The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 27
Interview with Instantor Instantor is a Swedish fintech company founded in 2010 by John Grundström and Niklas Bergman. The founders identified a strong need to provide a broader range of people access to responsible and better financial services. There is a substantial demand for financing that is not met by the retail banks and…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 25
Interview with Blockbonds How it all started Every day, millions of people are transferring money to family and friends, and a large part of the money finds its way deep into the rural side areas of developing countries where people are unbanked. Despite many of them are among the poorest, they still have to…
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The Financial Inclusion Summit Series: Issue no. 24
Interview with Zwipe The “dream” – how it all started The idea behind Zwipe was to combine the convenience of contactless, specifically in payments and the access control industries with the security of biometrics. We felt that combining those two elements and making them work universally on multiple platforms and devices without the need…
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The global poor: the world’s most discerning users of financial services?
New research launched at Oslo Summit The global poor: the world’s most discerning users of financial services? If you lived on just a few dollars a day, you’d be forced to live an incredibly wellordered financial life. You’d already be a discerning user of financial services. And you’d almost certainly be served by an…
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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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FINTECH INNOVATION TO TARGET FINANCIAL EXCLUSION AT OSLO SUMMIT
FINTECH INNOVATION TO TARGET FINANCIAL EXCLUSION AT OSLO SUMMIT 27 Nordic financial technology companies to showcase solutions including Zwipe, Blockbonds, iZettle, Moni, M-PAYG, Okapi and Diwala Speakers from Mastercard, World Bank, World Economic Forum, Better Than Cash Alliances, Norfund and others OSLO, 10 FEBRUARY 2019: Global leaders, innovators and financial institutions are to…
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Look North: Nordic fintech focuses on financial inclusion
Look North: Nordic fintech focuses on financial inclusion Close to 30 Nordic fintechs are joining the 2019 Financial Inclusion Summit in Oslo this March. Among other issues, this summit will ask how the Nordic region’s fintech strength might benefit unbanked and under-served populations in developing economies. Success Breeds Success Modesty to one side, it’s…
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Making Financial Exclusion History
Making Financial Exclusion History Although the world has gone a long way to reducing financial exclusion, with more than two-thirds of adults now holding a bank account, a recent report from the World Bank indicates that 1.7 billion people still live in extreme poverty without access to basic financial services. Furthermore, the report, Poverty and…
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