The National Bank of Rwanda has instructed mobile network operators to waive charges on all transfers with bank wallets, person-to-person and merchant fees on payments.

Recent weeks have been all about adapting to the unprecedented and rapidly changing context. 

The launch countries include Russia, Turkey, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore and alongside carrier billing will also include local e-wallet payment services such as RabbitLinePay, GCash, GoPay, OVO, Dana, GrabPay.

COVID-19 has brought to the forefront the potential for microinsurance in the Bangladesh market, where over 30 percent live below the national poverty line and insurance penetration is extremely low.

Family remittances received by El Salvador totaled $1,600.7 million in the period from January to April 2020, lower by $173.3 million compared to the same period of the previous year, with a reduction equivalent to -9.8 percent.

Deep household debt might soon push Cambodia into a crisis as job losses caused by  Covid-19 make it even harder for families repay loans, experts and debtors say.

Kenya has undertaken policy reforms that directly benefit many low-income Kenyan households.

A number of people who were earlier used to paying their utility bills in cash may have shifted to the digital channels during the lockdown, they added.

The government is providing direct cash assistance to 5 million Corona-affected families.

The U.S. Patent office on Friday published a Visa patent application to create a technology gateway that could allow central bank currencies for any nation to be digitized.