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Mobile Money Webinar: Coping with Dormancy
January 3, 2012 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The third instalment of the Mobile Money Explained Live Webinar series is scheduled on the 17th of January at 2:30pm UK time (10:30pm MNL time). One of the biggest issues facing mobile money providers at the moment is how to cope with dormancy. Maintaining high usage rates, especially in increasingly competitive markets, is not easy and [...]
No Bank Nearby? No Problem. Cellphone Banking Booms in Developing World
December 14, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
Worldcrunch – Mexico City – In the Philippines, a trip to the bank can sometimes take two days – and might require a boat to get there. Such is life in a country that’s made up of some 7,000 islands, not all of which have their own bank branches. Those who are not willing or [...]
Smarter than a smartphone?
November 29, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
FinanceAsia – Mobile telephone capabilities may have come a long way since the days of the brick-size device, but how much can they really change banking? Communicating through radio link has come a long way since World War II. With voice calls, text messages, mobile internet access and built-in cameras, today’s smartphone is already a [...]
Rural Banks Providing Financial Education in Branchless Banking
November 21, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
In Filipino grammar, adding the prefix mag is a nifty way to verbalize a noun. This extends from everyday, colloquial conversation Mag-kape tayo (Let’s have coffee) Mag-sine tayo (Let’s watch a movie) to more profound exhortations, like Mag-bago na tayo. (It’s time we make a change). The United States Agency for International Development-supported Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines [...]
RBAP-MABS Holds Mobile Phone Banking & GCASH Accreditation Course for Northern Luzon Rural Bankers
October 29, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The United States Agency for International Development-supported Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines–Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP-MABS) Program conducted a Regional GCASH Accreditation Training for North Luzon rural banks in Clarkfield Pampanga last October 28, 2011. The Globe GXI team – composed of their training team, North Luzon area managers, and the account manager [...]
Free Webinar on Sound Expansion of Mobile Financial Services: A Risk Matrix Approach for Developing Enabling Environments
October 19, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The public is invited to join the free webinar on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mobile Financial Services Speaker’s Series seminar on October 21, 2011, at 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. EST (9:00 – 11:00 p.m. Manila Time). In this webinar, Michael Ingram of Innovations for Poverty Action and Maria Stephens of USAID [...]
Mobile Money for the Developing World
September 21, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The Asia Foundation – A rapidly increasing number of people across the globe are now staying connected to one another via a mobile phone device – whether it’s an iPhone, Nokia, or Samsung. In fact, the United Nations reported earlier this year that the worldwide figure for cell phone subscriptions had topped five billion at [...]
Visayas and Mindanao Rural Banks attend Mobile Phone Banking Accreditation Training Course
September 10, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
Fourteen representatives from eight rural banks based in the Visayas and Mindanao attended the Mobile Phone Banking Accreditation training and refresher course at the Diamond Suites in Cebu City last September 9. The training was organized by the United States Agency for International Development-supported Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines-Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP-MABS) [...]
Philippine Experiences in Mobile Phone Banking highlighted during the Asia Pacific Mobile Financial Services Summit
September 8, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The United States Agency for International Development-supported Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines-Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP-MABS) Program joined mobile financial service stakeholders at the 5th Annual Mobile Financial Services – Asia Pacific Summit held at the Waterfront, Singapore on September 6-7, 2011. The annual conference gathers partners in mobile, banking, business and technology industries [...]
RBAP-MABS Holds Regional Mobile Phone Banking Accreditation Course for Luzon Banks
August 27, 2011 By cbalingit Leave a Comment
The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines–Microenterprise Access to Banking Services Program (RBAP-MABS) in cooperation with Globe’s G-Xchange Inc. (GXI) conducted a regional GCASH accreditation training and refresher course on August 25, 2011 at the RBAP Conference Room in Intramuros, Manila. Thirty-three (33) participants from eighteen (18) rural banks from Luzon completed the course. Read [...]