Inclusive Finance: How Fintech and Innovation Can Transform Financial Inclusion
About this ebook
Financial institutions are under growing pressure from their customers, regulators and employees to play more active roles in supporting underbanked and unbanked individuals. Inclusive Finance reviews what is currently socially broken in the existing financial system and identifies opportunities for how incumbent players, fintech start-ups and scale ups can improve their social impact and meet compliance requirements while delivering financial profit.
Inclusive Finance explores how innovations such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, AI, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, tokenization and DeFi can all play a role in democratizing finance. Written by two esteemed finance experts that are driving digital innovation,this is an indispensable guide for finance professionals and organizations who need to address financial exclusion, making the global economy larger and fairer.
About the author
Alessandro Hatami is founder and managing partner of Pacemakers.io. He has been driving digital innovation for over 15 years at organizations such as Lloyds Banking Group, PayPal UK, PayPoint.net and GE Capital. He is a non-exec director of Cashplus Bank, mentor to fintech start-ups, investor in early-stage tech companies and frequent speaker at events. His book Reinventing Banking and Finance, also published by Kogan Page, was rated Best Overall Book on Banking of 2021 by Investopedia.com.
Meaghan Johnson is a fintech researcher and consultant with an interest in using emerging technologies and business models to increase financial inclusion. She is the co-founder of 11:FS and Digital Mags and the Chief Strategy Officer at Bazara Tech. She is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Aveiro.
