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 [ … ]
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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 [ … ]
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. [ … ]
How can ATMs boost mobile money?
Integrating ATMs with a mobile money deployment can help build an end-to-end solution that bridges mobile money services and the traditional financial world. Mobile money in emerging markets has traditionally [ … ]
How the end user impacts industry progression
If ever there were a business model that needed effective data analytics and risk management, it’s mobile money. With target users located primarily in areas of the world where there [ … ]
Empowering women to boost financial inclusion
Earlier this year the GSMA released a report on accelerating digital literacy for greater financial inclusion. The report also included the barriers and solutions to improvement in this area. As part [ … ]
The role of regulation in developing an open playing field for mobile money
Regulators are increasingly recognising the crucial role mobile money services can play in increasing financial inclusion and are working towards building regulatory frameworks which enable such services. Part of this [ … ]
The future of OTC for mobile money services across Africa
The GSMA MMU recently published an article examining the reasons that some mobile money consumers persist with using OTC (over the counter) transactions via an agent rather than registering for their own mobile money [ … ]
Addressing interoperability: Mobile money in Ghana
CGAP recently posted an article about how interoperability is being tackled in Ghana. With 6 live branchless banking deployments, the regulators (namely the Bank of Ghana) are actively trying to [ … ]
Defragmenting mobile money ecosystems
Can mobile financial services make money? With 113 live deployments and 88 planned deployments across the globe, the momentum currently propelling mobile financial services is proof that mobile money can [ … ]
