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Payments – Innovation & Info-security
infrastructure of the payment solution without having to worry about the currency or country I am in, the amount in my payment instrument, the service provider, the recipient, the time zone, the language, the nature of the transaction, or the payment amount. The consensus among experts is that this factor plays a significant role in the market’s growth over both the short and long term. Incorporating the category of payments made through mobile devices.

Demystifying The Cross-Border Remittances (CBR)
Cross Border remittances(CBR) expected to rise about $0.8 trillion USD. Numbers here are real big and yes this is a big deal. But since most of the world’s population now has access to the Internet or mobile phones, it is just a matter of time before the scales tip to

Cross Border Remittances (CBR)
Cross Border remittances(CBR) expected to rise about $0.8 trillion USD. Numbers here are real big and yes this is a big deal. But since most of the world’s population now has access to the Internet or mobile phones, it is just a matter of time before the scales tip to

2017 Year of AI & Digital Payments
To draw a rough sketch of exaggerated scenario of how these two technologies (AI & FinTech) may interact with us in the future and what warrants the, perhaps perplexing, 2 super powers. AI’s Control systems are widely used. They govern how a simple thermostat adapts to a target temperature.

CashLess –OR– LessCash
CashLess –OR– LessCash – Journey from a cash-only transactional economy to a cashless economy without a full plan, education, and strategy look only a talk […]

FinTech the Champion of “Banking” Services
Despite the proclamations of some visionary Fintech founders, banks aren’t disappearing anytime soon. The engine under the hood of big banks — the compliance and money-transfer systems — are simply too difficult for any start-up to replace, which is why tech plays like Apple Pay are still built on top of existing bank systems and payment rails. To maintain the dominance they’ve enjoyed up to this point, however, banks need a radical redesign of their customer-facing assets. If banks fail to overhaul

FinTech – Mobile Money – Mobile Payments – Banking (Not Bank)
Today’s consumer expects a seamless mobile payment experience; failing to meet those expectations can be devastating to a brand, idea, innovation and eventually the payments industry. Banks in particular will need to move swiftly if they are to take advantage of the opportunities on offer in the global payments business, or risk losing out to nimbler competitors.Although Mobile Money had been designed as a peer-to-peer payment system but it has gone much beyond the basic idea..

Digitised Bank Payments – Their Struggle Saga with Friend FinTech
MNO’s speed to achieve their goal to standardise, automate, digitise, remove boundaries by brining cross order financial/remittances service in form of payments, cash, airtime, paperless and online. At the same time banks are still in their canteens with their coffee mugs without any sign of worry but in reality all African banks face tough challenges from MNO’s & Fintech players.

FinTech – A True Fairytale
Almost all players who entered into payments in arena of FinTech domain are actually coming out of this game park with zero or no knowledge. This is giving too much innovation to put idea on table but takes longer to make it reality. Technical companies entering financial domain and making it interesting by doing technical integration, or “fintegration”, of fintech services, the latter interfacing directly to bank customers for

Mobile Money Basics : Part-2
Mobile Money, Mobile Payments, Mobile Banking and Mobile Commerce can be termed Mobile Financial Services. The magic word known as “Pay” has gone viral in today’s time and every day we have 1 or 2 new startup’s entering the payment industry, specifically into the Mobile Payment domain. Mobile phones can be used to deliver a range of banking services. Not from Banks, I am separating banking and banks. Banking services dont need banks any more. Transaction data can be used to develop customers’ credit histories to offer other top-up services.

Mobile Money – Key Stakeholders
Technology is a friend/ helper not as tester or rocket science; MFS product use and accessibility needs to be simple for people to make them comfortable and pull out maximum benefits especially for unbanked who have not seen the real MFS. Study from google shows that globally, mobile money users transacted a total of USD 7.5 billion through 479.5 million transactions in the month of December 2014. If cash-ins and cash-outs are included, mobile money users performed 717.2 million transactions, total of USD 16.3 billion.

Payments Rush Hour – Mobile Payments
A well-functioning infrastructure for domestic payments plays a crucial role in minimizing the expenses associated with remittance services, particularly in nations that receive them. Access to financial services for individuals includes remittances. An effective remittance offering can enhance the immediate benefits and lead to better access to financial services in the future. It can also stir up rivalry among providers and shift transactions towards official channels. ..

The Paradox of Dreams and Debt: Unveiling Economic Realities
The government’s support through policy direction, especially in the area of tax holidays, would significantly promote the growth of mobile wallet transactions and, for that matter, freedom from cash, i.e., cashless payments.