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01 November 2011 ~ Comments Off

Mobile Banking in Latin America

Latin America has a big challenge to decrease the population of people without a bank account. In this part of the world approximately less than 20% of population have access to financial products[1], which is a huge opportunity risk for banks. This issue can be addressed in different directions and using mobile technology can be [...]

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12 September 2011 ~ Comments Off

NFC and Mobile Payments

The future of mobile payments and banking has become a hot topic of research and study.  This can be seen in the huge change in banking customer service to plastic credit cards being replaced with mobile applications.  However, I believe there are risks about near field communication (NFC) business services and the resulting customer behaviors. [...]

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01 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Promoting Financial Access through Mobile Banking

Banks in United States are in an exciting technological time: The eruption of mobile as a platform for payments and its transformation into a new place of banking services in their customer’s hands. But, what is happening outside of the United States? There is still a large population in Latin America, which doesn’t have access to financial [...]

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