top of the cost of the investment itself.) As for performance, it’s a mixed bag with some robos doing better than others, Hammond said. The big question is how they will do in the long run, especially during a big market crash, since they don’t have an extended track record yet. “We don’t know in a complete cycle what these [robos] are going to deliver,” he said. “The real issue is, does it improve outcomes?”
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because, on the one hand, it introduces us to the fees that can be charged by Robo-advisors. On the other, performance is hard to measure for robo-advisors since nobody knows how the will behave in the long run and in severe circumstances i.e. a market crash.
  • Artificial intelligence is changing the world of retirement planning. By using improved datasets and algorithms to efficiently deliver solutions tailored to people’s needs, AI can help them save, invest and retire better. One of the hottest trends to emerge in this area in recent years is the use of robo-advisors. These are software programs that use the data supplied by clients to create and automatically manage their investment portfolios
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      The use of Robo Advisors alongside artificial intelligence could be used by different fintech companies and in different fields like for investments, portfolio management or retirement planning.
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  • One of the hottest trends to emerge in this area in recent years is the use of robo-advisors.
  • hindelquarrouti on 13 Feb 21
     
    It is a very interesting strategy that of benefiting from the use of AI and its advances that include improved datasets and algorithms that efficiently deliver solutions that are appropriate to users need. One of the trend that was raised by this strategy is that of robo-advisors.
sawsanenn

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FinTech Financial inclusion Strategies

