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Archive for July, 2010


USAID Releases Mobile Financial Services Risk Matrix

By: Camilo Tellez: July 29th, 2010

Mobile Financial Services offer significant opportunities for improving the efficiency of financial services by expanding access and lowering transaction costs. The explosive growth of use of mobile money has had the unintended benefit of increasing public involvement in the formal financial system, including expansion of savings accounts in the regulated financial intermediaries.

MMU Publishes Glossary of Mobile Money Terminology

By: Neil Davidson: July 13th, 2010

To welcome newcomers to mobile money, to facilitate effective dialogue among industry participants, and to communicate with the public and other stakeholders, the Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme is today releasing a set of definitions of mobile money terminology.