Digital Identity: a prerequisite for Financial Inclusion?
The World Bank has estimated that between 2011 and 2014, innovations in technology and the rapid uptake of mobile money services helped 700 million adults access formal financial services for the first...
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Insights for driving growth in mobile money services among women
This blog is based on a presentation by Elisa Minischetti at the Mobile Money Leadership Forum at Mobile 360 – Africa. Women are consistently less likely than men to use mobile money — reducing this...
View ArticleDigital Identity – Regulatory trends and the role of mobile
The GSMA has just published a new report exploring various Regulatory and Policy trends impacting Digital Identity and the role of mobile. The ability to prove that you are who you say you are is a...
View ArticleMarket size and opportunity in digitising payments in agricultural value chains
A new opportunity is emerging for mobile money service providers to drive growth in rural areas by digitising agricultural payments. The digitisation of formal procurement by agribusinesses and of...
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Taking a look at women’s financial inclusion via mobile money – Barriers and...
The widespread nature and affordability of mobile makes it the perfect vehicle to bridge the infrastructure gap that people in low- and middle-income countries often face. Mobile is also the gateway to...
View ArticleA future without supermarkets
Same way as Airbnb disrupted the hospitality business, and Uber changed our traditional transportation choices to a crowdsourcing model, 2016 newcomer Farmdrop has challenged the conventional design of...
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Digitising payments in agriculture to unlock mobile money growth in rural areas
The rural finance gap in emerging markets is huge. The vast majority of smallholder farmers, who represent 53 per cent of the population across the developing world and account for a majority (at least...
View ArticleLessons from the use of mobile in utility pay-as-you-go models
The latest Insight Report from M4D Utilities explores the fast growing use of mobile to create Pay As You Go (PAYG) models in the Utilities sector. Emerging from the convergence of innovations around...
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Bangladesh goes PAYG!
This is a guest blog by Dr. Sebastian Groh, Managing Director, ME SOLshare, Mobile for Development Utilities Grantee In September 2015, GSMA awarded the Bangladeshi start-up company ME SOLshare Ltd....
View ArticleDisplaced Populations, Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Mobile Money
At the World Humanitarian Summit last year, the GSMA committed to broaden the remit of Humanitarian Connectivity Charter to offer expertise in mobile-enabled fund disbursement and disaster...
View ArticleMapping the mobile money gender gap: insights from Cote d’Ivoire and Mali
Despite significant growth in mobile money over the last decade, there are still wide gender gaps in mobile money account ownership and usage. There is valuable data on the gender gap in mobile...
View ArticleMapping the mobile money gender gap: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire and Mali
Over the last few years, mobile money has been spreading at an impressive rate, potentially playing a major role in expanding financial access to more vulnerable populations. A recent study in Kenya...
View ArticleMaking a debut into P2G payments: Orange Money collaborates with government...
This blog is written by Nic Wasunna with contributions from Joëlle Hazoume Alao, Orange Money Director at Orange Guinea. In an endeavour to share best practices from mobile money providers around the...
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Mobile Money as a driver of financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
On 21 June 2017, the GSMA will be participating in the Africa Business Technology Forum in London, where we will present findings on the role mobile money has had to drive financial inclusion in Africa...
View ArticleThe GSMA endorses the International Day of Family Remittances
Mobile technology is one of the most exciting forces shaping how people send and receive international remittances today. Around the world, people are shifting from traditional channels to their mobile...
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Landscape Report: Mobile Money, Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Displaced...
Over the past decade, natural disasters and complex emergencies have led to a sharp increase in the need for humanitarian assistance. GSMA data shows that at least 19 markets have more mobile money...
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One year on from the World Humanitarian Summit: New Research on Mobile Money,...
One year ago today, world leaders, humanitarian agencies, civil society, and the private sector gathered in Istanbul for the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). The WHS was called in response to the scale...
View ArticleMobile Money Payment Toolkit for Utility Service Providers
The use of mobile money payment solutions is becoming widespread in utility services, however the integration with mobile money platforms remains a challenge for utility service providers. The Mobile...
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A toolkit for Utility service providers on mobile money integration
The use of mobile money payment solutions is becoming widespread in utility services. In September 2016, for example, over 1.6 million mobile money transactions were generated by pay-as-you-go (PAYG)...
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Easypaisa: A mobile operator-led solar PAYG model for Pakistan
In January 2014, Easypaisa was awarded a Seed grant to trial the sale of 125 solar home systems in Pakistan. Easypaisa worked with two vendors for this project, Roshan Energy and Brighterlite Pakistan...
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