Africa Banks on Mobile Payments

Availability - Comparing the number of mobile money agents to bank branches and ATMs.

Availability - Comparing the number of mobile money agents to bank branches and ATMs.

Only 28.5% of Africa’s 1.17 billion people have bank accounts and the infrastructure of bank branches and ATMs is sparse. The last 20 years had seen payments in Africa change rapidly along African lines, rather than those of Europe or Asia or elsewhere. While payments in Africa continue to change, it appears that the future is mobile.