Findings from Findex: Mobile money is driving financial inclusion for women,...
This blog explores the changing mobile money gender gap across low- and middle-income countries, based on GSMA’s analysis of the latest 2021 Findex data and previous 2017 data Mobile money continues to...
View ArticleThe GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab launches an industry-leading Interoperability...
Today, the GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab is launching the Interoperability Test Platform, the industry’s first joint test environment combining two key technologies: the GSMA Mobile Money API, a harmonised...
View ArticleAddressing the financial needs of women: Ensuring data protection in the use...
The theme of the 2019 AFI Global Policy Forum was Using technology for inclusion of women and youth. The forum, hosted by the National Bank of Rwanda and Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI),...
View ArticleA regulatory model assessment of Payments Banks in India: The story of a...
India’s Payments Banks (PBs) regulatory model has garnered a lot of global attention, partly because of its expected potential to tackle financial exclusion. It has also served as an example for...
View ArticleIndonesia’s tech giants and unicorns catapult MSMEs into the digital economy
Merchant payments is one of the more complex use cases of mobile money. Providers need to cater to the differing needs of both customers and merchants. Arguably, digitising payments alone is unlikely...
View ArticleMaking the connection between mobile money and climate change
Climate change has rapidly become a concern for central banks, financial regulators, and ministries of finance. In September 2017, AFI member institutions formulated the Sharm El Sheikh Accord on...
View ArticleSocial commerce: blurring the line between social interaction and online...
The global spread of social media coupled with the rapid growth of e-commerce is giving rise to a new trend where content sharing, messaging and payments converge. Social commerce—the use of social...
View ArticleDigital identity opportunity in mobile-enabled social benefits programmes
Mobile technologies offer SCT and similar social benefits programmes a way to greatly reduce operational costs, so that donor funds can more effectively reach a larger number of beneficiaries. Here are...
View ArticleThe pivotal role of mobile money agents in driving financial inclusion
For more than a decade agent distribution networks have been at the heart of successful mobile money services. Responsible for converting physical cash to digital value, and performing crucial tasks...
View ArticleMaking progress on the SDGs with mobile money
Mobile Money, a digital wallet and payment service that does not require a bank account, has the potential to lift a wide swath of people out of poverty. It provides financial digital connectivity in...
View ArticleMobile Money in Ethiopia: What we learnt from our expert roundtable
Following a successful launch event for the Central Insights Unit's report on Mobile Money in Ethiopia, this blog shares some crucial takeaways from day's roundtable discussions. The post Mobile Money...
View ArticleMobile money, evolving fintech: In conversation with M-Pesa
Following the launch of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023, the GSMA Mobile Money Programme has spoken to senior mobile money executives on their view of the state of the industry....
View ArticleMobile Money: A Path to Empowerment for Indigenous Women
Today is world Indigenous Peoples’ Day—a day to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world’s Indigenous population of more than 370 million living across 90 countries. Indigenous people are...
View ArticleThe 2023 SOTIR “Regional Cuts”: Charting mobile money in Africa and Asia
For over a decade, the GSMA’s State of the Industry Report (SOTIR) has served as a window into the health and wealth of the mobile money industry. For mobile money providers and the wider ecosystem,...
View ArticleMobile money in Tanzania: Unveiling the vision of Tigo Pesa
Following the launch of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023, the GSMA Mobile Money Programme has spoken to senior mobile money executives on their view of the state of the industry....
View ArticleMobile money in Myanmar: Wave Money on financial inclusion
Following the launch of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023, the GSMA Mobile Money Programme has spoken to senior mobile money executives on their view of the state of the industry....
View ArticleMobile money could add $5.3 billion to Ethiopia’s GDP
Today we launch our new report Mobile Money in Ethiopia: Advancing financial inclusion and driving growth. The much anticipated liberalisation of the telecoms market is presenting an opportunity to...
View ArticleMobile Money in Angola: How Afrimoney is paving the way
The arrival of Africell Angola in 2022 has brought a host of exciting opportunities for mobile users seeking a wider selection of services – including financial services. After a successful entry into...
View ArticleUnpacking Women’s Use of Mobile Money
With the launch of this year’s SOTIR comes new insights regarding gender and mobile money alongside better understanding on how to reduce the gender gap in women’s usage. However, while there have been...
View ArticleMobile Money International Remittances: Saving the Day Amidst Economic Woes
As the world began to recover from the economic ramifications of COVID-19, 2023 saw further turmoil and even recession. In fact, the OECD projects global GDP growth in 2023 to be 2.7%, which is the...
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