Digital Financial Inclusion 2020: The Emerging Trends

As it turns out, financial inclusion has taken on new dimensions in the year 2020. The finance industry professionals and experts in past years have considered the growing importance of financial access to millions as the key to economic growth and eventually the development of the country. While there are

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Make Way For The New Era Of Biometrics: The Key To Financial Inclusion

The proliferation of digital access has made the world more connected than ever before. With the availability of technology, endless devices, and global access points, today’s users—customers and employees—have the flexibility to interface with technology on their own terms anyplace, anytime! As today’s complex digital environment continues to evolve at

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Agents of Change: From Finclusion to Growth – Part 02

In the last feature, we spoke about the foundation of Agency Banking and its importance in advancing financial inclusion on a global level. Financial institutions the world over have realized that the lack of sufficient service points in remote and rural markets and high investments in creating and maintaining new

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Agents of Change: From Finclusion to Growth – Part 01

On an average a rural consumer has to travel for hours to reach the nearest bank branch or institution even for daily transactions like depositing and withdrawing cash. Traveling such distance on a day-to-day basis is not only time consuming, but also costs money, making it counterproductive for an already

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A Universe Within for a Universe Beyond!

It’s the beginning of the month; you are at your local grocery store, stocking up for the next one month or so…. Without even blinking, you fish out your wallet, hand over your card, or just scan the QR code to make the payment though your e-wallet. Simple…isn’t it? Now

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Financial Technology, the utopian reality!

Technology has always played a key role in the financial sector in ways that most people take for granted and might not even notice. In examining the timeline of FinTech developments, the last 65 years paint a picture of continued innovation and evolution. In the global FinTech space, the 1950s

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