Whereas in 2008 practically no one had access to mobile financial services in Tanzania, by September 2013 90% of the country's adult population did....
Kenya's economy is 83rd in the world, but when it comes to mobile payments, it is in the company of big, developed countries like the U.S. and Canada....
M-Pesa is blamed for facilitating money laundering and corruption, but the service has done a vast amount of good in poor and troubled places around the world....
M-Shwari can lay claim to being the first true mobile banking service - a full-fledged bank account, it offers access to loans and is managed from a cell phone....
Using M-Paisa's mobile payments system to pay the salaries of Afghan policemen prevented middlemen from taking a cut resulting in an effective pay raise of 30%....
