CGAP Seminar - Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?

September 3, 2008    

The promise of mobile banking is well known; harder to find are examples of solid implementation and mass roll out beyond payments and transfers. In “Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?” CGAP examines the business case and deployment options for smaller banks and microfinance institutions. With effective partnerships and technical choices (which affect customer uptake), we believe there is a strong market opportunity to reach poor people with a broad range of financial services.

In this half-day seminar, explore questions such as:

• How to design systems that use banking agents while safeguarding the interests of customers and agents?
• Can mobile phone banking really fulfill its potential, and how do microfinance institutions participate?
• What is required in the back office side of things – information systems – for MFIs to achieve efficiencies and scale?

Date: Oct. 1, 2008
Time: 9:30am – 1:15pm
Location: The World Bank, Washington DC

Speakers
Kabir Kumar and Ignacio Mas

This event will be webcast and seats are limited. To reserve your spot please rsvp to Technology Program no later than Sept. 20, 2008. Please put ‘rsvp seminar’ in the subject line.