Leveraging Fintech to Achieve Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
Click here to read the blog in Bahasa Indonesia “Fintech” – an intersection of financial services and technology – is taking the traditional financial world by storm. Indonesia is no exception, with...
View ArticleWill Mobile Network Operators Make It As Payments Banks?
Of the remaining eight provisional Payments Bank licensees, four involve mobile network operators (MNOs): Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, and Reliance Jio. This is not surprising, since successful Payments...
View ArticleTop Blogs from 2016
Presenting MicroSave‘s top picks for the year. Do you see your favourite blog here? e-KYC and the India Stack – A Transformative Blueprint for Emerging Markets Billions of people around the world are...
View ArticleRedefining Retail Banking – Agency and Beyond
Agency banking offers the prospect of much greater access to financial services for large numbers of currently unbanked or underbanked individuals – through financial institutions rolling out financial...
View ArticleForesight in a FinTech Forest – Financial Technology Drives a Digital Banking...
We’ve reached an inflexion point in banking, more pronounced and more fundamental than any which has preceded. The financial technology (FinTech) revolution promises dramatic improvements in customer...
View ArticleCan Fintech Really Deliver On Its Promise For Financial Inclusion?
At the recent MasterCard Foundation Symposium on Financial Inclusion, I was asked to participate in the closing debate. A great honour. However, I was asked to support the proposition that “Disruptive...
View ArticleSmart Electronic Ticketing for Public Transport
We met Kinnee at one of the Vodafone e-ticketing roadshows. She, like other Fijians, had queued up at the Vodafone canopy to get her eTransport card. This digital card has been designed to replace the...
View ArticleThe Clear Blue Water on the other side of the digital divide
In the recent MasterCard Foundation Symposium on Financial Inclusion in Accra, I was asked to participate in a debate, arguing for the proposition that “disruptive innovation is no longer relevant to...
View ArticleCan “Behavioural Science” Bell Scheme Design Cat? Insights from Exploratory...
Having tasted success with the Modified Direct Benefit Transfer for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (MDBTL) through Pahal (though sceptics have their doubts), the Government of India is dropping hints that it...
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