Archive for: Podcast
by Jim Rosenberg : Tuesday, November 10, 2009
We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Michèle Scanlon is Founder & Principal Consultant at Green Giraffe, an emerging market telecom & payment consultancy based in South Africa providing strategic advisory and project management services. Michèle has been covering global telecoms emerging markets for 12 years with a special focus on prepaid mobile commercial strategies evolving into other prepaid stored value applications such as prepaid electricity and mobile financial services.
I spoke with her a few months ago – to put mobile banking in context, as well as understand some of the factors that will affect how little or much mobile banking will grow in Africa based on what she sees around the continent.
Download the Podcast – Michèle Scanlon
by Jim Rosenberg : Friday, October 30, 2009
We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
Dave Parratt is with MTN Mobile Money, based in South Africa. I spoke with Dave earlier this year to hear his views on how a mobile network operator can make the switch from selling prepaid airtime to a banking relationship. As he explains, it’s easier said than done, though he’s bullish about the future.
Download the Podcast – Dave Parratt
by Jim Rosenberg : Wednesday, October 14, 2009
We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Ignacio Mas is Deputy Director in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ignacio has been a Senior Adviser in the Technology Program at CGAP, Vice President of Marketing and Account Management at interTouch, Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments in Europe at Intel Capital. Ignacio has been a Visiting Professor of International Business at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Ignacio was among the workshop participants at our event in Capetown earlier this year. Though the nascent growth of branchless banking in places such as Kenya and the Philippines is truly exciting, Ignacio explained why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on savings as a way to ameliorate poverty, and how technologies such as card networks and mobile phones might help. Download the Podcast – Ignacio Mas
by Jim Rosenberg : Thursday, October 1, 2009
We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Anuradha is an international trade and financial sector professional with over fifteen years of experience covering Asia and Africa. She is currently Acting as Team Leader of DFID’s Financial Sector Team as well as leads on their engagement on Branchless Banking. Prior to joining DFID, Anuradha was a banker with ABN Amro and ANZ Grindlays Bank in India. She is an economist with an MBA from Mumbai University and an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I had the opportunity to speak with Anu for a few minutes on the side of a scenarios workshop that was held in Cape Town last spring. Here she reflects on the role that development organizations can play in increasing access to finance along with governments and the private sector, and the especially promising concept of using government transfers to increase access to finance for the poor.
Download the Podcast – Anu Bajaj
by Jim Rosenberg : Thursday, September 17, 2009
We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Before she became a Vice President in the World Bank, I had the opportunity to speak with Shamshad Akhtar for a few minutes on the side of a scenarios workshop that was held in Cape Town last spring. She had recently completed her service as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (2006-2009), a Federal Ministerial level ranking. During this period she was also a Governor of the IMF. In 2006 and 2007 she was nominated Asia’s Best Central Bank Governor by Emerging Markets and the Banker’s Trust.
I asked her to say a bit about her views on the role that regulators and policymakers can play in fostering branchless banking as one of many tools to increase financial inclusion.
Download the Podcast – Shamshad Akhtar
by Jim Rosenberg : Thursday, May 28, 2009
Leading up to the 2009 Mobile Money Summit and beyond, we’re running a podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog, by joining our prediction market, or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Jonathan Donner is a Researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India. Previously, Jonathan was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and worked for the consultancies Monitor Company and The OTF Group. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Communication Theory and Research.
Speaking on the side of a workshop that was held in Cape Town last month, Jonathan shared his views on how cash and electronic money aren’t so different when it comes to a question of trust, and how branchless banking is helping poor people spend less time and money to do simple financial transactions.
Interview with Jonathan Donner
by Jim Rosenberg : Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Starting today and running through the 2009 Mobile Money Summit, we begin a podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog, by joining our prediction market, or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim
 Claire Alexandre has advised Vodafone Group and its subsidiaries on regulatory issues related to mobile payment and money transfer services over the last six years. She has led Vodafone’s contributions to new EU legislation (including on electronic money, anti-money laundering, payment services) and been instrumental in shaping and representing the views of the mobile industry on these subjects. As part of the team leading Vodafone’s effort to launch mobile payment and money transfer services such as M-PESA, Claire is managing Vodafone’s input to financial services regulation to promote the adoption of enabling regulatory frameworks. Prior to joining Vodafone’s Public Policy team in 1999, she managed regulatory affairs for France Telecom in Scandinavia. I spoke with her at a recent scenarios workshop held in Capetown, South Africa.
Interview with Claire Alexandre
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