The number of fintechs operating in Mexico has grown consistently. Progress in financial inclusion, however, has been far less explosive.
While fintech innovation has greatly evolved in recent years, there is still much more to be accomplished; one area available for significant market growth is financial inclusion; Lend Academy talks about fintech innovation for the underserved bank customer in their article; LendIt will be running a financial inclusion track this year at LendIt USA to help support development of this market opportunity. Source
There are still three billion people around the world who are currently left out of the financial system. While many...
Sawa Credit is creating a community debt servicing technology platform to help the underserved stay in their homes.
According to CB Insights challenger banks are the fastest growing fintech segment in the world; U.S. based Chime has been...
Financial exclusion is a global problem affecting millions of people, through strategic design and implementation, could CBDCs be the solution?
In episode thirteen of PitchIt: the fintech startups podcast we talk with Esusu Co-Founder & Co-CEO Abbey Wemimo. Esusu automates...
Many people around the world still lack access to formal financial services and a financial identity; using a smartphone as a means to provide a financial identity is the best place to start when it comes to financial inclusion; article discusses why financial identity matters and the idea of communication as a commodity using data from data scientists at Juvo. Source
PayPal COO Bill Ready talked to Karen Webster of PYMNTS.com about the decision to join Facebook’s project Libra; PayPal exists...
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