Monday, December 1, 2014

IFAN Financial, Inc. (IFAN) and iPin Technologies – Developing Technology to Enable Mobile Payments

According to the November 18th, 2014 PCMag.com article “How Your Smartphone Is Killing Money”, mobile phones are being used to establish a modern financial infrastructure in several developing countries.

Mobile payment services are changing the daily lives of people around the world, providing banking services in place of banking institutions. Services like Vodafone’s M-Pesa allow users to deposit money into accounts linked with their phone number and, afterward, to exchange funds with anyone with a phone. Depending on the market, consumers can use these cashless services to pay bills, withdraw money, purchase goods and services or send money to family in rural areas.

This new virtual economy is flourishing in Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Middle East but, most especially, in sub-Saharan Africa. According to a World Bank report, although less than 25 percent of Africans had a bank account as of 2012, 40 percent possessed a mobile phone. Add to that a June 2014 report from Ericsson Mobility that found that more than 50% of the mobile users in sub-Saharan Africa would be interested in using mobile banking/wallets in the future—and mobile payments are clearly making waves all over the world and it is in this rapidly changing environment that IFAN Financial is setting up shop.

IFAN Financial and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, particularly iPin Technologies, design, develop and distribute software to enable mobile payments. These companies’ offer several capabilities including the ability to use a debit card and corresponding PIN number to make peer-to-peer cash transfers or online purchases using a mobile phone, tablet, or computer.

The private iPIN Technologies Network is set up to process all types of transactions for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) customers who are interested in paying online merchants using an existing iPIN device. As the mobile payment industry expands, iPIN Technologies will seek to evolve to provide processing services for the ICT industry’s future devices.

Mobile payments have not entirely replaced cash in the developing world but they do demonstrate how mobile technology is transforming daily life, and rapidly.

For more information, visit the companies’ websites at www.ifanfinancial.com and www.ipintechnologies.com

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