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Mobile Banking Operations and Banking Facilities to Rural People in Bangladesh

The paper estabishes that mobile applications are well positioned in Bangladesh’s m-commerce market and are capable of driving sales of high-end mobile phones while providing better services to the users.
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Limits to Cashless Payments and the Persistence of Cash. Hypotheses About Mexico

Although cashless payment instruments have been available in Mexico for some time, their rate of adoption was not remarkably fast, until the last 15 years. This chapter seeks to document this phenomenon and discuss some hypotheses on why the adoption rate is still low.
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The risks of financial exclusion highlighted by G20 GPFI paper

The blog captures what have been done so far by international Standard Setting Bodies (SSBs) to incorporate aspects of financial exclusion and recommends a broad plan and concrete steps to move ahead for FATF and SSBs.

© Photo Credit: Fehmiu Roffytavare, 2015 CGAP Photo Contest
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World Development Report 2016: Access to the Internet inadequate

USAID has commissioned this study to understand the perceptions towards digital payments among consumers and merchants in low-income communities. The research provides key findings from quantitative surveys carried out in Indian cities- Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kota, Vishakhapatnam, Guntur and Jaunpur,
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Mobile Financial Services In Bangladesh

The report provides an overview of the MFS progress in Bangladesh and discusses how selection of staff and beneficiaries from USAID agriculture and health projects are using both traditional and mobile financial services.

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Mobile Banking for Empowerment Muslim Women Entrepreneur: Evidence from Asia (Indonesia and Bangladesh)

Through an extensive literature review, the paper provides evidence about role of mobile banking as well as branchless banking is significant for women entrepreneur’s empowerment, especially for financially including them.

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Mobile Banking as Enabling and Constraining Financial Inclusion in Pakistan-A Theoretical Perspective

The aim of the paper is to bridge the theoretical and methodological gap to evaluate how the social construction of m-banking enables and constrains poor women to access G2P payments in Pakistan.

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Mobile Banking Adoption and Diffusion: Enabling and Constraining Social or Financial Inclusion among Poor Women in Pakistan?

Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, the paper investigates how the adoption of mobile phones enabled and constrained poor women for receiving G2P payments and its impact on poor households.

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Inclusive Growth Through Branchless Banking: A Review of Agent Banking and Its Impact

The paper explores the opportunities to overcome barriers to financial access in Bangladesh through branchless banking and emphasis that financial inclusion and inclusive growth could be advanced through existing work by Bangladesh bank on favorable agent banking policies
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World Bank finds electronic payments a key driver of financial inclusion

This guide is the result of discussions and engagements with hundreds of stakeholders in over 25 countries to rethink and re-engineer the retail payments and includes specific insights from Mexico, Peru, and Australia.
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Business model innovation: pervasiveness of mobile banking ecosystem and activity system–an illustrative case of Telenor Easypaisa

“Purpose – The paper provides a holistic overview of already available academic literature of mobile banking, business model innovation and ecosystem and activity system perspective of busin…
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Bank on Her: The Smart Solution for Financial Inclusion

Including more women in the informal sector specifically leads to countless benefits besides increased economic growth. Studies show that when a woman controls her own finances, she invests …
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Authoritative guidance on “risk-based” banking

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global standard setter for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other threats to the financial system. Their [Risk-based Approach…
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Banking with mobile phones in Haiti: A report on a T-cash pilot program

This report describes the experience of Catholic Relief Services Haiti in employing a new mobile phone–based banking service, T-Cash. This service was adopted on a pilot basis to improve CRS…
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World Bank Presents Outcomes of the Global Payment Systems Survey 2010

The underlying foundation of a country’s financial system – including all institutions, information, technologies, rules and standards that enable financial intermediation – is its “financia…
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