Western Union, Vodafone (UK), and its sister company Safaricom (Kenya), have began a Mobile Money Transfer trial between the UK and Kenya, in which Vodafone and Western Union users will be able to transfer funds from the UK to Kenya. The service is in trial mode through a select number of Western Union agents in Reading,

Only one day after announcing its mobile money transfer initiative together with Western Union, Vodafone has unveiled, today, its intention to buy Wayfinder. And if you don’t know anything about Wayfinder (although you should), we’ll tell you. Wayfinder Systems AB is a Swedish company that offers GPS applications for mobile phones running on Symbian, UIQ, Windows

Vodafone, Safaricom and The Western Union Company announced today that they will partner to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) service between the U.K. and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers in Kenya generally in minutes. The initiative uses Western Union’s trusted global...

Found under: mobiles, remittances, western union, vodafone, safaricom, British telco Vodafone Kenyan telco Safaricom and Western Union announced today that they pilot a Mobile Money Transfer MMT service between the U.K. and Kenya. Through the service remittances will reach Safaricom mobile subscribers in minutes. The service will use Western Union for processing cross-border remittances between th...

Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile carriers, has announced its intention to provide international mobile money transfers in collaboration with Western Union.  The two companies will launch, as a pilot, a cross-border MMT (Mobile Money Transfer) service between the UK – Vodafone’s home country – and Kenya.  Together with Safaricom, a leading Kenyan operato...

Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile carriers, has announced they are working with Western Union to provide international mobile money transfers to their users. The two companies will launch a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) between the UK and Kenya. With the help from Safaricom, a leading Kenyan operator (40% owned by the UK-based company),

A couple of weeks ago, Dubai’s Mobile Money Transfer Conference & Expo saw the launch of an interesting project to financially link migrant worker diaspora with their homelands. Western Union has begun trialling a mobile money transfer scheme for Phillipino workers in Hawaii and the United Arab Emirates, both countries with significant financial flows to the

Obopay, a provider of mobile payment solutions and Fidelity National Information Services, have launched a person-to-person mobile money transfer service for financial institutions using FIS core processing services. With the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) mobile person-to-person (P2P) service, financial institutions can introduce branded mobile payments to their customers, who can i...

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50 percent of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research's new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods such as ringtones...

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research’s new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods