MicroFinTech
Expanding Financial Inclusion with Cost-Cutting Innovation
| Analyses microfinance to provide a framework for MicroFinTech applications<div>Explores the various microfinance limitations and issues</div><div>Shows if and how FinTech business models can be incorporated in traditional microfinance patterns to scale them up</div> |
Inhalt
Microfinance is a renowned albeit controversial solution for giving financial access to the unbanked, even if micro-transactions increase costs, limiting outreach potential. The economic and financial sustainability of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) is a prerequisite for widening a potentially unlimited client base. Automation decreases costs, expanding the outreach potential, and improving transparency and efficiency. Technological solutions range from branchless mobile banking to geo-localization of customers, digital/social networking for group lending, blockchain validation, big data, and artificial intelligence, up to “MicroFinTech” - FinTech applications adapted to microfinance. Of interest to both scholars, students, and professors of financial technology and microfinance, this book examines these trendy solutions comprehensively, going beyond the existing literature and showing potential applications to the traditional sustainability versus outreach trade-off.<p></p>
Bibliografische Angaben
September 2021, Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology, Englisch
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
9783030803940