Africa

Article — Retail banking

DeFi & Stablecoins: Africa's new savings vehicle

Africa is the most worthy market for mainstream adoption of decentralised finance. Why? I could go on and on about the underbanked, underserved populations and ...

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Article — Retail banking

Lending in Africa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Article

My retail payments journey from Harare to London

The research on retail payments that I have done over the past couple of months had me thinking about my own payments journey and left me wondering how my own b...

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Research report — Payments

The State Of Retail Payments In Middle East And Africa

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Article

Money Management in Africa Part 2

In the first part of this examination of money management in Africa, I considered how mobile money impacted financial services provision in the region and the s...

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Article

Financial Inclusion Design in sub-Saharan Africa

When the World Bank launched a focus on financial inclusion in 2011, about 2.5-3 billion people lacked access to even the most basic financial services. Since t...

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