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  • FinTechs and the Value Chains in the Financial IndustryIt is beneficial to remember how things worked before and after FinTechs and TechFins or big techs in the financial industry.Banking models are shifting significantly from a pipeline, vertical, paradigm, to modular solutions that pave the way to new banking paradigms that entail higher levels of openness toward third parties and a growing number of modular services bundled together.Value is created in platforms through economies of scope in production and innovation (Gawer, 2014). In order for platforms to work, adoption and network effects are essential. Models can go to mere compliance with the prescriptions of openness of PSD2, to the inclusion of new services, the opening of the banking core and data, and the aggregation of those within a platform experience. In particular, we assist both to the evolution of a Bank-as-a-Platform model and a tech-platform-driven model supporting banking and financial intermediation, which both constitute a new interesting field of analysis.Since the wave of digital transformation started entering the financial industr
  • , banking-as-a-business has started moving from a product/service perspective to more contextual solutions where providers are customer needs-driven. This is because customer-driven companies outperform the shareholder-driven ones, and this requires an outside-in approach.Having said that, it is beneficial to remember that digital transformation implies four main categories of innovation (product, process, organizational and business model) (Omarini, 2019, p. 340); all of them require rediscovering that a new strategy paradigm exists. This regards the concept of co-creation, and because of this no single firm can unilaterally carry out a process of continuous experimentation, risk reduction, time compression, and minimizing investment while maximizing market impact. Co-creation requires access to resources from extended networks (suppliers, partners, and consumer communities).Under these new market conditions, FinTechs have become an important piece of a bigger puzzle, each one in its own area of business (payment, lending, etc.), while at the beg
  • inning most of them started as mono-business companies. Only a few of them may become leaders in the market. On the one hand, there are those that make their strategy become international, and on the other, there are FinTechs which enlarge their services-scopes. However, the majority of them will become part of ecosystems where the direction could swing from banks to tech companies or to FinTechs as well, able to manage the network by developing kinds of conglomerate-as-a-service.Another interesting point to outline regards this recent period where all of us have experienced lockdowns around the world, and some effects have also impacted FinTechs as well. The valuations of most unicorns have crashed overnight, while on the FinTechs side there are different situations. Some of them have experienced a dramatic reduction in their
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  • strategy development process, especially when the various units and individuals in the network must collectively execute that strategy. The key issue is this: balancing act between collaborating and competing is delicate and crucial” (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004, p. 197).If co-creation is fundamental to the industry, this needs to leverage on a wider customer perspective that requires introducing the idea of developing ecosystems where the customer is truly free to move and choose the best deal in more competitive markets able to let consumers' ability to make informed decisions against any possible market concentrations among market providers.A business ecosystem (Moore, 1996) reflects the new paradigm of competition in a better way. Traditional management models aimed at gaining competitive advantage, such as vertical or horizontal integration, economies of scale and scope, are not effective anymore. The value of today's companies is determined by the size of its ecosystem (Tewari, 2014). Business ecosystems consist in crossovers of a variety of industries, of which companies cooperate and embrace open innovation to satisfy new customers' needs an
    • samiatazi
      samiatazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      Digital transformation implies four main categories of innovation: product, process, organizational and business model. FinTechs have become a significant piece of a greater riddle, every one in its own zone of business. The victors are those that have sufficient liquidity and money to purchase great innovation. This is particularly valid for installments that will be progressively contactless. Individuals costs and per-client commitment edge are key elements, and important markers. The more wellsprings of incomes an organization holds, the better it is for it to be a FinTech.
  • evaluation, others were quite lucky and suffered less.There are many and different feelings on the way FinTechs will exit this situation, which as far as we understand has overall accelerated some strategic choices.First of all, there are many and different FinTechs in the market. What is critical is to look at the fundamentals of the business. All of them are about answering what society is going to look like in the future (attitudes, behaviors, habits, etc.), so that if we no longer need to go to retail stores anymore, why do we need some services based on this situation? This, again, underlines that banking is a people business (Omarini, 2015) and this requires a business to be resilient to become adaptive to consumer changes or moves into a different market where you can still apply the service because the society is not yet ready to shift somewhere else, which means the same business in different markets. Just think of the ongoing situation where the recent wave of people is rethinking and restructuring their finances, so that they have decided to switch rates to digital banks. In this scenario, the winners are those that have enough liquidity—or better still cash-rich—to buy good technology and invest in new directions, also taking the opportunity to use the pandemic to its advantage. This is especially true for payments that are going to be increasingly contactless. However, some more les
  • sons can be learnt from difficult times especially due to external factors such as the following:- People costs and per-customer contribution margin are key factors, and valuable indicators. They are valuable for incumbents too. When staff costs rise, then this becomes a burden if growth is not going to move on. Then, if we move on the per-customer contribution margin (revenue, minus variable costs including credit losses), then this makes a FinTech earn more money per bank account than the cost of running those bank accounts.- One more point has to do with the way a FinTech makes its revenues per customer, and net income is the figure to look out for here. This means that the more sources of revenues a company holds, the better it is for it. If we think of some of the best-known FinTechs, they gather their net income from interchange fees, ATM withdrawals, which can diminish during the pandemic, but gathering revenues from other sources such as lending, investing, or again from referring customers to third-party services, and earning commissions from these referrals.Under this oncoming market structure configuration, a focus on control and ownership of resources is giving way to the importance of accessing and leveraging resources through unique ways of collaboration. “The co-creation process also challenges the assumption that only the firm's aspirations matter. (…) Every participant in the experience network collaborates in value creation and competes in value extraction. This result in constant tension in the
  • One more point has to do with the way a FinTech makes its revenues per customer, and net income is the figure to look out for here. This means that the more sources of revenues a company holds, the better it is for it. If we think of some of the best-known FinTechs, they gather their net income from interchange fees, ATM withdrawals, which can diminish during the pandemic, but gathering revenues from other sources such as lending, investing, or again from referring customers to third-party services, and earning commissions from these referrals.
    • hichamachir
      hichamachir on 13 Feb 21
       
      Pula can benefit so much from expanding its revenues streams. It lets the customers use the product or service in different ways which can't make them feel lazy to use a specific way.
  • The emergence of new technologies and players, along with a favorable regulatory framework (PSD2 Directive), is changing the banking industry. FinTechs and TechFins have allowed the introduction of new services and changed the way customers interact to satisfy their financial needs. The FinTech landscape is constantly evolving in the market. Different business value propositions are entering the financial services industry, moving from increasing the user's experience to developing a time to market framework for banks to innovate products, processes, and channels, increasing the cost efficiency and looking for a “partnering on order” to lighten the regulatory burdens for banks. The many businesses of banks are changing their value chains, and banks' business models should do the same accordingly. Strategists could no longer take their value chains as a given; choices have to be made on what needs to be protected and maintained, what abandoned and the new on coming to make banks evolve and become more resilient in doing their job. Banking is shifting significantly from a pipeline, vertical paradigm, to open banking business models where open innovation, modularity, and ecosystem-based bank's business model may become the ongoing mainstream and paradigm to follow and develop. Opportunities and threats for banks are many and new ones to re-gaining their role in the market throughout a re-intermediation process.
    • ghtazi
      ghtazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      FinTechs and TechFins have enabled new services to be launched and changed the way clients communicate to meet their financial needs. In the industry, the FinTech landscape is continuously changing.
  • They have brought to the traditional banking industry a wave of competition and broken pipeline value chains, unbundling them into different modules of products or services, which may be combined among themselves. These companies on the one hand and the BigTechs (Google, Facebook, Apple, Samsung, Alibaba, etc.) on the other have been forcing the industry to change, transform, and evolve in a set of new financial intermediation directions. Use of data and customer experience are both FinTechs' major assets and threats as well. On the one hand, they please the customers as individuals and introduce the paradigm of contextual banking. On the other, the two selling points are threatening both the incumbent players and regulators in different ways. For banks, it is even more urgent to react actively because their “no fee zone” is expanding, due to new regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus (CFPB) and similar entities in different countries.
    • sawsanenn
      sawsanenn on 13 Feb 21
       
