The Vicious Cycle of Mobile Money: How to Break Out
Mobile Money is one of the fastest growing service industries worldwide and has already helped connect millions of unbanked people to financial services for the first time. In the past year however, we have seen a deceleration in growth rates as the industry is trapped in a vicious circle of high infrastructure costs and — in consequence — high transaction fees thus prohibiting expansion of mobile payments into daily life. This article proposes a fresh look at the full payments ecosystem and a new approach to tackle this challenge.
FineTech50: Blockchain and Bitcoin Businesses “Reaching a New Level”
FinTechCity, a company based out of Europe that focuses on highlighting top European companies in the FinTech space has released their annual list of the FinTech50 2016. In addition to this industry-best list, FinTechCity puts on events, forums and webinars hosted and sponsored by some of Europe’s biggest FinTech experts. This year’s FinTech50 list includes nine blockchain and Bitcoin related companies, which holds significance as in late 2015, heading into early 2016, many influential financial executives across the world declared an interest in blockchain technology’s application. These companies were Bitnet, Blockchain.info, Elliptic, Everledger, Ethereum, Monetas, Tradle, Setl, and Xnotes Alliance.
La cryptofinance promet de faire exploser la richesse dans le monde
Invité de la BNS, un représentant de cette nouvelle technologie basée sur la communication mobile promet des coûts de transaction inférieurs au cash, au bitcoin et à la finance actuelle
Digital Currency Gets Traction in African Country
Tunisia’s National Postal service, La Poste Tunisienne, has launched a national payment platform to make instant mobile money transfers, online payments, remittances, and other transactions easier.
Tunisian Post puts eDinar on Monetas mobile platform
Today Monetas, the Swiss software startup is announcing the pilot launch of its software technology in Tunisia in partnership with the Tunisian Post Office, La Poste Tunisienne, and Tunisian technology startup DigitUs.