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The financial services industry has much to contribute to the UN and World Bank goal of full financial inclusion by 2020. This group will focus on industry contributions, ideas, barriers and enablers.
There is a small group of U.S. citizens that are earning the majority of the country's income. In fact, TIME reports that in 2017, 1 of every 5 dollars generated that year went into the bank accounts...
The lending market is quite diverse, especially on the personal side. There are tons of options available to anyone in need of a loan, regardless of the sum and other factors. And as with many other t...
The digital current account provider Pockit has offered some telling new insight into the access to financial services debate by comparing the rate of bank branch closures with deprivation rates in En...
There has been plenty of discussion in recent years about the effectiveness of linking informal Savings Groups with formal Financial Service Providers. Some people will tell you that they are very eff...
I started scribing this article on July the 4th, so it is perhaps natural that my British mind turned to tea. However, my own brain had no room for thoughts about Boston. No. My Gray Matter was focuse...
Remittance flows have increased significantly in recent decades as more people have moved overseas for work and are sending money home to support their families. International money transfers are a li...
Blockchain has been around for a while now, and it’s already showing solid promise for the future of the financial market. But one segment of that market in particular seems to be getting affected in ...
Financial exclusion is a significant issue, particularly here in the UK. It results in many people finding it difficult it difficult to access basic banking services or facing severe restrictions on t...
I was very disappointed to see in the recent UK Access to Cash Review the headlined assertion that “cash is expensive”. Even if the figure of £5 Billion quoted in the Review as being the annual cost o...
Getting the finances together to start your own company or business can be very tricky. And, it’s likely your specialties lie in the technological side of the business, as supposed to stressing over t...
The remittance industry has consistently witnessed change. It is undergoing a paradigm shift from the traditional brick and mortar model of business to digitised methods of money transfer. Looking bac...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are developing cryptocurrency, the volume of Bitcoin transactions has increased by 63% over the past ten months, and other news of the past days. Bitcoin fell...