financial inclusion

Visa’s Plan To Connect 500M To Financial Mainstream
Visa’s Plan To Connect 500M To Financial Mainstream
April 20, 2015  |  News

Visa’s CEO Charles Scharf has got a plan to connect half a billion additional consumers to the financial mainstream in the next five years. Visa announced...

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Startup Offers ‘Paycheck Insurance’
Startup Offers ‘Paycheck Insurance’
January 13, 2015  |  Financial Inclusion

As banks and nonbanks look for alternatives to payday loans, financial-management startup Even is working on a novel way for people whose incomes vary to...

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Smartphone Explosion Means Mobile Payments Worldwide By 2020
Smartphone Explosion Means Mobile Payments Worldwide By 2020
November 27, 2014  |  Financial Inclusion

By the year 2020, 90 percent of the world’s population over 6 years of age will have a mobile phone, making them candidates for mobile...

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Bill Gates Focused On Digital Payments For Poor
Bill Gates Focused On Digital Payments For Poor
September 15, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Though there has been a lot of talk and media coverage about the tremendous potential mobile payments offer to the poor, underbanked and financially disenfranchised...

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