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This blog shares some insight on how DFS providers can benchmark customers to agent ratios
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Getting it right: Why counting mobile money agents accurately matters

A person cannot decide to use a financial service until it has been extended within...
Mar 6, 2017

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Defining terms and options for measuring access to digital finance

This article summarizes recommendations from a newly released paper titled “Agents Count”, containing some initial...
Mar 3, 2017

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This presentation highlights these three core design principles for successful Payment Banks and the lessons...
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