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At first let’s define FinTech. As per Wiki Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the 21st century. Originally, the term applied to technology applied to the back-end of... more
Few months back I read GSMA State of Industry Report-Mobile Money 2015. It was an interesting report depicting the fact that how the informal O2C (Over the Counter or Retailer performing transactions through Customer Account) is still one... more
Today more than ever, banks are facing the race for innovation in mobile financial services. Several studies have focused on the factors driving the adoption of mobile money, but the aspect of deposit collection activity by banks,... more
This article looks in more depth at the different ways in which ideas about cashless societies were articulated and explored in pre-1900 utopian literature. Taking examples from the works of key writers such as Thomas More, Robert Owen,... more
This study evaluated the “Ef ect of Mobile Money Transfer Scheme on the Economic Growth of Cameroon”. Mobile Money Transfer Scheme was the independent variable, meanwhile Economic Growth was the dependent variable and the proxies used... more
With current advancements in technologies, mobile payment system (MPS) is offering impressive and helpful services in societies. This study is designed to determine how the tour operator sector in Kenya has acknowledged m-payment in... more
Ce travail se propose d’apprécier les effets de l’inclusion financière sur la croissance économique en zone CEMAC. L’approche utilisée pour l’inclusion financière est celle du Mobile Money défini comme étant un service pour lequel le... more
The study examined factors leading to market share growth of onemoney financial services in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The main aim of the study was to find out why Onemoney had a low market share relatively to Ecocash and Telecash, despite the... more
A serious problem confronting Zimbabwe is the savings gap, which essentially means that Zimbabwe as an economy cannot fund economic growth from domestic saving. There is a directly relationship between savings and income. Since savings... more
Purpose: The paper aims to investigate how to improve mobile money service adoption and usage by Nigerians during the era of Covid-19 by examining the challenges faced by mobile money users in Nigeria. Approach/Methodology/Design: The... more
New sociotechnical systems are emerging from the convergence of communications and money networks. This is particularly significant in mobile media, where services such as near field communication (NFC) and QR code payments, mobile... more
Digital Financial Services (DFS) is a relatively new, low-cost means of digital access to transactional financial services. Often termed 'mobile money' or 'mobile financial services,' DFS is one of the core solutions used in developing... more
In emerging markets like Nigeria, the number of adults excluded from formal financial systems has developed an informal system excluded from formal reporting structures that aid economic development and policy formulation. Documentation... more
With 60% of Zambia’s bank branches in Lusaka and Copperbelt alone because these areas are not cost-effective to reach. Due to Zambia’s relatively high phone ownership rate, a mostly unbanked rural population and the presence of multiple... more
There is not much literature on micro savings in Zimbabwe, as there is on micro lending, but we are strongly inclined to believe that financial education will lead to micro savings and micro insurance on mobile money platforms. Micro... more
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now advancing quickly in emerging markets such as Indonesia. Between 80-95% of the Indonesian population already has access to mobile phones while Internet access, increasingly via... more
This paper aims to interrogate existing FinTech regulations in Nigeria, extract the challenges of the budding industry and illuminate on prospects with the underlying aim of proffering sublime, practical recommendations towards the... more
This paper will explain: - What is money laundering? - International efforts to combat money laundering - A new tool to launder illicit funds - Examples of cyber-laundering: Liberty Reserve, Bitcoin, Second Life, Silk Road - How to... more
Why are banks important to us? To understand the role banks play in providing transaction services, I study an episode from Kenya where individuals use an alternative medium of exchange (M-Pesa), where cellphone minutes take on the role... more
O fenômeno de Mobile Banking, emergente no Brasil, poderia ser caracterizado tanto pela magnitude das expectativas associadas a ele quanto por sua complexidade sócio-política e tecnológica. Por um lado, este fenômeno representa uma... more
Cash has still been the preferred payment method of the Filipino majority—amounting to 51.3% of the population; while there were only 7.1% that prefer using mobile phone or app payments (TheNerve, 2019). Despite the cash-heavy... more
The MoneyLab Reader brings developments in crowdfunding, currency design, technologies of payment, and other economic experiments into dialogue. The authors of this volume discuss the implications of the current architecture of global... more
Understanding what factors predict whether an urban migrant will end up in a deprived neighbourhood or not could help prevent the exploitation of vulnerable individuals. This study leveraged pseudonymized mobile money interactions... more
With the expansion of smartphone and financial technologies (FinTech), mobile money emerged to improve financial inclusion in many developing nations. The majority of the mobile money schemes used in these nations implement two-factor... more
The use of mobile technology has become widespread with astonishing speed all over the world, particularly among the poor. The more mobile phones go to the hands of people who formerly lacked access to financial services, the more the... more
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures - Uganda - Mark SEMAKULA
legal issues in modile money transactions
The motivation for this study was that, existing literature have reported on the growth of mobile money (MM) and its clientele base. However, studies on the effects of mobile money service on customers and performance of an individual... more
Development and finance go hand in hand. It is difficult for a country to develop without finance. However, what is the new perception of development? Clearly it seems to encompass more than just economic figures. And what is the role of... more
Mobile money is a relatively new phenomenon that allows banking services to be accessed through a cellular device. It has become a significant tool for poor and rural populations in developing countries to gain access to financial... more
While we have seen so far numerous mobile money service deployments in Africa and Asia, this has not really taken off in Europe despite the fact that European markets in their majority are more mature in terms of technology advancement... more
Edited proceedings of an international Colloquium held in Johannesburg,
South Africa, on 22–26 October 2018
South Africa, on 22–26 October 2018
With the flagship success of M-Pesa, mobile devices have become an important tool to facilitate the financial inclusion of the previously unbanked population in developing countries. Following the success of M-Pesa in Kenya in 2007,... more
This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households. Using data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey in 2016/17, a multiple correspondence... more