MicroSave Founder Graham Wright talks digital finance with the Gateway.
"Currently," Wright says, "The vast majority of deployments are simply offering payments services. Poor people need a range of financial services - just like you and I. There is a real risk that having discovered that the poor cannot run the marathon out of poverty on the credit leg alone (wow - what a revelation!), we are now expecting them to do so on the payments leg alone."
The 5th European Microfinance Research Conference, to be held in June 2017, will draw together ideas from Europe and beyond which tackle the inclusion problem. Deadline for full papers or extended abstracts is 31 January 2017. The conference aims to answer questions such as:
> How do MFIs ensure they reach the financially excluded?
> How can microfinance products be tailored to meet the specific needs of different groups amongst the financially excluded?
> How can new instruments as agent banking and mobile money be put at the service of the poor?
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