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Kenya’s Mobile Money Competition to Heat Up
Traditional mobile money transfer companies in Kenya could be headed for tight competition if other large volume traders are given licences to enter the field.
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Behavioral Change Tops Challenges for Mobile Money Use in West Africa
Cultural factors slow down the embrace of mobile money services.
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OPINION: Mobile and Money Remittance – A Perfect Match
Mobile makes money transfers faster and more convenient and it has the potential to reduce bottlenecks in branches.
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Risky Business – Is China Wavering in Africa?
Last month, officials from the Chinese Development Bank arrived in Ghana to re-negotiate a $3 billion oil-backed infrastructure deal.
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Man Denies He’s Bitcoin Founder
The man Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denied he had anything to do with the digital currency.
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New White Paper: The Case for Using Behavioral Economics in the Financial Inclusion Space
It’s no secret that saving money is a good idea. But time and time again we see people failing to save for the future, despite their best intentions. A new ideas42 white paper shows the important role that behavioral economics can play in increasing savings rates among the poor.
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Blazing a New Mobile Money Trail: Smart regulations could help Peru maximize mobile money’s impact on financial inclusion
Peru has been cited as an example of a country with the right market conditions, population size and regulations to tap the full potential of mobile money. Klaus Prochaska of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion discusses what regulators have done right, and highlights key lessons from Peru’s experience.
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Goldman Floats World Bank $50 million for Fund to Help Women Entrepreneurs
The new venture, called the Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility, aims to help close the estimated $300 billion credit gap that the IFC says exists for women-owned businesses.
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