We’ve been running an occasional podcast series with some of the voices we’re listening to this year as part of the CGAP/DFID Branchless Banking in 2020 scenarios work. The process is based on one driving question: How can government and private sector most affect the uptake and usage of branchless banking among the unserved majority by 2020? You can participate directly through this blog or posting discussions through our Mobile Banking and Microfinance LinkedIn Group. –Jim

Michèle Scanlon is Founder & Principal Consultant at Green Giraffe, an emerging market telecom & payment consultancy based in South Africa providing strategic advisory and project management services. Michèle has been covering global telecoms emerging markets for 12 years with a special focus on prepaid mobile commercial strategies evolving into other prepaid stored value applications such as prepaid electricity and mobile financial services.

I spoke with her a few months ago – to put mobile banking in context, as well as understand some of the factors that will affect how little or much mobile banking will grow in Africa based on what she sees around the continent.

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