The goal is to bring the mobile gaming industry — worth USD 46.1 billion in 2017, according to the statement — to
underbanked users who would otherwise not have a way to participate in the games» virtual economies.
The move pairs one of Asia's biggest smartphone manufacturers with token - based technology that will give mobile game developers access to tens of millions of un - and
underbanked users.
For most
underbanked users, the last resort would be to turn to loan sharks and their extremely predatory interest rates.
Prepaid cards and other basic transactional services for
underbanked users draws very little investment relative to other areas — $ 36.6 million, or less than 1 % of the investment dollars we tracked in the study as a whole.
Among the companies we looked at, five organizations have received a combined $ 36.6 million in funding for extending banking and prepaid debit services to
underbanked users.
Not exact matches
More than half of all
users are unbanked or
underbanked.
And with its benefits to
users in both
underbanked and overbanked economies, bitcoin helps forex platforms reach further than ever before.
When combined, unbanked and
underbanked households comprised the majority (55 %) of prepaid card
users in the previous 12 months.
Jordan Kelley, CEO of Robocoin, told CoinDesk that the new service brings the company closer to its original goal of making bitcoin more
user - friendly for mass - market consumers and the
underbanked, adding:
Do you think that, while the initial bitcoin in Africa story was remittance and supporting the
underbanked population, there is a move away from that to a focus on the blockchain for commercial
users as it very much is in the Western world now?
This is regardless as to whether or not
users have a bank account and thus may provide an interesting solution for the millions of
underbanked people around the world.