Head of Mobile Channel Strategy for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and the VP of eChannels Strategy for CIBC will discuss their extremely successful Mobile Banking services as well as perspectives on the future of Mobile Banking and Mobile Payments in Canada.
Mobile Money Canada 2011, Canada’s largest conference on mobile payments, mobile banking, and mobile money transfer, to showcase the world’s leading mobile money visionaries, including experienced thought leaders from DonRiver Inc., Royal Bank of Canada, Safaricom M-Pesa, Roshan M-Paisa, BOKU Inc., Telepin, and Yankee Group.
This documentary video features Michael Joseph speaking about the M-Kesho bank account, introduced by both Equity and Safaricom. M-Kesho customers can earn interest from as little as Ksh1; withdraw cash from their Equity Bank Account to their M-PESA accounts; deposit through their M-PESA accounts to their M-KESHO Bank account.
Former Safaricom boss Michael Joseph has been appointed as the first World Bank fellow to help steer a new global fellowship program that has been established by the World Bank to encourage the flow of mobile banking knowledge and innovative ideas between high level experts in their field.
Michael Joseph, the immediate former CEO of Safaricom, has been tapped by Vodafone to spearhead the expansion of M-Pesa to other African countries as part of a plan to have a seamless mobile money transfer service on the continent.
2011 Mobile Money Forum – Event SummaryThe 2nd annual Mobile Money Forum hosted by Neotelis took place earlier this week on June 21st and 22nd at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Montreal. The folks at Neotelis did a fabulous job of pulling together key participants from within the Canadian Mobile…
Good day all, M-Com, a mobile banking and payments platform provider has been acquired by Fiserv. This is big news for the industry as both companies have hundreds of mobile banking deployments across the U.S., Canada, and around the world. M-Com has been active in mobile financial services since 2000 and…
Hi Mobile Money Folks,Hope all is well. I was forwarded a job posting that I thought might interest some of you out there. Scotiabank, one of Canada's largest and most international banks, is looking for someone to lead their mobile banking initiatives. If you are interested, please see the post…
So where do operators actually drive revenue from in a mobile money project? The business case is built around a few main sources:
1) Commissions on Transactions: Probably the most obvious source of revenue is the commission that is paid by end users on each transaction. Mobile money service providers…
If you are interested, in Mobile Payments, you will want to watch this interview with Jack Dorsey, Twitter Chairman and Square founder. Jack describes that the secret to Square's success is its simplicity. In addition, for those still trying to figure out Twitter, he breaks down how Twitter came into…