
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
How can finance professionals close the financial inclusion gap through innovation?
Inclusive Finance by Alessandro Hatami and Meaghan Johnson is a practical guide for professionals in banking, fintech, investment and regulation who want to reduce exclusion, meet compliance goals and expand access to underserved markets.
Written by leading voices in financial innovation, this book explores how digital tools, emerging technologies and strategic models can transform financial systems to become more equitable, without sacrificing profitability.
You'll learn how to:
- Address systemic exclusion and reach underbanked populations
- Use blockchain, AI, DeFi and stablecoins to improve access
- Balance innovation, social impact and regulatory compliance
- Unlock new revenue by designing inclusive financial products
- Align your institution with global ESG and SDG targets
Whether you're modernizing existing systems or building a fintech startup, Inclusive Finance helps you reimagine financial services for broader social impact and long-term market growth.
Themes include: financial inclusion, fintech innovation, blockchain, DeFi, ESG, responsible finance
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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