Articles tagged with: Western Union and Mobile Payments

Kenyan Operator to Offer Mobile Money Transfers from the UK

Kenya's Safaricom and The Western Union Company are to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) service between the UK and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers in Kenya generally in minutes.  more

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900 Million Users for Mobile Banking & Payment Services by 2012

The latest figures from IMS Research show the combined forecasts for users of contactless mobile payments, mobile banking and over the air (OTA) transactions to reach 884 million in 2012. This is the cumulative number of users expected to adopt new technologies, platforms and services who are expected to complete 62 billion transactions between them in that year.  more

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