From left: Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications Executive Engineer for Mobile BSS and VAS Aung Kyaw Thet, Gregory Chen, Senior Financial Sector Specialist for Technology and Business Model Innovation of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), Myanmar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Deputy Minister H.E. U Thaung Tin, Lito Villanueva, Head of SMI Innovation, Ecosystem Build & Alliances; Central Bank of Myanmar Deputy Governor Daw Khin Saw Oo, Central Bank of Myanmar Director General for Monetary Management Department Prof. Dr. Sandar Oo, SMI Chief Operating Officer Benjie Fernandez, and CGAP consultants Leesa Shrader and Pwint Phyu Htun.
A group of regulators representing Myanmar’s monetary and telecoms sector, recently visited and met with the senior management team of Smart e-Money, Inc. (SMI), a wholly-owned mobile financial services subsidiary of Smart Communications, Inc., to know more about the regulatory development for e-money and branchless banking in the Philippines as well as learn from SMI’s innovative best practices models.
As part of the study tour, the Myanmar delegation also met with officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the National Telecommunications Commission.