M-KOPA, a leading emerging market fintech, announced that it has surpassed 5 million customers across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Two million of these customers have come onboard in the past 15 months. M-KOPA’s innovative model makes affordable smartphones embedded with financial services available to ‘Every Day Earners’:…
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