Same Rules, Different Worlds: Why R16 Fails the Payments Systems That Need It Most On 18 June 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted its revised Recommendation 16 (R16) at the Plenary in Strasbourg. The consultation process had drawn more than 300 responses from financ...

A standard that demands the same data from a SWIFT transfer and a mobile money remittance on a basic handset is not technology-neutral. It is architecture-blind.
#WTR #TravelRule #FATF #PaymentTransparency #MobileMoney #FinancialInclusion #AML #InstantPayments #DeRisking #WTRKnowledgeHub #OpusDatum

Mobile money keeps expanding - 2.3B accounts, rising activity & over $2T in transactions. #Merchant payments grew fastest, interoperability improved & savings/insurance expanded. Gender gaps & regulatory challenges persist: @GSMA 2026 SOTIR on #MobileMoney https://bit.ly/3thP1Ep

Quickly moving landscape —need to learn to quickly adapt

Use pyramid to understand #IllicitFinancialFlows

Need to increase #financialliteracy

Greater access to #MobileMoney

Women play a really big part — We need to include them more

Dynamic holistic approach important
— Marcena
Suppl. 🧵 A1.5/5

• Informal & Emerging Flows:
The rise of #MobileMoney and #Cryptocurrency as #dual-use tools—providing #FinancialInclusion to the #unbanked while offering #pseudo-anonymity for #criminalnetworks
🧵 4/5

Mobile money is fintech's key tool for reaching unbanked populations in regions with limited bank branches.

#MobileMoney #FinancialInclusion

Ericsson und Mastercard vernetzen Zahlungsdienste – «it business» – Meldungen aus der ICT-Welt

Ericsson und Mastercard erweitern die digitale Geldbewegung und setzen auf neue Payment Services.

#Ericsson #Mastercard #Fintech #DigitalPayments #MobileMoney #Payments

Mobile Money Market Analysis: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Outlook 2026 www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/mobi...
#MobileMoney #DigitalPayments #ICTInnovation #EmergingMarkets #FinTech #SmartFinance #CashlessSolutions

Outdoor mobile money service stalls with colorful umbrellas and customers in a busy market setting.

Newly published ICTD study on Tanzania's #MobileMoney levy: businesses adapted by bundling payments, but most don't understand the tax. Those who do view it negatively.

Read the article, published in the Development Policy Review, here ➡️ https://ow.ly/FEk850Y89sl

📸 Fiona Graham / WorldRemit

TechnoServe is using digital finance to help entrepreneurs and farmers build better futures with: more savings, easier credit, and rural resilience.

See how mobile money is changing lives.

#MobileMoney #TechForGood #FinancialInclusion

Mobile Money & Bus Travel: Secure Payments Made Easy The Rise of Mobile Money in Everyday Life A long time ago, you had to carry cash, count coins, and hope you had the right amount of change to pay for things. Now, your phone has qu

Travel Tanzania with Confidence
No cash? No problem. Discover how mobile money is making bus travel safer, faster, and more convenient across Tanzania. Book online, pay securely, ride stress-free.
📖 Read the full post:
👉 tanzania-travel.mystrikingly.com/blog/mobile-...

#TanzaniaTravel #MobileMoney

Your phone got more power than most offices — act like it.
#MobileMoney #DigitalTools #TechLife #HustleAnywhere

Kenya: Balancing Innovation & WTR Oversight in East Africa’s Fintech Hub Kenya’s financial landscape is routinely held up as proof that innovation can widen access while fuelling real-economy growth. M-Pesa turned basic mobile phones into wallets long before “fintech” ente...

Kenya’s fintech success story is entering a more complex phase as cross-border mobile payments bring heightened FATF scrutiny and wire transfer regulation obligations.
#Kenya #Fintech #WireTransferRegulation #WTR #FATF #AML #Compliance #MobileMoney #CrossBorderPayments

Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment Abstract. Rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduc...

@catiabatista.bsky.social & #PedroVicente (2025)
"Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa?"
Review of Economics and Statistics

Main finding:
Newly introducing #MobileMoney in #Mozambique promoted #StructuralTransformation by inducing #Migration out of rural areas

direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

Actualités CAMEROUN :: Affaire Danpullo : MTN Cameroun respire après la suspension de la saisie Mobile Money :: CAMEROON News Le secteur financier camerounais connaît un dénouement temporaire mais significatif dans le bras de fer qui oppose l'opérateur de télécommunications aux autorit...

#MTNCameroon #MobileMoney #Cameroun #Finance #Economie #BabaDanpullo #CDEC www.camer.be/91741/12:1/a...

📢 Interview highlight: #MobileMoney in #Mozambique is reducing remittance barriers, strengthening resilience, and boosting financial inclusion.

Findings from NOVIFRICA research by @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroVicente featured in Economia & Mercado.

🔎 issuu.com/media4develo...

