The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The paper examines the effects of mobile money as financial technology and service innovation on consumer demand, connecting the effects to the fast evolving mobile technologies (from 1G to 4G).
The report charts the story of mobile money covering a decade of progress, industry lessons,impact and the future of the industry.
Over the past five years, mobile money has gained traction in South Asia, which is experiencing an average annual growth rate of 46 percent in mobile money accounts—the highest across all regions. For more details check out IMF’s 2019 Financial Access Survey that was released last week
This survey examines the evolution of mobile money, its important role in widening financial inclusion, and the impact of regulation on the development of mobile money systems.
This report offers guidance for humanitarian practitioners considering mobile money enabled cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes
The mobile money industry is now processing a billion dollars a day and generating direct revenues of over $2.4 billion. With 690 million registered accounts worldwide, mobile money has evol…
In December 2017, there were over 2.9 million active agents and 690 million registered customer accounts worldwide. Primarily responsible for registering customer accounts, mobile money agen…
The paper identifies opportunities and challenges in using the interface and options available in a smartphone to solutions that are more flexible, more accessible based on literacy levels, and more secure than traditional ‘feature’ phones.
This report outlines how mobile channels can support sanitation services delivery while building new engagement models and emphasizes the need of a collaborative approach to mobile technology integration, grant support for developing and piloting.
The report establishes how the mobile industry impacts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a set of commitments that will ensure that the SDGs are an enduring influence on our industry’s roadmap.
This research offers evidence to help MNOs make informed decisions about engaging in partnerships with humanitarian organisations, and to help humanitarian actors better understand their MNO partners and build successful long-term partnerships.
To effectively use of mobile technologies, this study develops a multifaceted framework to analyze critical success factors and determine an optimal solution for mobile technology adoption in travel agencies.
What are the key barriers to success in the mobile phone-enabled utility space? In this report, GSMA shares key trends and insights from its work with more than 40 organizations operating primarily in our member countries in Africa and Asia.
This editorial highlights the significance of digital money as a transformational innovation and emphasizes that banks and financial institutions need to develop strategies to respond to opportunities and threats of digital money.
The report catalogues extensive suggestive evidence of some of the unintended consequences of AML/CFT and sanctions enforcement by FATF and SSBs simultaneously highlighting their role in increasing the safety and security of the global financial systems.
This report provides insights from the Digital Money Index, which tracks the development of digital money readiness in 84 countries. It shows a 5.5% improvement in overall digital money readiness over the last five years.
The promotion of formal financial systems and services is central to any effective and comprehensive AML/CFT regime. However, applying an overly cautious approach to AML/CFT safeguards can h…
What four factors determine the digital money readiness of an economy? What measures can our member governments take to improve their ability to adopt digital payments widely? Read the lates…
This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.
Although cashless payment instruments have been available in Mexico for some time, their rate of adoption was not remarkably fast, until the last 15 years. This chapter seeks to document this phenomenon and discuss some hypotheses on why the adoption rate is still low.