      Since the digitalization wave entered the banking industry, financial institutions has begun to move from a product/service standpoint to more semantic alternatives where suppliers are pushed by customer needs. This is because the customer-driven firms outclass the investor ones, and this necessitates an outside strategy.
mehdibella

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Fintech finance SouthAfrica snapscan

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  • A free app available for any smartphone, SnapScan works almost like a pocket ATM linked to the user’s debit or credit card account. Instead of handing over a card, customers scan a unique SnapScan logo posted at the cash register with their camera-enabled phone. They enter the amount, type in a pin code (or use touch ID) and a few seconds later the vendor’s phone chimes with a confirmation sent by SMS. It’s quick, painless, and entirely safe, says Ehlers. SnapScan is backed by Standard Bank, one of South Africa’s biggest banks, and uses cutting-edge fraud protection technology. More to the point, he notes, it means that vendors never have access to actual credit card details. “That means no one is noting down your number so he can go shopping later,” says Ehlers.
  • It’s been so long since 30-year-old Cape Town entrepreneur Kobus Ehlers last used his wallet that he’s not even sure where it is. “My car maybe?” he says as he reflexively scans the cheerfully decorated offices of his startup, SnapScan. When it’s pointed out that leaving a wallet in a car in a city infamous for break-ins and carjackings may not be a good idea, he shrugs. He probably doesn’t even have the equivalent of five dollars in it, he says. “I never use cash. Credit cards are over. There are much better ways to pay for things.”As the co-founder of one of South Africa’s most successful electronic payments apps, Ehlers is of course expected to use his own product. But the real reason he isn’t worried about his wallet is because Cape Town is a city seduced by the idea of cashless and cardless transactions, in no small part because of his company’s success. “You can literally wake up in the morning, buy a cup of coffee, go to your dentist, have lunch, pay your bills, take a taxi, go out for dinner, and donate to your favorite cause without using cash or a card,” says Ehlers. “And in none of that is there any risk of your card details getting stolen, or you getting mugged for your cash.”
    • samielbaqqali
      samielbaqqali on 12 Feb 21
       
