Inclusive finance
how fintech and innovation can transform financial inclusion
- ISBN: 9781398610439
- Editorial: Kogan Page Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 316
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
Section - ONE: What does financial inclusion mean?
Chapter - 01: Why does financial inclusion matter?
Chapter - 02: What are the drivers of financial exclusion?
Chapter - 03: The role of banking in everyone’s lives
Chapter - 04: The importance of payments and the birth of the current account
Chapter - 05: The role of credit
Chapter - 06: Protection
Chapter - 07: Regulation
Section - TWO: How do we fix finance?
Chapter - 08: The role of fintech
Chapter - 09: Open banking and APIs
Chapter - 10: Banking-as-a-service and embedded finance
Chapter - 11: Niche banking
Chapter - 12: Authentication and identification
Chapter - 13: Big data, alternative data and artificial intelligence
Chapter - 14: Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Chapter - 15: Decentralized finance, cryptocurrency and Web3
Chapter - 16: Central bank digital currency
Section - THREE: What can be done?
Chapter - 17: Call to action
Chapter - 18: Engaging the financial inclusion ecosystem