Tag: Digital financial inclusion

Digital payments in India have grown phenomenally in the past decade. This report highlights how digital payments in the country grew and charts the path ahead. We look at the journey of digital payments in India, major events and entities that contributed to it, and products that revolutionized the digital payments space. We also identify barriers to the digital payments sector and analyze the future of digital financial inclusion through payments for the low- and moderate-income segments in India.

Despite remarkable progress toward digital financial inclusion, cash still accounts for 90% of transactions in Vietnam. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw restricted mobility, concerns over cash exchange, and demand for digital saving instruments. This video shows a glimpse of how people embraced digital savings and payments channels during the pandemic.

This blog looks at key changes and implications of the new draft amendments to the branchless banking regulations released by OJK in 2021.

Press release on the a2i, UNCDF, and MSC launch FinLab BD to help the poor in Bangladesh.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the low- and moderate-income (LMI) segment had a direct impact on their day-to-day life. We reflect through Kabita, an LMI customer in Bangladesh, on the barriers LMIs faced during the pandemic and how DFS nudged them towards building resilience.

During the pandemic, Duong Thi Thuy, a mobile money agent in the Quang Ninh province, improvised her business to help her community follow the guidelines on social distancing and government norms. This is her story about the adoption of DFS and how it changed her life.