Tag: alternative payment methods

GoPago's biggest handicap in its quest to nuke the country's cash registers and, eventually, slay Square itself, is that it is limited to San Francisco....

Africa has gone its own way in developing and implementing mobile payments technologies and it's proving to be leading in the right direction....

Egypt's Fawry, like M-Pesa, cannot possibly be successfully implemented in a developed country, but it is making it easier for users to make payments....

Kenya has undergone a revolution since 2007, causing start-ups to use M-Pesa as "a base for their business" and Nairobi to become the "Silicon Savannah"....

Payday loans are no more or less damaging than, say, bounced checks. This is no exuberant praise, but it is not a damning verdict, either....