Tag Archives: Digital payments

How to inoculate the world against a payment fraud pandemic (F.T.)

Across the world, billions of dollars are now lost to online payment fraud every year, much of it perpetrated by international organised crime, according to experts, and most of it initiated by WhatsApps, Facebook ads, texts and other digital triggers. A global hotspot is the UK, where new rules from the Payment Systems Regulator come […]
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True financial inclusion calls for smaller markets to receive equal attention to larger ones (TN)

The potential for mobile money and digital payments to drive financial inclusion is immense. We can see this potential being unlocked on the African continent as it accounts for 70% of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money value and registered a 12% growth in mobile money accounts to 1.75 billion in 2023. This is opening some new opportunities for […]
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