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M-PESA is a branchless banking service; M-PESA customers can deposit and withdraw money from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets acting as banking agents. M-PESA spread quickly, and by 2010 had become the most successful mobile-phone-based financial service in the developing world. [4]
M-Pesa has a wide range of financial services including Person to Person, ATM withdrawal, Payments, Bulk Payments and Bank to M-Pesa. As of January 2016, M-Pesa is used by 21.8 million Kenyans, with over 1.5 million of M-Pesa users using the bill payment feature. At the time M-Pesa had a network of over 90,000 agent outlets.
The rationale for this system is to promote water saving practices and to ensure that low-income households can afford to use an adequate amount of water. However, there are problems with this system, because households in low-income areas resell water or share a connection with other households and thus risk ending up paying a higher tariff.
EFT transactions are known by a number of names across countries and different payment systems. For example, in the United States , they may be referred to as "electronic checks " or "e-checks". In the United Kingdom , the term " BACS Payment", "bank transfer" and "bank payment" are used, in Canada , " e-Transfer " is used, while in several ...
A Systemically Important Payment System (SIPS) is a payment systems whose failure could potentially endanger the operation of the whole economy. In general, these are the major payment clearing systems or real-time gross settlement systems of individual countries, but in the case of Europe, there are certain pan-European payment systems.
Immediate Payment Service is managed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and is built upon the existing National Financial Switch network. In 2010, the NPCI initially carried out a pilot for the mobile payment system with 4 member banks (State Bank of India, Bank of India, Union Bank of India and ICICI Bank), and expanded it to include Yes Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank later ...
Retail System, known formally as the Automated Clearing Settlement System (ACSS), run by Payments Canada Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands Automated Clearing House [20] Chile: Centro de Compensación Automatizado (CCA) [21] China: Bulk Electronic Payment System (BEPS) [22] Colombia: ACH-Colombia and CENIT Costa Rica
Here is a simplified overview of how PAPSS works [9]. A company issues a payment instrument to their local bank or payment service provider; The payment instruction is sent to PAPSS through the country's central bank and routes it to the beneficiary bank account