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Why banks are going M-Pesa way

They say that if you can’t beat them join them. So, after a decade of soaking up blows from mobile money transfer services, traditional banks have resolved to do the inevitable: move most of their services to mobile phones.

The next battleground in Kenya’s financial sector will be the mobile phone which banks are slowly but surely turning into banking platforms.

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