Kenya aims to introduce laws to govern “branchless banking” and help bring mobile financial services to the majority of the country’s people who don’t have the formal means to borrow or save, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said. Kenya’s poorest people...

Wal-Mart Stores says it will allow customers without checking accounts to pay all their bills at Walmart stores, potentially saving them hundreds in fees each year. Wal-Mart, which has been increasingly targeting the low-income demographic with financial...