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Mobile Finance & Payment
What mobiles can do for you
Mobile Monday Global Summit | Kuala Lumpur | 2008.5.19
Benjamin Joffe |Managing Director, Plus Eight Star Ltd
Co-Founder, Mobile Monday Beijing

I lost my wallet
the mobile professionals community

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Cash
Digital
Rent
Utilities
Car
Appliances
Etc.

the mobile professionals community
Mobile for development

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For a rural entrepreneur, a cell phone
could be a cow
Iqbal Quadir
Co-founder of Grameen Phone
(Bangladesh)
Courtesy of SocialVentureForum.com

Banking without bank
(Philippines)
G-cash (Telco: Globe)
$ P
$$$ Retailers
Airtime partners
Shop, Bank, micro-credit,
Courtesy of SocialVentureForum.com
Retailers, etc

the mobile professionals community
Barriers?

Issues
the mobile professionals community
Trust
Standards
Privacy
Regulation

Physical world
Digital world

Physical world
+ Digital world
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World

Regulations?
Payment for
third party content

It’s an ecosystem!
the mobile professionals community
Merchants drive adoption
Bank relationships

the mobile professionals community
The future (I hope for)

Mobile as a… the mobile professionals community
Banking infrastructure
Payment infrastructure
Tool for empowerment & development

Thanks!
Terima Kasih!
benjamin@plus8star.com
www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminjoffe
www.slideshare.net/plus8star/
Skype: benjamin0123

Clients selection
the mobile professionals community
Published research
Inside Cyworld
Inside QQ
Free sample | www.plus8star.com