Mobile financial services cross 250 million registered accounts, regulator data shows
মোবাইল আর্থিক সেবায় নিবন্ধিত অ্যাকাউন্ট ২৫ কোটি ছাড়াল
Active accounts grew more slowly than registrations; the regulator counts many dormant wallets.
Key points
- Registered MFS accounts passed 250 million in the latest monthly data.
- Active accounts (used in the last 90 days) grew at roughly half that pace.
- Merchant payments were the fastest-growing transaction type.
Registered mobile financial service accounts passed 250 million, according to the regulator's monthly statistics release.
The same release shows active accounts - those used at least once in the previous 90 days - growing at about half the pace of registrations, which the regulator attributes to duplicate and dormant wallets.
Merchant payments grew faster than any other transaction type for the fourth month in a row.
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