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ghtazi

Mukuru Adds Sign-Up Feature to WhatsApp - IT News Africa - Up to date technology news, ... - 1 views

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Mukuru Transaction Control

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  • By signing up for Mukuru via WhatsApp, users will be able to bypass the onerous task of submitting Know-Your-Customer (KYC) documents to an agent or Mukuru branch in person. Instead, they can submit documents directly to Mukuru’s verifications team. Mukuru will then provide timely feedback via WhatsApp as to whether a prospective customer’s ID documents have been effectively verified or not (and if the customer needs to take further steps). “Our customers already use WhatsApp extensively to create money transfer transactions (comprising more than 30% of our total monthly transaction volume in SA) so we are naturally extending self sign-up services on this channel,” says Jury. “This capability removes key barriers for our customers and increases accessibility to important financial services in South Africa and across our network. By harnessing our technology expertise and ability to innovate around customer pain points, we are boosting financial inclusion by allowing customers to submit their own KYC documents and gain access to higher limits.”
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it reflects the importance of WhatsApp in the operations of Mukuru. 1- Whatsapp allows cheap KYC 2- Whatsapp is an extension of customer habits 3- Whatsappremoves barries to access financial services.
  • “Our customers have been asking for a Mukuru App, and we have made sure to develop and present a solution that empowers our customers to send money back home to their families in an even safer and more convenient way. Mukuru has always given its customers the ability to transact when and wherever they need to through our existing USSD and WhatsApp offerings – the Mukuru App adds a richer experience and more control for a customer to manage their profile,”
    • sawsanenn
      sawsanenn on 13 Feb 21
       
      It is a good idea to use one of the most used social media application which is WhatsApp, it will be more easy for customers to make a payment or receive it. It is a good approach to make the transactions accessible and easy for everybody.
  • “Our customers have been asking for a Mukuru App, and we have made sure to develop and present a solution that empowers our customers to send money back home to their families in an even safer and more convenient way. Mukuru has always given its customers the ability to transact when and wherever they need to through our existing USSD and WhatsApp offerings – the Mukuru App adds a richer experience and more control for a customer to manage their profile,”
    • ghtazi
      ghtazi on 13 Feb 21
       
      the introduction of Mukuru to social media is a great move since we live in an era where social media controls everything. it will also touch the z generation and will extend their target customers.
nouhaila_zaki

M-Pesa - Wikipedia - 0 views

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M-Pesa Financial inclusion Kenya

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  • M-Pesa is a branchless banking service; M-Pesa customers can deposit and withdraw money from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets acting as banking agents.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 12 Feb 21
       
      M-PESA is unique because it offers branchless banking which makes transactions more efficient.
  • It has since expanded to Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt, Afghanistan and South Africa. Meanwhile services in India, Romania, and Albania have been terminated amid low market uptake. M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdraw, transfer money, pay for goods and services (Lipa na M-Pesa), access credit and savings, all with a mobile device.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      I like this excerpt because it describes where M-Pesa has successfully expanded and where the company's expansionist efforts failed.
  • M-Pesa is widely seen as demonstrating that it is possible to make a profit while also improving the lives of the poor.[28] Tavneet Suri, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and William Jack, based at Georgetown University have produced a series of papers extolling benefits of M-Pesa. In particular, their 2016 article published in "Science" has been very influential in the international development community. The much cited result of the paper was, that 'access to M-PESA increased per capita consumption levels and lifted 194,000 households, or 2% of Kenyan households, out of poverty.[29] Global development institutions focusing on the development potential of financial technology frequently cite M-Pesa as a major success story in this respect, citing the poverty-reduction-claim and including a reference to Suri and Jack’s 2016 signature article. In a report on "Financing for Development", the United Nations write: "The digitalization of finance offers new possibilities for greater financial inclusion and alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and implementation of the Social Development Goals. In Kenya, the expansion of mobile money lifted two per cent of households in the country above the poverty line."[30]
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it reports on academic research describing how M-Pesa is the living example of how the search for profit is not antithetical to inclusion and improvement of lives of the poor. Using M-Pesa as a case study, several researchers praise fintech for its ability to offer greater financial inclusion.
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.
mehdi-ezzaoui

SimbaPay launches purely SMS-based Money Remittance option for Feature Phone users powe... - 1 views

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SimbaPay Kenya payments service

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  • he London-based digital money transfer services SimbaPay has now launched a new money remittance services that will purely operate via SMS. That means even people with no internet and using just a feature phone can now use SimbaPay to send or receive money. This is a huge step for the company, as it now enters a bigger pool of users, both with smartphones plus internet access combined with those without smartphones and/or not internet access. The new SimbaPay SMS money remittance services went live yesterday, and now users from around the world can use the service on any device from anywhere via the good-old SMS. The new SMS service is powered by artificial intelligence that has seen SimbaPay integrate a chatbot at the other end of the user.
  • mehdi-ezzaoui on 13 Feb 21
     
    new feature in simbapay service
aymanelmamoun

Central Bank authorises increase of daily mobile money limit - The Reporter Lesotho | F... - 0 views

