About Vivek Badrinath

Mobile money reached two significant milestones in 2024, surpassing two billion registered accounts and over half a billion active monthly users across the globe. The industry took 18 years to achieve one billion registered accounts and 250 million active users from 2001, but doubled in size in the following five years. This is according to the ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2025’ prepared by the GSMA Mobile Money programme which works to advance the mobile money ecosystem for communities worldwide that lack access to more traditional banking services.