Closing Southeast Asia's financial inclusion gap

Over six in 10 Southeast Asians remain underbanked or unbanked today. Southeast Asia, like Indonesia's Jakarta, is well-placed to benefit from the ...

Accelerating Financial Inclusion In South-East Asia - Oliver Wyman

Digital finance alone cannot entirely close the gaps in financial inclusion, but the cumulative effect of digitally driven acceleration in financial inclusion ...

First-Ever Impact-Focused Southeast Asian Financial Inclusion ...

Additionally, 39 million micro, small, and medium enterprises face a funding gap of up to US$300 billion. The digital divide persists as ...

Closing the Financing Gap in Asian Infrastructure

ADB in 2017 estimated a financing gap in economic infrastructure of $459 billion per year for Asia. The gap almost doubles to $907 billion with the expected ...

is Asia and the Pacific close to gender parity? | ESCAP

To close these gaps, the report sets forth a number of recommendations for policy makers and financial service providers, with an aim to foster ...

Delivering digital financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

The inaccessibility of banking system in Southeast Asia is now disrupted by digital financial services post-COVID-19 ... Despite a GDP of close to $US3 trillion ...

How to close Southeast Asia's financial inclusion gap - LinkedIn

10m · A #roboticarm ; 2h · #COP29 ; 3h · The World Economic Forum ; 4h · "When true digital financial inclusion is achieved, everyone who calls #Africa ...

Naiim Ahmad, PMBA on LinkedIn: How to close Southeast Asia's ...

Deeper public-private sector collaboration is key to overcoming the remaining barriers to financial inclusion in Southeast Asia — this is ...

Mobile Wallets are Southeast Asia's Pathway to Financial Inclusion

In countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia, a financial inclusion gap exists, with more than half of the population remaining ...

The Future of Southeast Asia's Digital Financial Services - Temasek

Today, over 70 percent of adults in Southeast Asia lack sufficient access to financial services, while millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...

Accelerating Impact Beyond Access

Southeast Asia, financial and digital literacy gaps have been cited as a. 100 World Economic Forum (2022): How to close Southeast Asia's financial inclusion gap ...

Southeast Asia Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative

To address this gap, J-PAL Southeast Asia, funded by the Bill & Melinda ... The research will be implemented through closed-funding opportunities.

Accelerating Financial Inclusion in South-East Asia with Digital ...

While digital finance alone cannot entirely close the gaps in financial inclusion, the estimated cumulative effect of digitally driven acceleration in financial ...

UN forum drives action to close the gender-finance gap in Asia and ...

Some 70 per cent of women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) globally lack adequate access to financial services, ...

Narrowing Asia's financial inclusion gap with embedded finance

According to a report from The ASEAN Post, almost three out of four (73%) of those living in Southeast Asia are unbanked. Left behind by ...

Can Fintech Close the Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion?

Southeast Asia is well-placed to capitalise on the benefits of digital financial services, with a booming regional digital ecosystem and a relatively young ...

Financial Inclusion Impact Outcomes in Southeast Asia 2024/26 Study

The goal of this study is to hold the potential to bring about significant and lasting positive changes toward financial health in ASEAN.

Unveiling financial inclusion dynamics: Fintech's resonance in ...

This article examines the determinants of financial inclusion in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEANs), with a particular focus on the role of ...

Open for Business: Southeast Asia's Digital Payments Revolution

Historically, development of digital financial services has focused on individual consumers rather than small business. As more and more people in Southeast ...

Financial Inclusion In South Asia – A Long Overdue Dream?

South Asian economies are primarily developing countries plagued by poverty, exclusion, and underdevelopment. While Southeast Asia's economy has ...