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The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2020
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Open Banking: How to Design for Financial Inclusion (Webinar)
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2020
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Mobile Money Regulatory Index
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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020
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The Contribution of FinTechs for MSME Development: What can Mozambique Learn from FinTechs in South Africa and Kenya?
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The GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab for Mobile Money Interoperability
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State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2019
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API Deployments in Inclusive Finance
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The Mobile Money Regulatory Index
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Leveraging Mobile to Accelerate Digital Identity Ecosystems: Considerations for Policymakers in Africa
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Fintech Benchmarks Proof-of-Concept Report
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Digital Identity Tracker
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The Rise of Challenger Banks – Are the Apps Taking Over?
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Decentralised Identity
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Taxing Mobile Phone Transactions in Africa: Lessons from Kenya
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Fintech Development and Regulatory Frameworks in Indonesia
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The Fintech Landscape in Rwanda
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Harnessing the power of mobile money to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Digitizing Merchant Payments: Why and How
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Investigating the Impact of Global Stablecoins
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World FinTech Report 2019
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European Payments Predictions 2019
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How To: Create Digital ID for Inclusive Development
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Keeping Machine Learning Honest! The Need for the Truthalizer
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FinTech for Financial Inclusion: A Framework for Digital Financial Transformation
The full potential of FinTech for financial inclusion may be realized with a strategic framework…
How Open APIs Fueled the Growth of Eko in India
When Indian money transfer company Eko decided to open APIs back in 2016, the company…
Digital Economy Report 2019
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Cloud Computing for Financial Inclusion: Lessons from the Philippines
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Beyond KYC Utilities: Collaborative Customer Due Dilligence
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Blockchain: Cutting through the noise
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Digital Identification & Finance Initiative Africa: An Overview of Research Opportunities
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Economic Identities for Small Business Owners: Insights from Nigeria
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Price Comparison Websites
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Data Analytics and Digital Financial Service – Handbook
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A New Banking Model For Africa: Lessons on digitization from four years of operations
From 2014 to 2018, IFC and the Mastercard Foundation conducted a longitudinal study with nine partner…
Micro-entrepreneurs in the Platform Era
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Digital Identity Series
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Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services
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Leveraging Technologies to Improve the Quality and Maximize the Productivity of Agent Models
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The Rise of Digital Money
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EY Global Fintech Adoption Index 2019
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Omidyar Network Unpacks Good ID
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Data in FSP Decision Making. Findings From Six African Countries.
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Digital identity opportunities for women: Insights from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Rwanda
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Bangladesh: The Impact of Wage Digitalisation
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Report of the High Level Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments
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150 Financial Definitions in 8 Languages
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Mobile Money Glossary
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Big Data Tutorial: All You Need To Know About Big Data!
An informative tutorial on Big Data.
Inclusive Digital Ecosystems of the Future
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Africa’s digital platforms and financial services: An eight-country overview
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UNESCO’s Internet universality indicators: a framework for assessing Internet development
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Key Drivers, Emerging Trends and Developments in Corporate Banking
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The ethical use of data, and the extensive use of AI in day-to-day customer interactions…
Digital Identity: Restoring Trust in a Digital World
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The ICAEW Economic Update: Quarterly Economic Forecast
ICAEW produce quarterly economic forecasts and insights for global regions for those in the finance…
Mobile-enabled Economic Identities for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
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