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		<title>PaymentView Now Available in Public Beta!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FrontlineSMS:Credit team is excited to announce that the public beta version of our new software product, PaymentView, is now available for use in Kenya! PaymentView is a mobile money management tool that makes it easy for organizations and businesses serving the base of the pyramid to use mobile money. The software enables any organization &#8211; including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2012/03/paymentview-now-available-in-public-beta/</link>
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		<title>The FrontlineSMS:Credit Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mobile money is spreading quickly across the globe. The ability to transfer funds from a mobile handset has been hailed as the key to extending financial services to the base of the pyramid. While a mobile money account is valuable to an individual for securing savings and easy money transfer, there are many ways that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2012/02/the-frontlinesmscredit-story/</link>
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		<title>FrontlineSMS:Credit Team Returns to Nunguni FSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 18th and 19th of October, Erica and I visited Nunguni FSA to officially launch the use of FrontlineSMS + PaymentView. After facing the unavoidable traffic of the Nairobi morning commute, we were on our way east. We arrived in Nunguni just past 9 am and I got to work installing the latest and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/11/frontlinesmscredit-team-returns-to-nunguni-fsa/</link>
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		<title>SMS + Payments: More than the sum of the parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a realization slow in coming, given that we’ve got ‘SMS’ in our name, but the more organizations and businesses we’ve talked with about mobile payments, the more it’s clear: SMS is not only a valuable communications tool, but the combination of mobile payments and SMS is more than the sum of the parts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/10/sms-payments-more-than-the-sum-of-the-parts/</link>
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		<title>FrontlineSMS:Credit in Nyanza Province</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, FrontlineSMS:Credit ventured out to the Nyanza Province to meet with three potential PaymentView users: Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (K-MET), ACK Development Services Nyanza (ADS), and the IPA Mumias Information Welfare and Advances (MIWA) Project. K-MET and ADS, both based in Kisumu, have similar challenges. Both have customers spread out across a geographically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/10/frontlinesmscredit-in-nyanza-province/</link>
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		<title>Wendo wa Kaeani Makes its First Repayment via M-PESA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was another exciting week here at FrontlineSMS:Credit.  We visited Nunguni FSA to install the latest beta version of PaymentView and officially launch our first pilot project.  We have partnered on the project with K-Rep Fedha Services (KFS), a Nairobi-based company that provides management services to Financial Services Associations (FSAs) across Kenya.  We’ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/09/wendo-wa-kaeni-makes-its-first-repayment-via-mpesa/</link>
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		<title>Expanding Microinsurance Penetration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The expansion of microinsurance has been slow, tethered to distribution channels that allow insurance providers to achieve a feasible scale: microfinance organizations, for example, or retail shops. As such, microinsurance policies have been designed with viability and ease of distribution in mind; client-centric design is a luxury that most providers haven’t yet been able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/09/expanding-microinsurance-penetration/</link>
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		<title>Easing Pain Points in Ag Value Chains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture, by nature, is a dispersed enterprise. We fail to realize this—both here in Nairobi and in the U.S.—when we pop into the grocery store for essentials. All of our products, fruit and vegetables, dairy products, eggs, coffee, have made long and varied journeys to our shelves. In the last two weeks I have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/08/easing-pain-points-in-ag-value-chains/</link>
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		<title>A New Milestone: PaymentView Accepts the First Live Payment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, July 20th marked a magic moment for FrontlineSMS:Credit. A routine visit to one of our first pilot customers, the Nunguni Financial Services Association (FSA), resulted in the first incoming payment to our PaymentView beta software. FSAs are locally-owned and managed financial service providers, targeting rural populations throughout Kenya. They function much like microfinance institutions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://credit.frontlinesms.com/blog/2011/07/a-new-milestone-paymentview-accepts-the-first-live-payment/</link>
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		<title>8 Ideas to Make Mobile Money More Financially Inclusive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my last trip to Washington, DC, I met with a range of people working with USAID, NGOs, and private organizations interested in mobile money in various forms. I spoke with them about applications of FrontlineSMS software to make it easier for development programs to use mobile money both for work with beneficiaries as well [...]]]></description>
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