Fintech

Safaricom turned stock trading into a mobile money feature. MTN Nigeria followed with a USSD code that lets you check stock holdings from a Nokia 3310. While traditional brokerages spent decades keeping Africans OUT of capital markets with high fees and red tape, telcos did the opposite; they gave 1.1 billion Africans mobile wallets. Now they're turning those wallets into brokerage accounts. But should Should Telcos turn their 500 million active mobile wallet users into stoc