      SnapScan is an example of Fintech's performance. I assume, however, that these kinds of creative companies need to be sponsored by strong organizations. SnapScan is backed by Standard bank and this bank is powerful financial institution in South Africa. So I think that in order to develop their offerings, Fintechs should use the financial power of banks.
  • It’s been so long since 30-year-old Cape Town entrepreneur Kobus Ehlers last used his wallet that he’s not even sure where it is. “My car maybe?” he says as he reflexively scans the cheerfully decorated offices of his startup, SnapScan. When it’s pointed out that leaving a wallet in a car in a city infamous for break-ins and carjackings may not be a good idea, he shrugs. He probably doesn’t even have the equivalent of five dollars in it, he says. “I never use cash. Credit cards are over. There are much better ways to pay for things.”As the co-founder of one of South Africa’s most successful electronic payments apps, Ehlers is of course expected to use his own product. But the real reason he isn’t worried about his wallet is because Cape Town is a city seduced by the idea of cashless and cardless transactions, in no small part because of his company’s success. “You can literally wake up in the morning, buy a cup of coffee, go to your dentist, have lunch, pay your bills, take a taxi, go out for dinner, and donate to your favorite cause without using cash or a card,” says Ehlers. “And in none of that is there any risk of your card details getting stolen, or you getting mugged for your cash.”
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  • SnapScan may make mobile payments easy for users, says Ehlers, but the reason why the company has been so successful in South Africa is that it makes processing the payments easy—and cheap—for sellers. With traditional credit card systems, and even Apple Pay, vendors have to buy expensive equipment to process the payments—something small businesses can rarely afford. But SnapScan only requires an upfront investment of the less than five cents it costs to print out their Quick Response [QR] Code, a square, camera-readable version of a traditional bar code that resembles a mosaic tile, and tape it to the cash register. “If someone wants to buy from you and you don’t have a credit card machine, and the person doesn’t have cash, our payment system is the difference between closing the sale and not closing the sale,” says Ehlers. Registration is free, and the company charges retailers an average fee of three percent, on par with most credit card companies.
    • samiatazi
      samiatazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      Snapscan is very useful for Startups and vendors willing to switch and rely on the digital transformation due to both its low cost and effectiveness. additionally, the platform is practical for cashless consumers.
  • It was that question, of how to bring small businesses that couldn’t afford traditional credit processing facilities into an increasingly cashless environment that inspired Ehlers and his co-founders to develop SnapScan. Like many Cape Townians, Ehlers was a fan of the Big Issue, a South African spinoff of a British charity that prints high quality magazines for homeless men and women to sell at a profit in order to work their way off the streets. Most of the vendors ply traffic backed up at intersections for sales. But because of the risk of carjackings, which have nearly doubled in the greater Cape Town area over the past two years, to 1530 reported incidents, few motorists keep cash on hand. “People stopped buying the magazines,” says Ehlers. “A Big Issue vendor comes up and says ‘do you want to buy a magazine,’ and you say ‘I do, but I don’t have cash with me.’ That was a problem we realized we could solve very easily.”
    • samiatazi
      samiatazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      I, personally, think that the best business ideas are the ones solving current issues faced by customers because it would be easier to promote and sell a product to an already existing market. This article points out that the business idea of Snapscan arrised from a simple discussion between a magazine seller and a cashless buyer, now it is one of the biggest Fintechs in Africa. indeed, We should believe in our potential to change others' life.
  • SnapScan customers don’t have to worry about sending their credit card details to online vendors that may not have the latest fraud protection. They just scan the QR code at the virtual checkout like they would in the real world.
  • As a result, SnapScan has been adopted by about 12,000 small and medium businesses in more than 17,000 outlets across South Africa.
  • SnapScan has 150,000 registered users, and processes hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments every day for everything from airline tickets to handcrafted wicker baskets at roadside curio stalls.
    • mehdibella
      mehdibella on 13 Feb 21
       
      I am very proud to hear that the African continent is not only following the mobile payments trend and development, but it is also joining as a leader in the space !
  • A free app available for any smartphone, SnapScan works almost like a pocket ATM linked to the user’s debit or credit card account. Instead of handing over a card, customers scan a unique SnapScan logo posted at the cash register with their camera-enabled phone.
  • SnapScan may make mobile payments easy for users, says Ehlers, but the reason why the company has been so successful in South Africa is that it makes processing the payments easy—and cheap—for sellers.
  • For all the talk of a new cashless society ushered in by the likes of Apple Pay in the United States, it’s going to be a while before a swipe of a phone will buy a meal in most cities. But in Cape Town, it’s already happening. I’ve used my phone to pay for parking, cover a medical bill, order take out, buy groceries at my local farmers market and give money to the homeless woman selling the South African version of Street News at the traffic light. Churchgoers use their phones for donations. My facialist just informed me that I could pay for Botox treatments with SnapScan. I’ll take that as her endorsement of an increasingly popular payment service, and not a hint.
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      ayoubb on 13 Feb 21
       
      Snapscan
  • hichamachir on 11 Feb 21
     
    SnapScan is an example of the efficiency of fintechs. However, I believe that these kind of innovative businesses need to be backed by strong institutions. SnapScan is backed by Standard bank and this bank is strong financial institution in South Africa. So I think that fintechs can use the financial power of banks in order to improve their services.
  • hindelquarrouti on 13 Feb 21
     
    I believe that by being easy to use and fast, Snapscan found success. However, what encourages customers to use it even more is its cheap cost.
  • chaimaa-rachid on 13 Feb 21
     
    The fact that the company provides an easy-to-use and fast service inspires people to use it.
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Fintech Africa Payments modernization Service

