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Welcome to our online monthly update
for GFG customers and partners
In this issue our focus is on the hottest new revenue opportunity in the global telco market: mobile top-ups. As you’ll see in our lead story below, Vodafone is finding mobile top-ups are giving rise to a whole new set of consumer behaviours, including use of top-ups as an alternative payment system. Top-ups aren’t just going mobile; they’re going micro, as you’ll read in the latest Goldfinch report. As usual, these sometimes controversial reports carry the disclaimer that they represent the personal opinion of Peter Goldfinch, rather than the views necessarily of GFG Group. We hope you'll find this
update worthwhile. Please do send me your comments and
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Best regards,
Marie Tamplin-Woods
Group Sales and Marketing Manager
GFG Group
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Consumers do it their way
on new Vodafone HotLink
Six months after Vodafone New Zealand launched its HotLink service –allowing customers to use mobile phones to top up prepay or account balances directly from a nominated bank account – customers are using the new service in unexpected ways.
Powered by GFG:Mobile, the service lets customers top up anywhere, anytime within the New Zealand, Australia, Spain and U.K Vodafone network. Importantly, the GFG solution enables customers to top-up other people, and it’s this revenue that has surpassed Vodafone’s projections. Read
the full story
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eFunds signs to distribute GFG Group’s
simulation and testing tool GFG: FINsim
GFG Group has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with eFunds, which will see GFG’s innovative GFG:FINsim testing and simulation software made available more widely, particularly in the North American market.
eFunds is the largest transaction switch provider in the United States, and is well-known for its Connex and Oasis transaction switching software, used by a wide range of Tier One and Tier Two banks and financial institutions. Read the full story
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Micro Top-Up – A powerful new tool
for a major emerging global market
The young, and those in developing economies – with no credit card or even a bank account – are among the most eager and appreciative users of mobile phones. The problem has been that no cost-effective way could be found to give these users the ability to pay for their airtime in very small increments. In this issue of The Goldfinch Report, GFG Group’s General Manager for South East Asia, Peter Goldfinch, looks at how micro top-up technology is providing that solution – and how such a seemingly simple solution can have large and favourable market impacts. Read the latest Goldfinch Report |
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Outsmarting the
competition |
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At Smart Communications
- the Philippines' leading wireless services provider - GFG's
innovative Smart Money solution enables customers to use their
cellphones to make payments. |
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Payment solutions
you can bank on |
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At Australia's
Bendigo Bank, GFG's Cadencie solution for merchant acquiring and
management has transformed the profitability of Bendigo's card
systems and provided a stable platform for new value added services. |
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