Customer-centricity and financial inclusion enrich banking
Matt Williamson, VP at Mobiquity, shares his views on banking’s future, the potential of financial inclusion, and why the customer experience is everything
Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Inclusion – DFSWG Technical Webinar
Trends and recent research by the Bank of International Settlement indicates an acceleration in the exploration of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) globally. Within the AFI network, about 40 percent of members have conducted experiments with 10 percent at pilot stages. This reflects a significant interest in understanding, exploring, and taking forward CBDC related interventions by the AFI network, as seen with the recent launch of Sanddollar by the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
The objective of this technical webinar hosted by the DFSWG was to address these questions through a plenary session delivered by technical experts, regulators and industry stakeholders, including country sharing from the AFI network. The webinar deep-dived into identifying the motivating factors for this growing interest, and its implications to monetary policy, financial system integrity & stability, consumer protection, and especially linkages to financial inclusion is therefore imperative.
Speakers:
Norbert Mumba (AFI Deputy Executive Director)
Bobby Chen (Central Bank of The Bahamas)
Prof. Douglas Arner (Faculty of Law at Hong Kong University)
Raj Dhamodharan (Mastercard)
Anca Bodgana Rusu (cLabs)
Moderator:
Prof. Olayinka David-West (Lagos Business School)
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AFI is the world’s leading organization on financial inclusion policy and regulation. Roughly 100 member institutions make up the AFI network including central banks, ministries of finance and other financial regulators from over 80 developing and emerging countries. AFI works on empowering policymakers to increase access and usage of quality financial services for the underserved through formulation, implementation and global advocacy of sustainable and inclusive policies.
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Driving financial inclusion in PH by banking the unbanked | Mike Singh, Manav Narang | CG Backstage
The central bank of the Philippines wants to drive financial inclusion in the country via the unbanked mass market. To help the central bank achieve this goal, Mike Singh, Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer of UnionDigital Bank, tells #CGBackstage that they are working to bring the adult population in the Philippines to the banking grid.
Meanwhile, Manav Narang talks about the Plug and Pay Tech Center, an innovation platform that connects corporations and startups to help them overcome their digital innovation and transformation challenges.
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Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion | Brian Johnson
Luncheon and Address: Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion
Brian Johnson, Deputy Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
New financial tools are bringing more people into the modern financial world — changing how households save, borrow, invest in their futures, and pay for everyday needs, while helping serve the unbanked and underbanked in society. What innovations are making access to financial services easier, more affordable, and safer? How are regulators adapting to such rapid change? Is our regulatory framework helping or hindering progress toward more inclusion?
Join us — along with innovators, policy experts, and regulators — for the 5th annual Cato Summit on Financial Regulation as we explore the policy framework for financial inclusion. Topics include tech-driven consumer credit access, consumer financial data and AI, faster payments for all, and more.
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Definitions of financial inclusion
Financial inclusion is a multidimensional concept that covers the ease of use and access to a broad array of different financial services including payments services and insurance among others. Lack of access to financial services especially affects poorer households because of the specific economic environment that they face. The recognition among economists and policymakers on the role that financial inclusion can play in alleviating poverty has led to direct government interventions where some have been more helpful than others. In recent years the advent of new technologies such as mobile money have increased financial inclusion along specific dimensions for the poor households across the world.
Link to learn more about the FDFIx course and register for the public: https://www.edx.org/course/financial-development-and-financial-inclusion
Link to learn more and register for government officials: https://www.imf.org/en/Capacity-Development/Training/ICDTC/Courses/FDFIx