How can technology tackle financial exclusion?

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About this Episode

Financial exclusion is an issue facing close to a third of adults globally - mainly affecting women, poorer households and the unemployed. Yet technology could be the answer. With those in remote areas still often able to access the internet and a mobile phone, we discuss how financial technology can help redefine finance for good.

Participants

Helen Driver

Founder, Moneyready (Podcast Host)

Helen is the Founder of Moneyready, an online financial education platform for children, and former Equity Fund Manager.

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Elizabeth Friend

Managing Director, The Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF)

Elizabeth is an international development practitioner and organizational strategist with expertise in developing, implementing, and evaluating market-based solutions to poverty. Building on over a decade of experience working with microenterprises and social impact start-ups, she currently leads S3IDF’s impact investing initiative that makes below-market investments to early-stage start-ups. Elizabeth is passionate about market-remaking business models and digital innovations that increase financial inclusion and access to critical services in underserved communities.

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Simeen Kaleem

Co-Founder, Gramhal

Simeen is Co-Founder of Gramhal, an agtech start-up that works in the agriculture supply chain and provides post-harvest services to smallholder farmers in India. Simeen and the team at Gramhal are driven by the passion to improve the lives of farmers through innovation, diligence and compassion.

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About the show

Open Finance is a podcast series that explores how financial services is opening up to collaboration, innovation and society. Each episode focuses on a critical question as open APIs, platforms and technology make the industry accessible to customers, fintechs and big tech like never before.

Produced by Finastra, each episode brings guests with diverse viewpoints together to discuss the changes needed to make the future of finance open.

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