The GSMA’s Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme (MMU) accelerates the growth of commercially viable mobile money services to achieve greater financial inclusion.
The GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme (MMU) has been tracking the progress of the mobile money industry for the past few years. Each year, MMU’s State of the Industry Report contains key findings and insights on the growth of the sector. This year, for the first time, the scope of the report has been extended to include not only mobile money, but also mobile insurance, mobile credit and mobile savings.
This report contains data from the MMU Deployment Tracker, which monitors the number of live and planned mobile money services for the unbanked across the globe. It also includes data from the MMU 2013 Global Adoption Survey of Mobile Financial Services (hereinafter the 2013 Global Survey), which had 110 participants from 56 countries. For some metrics, such as mobile money revenues, the amount
of data reported is not as high as for the core metrics. Where it is sensible, estimates are made to complete the data set; in this report, numbers of mobile money accounts (both registered and active) have been estimated. We believe the findings in this report are truly representative of the industry overall.
Mini case studies on mobile financial services as well as particular mobile money best practices have also been included in the report, where they help to support or deepen the insights from the survey.