MomoCalc Research

Research reports on African money movement

Quarterly research from the team behind MomoCalc — drawing on the site's live provider fee and FX data plus cited external benchmarks (World Bank, GSMA, central banks). Open data, transparent methodology, citation-friendly. Charts free to embed with attribution.

★ Flagship report

The True Cost of Sending Money Within Africa

Cost data on 11 intra-African corridors — provider fee + FX margin + cash-out. The MomoCalc average sits above the World Bank's global benchmark and well above the UN SDG 10.c target of 3%.

19 June 2026

More reports coming each quarter. Topics in queue: mobile-money fee compression across East Africa (Q3 2026), the FX margin landscape on remittance apps (Q3 2026), PAPSS bank-tariff pass-through (Q4 2026).