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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. Governments and regulatory authorities need to work together to ensure that mobile money regulations are safe and secure.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

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Reuben Mpunda, Tanzania. In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. Mpunda had struggled for 10 years working at a hotel, a brewery, and a ruby mine. She is even mulling a run for office in the gas providers’ union.

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