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Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq

Iraq

Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq

Hussein Kanber agha says his company has built a user friendly mobile wallet that will allow Iraqis to make payments using their...

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Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Pinpay, ready for the big time

In 2013 mobile bill payment platform Pinpay had to make a decision: shut up shop or start again from scratch. They went with the latter....

Lebanon Central Bank Regulations Bankmed

Fransabank to invest $2.5M investment in Lebanon’s Pinpay

Lebanon

Fransabank to invest $2.5M investment in Lebanon’s Pinpay

Lebanon’s leading fintech startup, Pinpay, is to receive a $2.5 million investment from Fransabank. The mobile payment and...

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Will wearables be the future of mobile payments?

Global

Will wearables be the future of mobile payments?

Bank Audi displays its 'Tap2Pay' at ArabNet Beirut earlier this year. (Image via Payfort) In his second piece on mobile payments,...

Payfort mobile payments

Google, Apple and Samsung, pitching the mobile wallet

Global

Google, Apple and Samsung, pitching the mobile wallet

Bye to coins and receipts, hello to the phone? (Image via issaasad.me) What will the wallet of the future look like? This question...

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PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon

Lebanon

PinPay leads mobile payments trend in Lebanon

Mobile phones in emerging markets are still widely used for texting, making phone calls, taking pictures, reading news, and using...

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Egyptian government gets digital with payment platform Fawry

Egyptian government gets digital with payment platform Fawry

When it comes to the global trend of making financial services available to all segments of society, the quickening pace is as...

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Wamda launches Wamda Debates in Casablanca

Wamda launches Wamda Debates in Casablanca

When a topic is good, time always runs out. We've seen that first hand at our Mix N' Mentor events where we often are forced to cut c...

PAYMENT Wamda Debates mobile payments

PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa

PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa

M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans...

mobile payments Payment systems Kenya

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