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Blog Series

Embracing Failure for Ultimate Success in Branchless Banking

Failure is something that every company faces on their path to success. The emerging branchless banking industry has faced its fair share of challenges and even failures as providers around the world seek to serve new customers through new channels. This blog series will provide an honest discussion of failures that have occurred and how we can draw on those failures as a necessary part of the equation for future growth. Our hope is that failure, if acknowledged and learned from, can be integrated into future creation and lead to breakthrough successes.

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Blog
01 May 2014

Balancing Regulatory Uncertainty in Branchless Banking Design

For providers of mobile money services looking to navigate complex regulatory environments, there are valuable lessons that can be extracted from failed experiences - which can sometimes be traced back to challenging legal environments.
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Blog
04 April 2014

Turning Good Ideas into Profitable Products

In the second in our series on failure, we learn some key lessons from the Grameen Foundation's AppLab Money.
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Blog
31 March 2014

Redefining Failure: Why Getting it Wrong is Part of the Equation

In the first of a blog series on innovation in branchless banking, we take a look at why failure might actually be something to strive for.

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