For Ecobank, financial inclusion is both a mission and a measurable outcome grounded in expanding knowledge, access, and agency. Dan Adu-Gyasi, an Ecobank Youth Ambassador and student at the ...

The authors show that distribution models relying on branches alone cannot succeed in emerging markets. Instead, winning institutions deploy layered, multi-channel systems that combine mobile ...

WASHINGTON — Roughly 2 billion people around the world do not have bank accounts, and Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga acknowledges that there are not enough philanthropic dollars to bring all those ...

According to the researchers, financial inclusion expands access to formal banking, credit, savings and digital financial ...

This manual is designed to help trainers facilitate financial inclusion training workshops with interested members in their communities, and to help communities establish and operate their own savings ...

Humans are not entirely rational animals. That’s a classic principle of behavioral science. Even when we know what is best for us in the long term, “We have an incredibly strong bias toward receiving ...

This December 2018 training served to guide financial sector authorities through developing and operationalizing a National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS). The training covered the overall NFIS ...

Growing up in North Carolina, I was fortunate my parents taught me sound financial habits. Early lessons in the importance of careful spending and saving set me up for later success, and I’m grateful ...

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Presidential Court, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central ...

CurveBlock, a Leeds based FinTech company, brings financial inclusion to the green real estate development space. Recently, they released further detail of the first working prototype model home ...

"The imposition of rigid interest rate ceilings, to protect consumers, paradoxically deepens this exclusion and stunts the ...