Mobile money, the use of mobile phones to provide financial services through virtual “wallets” to unbanked populations, is relatively new. The earliest innovators in South Africa and the Philippines entered...
Goal 9 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to provide universal affordable broadband globally by 2030. However, a lack of data, combined with few independent and scientifically reproducible assessments...
Digital technologies (DTs) are becoming an important mechanism for unleashing inclusive development, particularly across Africa. The rollout of mobile broadband internet (3G) coverage has expanded substantially...
The global payment systems survey (GPSS) was launched for the first time in 2007. This tool has assisted authorities and policy makers worldwide in making meaningful cross-country comparisons and assess...
The intersection of artificial intelligence and 5G mobile technology has enormous potential to deliver dramatic improvements in productivity, efficiency, and cost across business sectors and broader society...
Bangladesh’s most successful mobile banking services provider, bKash Limited, is part of the BRAC Group, one of the world’s largest non-governmental organizations. Established in 2011, bKash now processes...
The Republic of Moldova was among the first countries in the world to implement Mobile eID, whichhas been implemented through the innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. In recognitionof Moldova...
Access to finance is a challenge in Bangladesh, where only 40 percent of the adult population holds a bank account at a formal financial institution. This is a major problem for the working poor, many...
Interoperable standards, a set of agreed rules and standards facilitating customer transactions among service providers, has been a focus area in the mobile financial services industry for several years...
Ratings for the Mobile Phone Banking Project for Maldives were as follows: outcomes were unsatisfactory, risk to development outcome was high, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower...
Mobile money, the use of mobile phones to provide financial services through virtual “wallets” to unbanked populations, is relatively new. The earliest innovators in South Africa and the Philippines entered...