Money Quote by Nagy K Hanna

In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are…

— Maurice Levy

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

— Bill Gates

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of…

— Mo Ibrahim

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive,…

— Ethan Zuckerman

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

— Mo Ibrahim

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

— Mo Ibrahim

“By 2025, even drug dealers will not take cash. South Korea plans to have no cash at all by 2020.1 In Sweden, the European…

— Jacques Peretti

“There are a billion people, right now, with access to the internet and feature phones who could use bitcoin as an international wire-transfer service.”

— Andreas M. Antonopoulos

New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or…

— Jeremy Allaire

In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the…

— Peggy Johnson