Topic: [2014-05-24] CD: BitPesa Launches Beta Testing for Kenyan Remittance Service (Read 892 times)
May 24, 2014, 07:25:40 AM
There has been a lot of hype about this... but the development was very slow. Anyway let's hope that BitPesa will be able to capture significant market share from the Western Union.
May 24, 2014, 03:47:41 AM
BitPesa Launches Beta Testing for Kenyan Remittance Service
http://www.coindesk.com/bitpesa-launches-beta-testing-kenyan-remittance-service/
BitPesa is the brainchild of Duncan Goldie-Scot, a well-known name in microfinance, and Elizabeth Rossiello, a Queens-born former Credit Suisse banker with a background in microfinance who’s been living in Nairobi the past five years. With Ms. Rossiello acting as CEO, the company has raised $700,000 so far, and its investors include Barry Silbert, founder of CEO of the private asset exchange Second Market.
“There’s a lot of talk about the impact of bitcoin around the world,” Mr. Silbert said. “This is the company that’s actually executing, that’s setting up the model.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/23/kenyas-bitpesa-launches-beta-test-of-remittance-service/
http://www.coindesk.com/bitpesa-launches-beta-testing-kenyan-remittance-service/
BitPesa is the brainchild of Duncan Goldie-Scot, a well-known name in microfinance, and Elizabeth Rossiello, a Queens-born former Credit Suisse banker with a background in microfinance who’s been living in Nairobi the past five years. With Ms. Rossiello acting as CEO, the company has raised $700,000 so far, and its investors include Barry Silbert, founder of CEO of the private asset exchange Second Market.
“There’s a lot of talk about the impact of bitcoin around the world,” Mr. Silbert said. “This is the company that’s actually executing, that’s setting up the model.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/05/23/kenyas-bitpesa-launches-beta-test-of-remittance-service/
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