Innovation

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Alliance Report

Innovative Digital Payment Mechanisms Supporting Financial Inclusion Stocktaking Report

A report by the World Bank Group’s Payment System Development Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion for the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion
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Distributing Production: Can Distributed Ledgers Fuel a New Wave of Supply-Chain Innovation?

Blockchain Series: Blog 5
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Joining Central Bankers to Focus on Innovations in Consumer Payments

The World Bank and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) recently hosted the Third Meeting of the CPSS – World Bank Retail Payments Forum in Perugia, Italy.

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Raisina 2018 | Digital Money: Innovating with India for the World
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Industry Report

Capturing Our Impact: Harnessing Innovation for Financial Inclusion

This World Bank e-book features stories, videos, and pictures that illustrate how digital innovation not only enables access to financial services for low-income people but also serves as an enabler for delivering clean water, solar energy, education, and more. Most of the featured case studies are from our member countries!
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Pushing the Limits of Innovation, Improving Social Protection and Livelihoods in Cote d'Ivoire

World Bank joined hands with IFC on a project for digitizing and modernizing Côte d’Ivoire's social protection payments. Results show a reduction in administrative costs and better targeting of beneficiaries. Gender impact was high with 51% of 300K beneficiaries being women. Read more.
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Industry Report

Digital Finance and Innovations in Financing Education

This Brief looks at the innovations linked to digital finance and education.
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Business model innovation: pervasiveness of mobile banking ecosystem and activity system–an illustrative case of Telenor Easypaisa

The paper provides a holistic overview of already available academic literature of mobile banking, business model innovation and ecosystem and activity system perspective of business model concepts.
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Industry Report

Connection between financial innovation and inclusion

This paper explores the nexus between financial inclusion and financial innovation by looking at data from 6 South Asian countries - including 4 Alliance members. It finds a positive relationship between the two and calls for policies keeping this relationship in mind. 
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Industry Report

Early Lessons on Regulatory Innovation to Enable Inclusive FinTech

No single initiative is a silver bullet for effective regulation but direct engagement between the regulator and innovator is crucial. Read the University of Cambridge and UNSGSA report on how regulators are innovating to better respond to financial innovation.
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Industry Report

Investing In Girls: Opportunities for Innovation in Girl-Centered Cash Transfers

Investing In Girls: Opportunities for Innovation in Girl-Centered Cash Transfers
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Innovations for a cashless world

Throughout this book, you’ll find viewpoints from experts in the Visa network who offer perspective on the findings uncovered in the data, as well as five trends shaping the future of commerce and an overview of how Visa approaches innovation.
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Industry Report

Informal Sector and Mobile Financial Services in Developing Countries: Does Financial Innovation Matter?

This paper investigates the impact of mobile financial services - MFS (mobile money, and mobile credit and savings) on the informal sector using data from 101 emerging and developing countries over the period 2000-15.

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Industry Report

Innovations in family planning: Case studies from India

This book features case studies from India demonstrating approaches of problem solving, enhancing quality family planning care at the grass-roots level and facilitates advocacy, strengthening programme design and enhancing competency as well as orienting the healthcare system.

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50 best Fintech Innovators in financial services

Financial Report
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Ideas & Updates

Leading global experts priotize key measures to optimize digital finance for world's poorest people

ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative products and services meet the need of low-income customers? These and related topics were the subject of intense discussion and debate by leading global experts at a G20-backed event this week in Antalya, Turkey, one of the countries being transformed by digital innovation.
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Responsible Digital Finance

Digital technology is creating exciting opportunities to reach financially unserved and underserved low-income customers. New guidelines on Responsible Digital Financial Services will help fintech investors and digital finance innovators seize the opportunities, mitigate the risks, and ensure that digital financial services are responsible, sustainable, and profitable. Find out more in this short video interview.
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An infrastructure approach to improving Financial Inclusion

The Better Than Cash Alliance is introducing an occasional series on innovations that have the potential to reduce costs in digital payments. The first in this series is an article by Ryan Zagone and Danny Aranda from Ripple Labs, a technology company that develops real-time settlement solutions for financial institutions.
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The Better Than Cash Journey: Colombia & Malawi

This is the second in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
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The Better Than Cash Journey: Kenya and Rwanda

This is the third in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
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