{"id":6131,"date":"2014-04-10T09:48:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-money-policies-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo"},"modified":"2014-04-10T09:48:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:48:36","slug":"enabling-mobile-money-policies-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"gsma_theme_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-money-policies-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Mobile Money Policies in the Democratic Republic Of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2011, the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s (DRC) central bank released a new regulatory framework on electronic money (e-money): Directive #24. This was a landmark development in the Banque Centrale du Congo\u2019s (BCC) financial inclusion strategy. Recognising mobile money\u2019s unrivalled potential to reach the unbanked, BCC has designed an enabling regulatory framework that allows non-bank e-money issuers to oer transformational financial services. A few months after the release of the new framework, four mobile network operators (MNOs) were granted a licence and three launched operations, creating a competitive mobile money market that is bringing eciency in a country where neither banks nor payment service providers have yet managed to reach scale. The rapid market uptake of e-money is the direct result of an inclusive engagement process through which the regulator and mobile providers created Directive #24 on electronic money.<\/p>\n<p>View: <a title=\"Enabling Mobile Money Policies in the Democratic Republic Of Congo\" href=\"\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Enabling-Mobile-Money-Policies-in-the-Democratic-Republic-Of-Congo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enabling Mobile Money Policies in the Democratic Republic Of Congo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2011, the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s (DRC) central bank released a new regulatory framework on electronic money (e-money): Directive #24. This was a landmark development in the Banque Centrale du Congo\u2019s (BCC) financial inclusion strategy. Recognising mobile money\u2019s unrivalled potential to reach the unbanked, BCC has designed an enabling regulatory framework that allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"image":null,"json":{"gsma_resources_type":null,"gsma_resources_thumb":"[]","gsma_resources_file":"[]","gsma_resources_multi":null,"gsma_resources_wgr":null,"gsma_resources_video":null,"gsma_resources_image":"[]","gsma_resources_url":null,"gsma_resources_date":null,"gsma_resources_button":null}},"tags":[],"resource_categories":[],"algolia_discover_type":[2220],"class_list":["post-6131","gsma_theme_resources","type-gsma_theme_resources","status-publish","hentry","algolia_discover_type-resource"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enabling Mobile Money Policies in the Democratic Republic Of Congo - GSMA Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-money-policies-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enabling Mobile Money Policies in the Democratic Republic Of Congo - GSMA Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In December 2011, the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s (DRC) central bank released a new regulatory framework on electronic money (e-money): Directive #24. 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