Greg Reeve, chief operating officer, mobile financial services, Millicom, London, UK, @seat2d Greg leads mobile financial services operations across eleven markets in Africa and Latin America.
And they want to dispatch mobile financial counselors to the homes of the elderly and the disabled.
Mobile financial services could lift incomes by $50bn by enabling farmers to borrow and financial providers to lend.
True, some onshore economies are doing much the same, but OFCs use taxes to attract mobile financial capital (and profits) without any "real" business underpinning it.
Stone Atwine, CEO of remit.ug, Kampala, Uganda @StoneAtwine Stone's work focuses on mobile financial services targeting international remittances, bill payments, conditional transfers and bulk payments in Africa.
Stone Atwine, co-founder, Remit.Ug, Kampala, Uganda, @StoneAtwine Stone is CEO of Redcore Interactive, a payments company that specialises in mobile financial services.
The potential is great in Latin America, where only 35 percent of the people have bank accounts, only 19 percent have bank cards but 90 percent have mobile phones, said Pablo Montesano, the head of mobile financial services at Telefónica.
The IMF system of adjustable pegs proved unworkable in a world in which there were huge volumes of internationally mobile financial capital that could be shifted out of countries in balance-of-payments difficulties and into the stronger nations.
The Mobile Financial Services team works with financial institutions and mobile network operators to research, design, and scale new financial services for the mobile channel.
Existing publisher partners include WEB.DE Mobile, Financial Times Deutschland and RTL who have utilized apprupt's white label app store front to offer readers a preselection of apps.
Lisa Kienzle manages all operations and strategy for Grameen Foundation's Mobile Financial Services efforts in Uganda.
