In 2011 the World Bank released the first ever Global Findex Database as “the world’s most comprehensive data set on how...
The Global Findex Database and accompanying report give a clear indication of how fintech is impacting access to financial services globally. Source
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum launched a new survey today to...
The city is willing to shell out prize money for new ideas to build better communities, financial first.
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), in partnership with the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, is conducting the most important survey in...
This past summer the team from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) in partnership with the World Bank and...
A few weeks ago the World Bank released the triennial Global Findex Database for 2017. We covered the release on...
The World Bank is estimating that remittances are likely to fall 20% in 2020; for reference, remittances dropped 5% in...
Victory park Capital is partnering with the International Finance Corporation on a new fund to invest in fintech startups in emerging economies; the IFC is a private sector sister organization to the World Bank; "The reliance on mobile devices for day-to-day life is more prevalent in emerging markets and that creates a big opportunity," Brendan Carroll, a senior partner and cofounder of VPC, told Business Insider; while the size of the fund is not disclosed they plan to work on about 3 to 4 deals a year. Source.
As recently at 2017 there were still 1.7 billion people without access to the financial system; Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, vice-president for...