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Financial Inclusion, Financial Technology, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Philippine Case
Debuque-Gonzales, Margarita; Miral, Ramona Maria L.; … - 2023
The COVID-19 crisis created conditions for digital finance to accelerate financial inclusion in the Philippines. Anecdotal and survey data suggest that the pandemic has indeed spurred large gains in financial inclusion in the country, with adoption of digital finance as a strong driver. This...
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Fintech for good: Governance mechanisms for sustainable development
Pashang, Sep; Weber, Olaf - 2021
Financial technology (fintech) for good can help to achieve sustainable development through environmental, social and … governance and regulatory mechanisms around fintech in Canada and abroad is an obstacle toward achieving the UN Sustainable … risks associated with fintech for good while maximizing its benefits. …
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Who Holds the Reins? – Banks in the Crossfire of Global Platforms
Mattila, Juri; Seppälä, Timo; Lähteenmäki, Ilkka - 2018
Banking and financial services have traditionally been a heavily regulated industry where technology alone has not been a sufficient factor to transform the operating architectures of the industry. The pervasive view in the financial industry has been that digitalization and its integrational...
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Mobile banking and financial inclusion: The regulatory lessons
Klein, Michael; Mayer, Colin - 2011
Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for considering the design of regulation of mobile banking. Since it...
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction: a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2009
poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269187
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Financial inclusion, mobile money and regulatory architecture
Metzger, Martina; Were, Maureen; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - 2022
This paper discusses first the role of mobile money accounts to enhance financial inclusion towards vulnerable groups in developing countries in the light of recent empirical evidence. Second, we explore the role of regulation to address risks to consumers and the financial system arising from...
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Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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Fintech and financial inclusion: Opportunities and pitfalls
Beck, Thorsten - 2020
driven financial innovation; and (iii) what the rise of fintech and bigtech implies for the structure of the financial system …
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E-finance in the Philippines: Status and prospects for digital financial inclusion
Llanto, Gilberto M.; Rosellon, Maureen Ane D.; Ortiz, … - 2018
Digital technology applied to banking and financial transactions or e-finance in general has made financial services more widely available and affordable to consumers. And with appropriate and affordable technologies and applications, the financially excluded and the unserved can participate in...
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How does financial literacy impact on inclusive finance?
Hasan, Morshadul; Le, Thi; Hoque, Ariful - In: Financial Innovation 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
the impacts of financial knowledge on financial access through banking, microfinance, and fintech access using the …
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