Over 12,000 farmers in Iraq will receive funds to restart or expand agricultural activities via a new mobile money transfer program, says the UN food agency, FAO (Food and Agriculture [ … ]
Category: Financial Inclusion
Smartphones to boost mobile money in 2017
Mobile money is paving the way to financial inclusion. It is increasing accessibility to financial services for emerging markets, while offering convenience for those in the developed world. The future of finance [ … ]
Tech and telco in 2017
As one year turns to the next, industry experts predict key movements and trends to look out for on the world’s mobile scene. The GSMA released their Global Mobile Trends [ … ]
Advancing financial inclusion – CGAP
CGAP is a group of leading organisations with the goal of advancing global financial inclusion. Each year it releases a report documenting its progress and activity over the previous fiscal [ … ]
The world’s least banked
A recent report by Capgemini found that 39% of the global population are still without a bank account. Of these unbanked, 15.6 million adults and 7.6 million children are in the USA. [ … ]
Mobile money boosts Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
The GSMA has recently published a report addressing the impact of mobile money, mobile connectivity and IoT on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN last year. Below [ … ]
Smarter mobile money through big data analytics
Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes, or 2.3 trillion gigabytes, of data is generated every day around the world. The full potential of all this information is yet to be discovered with [ … ]
International Remittances via Mobile Money
The GSMA recently released an infographic showing the importance of international remittance and the potential of mobile money for these transactions. “International Remittances: The fastest growing mobile money product by volume – up [ … ]
Africa reaches half a billion mobile subscribers
Africa, the continent housing mobile money’s biggest success stories, has reached the half a billion mobile subscriber mark, according to the latest annual GSMA mobile economy report on the region. [ … ]
Six in ten subscribe to mobile services in Asia Pacific
“At the end of 2015, 62% of the population in Asia Pacific (2.5 billion individuals) subscribed to mobile services” according to the latest GSMA mobile economy report. The four dominant [ … ]
