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What's New in Payments

BCG reports on the mobile payments market in Africa

By Tom Phillips • 2 October 2020 • Updated 2 October 2020 • nfcw.com
BCG graph showing latent demand for mobile payments in Africa

Kenya and Ghana have the highest rates of mobile payment use in the world after China and, ultimately, there could be as many as 850 million mobile payment users in Africa conducting transactions worth US$2.5tn to US$3tn a year, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)... More


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