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Managing the Risk of Fraud in Mobile Money

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Thursday 4 Oct 2012 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

Risk management is a key component to the commercial success of any business. Effective risk management underlies sustainable commercial growth because it protects two key commercial assets: reputation and revenue. Download:

Designing & Delivering Agent Training for Mobile Money Deployments

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Thursday 20 Sep 2012 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

The ability of mobile money agents to smoothly deliver cash and e-money to customers has major bearing on the success of a mobile money service. To drive high level agent performance, training is one of the more powerful levers ...

Moses, Masai Village, Hell’s Gate National Park, Kenya

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Saturday 30 Jun 2012 | AgriTech | Case studies | Connected Society | English | Kenya | Life stories | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Resource Type | Sub-Saharan Africa | Type | Video |

In June 2012, Mobile for Development travelled to Kenya to meet the Masai Villagers of Hell’s Gate National Park near Lake Naivasha in Kenya. The Masai are pastoralists, farming sheep, chicken and cows and selling both primary and ...

Marketing Mobile Money: Top 3 Challenges

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Saturday 30 Jun 2012 | English | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Video |

In this presentation, Yasmina McCarty discusses the top 3 challenges associated with the ...

Emerging Practices in Mobile Microinsurance

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Monday 18 Jun 2012 | Building the financial ecosystem | Case study | English | French | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Spanish |

The objective of this paper is to outline the opportunities for leveraging the mobile channel, including mobile money, to deliver microinsurance, and to share examples of attempts to do so from around the world. We hope that readers ...

Sophia, Masai Village, Hell’s Gate National Park, Kenya

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Friday 15 Jun 2012 | Case studies | Connected Society | Connected Women | Country | English | Gender | Kenya | Language | Life stories | mHealth | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Programme | Region | Resource | Resource Type | Sub-Saharan Africa | Type | Video |

In June 2012, Mobile for Development travelled to Kenya to meet the Masai Villagers of Hell’s Gate National Park near Lake Naivasha in Kenya. The Masai are pastoralists, farming sheep, chicken and cows and selling both primary and ...

State of the Industry: Results from the 2011 Global Mobile Money Adoption Survey

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Wednesday 9 May 2012 | English | French | Global | Global and regional studies | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish | State of the industry and trends |

The mobile money industry, as measured by the number of deployments around the world, has grown rapidly. As of April 2012, there were 123 that offered basic financial services to customers. But the number of customers who are actually ...

The case for interoperability: Assessing the value that the interconnection of mobile money services would create for customers and operators

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Thursday 23 Feb 2012 | Case study | English | French | Global | Industry assets and standards | Interoperability | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

In this article, we ask whether there is a case for interconnecting mobile money services. To answer the question, we start by evaluating the extent to which customers are likely to value the ability to transact across ...

Branchless and Mobile Banking Solutions for the Poor: A Survey of the Literature

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Thursday 2 Feb 2012 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource |

Reviews the emerging literature on the definitions and model taxonomies employed in mobile banking; the status and drivers of global adoption of these schemes; the take-up and usage patterns of customers and their socio-economic ...

Mobile Money in Latin America A case study of Tigo Paraguay

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Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 | Case studies | Case study | English | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Paraguay | Resource | Spanish |

This case study provides a summary of the Paraguayan mobile financial ecosystem, highlighting the favourable conditions which have contributed to the development of Mobile Money. Download:

MMU 2011 Annual Report

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Sunday 10 Jul 2011 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global | Global and regional studies | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource |

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Mobile Money Definitions

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Friday 1 Apr 2011 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Spanish | Toolkit |

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Driving customer usage of mobile money for the unbanked

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Monday 7 Mar 2011 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

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Mapping and Effectively Structuring Operator-Bank Relationships to Offer Mobile Money for the Unbanked

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Monday 7 Mar 2011 | English | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource |

This publication introduces the idea of the "business owner”: the bank, operator, or third party that assumes the bulk of the financial risk of offering a mobile money service. The business owner ...

Regulatory Impact on Business Model Choice

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Friday 11 Feb 2011 | English | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Policy and regulation | Research | Resource |

Gives an overview of which business models are a given option for the individual mobile operator depending on the regulatory situation in the country of interest. Download:

Building, Incentivising and Managing a Network of Mobile Money Agents: A Handbook for Mobile Network Operators

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Thursday 10 Feb 2011 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

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Is there Really any Money in Mobile Money?

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Thursday 9 Dec 2010 | English | French | Global | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource | Spanish |

From Afghanistan to Zambia, mobile network operators (MNOs) in developing countries are launching mobile money services at a rapid pace. Yet while their enthusiasm to enter this business is clear – to date 78 deployments have been ...

Mobile Money: Methodology for Assessing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks

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Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 | English | French | Global | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Policy and regulation | Research | Resource | Spanish |

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International Remittance Service Providers

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Saturday 1 May 2010 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global | International remittances | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Research | Resource |

An overview of mobile International Remittance Service Provider service offerings. Download:

True Money and M-PESA: Two Unique Paths to Scale (Focus: Thailand and Kenya)

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Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 | Case studies | Case study | East Asia and Pacific | English | Kenya | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Thailand |

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