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Georgia: Unlocking Innovations for Development through Digital Financial Services

6 November 2019
ADB is supporting a pilot project with Finca Bank Georgia to increase access to finance to rural SMEs and smallholder farmers through the digitization of the loan underwriting process in the field.

Philippines: Cloud Based Core Banking to Expand Reach of Banking Services

6 November 2019
In June 2017, ADB and Cantilan Bank Inc. (CBI) signed an agreement to conduct a pilot study on cloud-based core banking technology. The pilot was supported by the central bank of the Philippines, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which placed the pilot in a regulatory sandbox while related…

Papua New Guinea: A Digital Access Tool to Promote Financial Inclusion

6 November 2019
ADB is developing a digital access tool in Papua New Guinea.

Regulatory Sandboxes: An Enabling Environment for Financial Services Innovation

5 November 2019
A regulatory sandbox is a formal regulatory initiative to live-test new products, services, or business models on a time- and scope-limited basis. This helps to determine the appropriate regulatory treatment or status of innovative solutions to enable them to safely operate in the marketplace.…

Remittances: Harnessing the $1 Trillion Remittance Market to Accelerate Access to Inclusive Finance

5 November 2019
It is estimated that the money international migrants send home annually exceeds US$1 trillion (including informal transfers) and is significantly higher than overseas development assistance and foreign direct investment received by nearly all developing countries. Previously ignored or…

Mobile Money Embracing Payments as a Platform in Asia

5 November 2019
After a decade of growth, mobile money continues to provide innovative services that are having a profound commercial and social impact in emerging markets. The Asian landscape however is evolving fast: increased competition and strong growth in smartphone penetration are propelling evolution…

Regtech and suptech: How digitizing reporting and regulatory processes boosts the efficiency and proactive monitoring of risk and compliance

5 November 2019
Regtech includes any use of technology to automate regulatory compliance or oversight processes. The term was first used to describe compliance technology used by regulated firms, but its meaning has broadened to include all technology used for regulation. Suptech is useful shorthand for the…

Tanijoy

5 November 2019
Tanijoy builds an agricultural ecosystem where farmers can be more independent, collaborative and interconnected through technology. The company is based in Sudirman, South Jakarta and was established in 2017

FarmTrek Blockchain Ecosystem

5 November 2019
FarmTrek is a solution of InfoCorp Technologies, an integrated FinTech and AgriTech company that aims to bring inclusive financial services to the livestock industry in emerging markets. InfoCorp was founded in 2015 with headquarters in Singapore

AI for Financial Inclusion

5 November 2019
Digital payments are an “on-ramp” to financial inclusion and Visa has spent the last 60 years connecting hundreds of millions of people and organizations to a global system that enables fast, safe, and reliable financial transactions. In 2015, Visa publicly committed to provide payments accounts to…