Crypto Micropayments: Empowering Underserved Communities Banking the Unbanked: A Distant Dream or a Digital Reality? Imagine trying to run a small business, sell your art, or even just receive money from a relative abroad, but…

Crypto Micropayments: Empowering Underserved Communities #DecentralizedFinance #empoweringunbanked #mobilemoney #stablecoins #financialtechnology #smallcryptotransactions #FinancialInclusion #crossborderpayments #remittances #digitaleconomy

I spoke with #Media4DevelopmentMoçambique about our work on the impacts of #MobileMoney in rural #Mozambique, based on research joint with #PedroVicente published in the #ReviewOfEconomicsAndStatistics. 🧵👇

Interview: issuu.com/media4develo...

Paper: doi.org/10.1162/rest...

Mobile Money Agent Fraud in Uganda - How Bafere Scam Agents - Nymy Net On a call, your everyday customer, under the influence of a fraudster, walks to your kiosk asking you to deposit money to a certain mobile money number. As

Mobile Money Agent Fraud in Uganda - How Bafere Scam Agents - @nymynet

#MobileMoney #Abafere #AirtelMoney #ScamAlert #MobileMoneyAgents
nymynet.com/mobile-money...

Mobile money interoperability created over 900,000 jobs in Ghana - Bawumia Former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has emphasised that the introduction of mobile money interoperability created over 900,000 MoMo agents and jobs in Ghana during the erstwhile NPP administra...

🇬🇭 #Ghana’s #mobilemoney market grew from 8M to 24M users thanks to interoperability, creating 900K vendors and thousands of jobs: @MBawumia, Ghana's former Vice President. @BetterThan_Cash advocates open systems to boost access, speed, and affordability. https://bit.ly/3WrtB8m

National Payment Switch Uganda: How BoU Is Fixing High Mobile Money and Bank Transfer Fees - Nymy Net For anyone with serious money moving around in Uganda, it’s no secret that our transaction ecosystem is defragmented to say the least. Mobile money, FlexiPay,

National Payment Switch Uganda: How BoU Is Fixing High Mobile Money and Bank Transfer Fees - @nymynet

#Bank #BankofUganda #MobileMoney #FintechNews #AirtelMoney #Banking #NymyNet
nymynet.com/national-pay...

In her chat with #CNBCAfrica , Violet Kamau of MSC shares how innovation supports #financialinclusion of refugees. #mobilemoney, #digitalIDs, & alternative credit scoring transform exclusion into opportunity and resilience. ​

Tune in here tinyurl.com/374zywn2

Why Kenya wants to cut M-PESA, Airtel Money transaction fees - Today Africa The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to slash the cost of sending money via M-Pesa and Airtel Money, arguing that high fees.

🇰🇪 Kenya’s Central Bank plans to cut #mobilemoney fees to boost #financialinclusion. Lower costs aim to help low-income users access #digital services like credit and insurance, while supporting safer, more transparent payments across the economy.
https://bit.ly/3VOdktI

#Bank #banking #Money #finance #visacard #visa #DigitalBanking #mobilemoney

Mobile Money Agents in Uganda - The Hidden Struggles Behind This Business - @nymynet

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#mobilemoney #airtelmoney #mtnmomo #mobilemoneyagents #uganda #NymyNet

Mobile Money Agents in Uganda - The Hidden Struggles Behind This Business - Nymy Net Mobile money adoption has been on a steady rise over the past few years, and it’s clear from how many Ugandans use it for daily transactions. Add in the

Mobile Money Agents in Uganda - The Hidden Struggles Behind This Business - @nymynet

#MobileMoney #MobileMoneyAgent #AirtelMoney #MTNMobileMoney #NymyNet
nymynet.com/mobile-money...

We need to integrate anticipatory action into disaster management Anticipatory action upholds dignity by enabling households to take protective measures on their own terms, according to their priorities.

#AnticipatoryAction: a proactive humanitarian approach that uses forecasts to trigger early support before disasters strike. In Bangladesh #mobilemoney helps evacuate & prepare VS floods www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/we-ne...

ZamPharm isn't just revolutionizing pharmacy—it's proving that Africa can lead global innovation.
—it's about solving real problems for real people.
This positions Africa as the blueprint for Web3
#ZamPharm #AIPharmacy #Crypto #MobileMoney #RealTimeTracking #SmartPrescriptions #BlockchainHealth

Jim Spire Subject to Legal Action Over #StopAirtelTheft Campaign - Airtel PR - @nymynet

Read Here; nymynet.com/jim-spire-su...

#StopAirtelTheft #JimSpire #AirtelMoney #AirtelUganda #MobileMoney

Jim Spire Subject to Legal Action Over #StopAirtelTheft Campaign - Airtel PR - Nymy Net In the wake of Jim Spire Ssentongo’s #StopAirtelTheft campaign that is attracting intense public scrutiny, Airtel Uganda’s PR manager, David Birungi,

Jim Spire Subject to Legal Action Over #StopAirtelTheft Campaign - Airtel PR - @nymynet

#StopAirtelTheft #JimSpire #AirtelMoney #AirtelUganda #MobileMoney

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