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Opportunities and challenges for water and sanitation providers in the pandemic
This post is part of a blog series on funding provided by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that the GSMA awarded to nine previous grantees in the water, sanitation,...
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Balancing tradition and digitisation in the tea sector in Sri Lanka
This is the second blog in a series introducing the grantees and key partners supporting The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. “I’ve heard of mobile money, but I’m...
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Growing adoption of mobile money in the water and sanitation sectors
This post is part of a blog series on funding provided by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) that the GSMA awarded to nine previous grantees in the water, sanitation,...
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Using the Interoperability Test Platform for Certification & On-boarding
Last year, the GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab launched a new platform aimed to help financial services providers test their interoperability processes: the Interoperability Test Platform. The platform allows...
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Mobile money and international remittances: Enabling recovery during COVID-19
Since 2016, the GSMA has supported the International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) – adopted by the United Nations General Assembly – which is observed annually on 16 June. This year, the GSMA is...
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Mobile money in 2020 and beyond: How is Asia’s growing mobile money footprint...
This is the second in a series of blogs focusing on the findings of the 2021 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. Find blog 1 here. Access the Slides :Download High adoption is fuelling...
View ArticleThe OECD’s CRS: What mobile money providers must do
What is the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is an information standard for the Automatic Exchange...
View ArticleCybersecurity and mobile money: prioritising consumer trust and awareness
Mobile money services are delivered through a large and complex ecosystem, multiplying the risk of cyberattacks. As a result, cybersecurity is vital in driving mobile money adoption, use and...
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Mobile money in 2020 and beyond: exploring the acceleration of mobile money...
Access the slides:Download Mobile money accounts leapt forward in an exceptional year 2020 saw the number of registered and active mobile money accounts grow to new levels globally, but Latin America...
View ArticlePay-As-You-Go smart assets increase farmers’ climate resilience
Innovation SunCulture Pay-As-You-Go solar irrigation systems Partners SunCulture, Energy Access Ventures, Microsoft, REEEP, MIT, PG Impact, GSMA, EDF, Shell Foundation, SNV, USAID, EEP Africa, Mercy...
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Thinking Outside the Box: Vodacom Tanzania Agri Digitisation Journey
This is the fifth blog in a series of blogs introducing the grantees and key partners supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains. In 2020, Vodacom Tanzania was...
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Raising your voice: trialling voice recognition for mobile money
For more than a billion people worldwide, the simple lack of a legal form of identification (ID) is excluding them from life-enhancing digital and financial services. Almost half of those living...
View ArticleLaunch of the GSMA Mobile Money API Compliance Verification Service
Today, we are launching the GSMA Mobile Money API Compliance Verification Service. Sasai Fintech with operations in Zimbabwe, Burundi and Lesotho is now compliant with the GSMA Mobile Money API...
View ArticleTracking the mobile money industry 10 years on: Addressing the mobile money...
This blog shares some key findings from the “Addressing the mobile money gender gap” Chapter on page 60 of the GSMA’s State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2022. It draws on recent GSMA...
View ArticleExploring women’s and entrepreneurs’ use of mobile money in Ghana
This blog shares some key findings from the GSMA’s report “Exploring women’s use of mobile money in Ghana: The user journey, entrepreneurs and the impact of COVID-19”. It draws on recent GSMA...
View ArticleMobile Money: The $1 trillion industry driving the financial inclusion of the...
This blog focuses on insights from the 10th-anniversary edition of the State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2022, launched on 30th March 2022. Growth: M-PESA’s flutter in East Africa went...
View ArticleMobile Money: Driving affordable and resilient international remittances at...
As mobile money expanded into the mainstream and increasingly diversifies into digital finance products, crossing the $1 trillion transaction mark in 2021, remittances have become a key mobile money...
View ArticleFISCAL POLICIES AND MOBILE MONEY SUSTAINABILITY: LESSONS FROM TANZANIA
Renowned as one of the pioneers of mobile money services, Tanzania boasts itself as having a well-controlled and governed liberal regulatory framework allowing banks and non-banks to offer financial...
View ArticleFindings 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...
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