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m-Banking and Microfinance

Mobile Youth Marketing has arrived; are you ready for Payforit?
A site devoted to the emergence of youth mobile culture and associated mobile commerce.

Mobile Phone Banking to Transform Microfinance
A UN Foundation / World Bank special  report.

Mobile Phone Banking for Rural Banks
An USAID funded m-banking project that services the customers of rural banks in Philippines.

Mobile phone banking takes off
An article in the World Bank blog on Private Sector development that discusses the impact of mobile phones on banking in Africa
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Video - Impact of Technology on Microfinance
Alex Counts, President of the Grameen Foundation talks about how mobile technology has been changing microfinance.

Video Mobile Phone Banking for Rural Banks
An USAID funded m-banking project that services the customers of rural banks in Philippines.

Video - Open Source Microfinance promoted by Grameen Foundation

Google News: Mobile Banking
A list of the most recent stories about mobile banking

Bill Gates donates $12.5 million towards mobile banking
With the rise of cell phones among the poorest global citizens the BMG Foundation has donated 12.5 Million to help create new programs to help those who don't have access to a brick and morter bank gain access via cell phones

Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme
The GSMA Development Fund has initiated the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme to accelerate the availability of mobile money services to the unbanked and those living on less than US$2 per day. Bringing together mobile operators in developing countries, banks, microfinance institutions, governments, development organisations and the private sector,MMU has the goal of reaching 20 million previously unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012.