{"id":396046,"date":"2018-01-29T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=396046"},"modified":"2018-01-29T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:11:34","slug":"ghipss-shifts-mobile-money-interoperability-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/ghipss-shifts-mobile-money-interoperability-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"GhIPSS shifts mobile money interoperability to February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), has rescheduled the implementation of the mobile money interoperability to next month (February, 2018).<\/p>\n
This comes after\u00a0missing<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>the initial November 2017 deadline.<\/p>\n The CEO of GhIPSS, Mr. Archie Hesse who disclosed this new date to\u00a0Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0said the necessary processes for all the service providers, that is, banks and telecom operators have since been completed hence the optimism this time around.<\/p>\n According to him, the delay has been due to the inability of the telecom companies to hook unto the operating platform needed for the interoperability which was not initially envisaged.<\/p>\n \u201cThe web services side of the integration by the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) was completed in no time but when it came to their integration unto the ISO service, they struggled a bit. Though there was one MNO who was getting close after a long time. So when we realized that was the situation which we didn\u2019t envisage before, we developed a web services ISO converter; so the MNOs do no longer require that development they can now ride on that development in our environment,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n The GhIPSS boss could however not tell when exactly the process will be going live as that largely depended on the supervisors of the whole project, presumably the office of the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have completed it, now the MNOs are connecting to it and testing begins that is why we are confident that we should be able to go live February ending; we should be able to launch it anytime in February. But the actual date will depend on our bosses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Mobile money interoperability<\/strong><\/p>\n