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> Posted by Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka, Board of Directors, Opportunity International

The World Bank and Gallup Poll’s “Global Findex” has only been out for a couple weeks now, and already I am seeing its use for my own work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the 1970s, I was privileged to be part of the team that launched Citibank in my country, the DRC, an experience that was to become useful for another start-up in the Cote d’Ivoire and later, decades later, in Eastern Europe. My career in banking started in operations where cash and tellers were part of my responsibilities. While I was formally exposed to cash first hand, Citibank was a corporate bank in the DRC, with very limited offerings of individual deposit accounts.

This experience with Citibank, while useful and educational, contrasted in many ways with my experience in cash management as I was growing up. Read the rest of this entry »