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Mobile Banking: Focus on Savings
In this video Bob Christen, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation talks about the strategy of the Foundation in mobilising savings account for people who live on less than 2 dollars a day. Bob explains the various agent models that could support savings services. He says the successful mobilisation of small-scale savings requires dramatic reductions […]
Jan 17, 2011
Mobile Banking: Efforts by Banks Part 1
In this video series-1 Tamara Cook, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discusses the need for technology intervention in banking. She explains how mobile banking can solve two major problems of bankers, namely, the cost of serving clients down and reaching people who live far from the branch.
Nov 1, 2010
Opportunity International Bank of Malawi Part 1
In this video series-1, Roger Voorhies, Founder and Former CEO, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi (OIBM), talks about the biggest challenges and natural advantages of doing microfinance in Africa.
Sep 27, 2010
Technology And Microfinance The Challenge Of Integration
In this video, Abhishek Sinha, CEO of Eko, India, and Raj Khera, Vice President Business Development, FINO, discusses the benefits and challenges of integrating technology within the microfinance sector in India. Elaborating the benefit of choosing mobile phones channel of delivery, Abhishek says that the wide-reach of mobile has helped them to reach even the […]
Dec 10, 2009