Tag: Financial Inclusion

The digital era has ushered in a wave of disruptions, from the way we work and communicate to how we access information and conduct...

Lionel Lee, a global business executive, advisor, and a visionary leader in several non-profit initiatives, including The Better Foundation, engages in a profound conversation...

Financial inclusion is one of the great unsolved problems of the 21st century. Approximately one-quarter of all adults on the planet are unbanked, according...

  One type of financial transaction particularly impacted by the pandemic is ATM usage, both due to concerns about touchpoints and virus transmission, as well...

By Rayhan Beebeejaun, KCL Blockchain The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a new structure of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) which has been marketed recently as...

The Finance industry has a long history of being the heart & the brain that power economies. Every time this heart & brain has...

In the first entry of this 2-part article, we focused on how blockchain technology is empowering platforms that are trying to make the energy...

Taking Cryptocurrencies Back to the People One of the main goals the team behind Bitcoin aspired for was to create a true decentralized and democratic...

In today’s society, you would think that everybody has a bank account. After all, it’s basically a necessity. However, there is an estimated 2...

Last year, a milestone in the history of computing and financial inclusion was achieved. It was a particular one as it didn't come from...

Interview with Dickson Nsofor, the founder of Kora

Financial services are a main tool for basic personal economic transactions. Even if we never think about it, they are present in our life-style...

Blockchain technology was since its very beginning back in the late 70s an alternative way of digital communication focused on privacy and data protection....

Muhammad Yunus, a young economics professor during a famine in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, came across rural women skilled in local handicrafts who...

Progress towards an ambitious global target to open the opportunity of the 21st Century economy by widening access to electronic transactions to everybody has...

Earlier this year, Finland decided to promote a new tactic to tackle the growing unemployment rate his country was beginning to suffer. The Finnish...

The access to financial services is a major priority in new development programs built by the governments all around the world. For the poor,...

A financial inclusion app is to be launched in Ghana in coordination with the international organisations with the aim of giving young slum-dwellers a...

Financial services are mostly available in rich countries, which hold highly developed infrastructure on this matter: massive worldwide companies, high-tech at the service of...

Managing money in the developed world is simpler than in the developing world. Here, we can easily find ways to save money and spend...

Blockchain could bring about big change in the world around us. That could happen as soon as this very year, at least, so...

Financial inclusion has become, over the past years, a very important subject, being debated on global policymakers’ agendas, as governments all over the world...

With the current figures of refugees and displaced persons tagged at 60 million, a figure that is continuously rising, there have been calls made...

Informal economy, is the diversified set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected by the state. This sector...