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ITU Workshop on Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion
to address needs of 2 billion ‘unbanked’ people
Mobile money experts to prioritize discussion of consumer protection
Geneva, 10 December
2015 – An ITU
Workshop on Digital Financial Services
and Financial Inclusion in Geneva, 14 December, will
analyse the latest developments in the market for
digital financial services (DFS), or ‘mobile money’.
Topics for discussion will address consumer
protection, with accompanying sessions exploring
merchant payments, DFS market competition, and DFS
interoperability.
The free-of-charge, open-to-all workshop will host
representatives of the information and communication technology (ICT) and
financial-services sectors to supplement the work of the
ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services, which will meet at
ITU, 15-16 December.
The Focus Group is developing a set of operational
recommendations, tools and solutions to assist countries in establishing
financial-inclusion strategies capable of promoting widespread adoption of DFS.
The group’s upcoming meeting will advance key deliverables to improve the
cooperation of ICT regulators and central banks, build greater understanding of
the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders comprising the DFS ecosystem,
and support DFS operators in their efforts to achieve service interoperability.
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What:
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ITU Workshop on
Digital Financial Services and Financial
Inclusion |
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When:
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14 December 2015 |
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Where:
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ITU Headquarters,
Geneva, Switzerland
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Why:
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Financial and telecommunication regulators and stakeholders from around the world will discuss consumer protection, interoperability, access to infrastructure, and security and risk management.
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Who:
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ITU Member States, ICT regulators, financial services regulators, policymakers, mobile network operators, banks, financial service providers, mobile financial-services platform providers, international organizations, academia and non-governmental organizations.
Participants will include representatives of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI); AMDOCS; ANATEL, Brazil; Banco Central do Brasil; Bangladesh Bank; Bangladesh Telecommunication; Regulatory Commission, (BTRC); Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas; Bank of Ghana; Bank of Indonesia; Bank of Uganda; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; bKash Limited; Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (CENFRI); Centre for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI); CGAP; China Mobile; Columbia Business School; Consumer’s International; Ericsson; Glenbrook Partners; GSMA; Hitachi; Huawei Technologies; Intervale; ISO; National Communication Authority, Ghana; NTRA, Egypt; MasterCard; MicroSave; Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Indonesia; Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Zimbabwe; SocialEco Ltd; Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA); Tunisie Telecom; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); World Bank; Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority, (ZICTA)
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For more information, please see
press release or contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations & Public
Information, ITU
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Marcus Pepperell
Sophia Lyscom
FTI Consulting
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