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Unbanked and informal: what’s next?

If we follow the premise that a largely informal, mobile world is well suited to the digital finance revolution, and that people choose to be unbanked, then the next step is to explore how best to support the need to interface between fiat and crypto. This need is created by two challenges: low discretionary spending power and high transaction fees. People in the $5-$10 consumption/day income band hold the highest concentration of discretionary spending power on the African continent. Their t...

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Apr 19
Unbanked by choice, supported by design
Unbanked by choice?60% of Africa’s population (17% of the world’s unbanked) do not participate in the formal banking system.Only 35% of Africans (456 million adults of a total population estimated at 1.3 billion) were expected to have a bank account by 2022.40 million Europeans are unbanked, and we can only guess how many are venturing into having a digital identity completely independent of the formal network.Conventional thinking surmises that the unbanked are being left behind, are too poo...
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Informal + mobile = crypto? 
“When coming across headlines about African payments, leapfrogging is used as a description, which implies that Africa is catching up. In many ways, Africa is on its own path and some of what we’re doing is ahead of what is being done in Europe or the US. Our path is also not to replicate what is being done in Europe or the US. Payments have been instant across Sub-Saharan Africa since 2010.” - Dare Okoudjou, founder and CEO of MFS Africa. Africa is Informal The vast majority of spending in A...