Mobile Payments Offer Financial Institutions Opportunities With the Unbanked, Pyramid Finds

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A growing ecosystem around mobile commerce and mobile payments has created new opportunities for financial institutions. Decreasing costs and wide availability of mobile devices now allows financial institutions to effectively reach the 50 percent of the population that remains unbanked, according to Jose Magana, Senior Analyst and Pyramid's Practice Leader for Mobile Payments.

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"Banks, which already have the infrastructure and systems in place to serve the mobile market, are eyeing technology as a way to cut the costs of expanding coverage to the under-banked population and to penetrate the micropayment business," says Jose Magana. Banks simply cannot reach those with lower incomes or who live in rural areas and alternative options, such as the postal network and informal methods, are often unreliable and/or costly. In addition, there is a natural resistance from lower income groups to deal with banks and technology gives them flexibility to use financial services on a way they feel more comfortable. "Financial institutions that can effective communicate and attract the unbanked, combined with successfully promoting the security of mobile banking will find success in the mobile payments market," he adds.

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