M-PESA deposits uninsured against bank failure?

Interesting and thorough analysis, thought I should let fellow skunks aware... I thought there was another insurance mechanism for M-PESA cash held by Safaricom apart from the Deposit Protection Fund. Read on... http://www.mit.edu/~tavneet/M-PESA.pdf

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com>wrote:
Interesting and thorough analysis, thought I should let fellow skunks aware...
I thought there was another insurance mechanism for M-PESA cash held by Safaricom apart from the Deposit Protection Fund. Read on...
http://www.mit.edu/~tavneet/M-PESA.pdf<http://www.mit.edu/%7Etavneet/M-PESA.pdf>
Thats one of the reasons why take up of such a model has been difficult in other countries (e.g. europe or asia ) where there is a stronger legal oversight on mobile financial transactions. ashok
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