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In this issue mobile payments take centre stage. GFG Group has won a Telecommunications Mobile Application of the Year Award for software that enables a mobile phone to make payments in the same way as a credit or EFTPOS card. Convergence was also a key theme at our recent Cadencie User Forum, where we laid out our roadmap and strategy for emerging payment channels such as mobile. Also in this issue, we discuss a donor agency initiative to use mobile payments technology to bring banking services to poor people in developing countries. This month's Goldfinch Report looks at if developing countries can afford a developed world payments system. 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 feedback here and please do subscribe others as appropriate.

Best regards,
Marie Tamplin-Woods
Group Sales and Marketing Manager
GFG Group

User Forum showcases mobile payment strategy

Convergence was one of the central themes of the Cadencie User Forum held recently in Melbourne, with attending banks showing strong interest in alternative payment channels such as mobile. Read the full story

World leading software wins TUANZ Mobile
Application of the Year Award for GFG Group

Software to enable a mobile phone to make payments in the same way as a credit or EFTPOS card has won GFG Group the TUANZ Telecommunications Mobile Application of the Year Award. Read the full story

Mobile phones may be key to banking the poor

GFG's Peter Goldfinch was recently invited to the Maldives by an international funding agency working closely with the World Bank - to discuss an initiative to deploy mobile payments technology to between 30 and 40 developing countries. Read the full story