Is blockchain the missing piece to financial inclusion?

July 5, 2018

The World Bank estimates that over two billion adults worldwide don’t have a basic bank account,
excluding them from the financial tools they need to facilitate in everyday life, to guard against risk,
and to invest in their futures. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the frontier markets of Africa, Asia
and Latin America play an invaluable role in driving financial inclusion among this unbanked and
underbanked population.

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