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> Posted by Center Staff
The recently released Global Findex, revealing that the world’s unbanked population has dropped to 2 billion, gives us much to celebrate. But, as Sonja Kelly pointed out earlier this week, account ownership is just one dimension of financial inclusion. If the world’s unbanked are to realize the full benefits of financial services, it’s critical that an uptick in accounts is paired with quality services that meet clients’ needs. To meet the goal of financial inclusion by 2020 (FI2020), leveraging innovations in technology is essential.
In this podcast, CFI’s Susy Cheston is joined by Dr. Bejoy Das Gupta, Chief-Economist for the Asia-Pacific region at the Institute of International Finance, Ed Brandt, Executive Vice President for Government Services and Solutions at MasterCard Worldwide, and Paul Tregidgo, Managing Director at Credit Suisse. Together, they explore the importance of technology and innovative partnerships in making the vision of Financial Inclusion 2020 a reality, sharing key takeaways from a roundtable hosted jointly by CFI and the Institute of International Finance.
For more on technology and financial inclusion, read the FI2020 Roadmap to Inclusion on Technology-Enabled Business Models. And stay tuned to this blog for more on Monday’s roundtable event.
> Posted by Bhuvana Ramakrishnan, Daniella Llanos Flores, and Singyew Foo, Credit Suisse
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The Financial Inclusion 2020 project has been talking to the experts lately to get their views on the main recommendations that came out of the 2013 Roadmap to Inclusion process. A group of Credit Suisse Virtual Volunteers conducted interviews with various experts within Credit Suisse. Insights from those conversations helped shape this post.
What can a new shampoo formula teach us about financial services? Quite a bit, as it turns out.
Procter and Gamble (P&G), one of the world’s largest fast-moving consumer goods companies (FMCGs), has an annual research and development budget of $2 billion – with nearly a half a billion going towards consumer research. In emerging markets, this money funds field research that aims to identify how existing products are used and how a new product could become a part of someone’s daily routine. In China, P&G has a simulated Hutong (a typical Chinese home) where researchers can observe consumer behavior and make on-the-spot modifications to product prototypes. They have sent teams around the country to observe how women wash their hair. Such research yielded a shampoo that suds and washes out with little water – a response to the shortage of water and privacy in the villages visited.
> Posted by Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, CFI
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The CFI’s Financial Inclusion 2020 project team has been talking to the experts lately to get their views on the main recommendations that came out of our 2013 Roadmap to Inclusion process.
One of the high level recommendations was as follows:
Regulators need to craft regulation that allows technology-enabled business models to emerge, while balancing access and protection for base of the pyramid consumers.
We asked some of the experts to give their views on whether this recommendation is moving forward across the developing world. The general response was, “Not fast enough,” and so we probed to find out more about what is getting in the way.
Many of the players in financial inclusion envision a rich technology-enabled ecosystem in which customers can affordably use electronic means to make payments (inter-operably, of course) and to access savings, credit, and other financial services. In this vision, providers sometimes compete and sometimes partner to offer various services. Financial institutions, telecommunication companies, payment providers, governments, and others find themselves part of a complex network that seamlessly enables consumers to manage and enhance their financial lives.
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