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By Richard Matotek, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Utiba. 18 months ago, we created a new business within Utiba called Converging Payments. This week marks a critical milestone as we publicly launch this strategy with the formal announcement of our partnership with MasterCard and participation in their Mobile Money Partnership, for which Utiba is the founding [...]
By Jesus Luzardo, Executive Vice President of Sales, Utiba. Mobile money deployments in Latin America have been delayed compared to Africa and Asia Pacific, and clearly it is not due to a lack of mobile phone penetration which in many countries is well over 100%. The delay is due in part to a lack of [...]
April 13, 2011 By Farhad M Madan, Utiba Sales Director, Europe We live and breathe oxygen every moment of our lives, yet how many of us consciously give too much thought to the process? All that we think about is living, running, walking, and doing the different physical activities of existing. The amount of Oxygen [...]
March 23, 2011 By Tushar Belwal, Product Manager What is the next logical step for banks once they have created and deployed a micro-credit service? The simple answer: Micro-Savings Micro-savings basically mean low denomination deposits (less than $10) made at higher frequencies as compared to a systematic savings plan that may require a monthly/quarterly/yearly deposit. [...]
February 15, 2011 By Surajit Bhattacharjee Mobile Commerce is the buzzword in both telecom and the banking sector across the Globe. There are more than 50 platform vendors claiming they are ready with a solution that can enable all kind of financial services for the mobile subscriber from Bank account enquiry services to micro payments, [...]
Utiba Announces International Remittance Clearinghouse Service Mobile to Mobile Remittances to Revolutionize and Expand Market Singapore, Feb 11, 2011:- Utiba Pte Ltd, a pioneer and global leader in mobile financial transaction software, launched today a new initiative targeting the international mobile remittances market. The new initiative offers a neutral corridor routing and currency exchange clearinghouse [...]
mCommerce services can be divided into the following categories: Prepaid Airtime Transactions Voucher-less airtime distribution Digital content retailing Peer-to-Peer airtime sharing Mobile wallet transactions Peer-to-Peer payments Retail payments Funds Transfers International remittances Bill payments Travel ticketing Movie/concert ticketing Government payments like taxes, tolls etc. Donations Mobile banking Branchless banking Loan disbursement and repayment Banking informational [...]