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Paolo Baltao is the President of G-Xchange, Inc. (GXI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, one of the leading wireless providers in the Philippines. GXI pioneered the revolutionary model in cardless and cashless mobile commerce service called GCASH which was launched in the Philippines in October 2004.

GCASH is the innovative service transforming the mobile phone into a wallet for financial transactions with the convenience and cost of a text message. This service has earned various international accolades including GSMA Awards (the most prestigious award in the telecom industry) for Best Mobile Messaging Service received in February 2005, Mobile News Asia’s Most Innovative Mobile Service and Global Messaging Awards for Best M-commerce Service application both received in June 2005.

Further innovating on the service, in 2006, GXI successfully launched GCASH in its first commercial implementation of Cross Border Single Currency Remittance in Hong Kong. By 2007, GXI unveiled GCASH as the first direct inter-operable m-commerce platform expanding its capability by creating an inter-exchange hub that allows instant multi-language and multi-currency money transfer across various m-commerce platforms of partner mobile operators around the world.

Today, GCASH has over 1 million users in the Philippines covering various ecosystems in the country.