Consult Hyperion launches Mobile Money Practice
UK independent technology consultancy launches specialist unit focusing on mobile money
[Guildford: 6 August, 2013] Consult Hyperion, the leading independent technology consultancy in the field of secure electronic transactions has launched the Mobile Money Practice, a specialist unit focusing on the growth area of mobile money.
Consult Hyperion's Mobile Money Practice offers substantive, experience-based mobile money consultancy services from a team of people with extensive experience of delivering
results in mobile money solutions across emerging markets. The Practice is headed by Paul Makin, in collaboration with Susie Lonie, who worked together on the development of M-PESA.
"Consult Hyperion has been active in mobile money since the technology's earliest days, when it was engaged by Vodafone to assist in the development of the M-PESA service in 2004," said Paul Makin. "We offer unparalleled experience across all aspects of this highly specialised field."
The Mobile Money Practice is marking its launch with a high profile speech from Paul Makin and Susie Lonie on the controversial subject of mobile money interoperability at the TM Forum Africa Summit in Johannesburg on 6th August and with the launch of a white paper on mobile money interoperability.
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For a copy of Paul Makin's white paper, please contact jane.adams@chyp.com and visit http://www.chyp.com/mobile-money-practice for more information.
About Consult Hyperion
Consult Hyperion is an independent information technology consultancy that has spent over two decades advising leading organisations around the world. Consult Hyperion helps these organisations to reap real benefits from technological change in the field of secure electronic transactions ranging from retail payments to passport control, and from mobile top-up to TV shopping. Consult Hyperion is uniquely qualified to advise on turning great business ideas into working systems that can help customers, and to evaluate new business concepts, develop new products and services from specification to customer roll-out, and to test and certify complex systems including a dedicated e-passport interoperability service.
The four main sectors the company operates in are: Financial services, with card schemes, banks, retailers and others; Telecommunications and media, advising world leading companies; Technology, to support some of the largest IT companies, and in the Public sector where projects include both government and law enforcement.
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Consult Hyperion
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