Archive for: April, 2006

CGAP Brief, April 2006
Mobile Phones for Microfinance (pdf)
Mobile phones can be used for financial services in three different ways: for micropayments (m-commerce), as electronic money (e-money), and as a banking channel.

CGAP Brief, April 2006
Using Technology to Build Inclusive Financial Systems (pdf)
Innovative use of information and communications technologies to inexpensively process a large
volume of small transactions and deliver a wide range of financial services may help to make
microfinance institutions (MFIs) more efficient and commercial banks more interested in serving
poor people.