We want your questions – Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?
by Jim Rosenberg : Monday, September 29, 2008
This Wednesday, CGAP’s Kabir Kumar and Ignacio Mas will lead a discussion based on their recent paper: Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?
The announcement is below. Check back here for updates on Wednesday. Submit your questions by commenting on this blog post or just write to me at jrosenberg@worldbank.org.
-Jim
Join CGAP for an interactive webcast on Wed. Oct. 1 from 09:30 to 12:45 from Washington DC | all times US Eastern (GMT -5).
9:30 – 10:30
Why: The logic of branchless banking
How: Developing and managing branchless banking channels
11:00 – 12:45
For whom: choices for banks, operators’ role, customer adoption
The good, the bad, and the ugly of m-banking
Submit questions ahead of time or during the webcast – write to Jim Rosenberg at jrosenberg@worldbank.org.
Background
The promise of mobile banking is well known; harder to find are examples of solid implementation and mass roll out beyond payments and transfers. In Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom? CGAP examines the business case and deployment options for smaller banks and microfinance institutions. With effective partnerships and technical choices (which affect customer uptake), we believe there is a strong market opportunity to reach poor people with a broad range of financial services.
Wednesday you can access the webcast at: http://webcast-ext.worldbank.org/streaming/live.ram
We will archive and share the video later.
One Comment
September 30th, 2008 at 5:39 am, Julien ()
When it comes to finalizing partnerships with telco operator, you need to reach a critical size (esp. in terms of bargaining power, reasonable size to ensure the telco will handle properly your maintainance and follow-up requests). Unfortuntaley, that is not the case for most MFIs.
What m-banking solutions are available for small/infant MFIs (+/- 2,000 clients)?