{"id":55456,"date":"2014-04-08T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55456"},"modified":"2014-04-08T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T08:28:27","slug":"mtn-group-and-barti-airtel-in-mobile-money-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55456\/mtn-group-and-barti-airtel-in-mobile-money-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Group and Barti Airtel in Mobile Money partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group and Bharti Airtel have announced a cross-border remittance partnership that seeks to remove the hassles of transferring money between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso for the operators\u2019 Mobile Money customers.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will enable Mobile Money customers of MTN Ivory Coast and Airtel in Burkina Faso to easily transfer money between the neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Mobile Money enables users to perform local and international money transfers, make utility and other service payments, purchase airtime and access range of mobile financial products.<\/p>\n<p>As of 31 December 2013, MTN Mobile Money had 14,8 million registered users, and was available in 14 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it continues to pursue opportunities to develop unique offerings to add to its growing financial services portfolio.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Mobile Money<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a title=\"SA\u2019s most-used mobile money platforms\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/50227\/sas-most-used-mobile-money-platforms\/\"><strong>SA\u2019s most-used mobile money platforms<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MTN Mobile Money tags on Visa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/49414\/mtn-mobile-money-tags-on-visa\/\"><strong>MTN Mobile Money tags on Visa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN touts Mobile Money landmark\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/45868\/mtn-touts-mobile-money-landmark\/\"><strong>MTN touts Mobile Money landmark<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group and Bharti Airtel have announced a cross-border remittance partnership to aid Mobile Money customers in the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,7723,1697,28],"class_list":["post-55456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-barti-airtel","tag-mobile-money","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55463,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55456\/revisions\/55463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}