Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion

In recent years, a number of reports have been prepared by organizations on financial inclusion, a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized. However, few of these reports have addressed what may be called the “payment aspects” of fin...

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Main Authors: Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, World Bank Group
Format: Book
Language:English
en_US
Published: Bank for International Settlements and World Bank 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26625119/payment-aspects-financial-inclusion
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spelling okr-10986-248062021-06-18T09:02:29Z Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures World Bank Group financial inclusion electronic payment services financial literacy transaction accounts mobile ATMs Project Greenback transit payment schemes In recent years, a number of reports have been prepared by organizations on financial inclusion, a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized. However, few of these reports have addressed what may be called the “payment aspects” of financial inclusion. In cases where the topics of payment systems and payment services have been raised in the context of financial inclusion, discussion has focused only on specific aspects of payments, such as mobile payments, rather than on the payment system in its entirety. Understanding payments in a holistic sense, including how individual elements relate to one other, is crucial to an understanding of financial inclusion and to promoting broader access to and usage of financial services. This report provides an analysis of the payment aspects of financial inclusion, on the basis of which it sets out guiding principles designed to assist countries that seek to advance financial inclusion in theirmarkets through payments. 2016-08-04T18:33:02Z 2016-08-04T18:33:02Z 2016-04 Book http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26625119/payment-aspects-financial-inclusion 978-92-9197-216-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24806 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Bank for International Settlements and World Bank Bank for International Settlements and World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research
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topic financial inclusion
electronic payment services
financial literacy
transaction accounts
mobile ATMs
Project Greenback
transit payment schemes
spellingShingle financial inclusion
electronic payment services
financial literacy
transaction accounts
mobile ATMs
Project Greenback
transit payment schemes
Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
World Bank Group
Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
description In recent years, a number of reports have been prepared by organizations on financial inclusion, a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized. However, few of these reports have addressed what may be called the “payment aspects” of financial inclusion. In cases where the topics of payment systems and payment services have been raised in the context of financial inclusion, discussion has focused only on specific aspects of payments, such as mobile payments, rather than on the payment system in its entirety. Understanding payments in a holistic sense, including how individual elements relate to one other, is crucial to an understanding of financial inclusion and to promoting broader access to and usage of financial services. This report provides an analysis of the payment aspects of financial inclusion, on the basis of which it sets out guiding principles designed to assist countries that seek to advance financial inclusion in theirmarkets through payments.
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author Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
World Bank Group
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World Bank Group
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title Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
title_short Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
title_full Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
title_fullStr Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
title_full_unstemmed Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion
title_sort payment aspects of financial inclusion
publisher Bank for International Settlements and World Bank
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26625119/payment-aspects-financial-inclusion
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