Juvo Partners with DOCOMO Digital to Boost Mobile Commerce
Partnership will enable the creation of new identity and credit-related products, while increasing financial flexibility for consumers in emerging markets
SAN FRANCISCO, November 13 2019: Juvo, a pioneer of financial identities for the underbanked, has today announced a strategic partnership with DOCOMO Digital, the preeminent global mobile commerce enabler. The partnership will focus on combining Juvo’s financial identity and credit lending capabilities with DOCOMO Digital’s class-leading payments platform for mobile carriers, OTTs and digital merchants. This partnership would enable increased financial flexibility for prepaid mobile users, especially in the emerging markets, as consumption of digital services and OTT content continues to rise.
DOCOMO Digital partners with over 200 mobile operators and a number of digital merchants, app stores and payment providers to make mobile commerce a frictionless experience. Consumers can choose to pay for digital services as part of their post-paid phone bills or use their pre-paid balances to do so. However, consumers in emerging markets often abandon their purchases either due to insufficient pre-paid balances or ready access to conventional payment methods such as credit cards. This partnership between Juvo and DOCOMO Digital would now allow for such transactions to be completed with micro-credits extended instantaneously, and without the need for consumers to top-up immediately.
Juvo’s technology leverages previously untapped data sources, including network, application and repayment data, to build financial identities and establish credit worthiness for unknown and underbanked consumers. Based on these financial identities, Juvo helps service providers (operators, financial institutions, and merchants) better understand creditworthiness and offer credit so that more transactions can be approved. Juvo’s partnership also allows providers to offer rich content and financial services that weren’t previously available to customers without credit.
“Our partnership with Juvo aligns perfectly with our endeavour to make the mobile commerce experience seamless for consumers, while unlocking more value for mobile operators and digital merchants. While access to mobile and data services is growing rapidly in the emerging markets, the access to conventional financial services has not kept up. Together with Juvo, we can provide more financial flexibility to mobile subscribers in these markets,” said Jonathan Kriegel, DOCOMO Digital’s CEO, while commenting on this development.
“Juvo’s mission is to create the YES Economy, creating financial identities for the 68% of adults worldwide who are locked out of the formal economy due to lack of credit history,” said Steve Polsky, founder and CEO of Juvo. “By creating financial identities, Juvo empowers our partners with the data to say YES to more of their customers, opening up new revenue streams. Our partnership with DOCOMO Digital is an important step in this, and we look forward to collaborating on products that have the potential to change and evolve the mobile payment and commerce industry.”
About Juvo
Juvo is a pioneer of financial identities for the underbanked. The company’s mission is to create the YES Economy, by closing the information gap for the 3.9 billion people worldwide who are locked out of the formal economy due to a lack of credit history. In partnership with leading mobile network operators and financial institutions, Juvo leverages previously untapped data sources to build comprehensive financial identities, allowing billions of underbanked consumers to qualify for credit and other financial services, often for the first time.
Headquartered in San Francisco with regional headquarters in Miami, Singapore and São Paulo, Juvo’s footprint spans 26 countries across four continents. The company has built over 200 million financial profiles and unlocked more than a billion transactions to date. For more information, follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn, or find us at www.juvo.com.
Rahul Mudgal
+65 978 17160
Rahul.mudgal@docomodigital.com
DOCOMO Digital partners with over 200 carriers and a number of merchants and payment providers globally. DOCOMO Digital’s portfolio of innovative marketing solutions helps brands and telecom carriers unlock growth while enhancing the experience for their users. DOCOMO Digital’s portfolio of leading-edge payments services connects digital platforms, payment providers, telecom carriers to enable secure and seamless mobile commerce at scale, in compliance with all local and international regulations. DOCOMO Digital is headquartered in London, with teams based in over 30 cities around the world. DOCOMO Digital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the world’s largest telecom companies - NTT DOCOMO, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.docomodigital.com or find us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
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