Access to Finance FORUM Reports by CGAP and Its Partners No. 10, April 2015 How M-Shwari Works: The Story So Far Tamara Cook and Claudia McKay a The authors of this Forum are Tamara Cook, Head of Digital Innovations, FSD Kenya, and Claudia McKay, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, CGAP. Acknowledgments This paper was jointly produced by CGAP and FSD Kenya. The authors would like to thank Anastasia Mirzoyants of InterMedia and Julie Zollmann of Bankable Frontier Associates whose research and insightful comments contributed critically to the analysis in this paper. Eric Muruiki and his team at CBA supplied important data and clarifications. Rafe Mazer from CGAP provided useful original research and contributions throughout the production of this paper while David Ferrand and Victor Malu from FSD Kenya provided helpful input along the way. Finally, thanks to Greg Chen, Amrik Heyer, Kate McKee, Michael Tarazi, and Edoardo Totolo for their reviews and insightful comments. © 2015, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya 1818 H Street NW, MSN P3-300 Washington DC 20433 Internet: www.cgap.org Email:
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