
Inclusive Finance
How Fintech and Innovation Can Transform Financial Inclusion
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Inclusive Finance
How Fintech and Innovation Can Transform Financial Inclusion
About this book
Reduce financial exclusion, improve social impact, meet regulatory compliance and tap into market opportunities with Inclusive Finance.
Financial institutions are under growing pressure from their customers, regulators and employees to play more active roles in supporting underbanked and unbanked individuals. Inclusive Finance reviews what is currently socially broken in the existing financial system and identifies opportunities for how incumbent players, fintech start-ups and scale ups can improve their social impact and meet compliance requirements while delivering financial profit.
Inclusive Finance explores how innovations such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, AI, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, tokenization and DeFi can all play a role in democratizing finance. Written by two esteemed finance experts that are driving digital innovation,this is an indispensable guide for finance professionals and organizations who need to address financial exclusion, making the global economy larger and fairer.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- PART ONE What does financial inclusion mean?
- 1 Why does financial inclusion matter?
- 2 What are the drivers of financial exclusion?
- 3 The role of banking in everyone’s lives
- 4 The importance of payments and the birth of the current account
- 5 The role of credit
- 6 Protection
- 7 Regulation
- PART TWO How do we fix finance?
- 8 The role of fintech
- 9 Open banking and APIs
- 10 Banking-as-a-service and embedded finance
- 11 Niche banking
- 12 Authentication and identification
- 13 Big data, alternative data and artificial intelligence
- 14 Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- 15 Decentralized finance, cryptocurrency and Web3
- 16 Central bank digital currency
- PART THREE What can be done?
- 17 Call to action
- 18 Engaging the financial inclusion ecosystem
- Index