Webinar 30 June - Mobile Payments - From M-Pesa to Apple Pay - Critical Success Factors

Join Citadel Advantage’s STANLEY EPSTEIN on Thursday June 30, 11:00 PM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT.

This webinar offers a brief history of payments and detail basic mobile payment models in operation today.

Aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the structuring of mobile payments this webinar will assist both operating staff as well as decision-makers to find their way in this complex new payments landscape. Of all the thousands of mobile payment schemes in operation across the globe many are doomed to failure. Yet there are some critical success factors that point the way to mobile payments success. These factors can be drawn from those few that have succeeded. This webinar will highlight these critical success factors, ensuring that you too can get it right the first time.

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Kenya to set world record $27bn mobile money transfers in 2015

From RT -

“Kenya’s mobile money transactions hit $23 billion in the 10-months to October which is $4 billion more than in the same period last year, according to data from the country’s Central Bank.

The East African country leads the world in mobile money use, and could make a new record this year. Kenya’s 10-month transactions equal the country’s entire transfers for 2014.”

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Safaricom hits banks with new M-Pesa fees

From Mobile Money Africa –
“Safaricom has introduced charges for the transfer of funds from customers’ bank accounts to third-party M-Pesa wallets, sealing a loophole that lenders have been using to by-pass the mobile phone company when sending money.

Wednesday the telco said the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) had approved the charges, effective on December 1.

The announcement comes against the backdrop of a social media war between Safaricom and Equity Bank over fees charged on subscribers to Equitel, its telecommunications subsidiary.

Equity Bank claims that Safaricom has increased its charges for sending money from M-Pesa to Equitel to discourage money transfers from Equitel to third parties on its M-Pesa platform, an allegation that Safaricom has denied.”

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