The number of subscribers to the 23 Mobile Money Operators (MMOs) in the country stood at 9.25million as at the first half of this year, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, managing director and chief executive...

The burden of delivering financial inclusion to the last mile has become one that needs the strategic participation of all industry stakeholders in the ecosystem, so as to deliver value propositions that will deepen financial services culture for the benefit of the citizenry. These were the views of participants at the 2019 Mobile Money Conference,…

Ahead of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets, the mobile industry has shown commitment towards helping the globe meet them.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has come out to explain that the reintroduced cash-less policy is not aimed at creating difficulties or punishing anybody in the financial system...

A mobile money agent, Eniola Adenuga, yesterday narrated to newsmen why and how he raped his female co-worker, Faith Jude, to death in their office around Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.

With more than 866 million registered mobile money accounts globally and $1.3 billion processed daily, mobile money serves as a critical infrastructure for start-ups looking to increase...

Findings in separate reports released by the IMF, World Bank and GSMA support the notion that mobile money growth in Sub-Saharan...

Access to financial services opens doors for families, allowing them to smooth out consumption and invest in their futures through education and health.

Stakeholders recently gathered with security agencies from across Nigeria, at the maiden workshop on process flow in the mobile money ecosystem...

In this unfolding era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the march towards Fourth Industrial Revolution, Nigeria is not left out in the move to enthrone AI-led services, especially in the telecoms sector. Globacom is at the forefront of revolutionalising the telecoms sector with AI enabled services. The firm noted that it was committed to ensuring…

The GSMA has predicted that the current reforms in Mobile money where telecommunications operators will be licensed among others in Nigeria, Egypt and Ethiopia...

John lives and works in Nairobi. He does not have a bank account and he stores any excess cash he has at home, under his mattress. John’s family lives hours away, in rural Kenya. Previously, when his wife unexpectedly needed money, John either had to make the long journey home by bus, or he had…