The PESA token is at the heart of the Credible Network: - All transactions across Credible take place in PESA - Merchants receive PESAs from 3rd parties for accessing their data - Merchants pay PESAs to Verifiers for verification services - Merchants can pledge PESAs as collateral for loans - Purchasers can Buy and Sell PESAs through SmartPesa CryptoATM - Customers can make payments in PESA for good and services.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - North Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen, United States of America, People's Republic of China
At SmartPesa, we are driven by Financial Inclusion. Our SmartPay and Agency Banking solution was developed for EM countries by the co-founders who were born in and grew up in Africa. Still considered a FinTech startup, we are in our 5th year of operations and complete tens of thousands of transactions daily across over 8,000 merchants in 5 countries.
We have completed formal certifications with international organizations such as EMV, Visa, Amex and Mastercard; National Financial switches such as Bancnet, NIBSS and MEPS; PCI compliances; and successfully undergone numerous API integrations with 3rd parties. We support all local and international cards, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay as well as leading wallet providers like Alipay and WeChat Pay.
Our platform has been entirely developed in-house by our experienced FinTech engineers who allow us to respond quickly to changes in a fragmenting payment infrastructure marketplace. Our current capabilities extend beyond card payments at our POS, both horizontally (new payment types such as fiat wallets and cryptocurrency) and vertically (new transaction types including cash withdrawals, bill payments, airtime loading, remittances and transfers).
We entered the blockchain space in 2017 and have added cryptocurrency payment acceptance through our SmartPesa CryptoPay product and the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies through SmartPesa CryptoATM.
Our focus is to reduce the complexity of an increasingly fragmenting payments system into a seamless, consistent merchant experience. Merchants want a simple tool for accepting electronic payments across multiple different modes – cards, mobile, QR codes and crypto. We provide a unified Mobile App and POS terminal for easy payment acceptance, consolidated transaction history, and automatic reconciliation.
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Owner and Founder of First Global Direct, Consulting, Executive Search, Strategy, Private Banking, Blockchain, ICO Rated on Sep 3, 2018 Modified on Sep 3, 2018
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Great Project with some very smart Branding to "Credible" of their core product which is Decentralized Credit Scoring competitor to Experian and similar credit bureaus.
In First world Nations large Financial corporations and Credit scoring reference data although archaic and clunky is easy to come by. With "Credible" here the Background company, Smartpesa, have created an efficient multi payments solution that can be used in Emerging/ Underdeveloped markets such Philippines and Parts of Africa where many forms of payments are used from cash to a multitude of "local" Bank cards, making collating data for credit scoring purposes near impossible without extremely high premiums that dont fit with the market it serves. The "Credible" app accepts all the multiple banking sources into single data file stored on Blockchain giving a complete record of financial history in a way that isnt possible today with traditional credit bureaus with the added benefit that the merchant owns the data, not the Bureau, and gives far greater financial freedom to the user and owner of the data.
Just as importantly as a solution for Growth and financial democratization in emerging markets the key service here is the data which collected and can be utilized by 3rd parties to Verify that Small/Medium sized Merchants (SMEs) are credit worthy, through the transactions and therefore enable the growth of business and the development of nations, by making the whole credit bureau systems far more efficient, reliable and effective providing a long lasting resource of highly valuable and complete data that is controlled by the owner of that data. This provides active use for the Token and potentially very high levels of return for investors in this type of project of the mid to long term,
I believe that once this product is successful in its current markets and expands to other markets, this company has the potential to become world class challenger to the likes of Experian, as they are already way ahead of the game in resolving extremely complex financial data collection in difficult markets, have an MVP which has genuine application, a token which will be utilized to help get SMEs want they need and want to grow their businesses and Lending institutions what they need to verify "Credibility ".
With a solid development team with experience in the markets and technology they are working with I think this one deserves top marks as one of the best ICO projects I have seen this year.
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