The alliance between the biggest providers of financial and telecommunications services in Latin America, dubbed "Transfer," will allow customers to use basic mobile telephones to set up bank accounts, transfer money, withdraw cash from automatic teller machines, make purchases in stores, receive payments and pay bills.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Citi and América Móvil in mobile banking venture
Citigroup and América Móvil have announced a $50m joint venture to offer mobile banking services to millions of people throughout Latin America, starting with Mexico.
The alliance between the biggest providers of financial and telecommunications services in Latin America, dubbed "Transfer," will allow customers to use basic mobile telephones to set up bank accounts, transfer money, withdraw cash from automatic teller machines, make purchases in stores, receive payments and pay bills.
The alliance between the biggest providers of financial and telecommunications services in Latin America, dubbed "Transfer," will allow customers to use basic mobile telephones to set up bank accounts, transfer money, withdraw cash from automatic teller machines, make purchases in stores, receive payments and pay bills.
Labels:
America Movil,
Citibank,
mobile payment
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Will AI Fuel a Huge "Services into Products" Shift?
As content streaming has disrupted music, is disrupting video and television, so might AI potentially disrupt industry leaders ranging from ...
-
We have all repeatedly seen comparisons of equity value of hyperscale app providers compared to the value of connectivity providers, which s...
-
It really is surprising how often a Pareto distribution--the “80/20 rule--appears in business life, or in life, generally. Basically, the...
-
One recurring issue with forecasts of multi-access edge computing is that it is easier to make predictions about cost than revenue and infra...
No comments:
Post a Comment