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27 Jan 2016
Zambia introduced Digital Financial Services (DFS) to the world with the launch of Celpay in 2002. Celpay’s offering to Zambians was somewhat similar to Safaricom’s ‘microfinance credit re-payment’ product,
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18 Dec 2015
This is the third blog in a three part series, which compares digital financial service offerings in Kenya. The
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16 Dec 2015
This is the second blog in a three part series, which compares digital financial service offerings in Kenya. The first blog focused on mobile money
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14 Dec 2015
There has been a great deal of international discourse on the topic of mobile money after Kenya’s successful implementation of M-PESA, and as we recently wrote,
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13 Nov 2015
This blog was originally posted on the CFI Accion Blog
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13 Nov 2015
This blog was originally posted on the CFI Accion Blog.
The
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03 Nov 2015
While the first blog in this series explained how Indian Government mandates have determined
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01 Oct 2015
Equity Bank’s introduction of the thin SIM under the Equitel brand is an important development for the Kenyan financial market as it brings customers more choice in terms of providers, and will hopefully push product innovation further in a market that has
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21 Sep 2015
There is a key difference in how the Digital Financial Services (DFS) market in India has evolved when compared to other countries. While in most countries the expansion of DFS along with agent networks has been driven by profit, the growth of DFS in India has essentially been the result of
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17 Aug 2015
This blog was originally posted on CGAP
Change is upon us. After eight years of market dominance Safaricom’s M-PESA seems to have finally met a potential contender, the banks.