1006 Results from /inclusion
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
With traditional providers slow to cater to global citizens, FinTechs have been quick to fill the space, launching innovative solutions to meet global citizens’ banking, remittance and payments needs. While these are undoubtedly amongst the areas most penetrated by FinTech innovation, global citizens’ wider financial needs are now also being addre...
12 December 2018 /inclusion Personal Finance
Retired Member
As you may have read, recently published findings from consumer charity Which? have revealed consumers are not happy about the number of bank branch and ATM closures we’re seeing. Key findings show that of those interviewed: Nearly nine in ten (86%) said they’d visited a bank branch at least once in the past year; Eight in ten (83%) said branches...
10 December 2018 /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Kenya’s economy is largely driven by agriculture and tourism. Struck by a drought in 2017, Kenya was grappling with headwinds in order to sustain its economy. The Kenyan shilling took a severe beating. The Central Bank of Kenya was hard at work to keep the economy and the currency afloat. The only beacon of hope for Kenya during those difficult mo...
09 December 2018 /payments /inclusion Financial Risk Management
Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
On Saturday, December 1, the cost of Bitcoin rose to the level of $4,300. Then it dropped again: today, December 5, the cryptocurrency is trading at $ 3,850. Last weekend, several events occurred at once that have already influenced the situation in the industry and may change it in the future. 77.6% miners use renewable energy sources CoinShares ...
05 December 2018 /inclusion Financial Services Regulation
Alexander Dunaev co-founder at ID Finance
Around 1.7bn people are unbanked according to the World Bank, down from 2.5bn only seven years ago. Considerable progress has been made in just a few years with innovations in fintech taking much of the credit for providing financial services access to almost a billion people. However, 50 percent of adults globally still remain excluded from the t...
05 December 2018 /regulation /inclusion Biometrics
Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor
Time to read: 5 minutes to gain a different perspective 'The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.' – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Reflections… I found myself in a High Street branch of a bank, and I was partially drawn to a conversation/transaction between an elderly couple and the bank cashier. It a...
05 December 2018 /retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Investing is important for growing your assets and expanding your financial capabilities, but unfortunately, far too many people have a very poor understanding of how investing works as a whole, and what the appropriate practices in the field are. It’s important to familiarize yourself with the most attractive investment plans available before jum...
05 December 2018 /inclusion Personal Finance
Next year, several key events will occur in the digital money market that can seriously affect the situation in the industry. In 2018, the cost of cryptocurrency is continuously decreasing. Bitcoin has already fallen in price by 80% from $20,000 to $4,000. The total capitalization of the blockchain industry has decreased by 84%: it was $830 billion...
30 November 2018 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Fundstrat chief analyst Tom Lee lowered his bitcoin forecast by the end of the year, a major Swiss stock exchange will launch a cryptocurrency ETP, Poland will impose a 19% cryptocurrency tax and other news of the last two days. At the weekend, the situation in the digital money market remained virtually unchanged, but several events occurred at ...
21 November 2018 /inclusion Fintech
Dubai is a delight to the eyes and to the heart, I am sure you are nodding your head in agreement with what we have just asserted. Rich lifestyle is an attribute that is deeply entrenched in this city, not forgetting that this lifestyle is a fast-moving one which is not only allowing the city to grow but is also breeding growth in its inhabitants....
07 November 2018 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
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