mobile money

Digital wallet transfers

Mobile money is a system for storing, sending, and receiving money through a mobile phone, without needing a traditional bank account.

Widely used in regions with limited banking infrastructure, particularly Africa and South Asia, it allows transactions via text message or app: She paid the vendor with mobile money.

The service typically links to a phone number rather than a bank account.

Related

transaction · PIN · balance · top-up · agent · cash out · kiosk · remittance · peer to peer · cashless · unbanked · send · receive · fee · SMS · digital · prepaid · vendor

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Opposites
payment medium/form

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Ready spending funds

paper money · coins · banknotes · hard currency · cold hard cash

transaction infrastructure

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Electronic fund transmissions

financial infrastructure

mobile moneymattress money

Cash stored domestically

barter

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Everyday, not technical · Rated G