Citigroup's Asia-Pacific financial inclusion hold talks

[Korea sinyuncheol financial newspaper reporter] Citigroup in the Asia-Pacific financial inclusion talks were held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 21 days in 2017. The event has more than 450 banking embrace key stakeholders to discuss current issues in financial inclusion in Asia-Pacific, civic leaders, experts gathered in one place. Last year, the Philippines Manila after this year's second progress that the Asia-Pacific financial inclusion talks Citi Foundation (Citi Foundation) and the Development Cooperation Foundation (Foundation for Development Cooperation: FDC) is subjective and, BWTP network (Banking With The Poor Network) and The Economist Group (the Economist Group) partnership and Vietnam Central bank (SBV) and the proceeds of the participating partners in the host country.

The talks are in progress with the theme of 'Digital Age financing embrace modernization "will introduce financial products and services related to the latest technology and innovation for people who explore the opportunities and challenges of the next generation of financial inclusion, and receive less favorable treatment or do not receive banking services . In the last few decades to embrace the global financial sector had made great progress still has not received nearly 20 million adults and banking services, more than half of these are in the Asia-Pacific region.

Citi Foundation President and Corporate Citizenship Director Brandy McHale (Brandee McHale) is "the goal of financial inclusion is the same as before, the area of ​​financial inclusion as well as the existing financial service providers, such as second finance the first banking, mobile money "said," providers and electronic money unyoungeop, etc. are newly represented are extended to finance related projects such rapid changes in, and ongoing financial inclusion to promote for low-income families, as well as development and creative innovations and financial policies for the protection of the financial underprivileged it is necessary, "he said to fulfill the partnership and balance.

Speakers will embark on two days exploring opportunities for joint actions and facilitate trend analysis and debate issues, share case studies. The event on the participation of speakers of affiliation include the Vietnam Social Policy Bank (VBSP: Vietnam Bank for Social Policies), BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas), Ford (Ford Foundation), Micro-Save (MicroSave), Cullinan Group (Cullinan group), FWWB (Friend of Women's world Banking), CGAP (Consultative group to Assist the Poor), the world bank group (world bank group), UN, Grameen Capital (Grameen Capital), ACCESS development services (ACCESS development services), visa (visa), bKash (non-cache), MasterCard (MasterCard), and the like Yale University (Yale University).



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