Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments

Solving the liquidity management challenge is one of the next big issues facing mobile money providers around the world. In Kenya, 20 percent of m-pesa customers report that they cannot withdraw money from an m-pesa agent. In 70 percent of those ca...

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Main Author: International Finance Corporation
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/802221501150875893/Liquidity-management-for-mobile-money-providers-insights-from-global-experiments
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spelling okr-10986-284072021-05-25T09:03:15Z Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments International Finance Corporation MOBILE MONEY LIQUIDITY PHYSICAL CASH MICROFINANCE ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS Solving the liquidity management challenge is one of the next big issues facing mobile money providers around the world. In Kenya, 20 percent of m-pesa customers report that they cannot withdraw money from an m-pesa agent. In 70 percent of those cases, the retail agent did not have sufficient funds. Nonetheless, more than 98 percent of m-pesa customers are happy with the solution. This suggests that even though there are liquidity problems, the customers are willing to look past that - at least for the time being - because of the overall value they perceive from the mobile money solution. Liquidity management takes two forms: management of electronic value in the mobile wallet and cash management. It is becoming more common for electronic liquidity to be handled not only by the retail agents, but also by the master agents. Technology is also being developed to help the master agents and the mobile financial services provider (MFSP) manage liquidity. 2017-09-26T21:29:57Z 2017-09-26T21:29:57Z 2017 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/802221501150875893/Liquidity-management-for-mobile-money-providers-insights-from-global-experiments http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28407 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Afghanistan Kenya Pakistan Philippines
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PHYSICAL CASH
MICROFINANCE
ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS
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MICROFINANCE
ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS
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Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
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description Solving the liquidity management challenge is one of the next big issues facing mobile money providers around the world. In Kenya, 20 percent of m-pesa customers report that they cannot withdraw money from an m-pesa agent. In 70 percent of those cases, the retail agent did not have sufficient funds. Nonetheless, more than 98 percent of m-pesa customers are happy with the solution. This suggests that even though there are liquidity problems, the customers are willing to look past that - at least for the time being - because of the overall value they perceive from the mobile money solution. Liquidity management takes two forms: management of electronic value in the mobile wallet and cash management. It is becoming more common for electronic liquidity to be handled not only by the retail agents, but also by the master agents. Technology is also being developed to help the master agents and the mobile financial services provider (MFSP) manage liquidity.
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author International Finance Corporation
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title Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
title_short Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
title_full Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
title_fullStr Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
title_full_unstemmed Liquidity Management for Mobile Money Providers : Insights from Global Experiments
title_sort liquidity management for mobile money providers : insights from global experiments
publisher Washington, DC
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url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/802221501150875893/Liquidity-management-for-mobile-money-providers-insights-from-global-experiments
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