Tag Archives: digital currency

2017 is the Year Mobile Service Operators Became Banks

By | November 4, 2017

South African business headlines read MTN takes on Vodacom for title of Africa’s biggest digital bank and usher in a whole new era for banking and finance on the mobile platform. Having watched this space impatiently for more than a decade, seeing this was a landmark worth noting. The number of mobile-money customers in the… Read More »

Insights on the psychology of cash money – Demonetization vs Financial Inclusion

By | November 17, 2016

The flurry of commentary on the Great Indian Demonetization of November 2016 has thrown up some nuggets of insight worth considering more deeply. Santosh Desai explores the psychology of cash money in the Times of India blog, linking the need for tangible evidence of income to physical labour, as opposed to those of us with… Read More »