Tag: Mobile financial services

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Speech
2 Nov. 2017

Creating Nigeria’s Success Story: Mobile Money, Agents, and the Way Forward for Financial Inclusion

Agent banking, Mobile financial services, Nigeria, regulation, national financial inclusion strategy
The Special Advocate addressed a financial inclusion discussion in Abuja, 2 November 2017.
News
30 Oct. 2017

Nigeria Visit Will Focus on Strategy, Mobile Money, and Agents to Build Financial Inclusion

Financial inclusion, Mobile financial services, national financial inclusion strategy, Nigeria
Speech
9 Nov. 2015

Harnessing Rapid Financial Innovation to Build an Inclusive World

digital technology, Financial inclusion, Access, regulation, Mobile financial services, Usage
The Special Advocate in Basel with Jaime Caruana, director of the Bank for International Settlements, on her left, and on the right, Jens Weidmann, head of the German central bank, and Dutch central banker Klaas Knot.
Speech
1 Jul. 2015

Paving a Wider Path to Financial Inclusion in the Philippines

Mobile financial services, National strategies, Remittances, Philippines
Speech
31 Mar. 2015

Leaping Far Ahead: Unleashing Myanmar's Potential Through Financial Inclusion

Financial inclusion, Myanmar, Mobile financial services
"I am here to make the case that financial inclusion will be central to making a lasting leap forward for Myanmar," the Special Advocate said at the University of Yangon.
Speech
2 Mar. 2015

The Transformative Promise of Mobile Technology for Financial Inclusion

Financial inclusion, Mobile financial services, Mobile phone financial services
Speech
2 Dec. 2014

Progress Driven by a Common Vision

Financial inclusion, Mobile financial services, National strategies, Paraguay
News
26 Sep. 2013

UNSGSA fosters coordination and commitment among leaders gathered for the UN General Assembly

Chile, Ethiopia, G77, Indonesia, MDGs, Mexico, Mobile financial services, Pakistan, Peru, Post-2015, Private sector, Turkey
Queen Máxima meets Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present her annual report of activities as UNSGSA during the UN General Assembly in New York. (September 2013)
Speech
24 Sep. 2013

Advancing Inclusive Finance and Development through Digital Services and Partnership

Colombia, Diverse financial services, Fiji, G2P, Mexico, Mobile financial services, Post-2015
The UNSGSA stands with leaders from the Better Than Cash Alliance - Photo credit: Arnold Brower
Client Story
4 Mar. 2013

Conducting financial transactions via mobile phone creates possibilities to reach new markets

India, Kenya, Mobile financial services, Pakistan, Philippines
The mobile phone offers a new channel for poor and hard to reach clients to access banking services. In rural Tanzania in 2008, a supervisor for a mobile phone network explained the new services to the owner of a market stall in the hopes of recruiting a new mobile money agent. (Tanzania, 2008) - Photo credit: A. Tirana
Client Story
1 Mar. 2013

The key to successful microinsurance for the poor

Diverse financial services, Ghana, Insurance, Mobile financial services, Pakistan, Tanzania
The UNSGSA greeted a MFI client receiving micro-health insurance as part of a pilot program in Tanzania. (April 2010). Photo credit: Maaike Danz, PharmAccess
Speech
24 Nov. 2012

Remarks at the Better Than Cash Alliance Launch

Diverse financial services, G2P, India, Mobile financial services, Nigeria, Payments, Tanzania