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11-Mar-10
Mobile Banking Provider, YellowPepper, Supported 47 Million Financial Transactions Through Mobile In 2009

YellowPepper, a provider of mobile financial services in Latin America, has announced that the company supported 47 million transactions in 2009, and is well on track to surpass the number in the current year. Read more...

Mobile Banking, Americas, Western Union, Fundamo, South America, YellowPepper

09-Mar-10
MoreMagic Solutions & Western Union Launch International Air-Time Recharge Service to Mexico

46,000 Western Union Agents; Retailers Throughout the United States, Canada, Worldwide; and etopuponline.com Offer Airtime TopUps for Telcel Mobile Phones . Read more...

Americas, Western Union, MoreMagic Solutions, Air Time Transfer, Air Time, International Recharge, Recharge, etopuponline.com

18-Feb-10
mChek, Fundamo Now Certified as Mobile Money Transfer Providers in the Western Union Mobile Vendor Program

Western Union has certified two mobile financial platform providers in its Mobile Vendor Program - India-based mChek and South Africa-based Fundamo. Mobile operators who sign agreements with certified Western Union Mobile Vendors and Western Union will be able to offer their subscribers the option to send and/or receive money through Western Union's money transfer system. Other participants in the Mobile Vendor Program that are planned to be certified in the future include Utiba, Sybase 365, YellowPepper, and India-based Comviva.. Read more...

Mobile Money Transfer, EMEA, APAC, Western Union, India, Africa, Fundamo, mChek, Western Union Mobile Vendor Program, Western Union Mobile

16-Feb-10
2010 Mobile World Congress: Day 1 of Mobile Money in Review

Paul Leishman from the GSMA's Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme blogs from the Mobile World Congress conference about key highlights from day one's mobile money sessions. . Read more...

Global, Western Union, Mobile Money, GSMA, M-PESA, M-PAISA, Trivnet, Mobile World Congress, Paul Leishman, Telefonica

04-Feb-10
Western Union Shares Can Deliver

Despite a disappointing forecast for the coming year, the world's largest money-transfer company can pay off for patient investors.. Read more...

Global, Western Union, Remittances

02-Feb-10
MoneyGram's CEO, Pamela Patsley, describes the tough times it has had recently and its outlook for growth

Emirates Business interviews Pamela Patsley, CEO of MoneyGram, about its battle back from heavy sub-prime mortgage related investment losses to top line revenue growth of 44 percent in the first three quarters of 2009.. Read more...

Mobile Money Transfer, Global, Western Union, Money Transfer, MoneyGram

23-Jan-10
Kenya: Why African Diaspora is Attracting New Attention

"We are excited to move forward and see these plans come to fruition and foster economic development in sub-Saharan Africa," said Western Union's Anne McCarthy, executive vice-president of corporate affairs whose firm has been implementing an economic empowerment programme called "our world, our family".. Read more...

Mobile Remittance, EMEA, Western Union, Safaricom, Africa

14-Jan-10
Leveraging the Impact of Remittances to Africa

Western Union and MoneyGram are by far the most significant players in the region controlling 65% of all remittance payout locations . Read more...

EMEA, Western Union, Africa, Remittances, Money Gram
 
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