there are now ninety-three countries with some form of mobile-money service: GSMA’s Mobile Money Deployment Tracker: http://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/m4d-tracker/mobile-money-deployment-tracker. “Between 60 percent and 90 percent of [mobile] accounts…”: Carol Realini, “Unbanked ...
there were 219 services live in 84 countries, compared to 179 services in 75 countries at the end of 2012 (see figure 1). The deployment tracker has also identified 113 mobile money services that are planning to launch.