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What We’re Watching: Podcast on Mobile Phone Banking from Gates Foundation

By Opportunity International on November 10, 2010
Click here to watch the podcast series "Mobile Money-Mobile Banking" from the Gates Foundation.

Click here to watch the podcast series "Mobile Money-Mobile Banking" from the Gates Foundation.

There’s an opportunity for banking to be an innovator. To take advantage of technology that’s out there to solve the problem of how do we serve clients in a more cost-effective way, closer to where they live.
-From the podcast: “Efforts by Banks: OIBM, Part 2″ in the series “Mobile Money-Mobile Banking“

Tamara Cook, program officer, Financial Services for the Poor in the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks about the development and growth of mobile phone banking at Opportunity International Bank of Malawi (OIBM). To access the ”Mobile Money-Mobile Banking” series from the Gates Foundation, click here.

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Comments

  • ljj

    Great interviews with Tamara Cook! Love that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Opportunity continue to strive to reduce the cost of banking and bring banking products to the rural poor. As Tamara says not all pilot programs have worked but out of each pilot comes learnings and the determination to improve the process is inspirational. As long as we have organizations such as these we will continue to make strides in reaching every unbanked individual!

  • sawm

    I listened to Tamara speak of the new mobile phone banking occurring at OIBM. OIBM has forged the way for other Opportunity banks to do the same – including those in Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa, etc. The success in Kenya and Malawi can be replicated!