Tanzania, June 8 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania recorded a sharp increase in cross-border mobile money inflows in 2025, with the value of incoming transactions rising by 33.45 percent to Sh698 billion, in the wake of growing digital payments in regional trade and remittance flows.

According to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), the volume of incoming cross-border mobile money transactions also increased by 32.76 percent to 5.73 million transactions, signalling greater reliance on mobile platforms for international money transfers within the East African Community (EAC), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and beyond.

BoT Governor, Emmanuel Tutuba, attributed the growth to the continued expansion of the country's digital payments ecos...