M-Pesa by the Numbers
M-Pesa was designed as a service for the unbanked in emerging markets, but its early adopters were more likely to be banked than non users....
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Getting Paid in China’s Hinterland
China's AgBank has designed a landline phone/POS terminal hybrid that people in the country's hinterland have used for transactions worth $716 billion....
How Does the 1472 Bank Model Mesh with Mobile Payments?
Banks have become experts in incorporating technologies that are beneficial to themselves and their customers, while managing to wait out the short-lived fads....
How New Technologies Are Helping, not Killing, Credit Card Companies
New mobile payments companies like Square have added millions of new merchants to the lists of the traditional card networks like Visa and MasterCard....
How Can You Sell a Service Below Cost and Still Make a Profit?
British mobile payments start-up Emu enables its users to accept cards for payment and charges precisely zero for the service. How can that be?...