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  • The Central Bank of Lesotho has authorised mobile money issuers to increase the daily limit of transactions for duly identified and verified mobile money customers. The Bank came about this decision of authorisation in order to facilitate a wider use of electronic payments for goods and services by the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      This regulation is in favor of Smartel Money fintech as it supports its business and increases the limit of the money transferred on the platform.
  • The Central Bank of Lesotho has authorised mobile money issuers to increase the daily limit of transactions for duly identified and verified mobile money customers. The Bank came about this decision of authorisation in order to facilitate a wider use of electronic payments for goods and services by the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    • aymanelmamoun
      aymanelmamoun on 13 Feb 21
       
      The mobile payment application helped solving many cash problems during the Covid-19 Pandemic. It also facilitated a wider use of electronic payment for goods and services by customers without going out of home.
mohammed_ab

Cryptocurrencies in FinTech - Don't Ignore It | Avatrade NG - 0 views

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Fintech Strategy Bitcoin M-Pesa Blockchain

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  • A whole range of companies within the banking and FinTech industries are starting to explore ways through which they can take advantage of the electronic ledger technology that powers cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin
  • A whole range of companies within the banking and FinTech industries are starting to explore ways through which they can take advantage of the electronic ledger technology that powers cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. This distributed system stores data chronologically in segments known as “blocks” which allow for the information to be processed and transferred almost instantaneously. Among the benefits of the blockchain technology, that make it so attractive to FinTech companies and other large institutions, is the lowered risk of fraud since the technology is notoriously difficult to hack, its speed and the fact that it eliminates intermediary steps between parties in a transaction.
  • mohammed_ab on 13 Feb 21
     
    I think that M-Pesa could implement cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Etherum in their service. I think that their customer will quickly shift their usage to cryptocurrencies as they offer higher protection from fraud. It could be life-changing for a mobile payment application like M-Pesa.
mbellakbail69

Digitising Traditional Money Circles: An Interview with MoneyFellows CEO Ahmed Wadi - 0 views

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  • The MoneyFellows app is pretty simple. You create a profile and go through an onboarding process, which includes a financial assessment which determines each user’s maximum limit of money circle they can join. From there, each user can browse the available money circles by searching and filtering by monthly payment, total cash-out and the cash-out schedule most suitable to them. Once you’ve joined a money circle - and that money circle is complete - there are several ways to both send and receive money, including bank transfers, credit card payments, mobile wallets and Fawry. Some corporate companies have also signed up with MoneyFellows, allowing their employees to have their money circle dues directly taken from their salaries.
aymanelmamoun

Investrust launches InvestMobile - Telecompaper - 0 views

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InvestTrust MobilePayment Africa DigitalStrategy

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  • Zambia's Investrust Bank launched InvestMobile, its mobile banking service. The product will be rolled out to existing account holders before being extended to unbanked communities. InvestMobile works from the handset, providing an account summary of the last seven transactions and supporting payment of bills to various utility companies such as Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company and MultiChoice. Customers will be able to view status on accounts such as term deposits, loan statements and positions on cleared or uncleared cheques and make transfers within the bank and to external accounts at
    • aymanelmamoun
      aymanelmamoun on 13 Feb 21
       
      Investrust Bank launched InvestMobile in Zambia as a mobile banking service allowing the company to attract unbanked citizens.
kaoutarchennoufi

HEYA fawry Initiative - 0 views

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  • Heya- fawry is an initiative in collaboration with arab women enterprise fund, Baheya, AXA and unilever to empower women, increase their opportunities in the financial market and help them to climb up the financial inclusion pyramid in Egypt Fawry as the leading e-payment network in Egypt is supporting poor and disadvantaged women by training them to become Heya fawry-agents, providing POS machines offering them complementary micro-insurance coverage. Ultimately, this initiative will allow poor unbanked women to have access to life-enhancing financial services (mobile top-ups, bill payments, money transfers, microloan payments, as well as essential nutrition and healthcare goods) directly via their nearest Fawry’s agents to raise income for them and their families and to enhance the well-being of the society. Fawry’s main aim is “to ensure that women access our services in the same extent as men do”
    • kaoutarchennoufi
      kaoutarchennoufi on 13 Feb 21
       
      It is very appreciable and significant to see big cooperates thinking about women and their desires and putting on actions to help them achieve their dreams. Fawry has launched the"Heya-Fawry initiative in order to empower women by encouring them to become Fawry's agents so that they can provide them with different kinds of help such as insurance coverage, POS machines... This is very exceptional!
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