Disruptive Mobility Roundup: Mobile Banking, SXSW, and the User Experience of Money

Mobile Banking Panel at SXSW Interactive

[Plug Alert!] I will be moderating a panel out SXSW Interactive on Mobile Ubiquitous Banking and the Future of Money. The premise: nearly half the world’s population now has a mobile device and more than a thousand cell phones are being activated every minute. The ubiquity of mobile devices will make new services available to billions of people worldwide who have not had access to traditional banks or credit cards. In developing countries such as Kenya – where nearly 80% of the population is excluded from the formal financial sector – text messaging is being used to transfer money to friends and family living in other countries. Moreover, new forms of currency are being created – trading cell phone minutes for goods and services, for example. This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities as banks go mobile, and how the revolution in mobile financial services will change the way we think about money.

Panelists will include Tom Limongello (Crisp Wireless), Sacha Tueni (Vodafone), Ajay Revels (Politemachines), Guillaume Lebleu, (Diebold), Katherine Maher (UNICEF) More information about this panel can be found here.