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10 FEB 2022

Mobile World Congress is back!

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Faris Sehovic

Head of Sales

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After a two-year break we are glad to once again participate in the Mobile World Congress. This time, the event in Barcelona is taking place from February 28th to March 3rd. The pandemic has accelerated consumers moving to online channels for buying digital content, physical goods and services. For merchants, this means a growing need […]

8 FEB 2022

Fortumon Mari-Liis: “The diversity of our projects means work never gets boring”

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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Who are the people building Fortumo (Fortumons)? For today’s interview we asked a few questions from Mari-Liis who’s soon celebrating her 4th year in the company. Mari-Liis works as a Software Engineer in the Connectivity Development team. In her role, she builds out and maintains the integrations with our payment channel partners, more than 300 […]

1 FEB 2022

Mobile wallets spotlight: Brazil

POSTED UNDER Market Report Mobile Wallets Payments Real-Time Payments Web Payments

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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Last year, investments into fintech companies in Latin America more than tripled and for a good reason: only 56% of consumers in the region have a traditional bank account. The new wave of e-commerce growth in Latin America is largely driven by mobile wallets and real-time payment schemes. Brazil is the largest e-commerce market in […]

27 JAN 2022

Mobile wallets spotlight: Japan

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Mattias Liivak

Head of Marketing & PR, Fortumo

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Over the past 2 years, Southeast Asia has added more than 70 million online shoppers. This growth has in large part been driven by consumers adopting mobile wallets. Mobile wallets give a bigger audience access to online payments than credit cards and bank-based payments. Japan is one of the most developed markets in the region, […]

25 JAN 2022

Game developers & publishers: let’s meet up at WN Conference in Berlin!

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Faris Sehovic

Head of Sales

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Are you going to be in Berlin on February 7th & 8th? That’s when the WN Conference for game developers and publishers takes place place. We’ll be joining more than 800 participants at the event and look forward to the presentations in the conference program by Newzoo, Ubisoft, Google Play and more. We’re going to […]