How the Development of FinTech Can Bolster Financial Inclusion Under an Era of Disruptive Innovation?

2022 ◽  
pp. 135-167
Author(s):  
Poshan Yu ◽  
Chenghai Li ◽  
Michael Sampat ◽  
Zuozhang Chen

FinTech provides more inclusive financial services for individual users and companies. China, with the highest penetration rate of online payment around the world, enables individual users to enjoy in-depth inclusive lending services. This chapter will portray and assess FinTech's adoption, challenges, and its potentials to China. Based on previous literature, the characteristics of FinTech in China and the roles of government in promoting FinTech to Chinese business will be discussed. This chapter will also select cases from Hangzhou and the Greater Bay Area in order to analyze the opportunities and challenges for Chinese companies integrating FinTech into its business operations.

Author(s):  
Josphat Njuguna Omanga ◽  
Johannes Kabderian Dreyer

This chapter analyzes the role of financial innovation and mobile phone technologies to financial inclusion in Kenya. In order to do so, a case study on M-PESA is conducted, the leading mobile service of money transfers in Africa, which is offered by Safaricom. M-PESA services are cheap and easy to use in comparison to other formal and informal providers of financial services. It solves two different problems in Kenya: customers do not have to travel anymore long distances to reach financial services and more people can afford them. As result and in line with the literature, this chapter suggests that M-PESA services can be considered a type of disruptive innovation that promotes financial inclusion and wealth growth in Kenya.


Author(s):  
Rohit Bhattacharya

The concept of Financial Inclusion is not a new one. It has become a catchphrase now and has attracted the global attention in the recent past. Lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate financial services has always been a global problem. It is estimated that about 2.9 billion people around the world do not have access to formal sources of banking and financial services. India is said to live in its villages, a convincing statement, considering that nearly 72% of our population lives there. However, a significant proportion of our 650,000 odd villages does not have a single bank branch to boast of, leaving swathes of the rural population in financial exclusion. RBI has reported that the financial exclusion in India leads to the loss of GDP to the extent of one per cent (RBI, Working Paper Series (DEPR): 8/2011). Financially excluded people, consistently, depend on money lenders even for their day to day needs, borrowing at excessive rates to finally get caught in a debt trap. In addition, people in far-off villages are completely unaware of financial products like insurance, which could protect them in adverse situation. Therefore, financial inclusion is a big necessity for our country as a large chunk of the world's poor resides here. Access to finance by the poor and vulnerable groups is a prerequisite for poverty reduction and social cohesion. Present paper is an attempt to highlight the present efforts of financial inclusion in India its future road map, its challenges etc.


Author(s):  
Georgia Levenson Keohane

Shows why access to capital and financial services are vital components of the development agenda: a way for families to climb out of poverty and for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to provide goods, services, and employment in regions of the world that lack these. The chapter traces the evolution of microfinance from its nonprofit origins to a fully commercialized industry, and from a field built primary around credit to one that has begun to offer a wider variety of financial services, including savings and insurance. We use IFMR Trust, an Indian microfinance company, to illustrate these innovations.


Author(s):  
Adolfo Barajas ◽  
Ralph Chami ◽  
Connel Fullenkamp

This chapter describes the state of financial development in fragile states. Our analysis primarily relies on indicators from the World Bank Global Financial Development Database, which have been used extensively in the literature to capture the degree to which financial services and activities are present in an economy (depth) and the extent to which they are disseminated and made available to the population (inclusion). We find that financial depth in fragile states is underdeveloped and financial inclusion is low, but with significant heterogeneity among fragile states. We conduct empirical exercises which suggest that fragility is negatively related to financial development, both in terms of depth and especially in terms of inclusion, and exercises that also point to certain aspects of fragility most associated with financial underperformance. Finally, we use a benchmarking exercise to estimate how much financial underdevelopment in fragile states is costing them, in terms of economic growth.


Author(s):  
Marouane Moufakkir ◽  
Qmichchou Mohammed

Notwithstanding the increase of using and adopting FinTech all over the world by users who prefer managing their lives through digital channels, including financial and banking services, a large number of customers are still using the classic financial services, or even ignore the existence of such financial technologies. The aim of this chapter is to underline the concept of FinTech, a technological innovation in the financial field. Indeed, several theories and models has tried to explained the factors of adopting an innovation. Besides the theoretical framework of innovation, FinTech has to pass through different business models to attain the maturity as a successful pure player actor. Accordingly, the overall purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the financial technologies use evolution, as a business model, and to highlight how FinTech contribute to enhance the financial and social inclusion, by providing convenient and accurate digital financial services (DFS) to the excluded population.


Author(s):  
Rohit Bhattacharya

The concept of Financial Inclusion is not a new one. It has become a catchphrase now and has attracted the global attention in the recent past. Lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate financial services has always been a global problem. It is estimated that about 2.9 billion people around the world do not have access to formal sources of banking and financial services. India is said to live in its villages, a convincing statement, considering that nearly 72% of our population lives there. However, a significant proportion of our 650,000 odd villages does not have a single bank branch to boast of, leaving swathes of the rural population in financial exclusion. RBI has reported that the financial exclusion in India leads to the loss of GDP to the extent of one per cent (RBI, Working Paper Series (DEPR): 8/2011). Financially excluded people, consistently, depend on money lenders even for their day to day needs, borrowing at excessive rates to finally get caught in a debt trap. In addition, people in far-off villages are completely unaware of financial products like insurance, which could protect them in adverse situation. Therefore, financial inclusion is a big necessity for our country as a large chunk of the world's poor resides here. Access to finance by the poor and vulnerable groups is a prerequisite for poverty reduction and social cohesion. Present paper is an attempt to highlight the present efforts of financial inclusion in India its future road map, its challenges etc.


Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-569
Author(s):  
BHARTI

Financial inclusion is the delivery of financial services at affordable costs to sections of disadvantaged and low-income segments of society. The term financial inclusion has evolved since late 2000 and it’s directly correlated to poverty. More and more Indian companies are trying to enter in the list of fortune 500 and one of our Indian entrepreneurs appears in the list of the top five richest persons of the world. Financial inclusion has become an evolving paradigm of economic growth that plays very significant role in poverty alleviation. The main objective of the study is to analyze the impact of financial inclusion in the growth of Indian economy and the initiatives taken by the banking institution in India to attain inclusive growth.


Author(s):  
Marouane Moufakkir ◽  
Qmichchou Mohammed

Notwithstanding the increase of using and adopting FinTech all over the world by users who prefer managing their lives through digital channels, including financial and banking services, a large number of customers are still using the classic financial services, or even ignore the existence of such financial technologies. The aim of this chapter is to underline the concept of FinTech, a technological innovation in the financial field. Indeed, several theories and models has tried to explained the factors of adopting an innovation. Besides the theoretical framework of innovation, FinTech has to pass through different business models to attain the maturity as a successful pure player actor. Accordingly, the overall purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the financial technologies use evolution, as a business model, and to highlight how FinTech contribute to enhance the financial and social inclusion, by providing convenient and accurate digital financial services (DFS) to the excluded population.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Mohammad Naim Azimi

Reducing poverty is a critical topic of policy discussion across the world. Developing countries and post-conflict environments commonly face poverty growth. At present, Afghanistan is experiencing the highest rate of poverty in the world; only one tenth of the Afghan population has access to financial services that are mostly localized within the capital and regional cities. In this paper I hypothesize financial inclusion as a contextualized model that can significantly reduce the rate of poverty. I use a set of timeseries data on financial inclusion determinants excluding insurance as the explanatory variables and linearly regress them on the rate of poverty from 2004 to 2018. The statistical results reveal that ATMs per 100,000 adults in the country significantly reduce poverty by 0.25% by increasing capital mobility and remittances. Credit cards and borrowing facilities to the informal economy have significant coefficients of 0.00635% and 0.0207% respectively on poverty reduction as an emergent strategy. The security variable has a significant coefficient of 41% reduction of poverty. Among all other variables tested, extending mobile money facilities is also significant and reduces poverty by 0.015%.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
resista

Financial Inclusion is a national development strategy to encourage economic growth through equal distribution of income, poverty alleviation and financial system stability. This community-centered strategy needs to target groups experiencing barriers to accessing financial services. The inclusive financial strategy explicitly targets the groups with the greatest or unfulfilled needs for financial services namely the three categories of people (the poor, low-income, working poor / poor and the near-poor) and three cross-categories (migrant workers, women and underdeveloped regions).By 2019 Indonesia's target on the inclusive public financial index reaches 75%. Inclusive financial ratios have reached 63% of Indonesia's total population by the end of 2017. The government has established five pillars supporting SNKI to achieve the target. First, Financial Education. Second, the concrete Community Property Right has already been in the form of a land certification program. Third, Facilitating Intermediation and Financial Distribution Channels. Fourth, Consumer Protection. Fifth, Financial Services In Government Sector.To achieve an inclusive financial target of 75% by 2019, an additional 51,822,431 adult inclusive residents are required. From the survey results of the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia in 5 provinces, 35% of respondents do not have an account at the bank. As many as 32% of Indonesia's adult population has not saving on the basis of the World Bank Survey of Indonesia by the World Bank in 2012. Based on the same survey, 48% of Indonesian adult population save in formal financial institutions. According to World Bank (2011), Indonesian adult residents have accounts at formal financial institutions.The strategy of government, BI, and OJK, nowadays is by optimizing technology services to expand financial products and services to various community groups. An inclusive financial enhancement strategy will also involve civil service and civil registration agencies in various regions to update the data on people who do not have financial products and services. The access program for the financial sector is not only from savings, but also from credit, such as small business credit (KUR) or other small credit, especially digital technology or digitalization must be extended to 4G cellular technology. So for areas that can not signal, its range will be wider. If 4G can reach 50%, then this will help Indonesia's strategy to improve inclusive finance.The purpose of this study is to recommend a model of increasing public financial inclusion through digitizing financial inclusion. The research method is qualitative descriptive, through in depth interview with informant and systematic literature review.Based on the results of research, it is found that in the era of digital economy, the use of technology is one of the strategies that can be applied. Big Data Utilization in Private and Commercial Sector covers Finance field that is investment support, portfolio management, price forecasting, credit. In the field of Banking and Insurance namely credit and policy approval, money laundry detection. While in the field of Finance, Banking and Insurance Security is useful for fraud detection, access control, intrusion detection, virus detection.With digitalization, it is expected that more people can afford affordable financial services. More and more people who can access financial services will improve their lives and reduce poverty.


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