Craft Silicon to Collaborate with Hanson Wade’s
Mobile Finance for the Unbanked Conference,
London, July 2010
July 01, 2010 10:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time
LONDON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Craft Silicon has announced it’s collaboration with Hanson Wade for
the first ‘Mobile Finance for the Unbanked’ conference in London on July 12 & 13. Together with sponsors IBM
and Fern Software, these organisations are innovating to deliver the technology platforms and solutions for the next
generation of mobile financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to the developing world.
Rakshit Bolar, Global Director of Sales and Marketing at Craft Silicon, a leading provider of MIS solutions for the
financial services industry said…“We are supporting this event because we know that Hanson Wade has a strong
track record of working with mobile operators, banks, microfinance institutions governments and development
agencies. We recognise the value of an impartial, international conference that promotes the expansion of reliable and
affordable access to financial services for un and under-banked population which the mobile banking channel offers.
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IBM, Craft Silicon and Fern Software will be joined by another 25 organisations from over 13 different countries
including:
l Michael Joseph, CEO, Safaricom (Kenya)
l Nadeem Hussain, CEO, Tameer Microfinance Bank (Pakistan)
l Kim Vada, Deputy Director General, National Bank of Cambodia (Cambodia)
l Karim Khoja, CEO, Roshan (Afghanistan)
View full list of Speakers here: http://www.mobile-unbanked.com
Topics to be discussed at Mobile Finance for the Unbanked include:
l Mobile finance for the unbanked implementations on a country by country basis and how to work better with
regulators to accelerate delivery of the products
l Developing agent networks on an international level and how negotiations are handled and can be scaled up
l Partnerships between Mobile Network Operators and Microfinance Institutions to develop and disseminate
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