Ethiopia sees jump in mobile payments despite COVID-19 – New Business Ethiopia
By Eyerus Hadgu – Less than 35% of Ethiopians have access to financial services. Most bank branches are clustered around Addis Ababa and other urban areas, whereas over 80% of the population lives in rural areas, according to the World Bank. In other African countries, such conditions led to the rapid growth of mobile money and agent banking services, like M-Pesa in Kenya. These systems put financial services at the fingertips of consumers, letting them transfer money and make payments using their mobile phone. And through widespread agent networks, people could deposit and withdraw mon...
Source: newbusinessethiopia.com