Africa dominates global mobile money, reshaping payments, finance and investment — but can it turn scale into lasting financial power?
Africa is no longer catching up in finance – it is setting the pace.
The continent’s mobile money market processed $1.4 trillion in transactions in 2025, cementing its position at the centre of a global shift towards phone-based payments, according to the GSMA.
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