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To fight financial crimes, we must give people bank accounts
A woman pays with a credit card at a restaurant in Playa del Ingles, Maspalomas on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Borja Suarez Financial inclusion helps shield people from fraud, theft and other forms of criminal exploitation like human trafficking. Dr Alfred Hannig is Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, a network of 90 central banks and financial regulatory institutions.
Opinion: Why central banks care about climate change
People walk past the Bank of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. Photo by: REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra Central banks tend not to be seen as innovative climate change pioneers, but as extreme weather events continue to undermine economic stability, real change is afoot.
Bitcoin will start being used more often. What will change?
About 32% of the current cryptocurrency offering is on personal wallets, and not at the addresses of large long-term investors or companies. Last year, this number was at the level of 26%. According to the results of the Chainalysis study, the number of bitcoins on active wallets has increased to 4.8 million or 32% of the current cryptocurrency offering, CoinDesk reports. At the end of last year, about 3.8 million BTC or 26% of all the coins were kept at such addresses.
India’s missed chance on Mobile wallets back in 2007
I come from the space of Indian tech and banking growth. I started as an IT professional in a small firm before I joined IBM and be part of the Telecom vertical where we built the modularized version of what was an ERP built by IBM NZ for Telecom services providers and we saw the industry move from 2G to 3G happening in front of us.
8 Steps to Delightful Banking Using UX Design Methodology
What if there was a banking solution designed by Apple? Would all the other digital financial solutions be forced out of business? There are rumors about what would happen if Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon (also referred to as GAFA) decided to enter the world of banking. My team decided to put this idea into action and dare to use UX design methodology in order to create something never before seen.
8 Steps to Delightful Banking Using UX Design
What if there was a banking solution designed by Apple? Would all the other digital financial solutions be forced out of business? There are rumors about what would happen if Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon (also referred to as GAFA) decided to enter the world of banking. My team decided to put this idea into action and dare to use UX design methodology in order to create something never before seen.
Cryptocurrencies: where to from here?
Cryptocurrencies have shown the world a new way of paying for goods and transferring money using an international currency unconstrained by national boundaries and national politics. A new democratised, decentralised way of managing money. There are problems in paradise however. The current crop of cryptocurrencies are swiftly turning into an environmental disaster. The largest of which, BitCoin, is estimated to be burning 0.5% of the world’s electricity by the end of 2018.
The biggest UK challenger bank yet: what does the Virgin-CYBG merger say about industry’s future?
Last Monday, 96% of CYBG shareholders voted to accept Virgin’s all-share offer to merge. It looks like the happy couple is set to create the biggest challenger bank ever in the UK. But behind the headline numbers lies a key strategic reason - matching the personal feel of regional branches with the technological capabilities to answer the growing digital demands of modern consumers.
The Missing Link: Effective Market Conduct for Financial Inclusion Technologies
I recall a conversation in the wake of the global financial crisis, at the end of 2008. We had just begun to disseminate the idea to create a global financial inclusion peer learning network among potential partners and stakeholders. At the time, a representative from a multilateral organization bluntly asked me: How can you promote financial inclusion at a point in time when the world is suffering from a crisis that is a result of too much inclusion?
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