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Re-imagining Financial Inclusion Through Mobile

How Mobile Phones, Money & Banking Will Help Reduce Poverty

Professor Michael Barrett of University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and Academic Director, Cambridge Digital Innovation, speaks to finextra in the video blow about the importance of mobile payments for developing countries, such as M-Pesa in Kenya, and how financial inclusion can also benefit developed markets such as the UK even if the customer need is less clear than in the developing world. You can Paste this url into your browser https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/1151/reimagining-financial-inclusion-through-mobile

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Teacher Michael Barrett of University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and Academic Director, Cambridge Digital Innovation, addresses finextra in the video blow about the significance of versatile installments for creating nations, for example, M-Pesa in Kenya, and how money related consideration can likewise advantage created markets, for example, the UK regardless of the possibility that the client need is less clear than in the creating scene.

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