Barcelona 2009 Summer

Here’s the recap from the three events I attended during the last two weeks, in case you missed something: HiT Barcelona – World Innovation Summit Pre-event announcement Intro DeviceAnywhere offers mobile application and content certification AcCells enables NFC-like payments with any mobile phone! popIn allows “searching on the spot” Scalado offers imaging solutions for mobiles…

And I’m officially done with the Mobile Money Summit. Tomorrow I’m back at my regular writing to cover other, non mobile payment topics. Again I left early to prepare all the posts for publishing, and have missed three more presentations: Creating Sophistication in Mobile Money – Roberto Rittes, Director of Oi Paggo Panel: Addressing the…

Yesterday I posted an interview with Carol Realini from Obopay. Now she’s on stage discussing mobile payments industry players and how they are in a unique position to benefit from a global approach to industry developments. She talked about financial services, wireless and service providers and how they all need to work together to build…

Next on the list was Len Pienaar, CEO of Mobile and Transact Solutions. He presented the situation in South Africa and the adoption of mobile banking services in the country. Here’s what we’ve learned from his presentation: Mobile banking in South Africa has taken off and keeps growing like crazy. Customers could top-up airtime, pay…

At the Mobile Money Summit, Africa’s mobile group, Zain, announced a partnership with Western Union. Under the terms of the agreement, Zain will link its Zap m-payment platform with Western Union’s global agent network, allowing Zap users to access WE’s 334,000 agent locations across 200 countries around the world. As a result, Zain hopes to…

GSMA used the Mobile Money Summit to launch its new Mobile Money Exchange initiative, aiming to engage with new stakeholders and sectors that are entering the mobile ecosystem. Visa and Globe Telecom are the first two founding partners of the project. From the press release: Through this initiative, the GSMA is helping financial services companies…

During the Mobile Money Summit, the GSMA announced that the first three applications to the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund have been approved to compete for the MMU Award. The first MMU Award category will be part of the Asia Mobile Awards to be presented in Hong Kong at the Mobile Asia Congress on…

After the launch we’ve heard Eric Duprat, who is General Manager of Mobile at PayPal, and who addressed some key questions such as: What are challenges that providers in developed markets have? What is holding back adoption? Where will the market be in 12-18 months? First he introduced PayPal, sharing some very interesting numbers: 148…

Celcom Malaysia’s VP of Business Innovation division, Kevin Henry, talk about the operator’s recently launched Celcom AirCash service, which allows users to transfer money from one AirCash account to the other. Moreover, they [users] can top-up airtime with AirCash (for pre-paid users), as well as check their current account balance at any time. The service…