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How to develop digital payments or is it how to reduce cash use - 1 views

  • The success of Fawry comes from leveraging the best of the 2 means of payment: cash for its reliability and availability, and electronic systems for their seamless and fast processing.
  • What is very promising is that the success of Fawry inspired a lot of other players to create fintech companies and contributed to the transformation of Egyptian financial services, which will bring higher value to Egyptian customers.
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    It is interesting that Fawry's success can be tracked back to its use of two means. Cash payment and electronic systems. It has tried since its beginnings to make unbanked people trust electronic payments. It is also inspiring other companies in the field.
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Deezer to provide collection services via Fawry Pay - Daily News Egypt - 1 views

  • with the increasing demand for Deezer, it has become important to offer fast and easy facilitation of subscription payments. Customers may now pay using their smart device or through its 125,000 participating
  • with the increasing demand for Deezer, it has become important to offer fast and easy facilitation of subscription payments. Customers may now pay using their smart device or through its 125,000 participating
  • with the increasing demand for Deezer, it has become important to offer fast and easy facilitation of subscription payments. Customers may now pay using their smart device or through its 125,000 participating
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  • with the increasing demand for Deezer, it has become important to offer fast and easy facilitation of subscription payments. Customers may now pay using their smart device or through its 125,000 participating
  • with the increasing demand for Deezer, it has become important to offer fast and easy facilitation of subscription payments. Customers may now pay using their smart device or through its 125,000 participating
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    Fawry made a smart partnership with Deezer because it has seen that this later has experienced an increasing demand. Fawry now targets users of music streaming markets as it provides them with electronic payment services.
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Fawry Makes Bill Payment Easier for Egyptians | Middle East/Africa Hub - 2 views

  • Fawry’s service is playing a key role in revolutionizing the payment industry in Egypt, a country where only 10% of the population of 85 million people has access to formal banking services
  • Fawry’s service is playing a key role in revolutionizing the payment industry in Egypt, a country where only 10% of the population of 85 million people has access to formal banking services.
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    When Fawry was first established they were well aware of the gap between using card and using online payments, yet they manage to create acceptance for their service. They showed their customers in Egypt that it is much easier using online payments. And now they are revolutionizing the payment industry in Egypt.
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Fawry changing the culture of payment in Egypt: Top management - Daily News Egypt - 1 views

  • Fawry is an Egyptian company that started in 2009 with the purpose of offering electronic payment services through several payment channels. The service started at banks and a big network of outlets all over the republic as well as Egypt post.1 Now we are covering about 60 types of bills, where we cover the telecommunications sector and lately we covered all electrical companies in the country and some water companies. We also offer our services at universities and syndicates. Adding to that, users can now buy their airline tickets through us.
  • Fawry is an Egyptian company that started in 2009 with the purpose of offering electronic payment services through several payment channels. The service started at banks and a big network of outlets all over the republic as well as Egypt post. Now we are covering about 60 types of bills, where we cover the telecommunications sector and lately we covered all electrical companies in the country and some water companies. We also offer our services at universities and syndicates. Adding to that, users can now buy their airline tickets through us.
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    Fawry is gaining more and more popularity in Egypt. Also, it has developped two methods of payments: 1) anonymous: in which customers can pay their bills without actually revealing their identity. 2)Account creation: in this case the customers need to create an account with Fawry; this last one makes the process much easier for the customer
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IfG.CC - Egypt: Fawry launches first nation-wide electronic bill payment and presentmen... - 0 views

  • Fawry service can immediately be used by Egyptians to receive and pay their bills electronically among an ever growing list of billers and supporting banks. Consumers can already use Fawry for bill presentment and payment for telecommunications services including Etisalat, Mobinil, and Vodanfone.
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    Fawry inaugurated EBPP, electronic bill payment and presentment in order to satisfy its customers needs. Also, it is experiencing a remarkable increase in the number of users and thanks to that it is bringing Egypt steps forward in the field of e-payment.
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Fawry's market cap swells to over $2 billion - MENAbytes - 1 views

  • Fawry is yet to announce the results for fourth quarter of 2020 but for the first nine months of last year, the company made about $57 million (EGP 892.7 million) in revenue, an 45.2 percent increase year-on-year basis. For the same period, it doubled its net profit (on a YoY basis) to $7.5 million (EGP 119 million). The company has been witnessing decent growth over the last few years but it seems that Covid-19 has accelerated it even further.
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    Fawry is experiencing a drastic growth and it is becoming the leading electronic payments company in Egypt. It is benefiting from the acceleration of digital payments in Egypt.
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Electronic Transactions Reshape Egypt's Economy - 3 views

  • Fawry, a fast-growing Cairo-based company that specializes in electronic payments, makes it possible for Shawky to take care of his accounts online.
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    Fawri is helping Egyptians in handling their bills online rather than spending hours on this kind of processes if done traditionally.
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Fawry | IBM - 3 views

  • Fawry Putting Egypt on the global digital payments map
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    Fawri is a secure alternative to the traditional procedures. It is user friendly and Egiptians are benefiting from it.
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CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund Announces New Investments in Global Growth-Stage Fin... - 3 views

  • Founded in January 2015, WorldCover is a US-based insurance technology company that uses a peer-to-peer model to provide farmers in developing worlds with crop insurance against natural disasters and provides investors with diversified returns from the non-traditional financial markets.
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    Worldcover, an insurance company, uses the peer-to-peer model in order to connect farmers and investors, and in order to give farmers in developing countries crop insurances agains natural disasters.
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Food for thought - Crop Insurance Gets a Makeover - 2 views

  • Despite the technology underpinning WorldCover being really quite complicated (blockchain technology and machine learning), their product is amazingly simple; a crucial quality when doing business in rural areas where literacy levels are extremely poor. Essentially WorldCover is able to cut through the notoriously bureaucratic insurance claim system by ensuring insurance payments are automatically triggered once certain conditions are met, therefore increasing efficiency and eliminating fraudulent requests.
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    Worldcover has developed smart contracts using blockchain with the purpose of simplifying the process of insurance.
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WorldCover CropAssure | WorldCover Insurance - 4 views

  • easily understandable policies that will protect you against the risks completely out of your control - unpredictable weather.
  • protect against weather events most detrimental to almond growth, specific to your region
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    Worldcover is a fintech company that helps even small farmers hedge the risks that are related to unpredictable events, like climate change, that are beyond their power. It provides them with the right kind of insurance depending on their region and it uses AI in order to be more precise in doing so.
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AgriculturalInsuranceMarketStudy_ACRI.pdf - 2 views

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    Worldcover is expected to have a very positive impact on insurances related to agriculture as it has the potential to decrease premiums and relatively stabilise the market.
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Digital spillovers and SMEs' performance in Sub-Saharan Africa - 1 views

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    Worldcover, a fintech company that focuses on hedging natural risk, is offering blockchain-enabled weather indexed insurances for cultivators in Uganda, Kenya and Ghana.
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Artificial Intelligence Innovation in Financial Services - 1 views

  • Artificial intelligence technologies are permeating financial services sectors around the world. The application of these technologies in emerging markets allows financial service providers to further automate their business processes and to leverage new and big data sources to overcome obstacles, including the high cost of serving rural and low-income customers and establishing customer identity and creditworthiness, that prevent the delivery of financial services to many consumers.
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    Worldcover benefits from the use of AI in emerging markets as it allows it to automate even more its business process and leverage big-date in order to solve problems and overcome obstacles.
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Advancing digital frontiers in African economies: lessons learned from firm-level innov... - 1 views

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    Worldcover is characterized by using sensors, mobile phones, data analytics and other AI in order to shape its weather index based insurances for farmers. Also, this company provides person-to-person lending to connect investors with farmers.
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Uganda, Kenya Farmers to Reap from WorldCover Climate Insurance Funds | ChimpReports - 1 views

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    Worldcover has raised $6m for farmers in Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana in order to overcame challenges that were raised because of the climate change.
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WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets' climate insurance | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • WorldCover’s platform uses satellite imagery, on-ground sensors, mobile phones and data analytics to create insurance options for farmers whose crop yields are affected adversely by weather events — primarily lack of rain.
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    Worldcover is an African-based Insurance that covers climate. It mainly targets farmers. It benefits from the use of satellite imagery and data analytics in order to create good insurance options to farmers.
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AMSALE CHERINET.pdf - 2 views

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    Before Belcash and M-birr Ethiopia and Zimbabwe were the only one in Africa that did not possess mobile money services. Also, Belcash is working in partnerships with banks in order to provide a better access to financial services.
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Zewdu analysis full thesis after.pdf - 1 views

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    Thanks to a partnership with Lion International, Belcash introduced a new cheaper alternative to traditional branch-based banking for the agent banking services that are installed because of the use of Hello cash.
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MergedFile - 1 views

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    Belcahs is one of the companies that anticipated the importance of online financial services and their inevitability. Now, it is a technology provider that develop mobile banking services.
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