The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 14
Interview with Moni What was the dream? How did it all start? The dream was financial inclusion, equal access to financial services for anyone, anywhere. What is Moni’s product? We provide smart accounts and a prepaid mastercard. We are developing a marketplace for financial services. What are your challenges? Financially underserved people…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 13
Interview with PayQin The “dream” – how it all started More than 80% of people in emerging countries don’t have access to financial services. Today most of those people would like to buy products online on a website like Amazon, eBay – if you don’t have a debit card this is just not possible….
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 11
Interview with Nordic Microfinance Initiative (NMI) The “dream” – how it started Mr. Johan H. Andresen, Chairman and owner of Ferd, had the idea of what was to become Nordic Microfinance Initiative (NMI) during World Economic Forum in Davos in 2004. He later wrote the Norwegian Prime minister Mr. Jens Stoltenberg and shared the…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 10
Interview with Doconomy The “dream” – how it all started From economy to Doconomy. Doconomy was founded in Sweden in 2018 by Johan Pihl, Mathias Wikström and a team of dedicated people from the finance, tech and communications industry. The philosophy is based on the fact that we all need to tackle climate change…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 9
Interview with Diwala The “dream” – how it started With a passion for impact, Diwala met and joined forces at a hackathon hosted by Innovation Norway and UN women in 2017. After winning the hackathon, the Diwala team established the mission to give youths and displaced people around the world the means to empower…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 7
In conversation with Rain Sepp, Founder & CEO, askRobin How did askRobin start? I started askRobin after I studied the Mexican market for consumer lending business. I only then understood how big financial exclusion is. I sat down with tens of people, studying their lives. They had no options to get any formal credit,…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 6
Aion Sigma, the story so far The “Dream” – How it started One day a pan-African bank realized that they would want to offer smartphones to larger constituencies in their continent. The problem was lack of financial history, lack of credit scoring by people who never have been financially included. Their need clicked with…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 5
From Abraham Guzman, Founder and Product Lead of EVVA Finanzas There are around 400 million of small and medium enterprises generating up to 60% of the employment and contributing up to 40% of the GDP in emerging economies. These are the companies that make each country competitive, these are the people that create an…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 1
Interview with Gisele Mwepu, Founder of Okapi Finance The dream “I am passionate about bringing the benefits of financial inclusion to Africa where 80% of people are financially excluded and which has a direct consequence on economic growth and poverty levels across the continent. Seeing how difficult it is to do financial transactions in…
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HRH Crown Prince Haakon to join global innovators and institutions at first Oslo Financial Inclusion Summit
HRH Crown Prince Haakon to join global innovators and institutions at first Oslo Financial Inclusion Summit 34 Nordic financial technology companies will showcase solutions Speakers from Equity Bank, Mastercard, World Bank, World Economic Forum gather to identify new ways to end financial exclusion OSLO, 1 MARCH 2019: HRH Crown Prince Haakon has announced that…
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