Digital Virgo Group is a key partner of telecom operators worldwide, specializing in mobile payment & monetization strategies. Its suite of solutions include a robust payment management platform and a range of monetization services across sectors such as entertainment, media interactivity, digital ticketing, and donations, enabling users to make purchases via carrier billing and mobile money.
The added value of Digital Virgo lies in its ability to address payment and monetization globally by considering strategic aspects such as customer journey, local adaptation, user acquisition, data management, as well as the regulatory and compliance framework.
Through organic growth and external acquisitions, Digital Virgo has built a global network based on a local presence in over 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. Operating in over 50 countries with annual revenue exceeding €400 million, Digital Virgo relies on more than 800 experts to provide effective local support to its telecom operator and merchant partners.
For more information:Â www.digitalvirgo.com
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New whitepaper: Combatting Fraud in Mobile Content
Wherever there are digital transactions, there is the risk of fraud. Mobile content is no exception, with ever-evolving methods to defraud customers, mobile content providers, payment aggregators and MNOs. All stakeholders must be aware of the fraud types and their differing impacts in order to align on best practice, limit the risk and stay ahead of the fraudsters.
MEF’s DCB Fraud Working Group has published a new whitepaper Combatting Fraud in Mobile Content to raise awareness and show how DCB fraud can be minimised.
Industry Views: Why business models based on revenue sharing do not work when it comes to preventing DCB fraud
Earlier this year MEF’s DCB working group kicked off a new programme to look at tackling fraud in Direct Carrier Billing (DCB). The cross-stakeholder group is currently developing a fraud framework to seek industry alignment and help market education to ensure a sustainable trusted channel.
When looking at fraud detection solutions the topic of business models for solution providers is a focus area for discussion, with a clear recommendation that revenue sharing models cannot be good for the ecosystem.
10 things you need to know about… Direct Carrier Billing
Diego Conforti, CCO of Digital Virgo, shares 10 tips and facts about the opportunity presented by Direct Carrier Billing.
Digital Virgo is unique in the telecom payment ecosystem since the Group is one of the rare players to have a 360° worldwide experience on payment, monetization and marketing; the three main challenges of Mobile Payment for Telecom Operators and Merchants.
MEF webinar: payments inside RCS
Do we need to have a conversation about RCS conversational commerce? Yes we do. And MEF is taking the lead. Following the publication of a white paper on the topic, MEF convened a webinar in which three experts explored rich messaging and payment buttons.
The future of RCS is still far from certain. Could it be the rich media successor to SMS, and offer an app-like experience on billions of phones?
MEF Connects Brazil in pictures
MEF recently hosted its largest LatAm event to date: MEF Connects Brazil, held during Tela Viva Móvel, supported by Movile and Digital Virgo.
Over 130 senior executives from 60 companies representing the mobile ecosystem in Latin America got together for the business networking event.
We partnered with Tela Viva Móvel, the most relevant conference in Brazil for the mobile sector.
MEF Connects São Paulo in pictures
Last month in Brazil, MEF hosted its largest event to date in Latin America: MEF Connects São Paulo during Tela Viva Móvel, this year supported by Mozilla, TIMWE, Digital Virgo, AVG, Terra Networks and Easy Taxi. Ricardo Bastos, MEF LatAm GM shares his impressions and photos from the evening. Almost 200 senior executives…
