MWC: mobile roaming provider Roamware is pushing mobile payments

Roamware is one of those big companies you don’t hear about all that often. It handles mobile roaming for 418 operators around the world, in over 150 countries. I had a great chat with Abraham Punnoose, VP of Marketing & Business Development, yesterday and discovered that one of the things we were both very interested in was mobile payments and transactions - and it turns out that Roamware is extremely active in that arena.

Mobile is part of the strategy for leading global payment company

MoneyGram International is a major player in world payment services. Based in Minnesota, it provides money transfers to 190 different countries, and claims to be the world’s second biggest payment company. Spurred on by underperformance in its Middle East market, MoneyGram is starting major push for growth - and mobile will play a big part in that.

Mobile money goes international, cheap and quick with m-Via

At the the Under The Radar conference near San Francisco today, there have been some really great mobile finance start-ups pitching to the crowd. For those who love mobile payments and m-commerce as much as I do, you’ll be interested in hearing the cheap, international money transfer service being launched by m-Via. There was a panel of expert judges on hand to grill m-Via CEO Bill Baryhar as he pitched the service, and I’ve included some of their pertinent questions here.

Western Union brings Kenyan mobile cash-transfer service to UK

Rating: Hugely popular micro-transaction service migrates to UK
Kenyan mobile cash-transfer service M-PESA (it stands for “mobile cash”) is being brought to the UK thanks to a deal between Safaricom, Vodafone and Western Union. Safaricom is the company who created the service, back in March 2007.
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M-PESA is a massively popular service which was, [...]

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