Has mobile money achieved what retail CBDCs aspire to?
Central Banking Spring Meetings: Fintech panellists discuss financial inclusion and bank casualties
“After 100 years of banking, access to banking was less than 20%,” the moderator on the innovation track told the room at the Central Banking spring meetings in South Africa. “It is after using mobile technology we brought that to 86%.”
The speaker was referring to Kenya, where M-PESA, the successful mobile phone payments, transfer and micro-financing service, was launched in 2007. In Kenya, financial technology firms and retailers need to partner with a bank to issue e-money.
Mobile money has
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