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Cross-border Payments Financial Inclusion Global Payments

Decoding a cross-border business payment to Rwanda: detailing the journey, the costs, and our observations

By Elizabeth McQuerry, Cici Northup, & Victor Malu   Introduction Glenbrook is based in the U.S., but we work on projects around the world; our global practice often supports clients in emerging markets. From time to time, for more formal proposal processes, we are asked to provide a corresponding bid security. For anyone not familiar […]
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Real-Time Payments Projected to Boost India GDP by $76.5 Billion, Bring Banking Access to 25.5 Million Indians by 2028

Yahoo Finance

“Real-time payments boosted India’s GDP by $50 billion in 2023, making it the world’s largest market in terms of GDP growth, according to the Real-Time Payments: Economic Impact and Financial Inclusion report published by ACI Worldwide in collaboration with The Centre for Economics and Business Research. This is equivalent to the output of approximately 6.8 […]
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M-PESA Hits 34 Million Users, Strengthening Financial Inclusion Across Kenya

TechAfrica News

“Safaricom mobile money platform M-PESA hit 34 million subscribers in November. M-PESA, which turns 18 in March 2025 has evolved over the years beyond payments and transactions to a financial ecosystem offering credit, savings, investment solutions, wealth management, insurance solutions and a host of other financial services in order to meet the evolving financial needs […]
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Reserve Bank to Open National Payments System to Fintechs

TechCentral

“The Reserve Bank has been working to add non-banks as players in South Africa’s national clearing and settlements system as part of a plan to drive financial inclusion to the unbanked and underbanked. Allowing non-banks into the clearance and settlement system will allow standalone fintechs as well as those run by retailers and mobile operators, for […]
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