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  • “We have identified an opportunity for effective global collaboration to do our part in enhancing financial inclusion for migrants living in South Africa. Through this partnership, we have been able to expand our reach globally, sparing our customers the hassle to travel long distances to collect their money as we now leverage off Western Union’s vast network of retail agents, bank account and wallet payout capabilities,”
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      kenza_abdelhaq on 10 Feb 21
       
      The South African payment company expands its operations and its reach by partnering up with the global corporation Western Union. This allows the enhancement of financial inclusion mainly in South Africa and allows people to have quick and convenient access to their money.
  • Hello Paisa, one of South Africa’s largest international money transfer providers and Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments today announced they have joined forces to enable Hello Paisa customers to send global money transfers for payout at the global network of Western Union.
    • tahaemsd
      tahaemsd on 13 Feb 21
       
      This partnership enables hellopaisa customers to send money from south africa to their family and loved ones for pay-out into billions of bank accounts
samiatazi

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Finetchs Digital-World Strategy Vision

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  • Many CFOs are quick to think that technology will solve all of their CFO technology problems and, in some cases, they are told that it will. But if the fundamentals aren’t in place and the path to an end is not defined, a well-intentioned finance modernization initiative can fall short of expectations. This can potentially lead to a significantly lower return on investment, add to the frustration of business users, and cause organizational leaders to become skeptical about future finance modernization projects.None of us knows for certain what the future will hold, but we all have a responsibility to anticipate and prepare for change. In finance, that means working now to get the right people and technology in place to take advantage of the inevitable disruptions ahead. But that’s not likely to happen without a clear vision and strategy for finance in a digital world. Now is the time to step back and make sure your finance transformation roadmap to that future is clear.Having a technology-enabled finance strategy, including identifying and prioritizing where and when to invest in finance modernization assets, is critical to creating organizational value and driving business performance.Back to top
    • samiatazi
      samiatazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      CFOs presume easily that all of their CFO technology issues can be overcome by technology. But it's certainly more than that because The development of an organizational value can't take place without a clear vision and strategy for finance in a the digital world.
samielbaqqali

MTN apologises to its customers over new data bundles challenges [ARTICLE] - Pulse Ghana - 3 views

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MTN Customers Wallets

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  • Most Ghanaians who use MTN have said that hours after the country’s largest mobile network operator introduced new data packages they were unable to purchase data bundles.
  • MTN Ghana has apologized to its customers who are facing challenges as they try to purchase data bundles.
  • MTN has experienced some challenges on some of our channels post-implementation of the adjustment of prices and our new data bundles.”
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  • MTN Ghana injects $160 million in improving network technology after coming under fire for poor services Most Ghanaians who use MTN have said that hours after the country’s largest mobile network operator introduced new data packages they were unable to purchase data bundles.
  • Some customers of the company complained on social media about the difficulties they are facing in purchasing data packages using their mobile money wallets.
    • samielbaqqali
      samielbaqqali on 13 Feb 21
       
      MTN needs to be aware of issues of this nature. They have to ensure that everything functions well when launching a new package, because when you are the leading company, customers demand the best possible service.
  • hichamachir on 12 Feb 21
     
    MTN needs to be aware of this kind of problems. They've to make sure when launching a new package, everything is working perfectly because when you're the leader company, customers expect the best service possible.
  • hindelquarrouti on 13 Feb 21
     
    MTN made a good move by maintaining its contact with its customers, because after all the challenges and problems in its platform, there is a high risk that it will loose its customers' trust.
  • mohammed_ab on 13 Feb 21
     
    MTN is the number one telecommunication company in Africa by offering the best service to its customers. Facing such issues could impact customer loyalty and the brand image of the company.
nourserghini

About Abacus - Who We Are and How We got Here - 0 views

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Abacus Investech Services Kenya

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  • Abacus, the #1 mid-market expense reporting software listed on G2 Crowd, is the only truly real-time expense reporting solution on the market. It is the easiest way for a company to reimburse its teams, implement their expense policy, and reconcile corporate credit cards throughout the month. More than 1,000 customers use Abacus, including GLG, Coinbase, and Betterment.
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      This shows that Abacus is a leader in the expense reporting softwares and offers services that facilitate companies' reimbursements, implementation of policies and reconciliation of corporate cards.
hibaerrai

