This project aims to foster full access to, and use of, affordable financial services for the underserved through digital means. It will accomplish this through regional activities focusing on:
Digital inclusion: Increasing merchant acceptance of digital payments, with a focus on small and medium-sized retailers
Collaboration: Advancing cross-industry and cross-sector partnerships to explore bundling services, encourage the use of new technology and increase incentives for digital adoption
Improved financial inclusion metrics: Developing new ways to measure access, use and impact of financial services
This report, written in collaboration with Sea, calls for a targeted and multistakeholder approach to tackling barriers to financial inclusion for the ASEAN region’s digital generation. T...
There is a realistic opportunity to reach the financially excluded – estimated to be 2 billion – and the many more that are underserved.
