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Financial inclusion 2.0

Mastercard is unlocking access to vital services around the world

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Despite advances in the last five years, two billion people still lack the financial services to guard against risk, invest in their future and build better lives.

Mastercard, in partnership with financial institutions, merchants, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has the technology, scale and capacity to help governments solve this issue.

 

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Livelihood and resilience

Connecting the digital economy to advance agriculture, education and health services

Digital identity

Enabling social, legal and economic inclusion for people around the world

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Greater possibilities with financial inclusion

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Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a critical role in digitizing transactions

Mastercard is bringing more merchants into the fold by providing solutions that make card acceptance faster and more secure

Accept digital payments

Enabling MSMEs to accept digital payments and offer other digital serves accelerates financial inclusion in an entire community

Build alternative credit

Creating a digital record of transactions to create products appropriate for MSMEs ignite the engine of community growth

Supply chain

Digitizing the data and payment relationships creates value to the MSME supply chain that catalyzes digital payments

Mastercard Helps Egypt's Businesses Embrace Digital Payments

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Mastercard & Western Union: Digital Aid for Refugee Camps.

This collaboration could help refugees more easily access basic human goods, services and finances within settlements to create more sustainable economies.

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Ecosystem Design & Development

 

Robust financial inclusion requires entire ecosystems and a deep understanding of the unbanked, financial providers and government objectives. Mastercard helps address the fundamental areas of building successful ecosystems. Mastercard is bringing more merchants into the fold by providing solutions that make card acceptance faster and more secure.

Targeting for high impact

Financial inclusion programs start with identification and analysis of country-specific high-impact financial inclusion use cases

Designing the Ecosystem

A well-designed ecosystem takes into account the right participants, their interdependencies, and creates a commercially viable, interoperable payments system

Funding the Ecosystem

A comprehensive, multi-year business case highlights the funding required to best support ecosystem build amongst private and public sector stakeholders