Last week, my colleague Claudia McKay continued our blog series on our new CGAP Focus Note which tries to answer the question: “Is the hype around branchless banking justified?”  To dig into some answers, we gathered data on more than 16,000 clients of branchless banking institutions in 10 countries. Today, I’ll discuss the third and [...]

Last week, my colleague Mark Pickens started a blog series on the 3 main findings in our new CGAP Focus Note, which looks at several aspects of branchless banking across 18 branchless banking providers with more than 50 million customers in 10 countries.  You can read a full web feature about the paper on the [...]

After several years of very high profile attention on mobile money and other branchless banking schemes, we think it’s time to test the hype. Or more accurately, we’ve wanted to for awhile. But acquiring good data is really, really hard. We’ve been unable to say in anything but a fragmented, mostly anecdotal way whether the [...]