By the Numbers: Benchmarking Progress Toward Financial Inclusion

Can the world achieve full financial inclusion by 2020? By the Numbers: Benchmarking Progress Toward Financial Inclusion, a new Financial Inclusion 2020 (FI2020) publication from CFI, offers a quantitative review of financial inclusion globally, using publicly available data to examine recent progress and projecting a scenario out to 2020.

Key step in P2P lending to transform the banking system

Citi will use the LendingCLub’s platform to supply up to $150 milion to “underserved” borrowers that its branch network is unable to reach. It is a key step in the attempt by the peer-to-peer lender to “transform” the banking system.

Is Facebook’s new payment service a game changer?

The new P2P payment service Facebook offers will certainly give a total different user experience in payments, however it is not a game changer. The underpinning infrastructure is still the one owned by traditional players, like banks and credit card companies.

JustPark breaks UK technology crowdfunding record

A large share of the global population will live in metropolitan cities. Initiatives like JustPark will prevent that these cities implode. JustPark helps to avoid that you circle around with your car, looking for a parking space. Key is that the platform gives total visibility of where you end up before you get there.