ZipZap Overview - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Financial ExclusionFinancial systems exclude 53% of the world. Most of
these people live in poverty.
Pick Your Poison
Bank Wire Slow, Expensive, Black hole
MoneyGram/ Western UnionExpensive (about 8%)
PayPal/Credit Cards Expensive: $0.30+2.9%ChargebackPrivacy/Fraud concerns
Cost of Money Transfer
*figures from the World Bank
Average cost to send money by product type
Lowering fees by just 5% could save consumers $16B / year.
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Remittance Market
$540B MARKET
PER YEAR
$74B FEESPER YEAR
8% AVG
Top Remittance Receivers (World Bank)
Remittance Is Growing
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013e 2014f 2015f 2016f0
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Remittances to developing countries Total Remittances
*e is expected, f is forecasted
Up to 40% of GDP
Poor countries rely on remittances as a source of
income.
Remittance Fees vs. Foreign Aid
Fees taken from remittances Total foreign aid0
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Total Aid Given vs. Remittance Fees
$74.4B
$133.5B
Payment innovations increase GDP
$983+ Billion total to real GDP around the world.
+1.9 Million jobs
Increases in GDP lead to positive social benefits
CleanWater
Improved Healthcare
Lower Corruption
Higher Literacy Rates
GDP
Decentralized Currency
Fast & Cheap
Instant transfer of property
without intermediaries or
high fees
Not just for techies,
libertarians and the anti-
establishment
Truly universal
No CorruptionNo InflationNo Banks
The next wave of innovation: Money 2.0
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Bitcoin Numbers
• $370 Price
• $5B Market Cap
• 33K Developers
• 65K+ Merchants
• $5M+ Wallets
• 500K People
• $300M+ VC Investments Source: CoinDesk, July 2014
• Micro e-Commerce
• Travel
• Platform Solutions (Bitcoin 2.0)
• Authentication
• Transcripts
• Escrow Transactions
• Title Insurance
Other Use Cases
Reduces Costs
Provides Efficiency
Creates jobs
Increases GDP
Leads to positive social benefits
Enhances quality of life
Conclusion
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THANK YOU!
Alan Safahi, [email protected]
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San Francisco, CA