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El Salvador’s Digital Finance Sector Broadens Beyond Cryptocurrency Into Banking and Mobile Payments

El Salvador’s financial technology sector is expanding beyond cryptocurrency into digital banking, mobile commerce and digital wallets aimed at bringing more of the country’s underbanked population into the formal financial system.
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