Discover how financial organizations and professionals can drive socially inclusive fintech purposefully and profitably with this practical guide.
Reduce financial exclusion, improve social impact, meet regulatory compliance and tap into market opportunities with Inclusive Finance.
Financial institutions are under growing pressure from their customers, regulators and employees to play more active roles in supporting ESG transformation. Inclusive Finance reviews what is currently socially broken in the existing financial system and identifies opportunities for how incumbent players, fintech start-ups, scale ups and techfins can improve their social impact and meet compliance requirements while delivering financial profit.
Inclusive Finance explores how innovations such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, AI, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, NFTs and DeFi can all play a role in democratizing finance. Written by a recognized thought leader and serial entrepreneur with a track record of delivering growth through digital innovation at some of the world's most respected financial companies including PayPal and Lloyds, this is an indispensable guide for finance professionals and organizations who need to drive ESG deliverables with purpose and profit.
Explains what is broken in the current financial system for the socially excluded, unbanked and underbanked, and how digital innovation can address those problems purposefully and profitably
Identifies practical opportunities that can be pursued by incumbents, fintechs, scale-ups and techfins in reducing financial exclusion, supported by examples of real-life firms such as HSBC and Vodafone
Explores the role of transformational innovations such as the blockchain, distributed ledger technology, AI, cryptocurrencies & stablecoins, NFTs & tokenization, DeFi and many other innovations arising from web 3.0 in democratizing finance and progressing socially inclusive finance
Provides a directory of resources that can be used by financial institutions to jumpstart their financial inclusion initiatives
Alessandro Hatami
Alessandro Hatami is the founder and managing partner of advisory firm Pacemakers.io, specialising in driving digital transformation in payments, financial services and banking organisations. He has been driving digital innovation for over 15 years at firms such as the Lloyds Banking Group, PayPal UK, PayPoint.net and GE Capital. He is a non-exec director of Cashplus Bank, mentor to several fintech start-ups and an investor in a number of early-stage tech companies. He is a well-known figure in European fintech and is a frequent speaker at events across the globe. His book Reinventing Banking and Finance (2021), also published by Kogan Page, was rated Best Overall Book on Banking of 2021 by Investopedia.com in the US. He is based in London, the UK.
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