Great article (in French) by Simon Souris, journalist at L’Echo, about my work at the Gates Foundation.
Read the article here.
Great article (in French) by Simon Souris, journalist at L’Echo, about my work at the Gates Foundation.
Read the article here.
Great article written by Jayadevan PK and Shadma Shaikh for the Factor Daily, looking at the explosive growth of Wechat and Alipay in China.
The companies behind these services are now looking to Africa for expansion, and the article looks at various scenarios on how digital financial services could play out across Africa.
The Gates Foundation twitter feed featured a short video about how Level One Project enables financial inclusion. The video features an animation of one of my sketches, hats off to the producers!
Published on CNBC Africa, 20 Jul 2018
Several regions across Africa are zeroing in on what promises to be a new frontier in the fast-growing digital economy: mobile money interoperability. That means anyone in an interoperable region with a mobile money account can transact with anyone else who has an account, whether they use the same service provider or not. And when that happens, mobile money instantly becomes more useful to more people, enabling them to more easily save, borrow, and transact with all the people and institutions they need to connect with, instead of just those on their same network. When connected with banks, mobile money becomes even more valuable as people have a safe, secure place to store their assets.
Read the rest here – CNCB Africa
Earlier this year, I spoke to three different audiences of financial services and fintech innovators at three different conferences in Europe. I posed the same question to each one:
What do flip-flops have to do with bank accounts?
Read the rest on LinkedIn
In the latest edition of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization by @MITPress, my team explores some of the principles and challenges of creating an inclusive, interoperable hashtag#digitalpayment platform. We also share more information on Mojaloop.
Read on MIT Press Journals
I’m glad to have contributed to this excellent report from The Economist, super well informed and documented. I’m glad we can show progress in connecting the remaining 1.7 billion unbanked and poor people
Read on The Economist