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Pakistan pushes mobile phones over bank accounts to help unbanked consumers ditch cash

  • Central bank to roll out new feature from October 2021 allowing customers to use mobile numbers instead of account numbers to receive instant payments
  • Pakistan has third largest unbanked adult population globally with about 100 million adults without a bank account
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