Better Than Cash? The Future of Digital and Mobile Money
summary
Panel claims a working model: Abra uses bitcoin and smart contracts to lock fiat-value balances and runs a smartphone app plus an “AbraTeller” agent network in private beta with teller signups in over 80 countries and plans for large master-teller partners. Humanitarian ops test digital alternatives: IRC builds electronic voucher networks and aims to deploy cash assistance within 72 hours in 40 countries, but faces no-data zones, interoperability across ~22 Nigerian mobile money products, and agent liquidity challenges compared to a 20–30 million airtime-agent footprint.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Future of digital money
- 2:53Humanitarian cash transfers
- 5:21Orange’s frontier markets
- 7:53Abra’s global money transfers
- 13:53Banks vs telcos in finance
- 16:41Blockchain P2P transfers
- 19:52Aid delivery infrastructure
- 23:22Regulatory risks in digital currencies
- 25:27Mobile money and digital currencies
- 26:09Orange’s digital financial vision
- 27:56Abra’s global liquidity strategy
- 29:41Closing remarks
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