The good thing about the world of payments and commerce, Karen Webster observed during the latest edition of The Week in Payments with Erwan Gelebart, CEO at JazzCash, is there is never a lack of things to talk about. The last full week of February...
In developing new digital products for emerging markets, the human element matters. The “cut and paste” approach to digital financial services is changing – partly as a result of more sophisticated customer feedback mechanisms, and mostly because personalization is a pathway toward success. In an interview...
Sergi Herrero co-CEO of VEON, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the acceleration of cashless payments, and how that has posed a challenge to the world’s unbanked population. In “A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021,” Herrero discusses...
In the move toward digital payments in cash-centric economies, building trust in bank accounts and payments done in bits and bytes is critical. In Pakistan, for firms seeking to spur that adoption and to foster financial inclusion, it’s important to have a “cash in, cash...
August 18, 2021
Editor’s Note: Erwan Gelebart, who was JazzCash’s CEO at the time of this interview, is no longer with the company. It’s the fifth-largest country in the world based on population, but Pakistan and its millions of small merchants have been overlooked as the shift to digital hasn’t always meant giving them an easy way to […]
February 12, 2021
In developing new digital products for emerging markets, the human element matters. The “cut and paste” approach to digital financial services is changing – partly as a result of more sophisticated...
January 14, 2021
In the move toward digital payments in cash-centric economies, building trust in bank accounts and payments done in bits and bytes is critical. In Pakistan, for firms seeking to spur...
