The Last Frontier for Branchless Banking: State of Play in WAEMUby Sarah Rotman : Wednesday, July 6, 2011We’ve been profiling the state of play of the branchless banking industry in various countries over the last few weeks. Today we look at a region of the world that is in many ways in a class by itself. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), or UEMOA in French, is a customs and [...] Branchless Banking in South Africaby Chris Bold : Tuesday, June 28, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. You can see all our postings here for Brazil, Mexico, India, Pakistan and Ghana. Today we continue with our analysis of South Africa and share this summary note on the branchless banking industry. South [...] Ghana: Aiming for interoperability in branchless bankingby Claudia McKay : Thursday, June 16, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. We have presented our learning from Brazil, Mexico, India and Pakistan. Today we continue with our analysis of Ghana and share this summary note on the branchless banking industry. With 6 live branchless banking [...] Pakistan: Branchless Banking’s Business Model Laboratoryby Chris Bold : Tuesday, May 24, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. We have presented our learning from Brazil, Mexico and India over the last few weeks. Today we continue with our analysis of Pakistan and share this summary note on the branchless banking industry. Pakistan [...] Branchless Banking Gains Momentum in Indiaby Greg Chen : Monday, May 9, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. We have presented our learning from Brazil and Mexico over the last few weeks. Today we offer a snapshot of the conditions for branchless banking in India drawn from a summary note of the Indian [...] Mexico: Promising moves towards new banking modelsby Xavier Faz and Paul Breloff : Wednesday, April 27, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. Last week we presented our learnings from Brazil. Today we continue with our analysis of Mexico and share this summary note on the Mexican branchless banking industry. Mexico’s financial sector is beginning a significant [...] Meanwhile in Brazil…are we there yet?by Kabir Kumar and Yanina Seltzer : Thursday, April 21, 2011Over the past several months, we have taken a close look at the branchless banking industry in a few key countries. We start here by presenting our learnings from Brazil and share our summary note on the industry. We will continue in the coming weeks to look at several other markets, including Mexico, India and Pakistan. [...] Questions and Comments for Branchless Banking Country NotesLeave a Reply |
 |
Technology BlogSUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOGOr, follow this blog via RSS EDITOR'S PICK
MOST DISCUSSEDTurning Insights into Products: Gambling on Applab Money (11)Cash Really is King (9) The Allure of a Cashless Society: Is it just distracting us from our goal? (6) Will platform interconnection help mobile money and financial inclusion expand? (5) What is the Telecom Regulator’s Role in Fostering Mobile Money? (5) What do International Remittances mean for Mobile Money? CGAP releases study on remittances (3) Top 10 List: Powerful Partnerships in Branchless Banking (3) Technology challenges accompany the decision to offer voluntary savings (3) Jipange Kusave: a mobile-only attack on the Kenyan mattress (3) Interoperability and related issues in branchless banking and mobile money (3) MOST POPULAR: May 2012BLOG SERIES
TAG CLOUDAccess To Finance Afghanistan Africa Agents Aid Effectiveness Bangladesh Banks Brazil Burkina Faso Business Case Cambodia CGAP China Colombia Cote d'Ivoire Credit Customer adoption Customer Value Democratic Republic of Congo East Asia-Pacific Ethiopia Europe and Central Asia Events Fiji Financial Education Financial Literacy G2P Ghana Guest Blogger Haiti Highlighted Articles Implementation India Innovation Kenya Latin America M-PESA Malawi Maldives Mali Mexico Microfinance Middle East-North Africa MIS Mobile Banking Mobile Phones Mongolia News Niger Nigeria Outsourced IT Pakistan Pakistan: Tameer Microfinance Bank Peru Philippines Philippines: Globe Telecom Podcast Policy POS Presentations Projects Publications Regulation Remittances Research Rural Russia Rwanda Savings Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa South Africa: Wizzit South Asia Sudan Tanzania Technology Telecom Uganda Urban Value Chains Windsor2009 Zambia ARCHIVEOTHER BLOGSSEARCH THIS BLOG |
One Comment
January 5th, 2012 at 2:55 am, Ashis Kumar Sharma ()
We have recently launched our Branchless Banking Initiative in some remote hilly area in Nepal using Magnetic Card and online biometric authentication thru POS. We have piloted the syatem in few locations and are planning to scale it up. We have also designed our own product offerings using the system. Being in initial stage, we are looking for handholding in creating new products,guidance & support in documentations, operational guidelines and system and technology audit. We have been using locally developed application (switching, agent & transaction management, POS etc). The initiative has been supported partially by UNDP & UNCDF under Enhancing Access to Financial Services program. Please feel freee to contact us for any additional details.
Ashis Kumar Sharma, Head Electronic Payment Solutions, Siddhartha Bank Limited, Kathmandu, Nepal.