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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. While smartphone sales have stagnated in many mature markets, India’s smartphone sales grew 23% annually according to Counterpoint. The global smartphone market grew 0.7%

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