Leading Egyptian Digital E-Payments Platform Fawry Reaches $1 Billion Market Cap | Fina... - 0 views

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Fawry Egypt E-payments Online Fintech Leader

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  • This is a super exciting time for Egyptian fintechs. For Fawry to reach a market cap of $1 billion within one year of its IPO is quite impressive and is a moment to celebrate. This will help the whole industry and will open more doors for fintechs to receive funds and make partial exits.
    • ayachehbouni
      ayachehbouni on 13 Feb 21
       
      The pandemic was a huge opportunity for Fawry and Fintech companies in general as, thanks to it, they had an important increase in demand.
  • Commenting on the news, Okasha told WAYA: “This is a super exciting time for Egyptian fintechs. For Fawry to reach a market cap of $1 billion within one year of its IPO is quite impressive and is a moment to celebrate. This will help the whole industry and will open more doors for fintechs to receive funds and make partial exits.”Fintechs and electronic banking companies have seen a huge increase in demand as a result of the pandemic. Fawry saw an increase of more than 50% of the company’s value before the Covid-19 crisis. This number grew exponentially during the crisis.The company went public on the Egyptian Exchange in August 2019, since then its stock price has increased by over 300%. The initial cost of one share at the company was EGP 6.46.According to Fawry’s website, it handles around 2.1 million transactions daily and collected $2.43 billion last year. It has approximately 20 million customers.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      The pandemic has caused Fawry's stock price to increase drastically after going public on the EX. This is a huge step for the fintech which expects a successfull future.
samielbaqqali

Fintech Payments: 25 Companies You Should Know | Built In - 0 views

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Fawry Fintech Services

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  • “Non-cash payments have increased in volume due to the rise in adoption of digital payment services across all market segments,” Christophe Vergne, cards and payment practice leader at Capgemini, told CNBC.
    • samielbaqqali
      samielbaqqali on 13 Feb 21
       
      When the digital payment services improves, the number of cutsomers increases as well.
mohammed_ab

Visa and Fawry sign strategic partnership to accelerate digital payments acceptance | Z... - 1 views

www.zawya.com/...acceptance-ZAWYA20201004113100

Fawry Egypt Visa Fintech Partnership

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  • Visa, (NYSE: V), the world’s leader in digital payments and Fawry, the leading digital transformation and ePayment platform in Egypt announced that they have signed a strategic partnership to accelerate acceptance of digital payments in Egypt in alignment with the Central Bank of Egypt’s plans to build a digital economy and advance digital and financial inclusion in the country.The partnership aims to catalyze the provision of open loop Visa digital acceptance solutions including both POS terminals and QR solutions to a larger number of merchants so they can benefit from the advantages of electronic payments by leveraging on Visa’s vast global network and experience as well as Fawry’s locally relevant solutions.  
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it touches upon partnerships initiated by Fawry with Visa and the Egyptian Government (and Central Bank) in an effort to promote financial inclusion and build a digital economy in Egypt.
  • Visa and Fawry sign strategic partnership to accelerate digital payments acceptance
  • One of the key solutions that the partnership aims to address is the need to enable a digital ecosystem that easily supports the needs of consumers and merchants. Through Visa Direct’s peer to peer transfer and low cost QR solutions, millions of customers – regardless of who they bank with – would be able to make peer to peer and business to business transactions easily and securely so they can move money in real time.
  • mohammed_ab on 13 Feb 21
     
    The excerpt is relevant here because it introduces a critical partnership between Fawry and Visa. This partnership will have positive impacts on Fawry: Quick and secure money transfer between people regardless of their bank.
mehdi-ezzaoui

The Startup Magazine FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa |... - 1 views

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Fintech payments Africa

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  • Industry leaders from across the African and global FinTech industry will gather at Finnovation Africa: Ethiopia 2017 where they will seek to harness the growing momentum around digital financial services into more inclusive and productive economies across Sub‐Saharan Africa.”
ayachehbouni

