Category: Financial Inclusion

The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Deepak Malik

Deepak Malik, CEO, Arise, South Africa      Arise was built as a platform for growth of the financial sector in Africa. As a business, Arise invests in profitable enterprises but has the main objective of being the leading and most trusted development partner in Africa, and of supporting skills development and knowledge sharing….

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Sofie Blakstad and Line Gamrath Rasmussen

Sofie Blakstad, CEO, Hiveonline and Line Gamrath Rasmussen, Programme Coordinator, CARE, Denmark    Sofie Blakstad and Line Gamrath Rasmussen ask: “How can the financial system adapt to support the needs of the bottom of the pyramid?”  “Capital markets are fundamentally skewed. Small business make up half of the world economy and yet there is…

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Greta Bull

Greta Bull, CEO, CGAP, USA      Greta Bull talks about the way financial services contribute to the Economic empowerment of the poor. “Economic empowerment has two aspects: opportunity and resilience. It happens when poor people are able to capture opportunities to improve their lives, like educating their children or investing in a business….

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Ann Cairns and Paul Wade

Ann Cairns, Vice Chairman, Mastercard, UK in conversation with Paul Wade, Assistant Director, NORAD      From the parallel growth of Mastercard as a business and its Foundation bringing education to a failing world, to the progress of financial inclusion in the last decade, Ann Cairns points to the fact that the focus needs…

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: James Mwangi

James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya      Equity Bank in Kenya is an extraordinary case of how financial services can be made available to the poor and unbanked. James Mwangi, their CEO, tells the story of how a bank turned into an organisation that measures its success by the number of lives it…

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Aksel Jakobsen

Aksel Jakobsen, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway      Aksel Jakobsen took the stage on 28th March at the first ever international Financial Inclusion Summit held in Oslo, on 28th March 2019, to highlight the transformative role fintech and digital technology play in reducing poverty and hunger, in promoting health, and in…

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The Financial Inclusion Summit 2019 Video Library: Lanre Akinola

Lanre Akinola, Inernational Broadcaster & Journalist      Opening the Financial Inclsuion Summit 2019 in Oslo, on 28th March, Larne Akinola pointed out how the work does not end with the Summit. The challenges discussed at the Summit must be the starting point for the actions taken to reduce financial inclusion, from the following…

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The Financial Inclusion Summit Video Library: HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway – Welcome address      HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway gave the welcome address at the 2019 Financial Inclusion Summit in Oslo on 28th March.   In his address, His Royal Highness referred to the topics of financial inclusion, development and the role of technology in ending…

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New mobile money propositions have the potential to reduce the world’s unbanked population by more than a third

The mobile phone could draw an extra 607 million into the financial mainstream – but access to mobile money is just the first step in achieving true financial inclusion   Oslo, Norway (March 28, 2019) – A new report from Mastercard confirms the power of mobile technology to improve financial inclusion. The research shows that…

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Oslo summit puts Norway at the centre of fight to end global financial exclusion

HRH Crown Prince Haakon and Norwegian State Secretary Mr Aksel Jakobsen is meeting fintechs from across the Nordic region, NGOs and global development agencies to discuss collaboration   OSLO: 28 MARCH 2019 – The inaugural Financial Inclusion Summit takes place in Oslo today (28thMarch) – for the first time bringing together representatives of international humanitarian…

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