Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion

In this blog post we discuss the relationship between the use of mobile services and access to other financial services, particularly savings services and bank account holding. Our purpose is to show, on one side, how Malian users try to fit available mobile financial services to their saving needs, and on the other, to what extent mobile money can be a vector of greater bank access through the development of mobile savings. Our analysis of mobile money users’ financial profiles sheds some light on these questions.