FarmDrive in Kenya | Future Young Leaders - 0 views

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  • In addition to the validated farm-level data collected through the app, FarmDrive also collects big data from satellite companies, weather stations, government agencies, and more. Using these aggregated data, the model generates credit scores and provides automated decisioning tools that enable financial institutions to develop loan products that fit the economic and agronomic needs of smallholder farmers.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      FarmDrive makes sure to gather all possible data from different agencies and using different models to provide their clients with suitable loan deals. This supports automated financial services and better risk assessment.
  • In 2016 FarmDrive completed the initial phase of product-market fit in partnership with a Kenyan MFI. Through this pilot over KES 15 mil (USD 150,000) in loans were disbursed throughout 16 counties in Kenya. The pilot served as a proof point that better risk assessment can unlock capital for smallholder farmers, and informs the product development we’re doing today to drive more capital to farmers
    • ayachehbouni
      ayachehbouni on 13 Feb 21
       
      The achievements of FarmDrive exceed what was expected. That is thanks to, along with other things, the partnerships it had that allowed to provide more and extend its reach.
nourserghini

Ukheshe-KCB deal to grow digital payments in East Africa | ALB Article - 1 views

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Simbapay Origin UK Africa

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  • As early as 2016, established banking and mobile phone companies were competing alongside specialist start-ups to become leaders in fintech, especially in Africa.In November last year, Nairobi-headquartered Prime Bank launched an international money transfer service in collaboration with London-headquartered SimbaPay, giving Prime Bank customers in Kenya access to mobile payments.
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      Simbapay's is a London originating company that operates with Kenyan banks to offer platforms for mobile payments.
nourserghini

Cryptocurrency pioneer Diana Biggs joins digital assets startup Valour as its new CEO |... - 0 views

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Fintech Cryptocurrecy Bitcoin Strategy

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  • Cryptocurrency pioneer and early Bitcoin thought-leader Diana Biggs has joined Swiss-based startup Valour, which lets investors easily buy digital assets through their bank or broker. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets. Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      Major companies are purchasing billions worth of bitcoin, the thing that should encourage fintechs to consider digital asset services, especially of bitcoin.
mbellakbail69

Discover JUMO, Factory of the Future 2020: Optimal balance between the human being and ... - 0 views

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  • JUMO manufactures and distributes a wide range of measurement, control and automation products. The company is among the world leaders in two areas, namely temperature measurement and control for industries as diverse as food, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, renewable energies, railways, shipbuilding, heating and air conditioning, as well as the plastics and petrochemical industries.
kenza_abdelhaq

Egyptian fintech in 2020: A tale of crosswinds and tailwinds [Part One] - Wamda - 0 views

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Fawry Egypt Context Global Economic

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  • Fortunately, Egypt’s first Covid wave was milder than those in other countries. The country managed to get by without going into full lockdown and the country is now one of the few in the world with a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth outlook for 2020. Despite the mild top-line hit, most startups still felt the impact of Covid-19, with a whopping 83.9 per cent indicating, in May, that they had been negatively impacted by the crisis. The same survey highlighted that 29 per cent of Egyptian startups had suspended operations – an alarming proportion that would have increased with the recent resurgence of the virus. It remains to be seen what the full impact of the second wave is.  
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      Egypt managed to have a positive GDP growth in 2020 even though the pandemic impacted negatively more than 80% of the startups.
  • If we look back on 2020, the largest funding rounds for Egyptian startups were not in fintech but healthcare and transport, with Vezeeta raising more than $40 million and Swvl more than $20 million. Yet, fintech still managed to make headlines on several occasions, including new regulations, high profile investment rounds and exciting launches. It was an eventful and exhilarating year for the fintech ecosystem in Egypt.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      Even though more importance was given to healthcare and transport with regard to the largest funding rounds, fintech was still getting a lot of attention (making headlines, new regulations, etc).
  • Fawry’s success story has undoubtedly encouraged investments in other e-payments venture that will help dynamise this space in coming years. The industry is still massively underpenetrated as cash remains king but will remain as one of the more active areas within fintech in coming years.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      Fawry being the leader of digital payments in Egypt definitely helped encourage investments in this field/industry.
  • kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
     
    "Fortunately, Egypt's first Covid wave was milder than those in other countries. The country managed to get by without going into full lockdown and the country is now one of the few in the world with a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth outlook for 2020. Despite the mild top-line hit, most startups still felt the impact of Covid-19, with a whopping 83.9 per cent indicating, in May, that they had been negatively impacted by the crisis. The same survey highlighted that 29 per cent of Egyptian startups had suspended operations - an alarming proportion that would have increased with the recent resurgence of the virus. It remains to be seen what the full impact of the second wave is.  "
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