Tag: India

Setting the stage to bank the unbanked in India

According to the World Bank, bank account penetration in India has increased dramatically from 35% to 53% between 2011 and 2014. Thanks to India’s financial inclusion initiative, Jan-Dhan Yojana, a record breaking 125.5 million bank accounts have been opened since its launch August 15, 2014. However, the majority of these accounts, around 84.5 million, are […]

How to succeed in Mobile Money

Earlier this month our Director of Marketing for Mobile Financial Services (MFS) at Gemalto, Naomi Lurie, took some time to talk to Digital Money about the past, present, and the future of mobile money.

Smart cities in Asia are a necessity, not a luxury

In the third post of our blog series celebrating Mobile World Expo in Shanghai last week, we’re exploring the role that M2M communications has to play (and will continue to play) in the Asia Pacific region. In the near future, everyone will be dealing with enormous quantities of data from all areas of industry and […]