AVLAVL’s new podcast series features industry leaders discussing the impact of COVID-19 on their work. This episode features Jacob Haar, the Managing Partner at Community Investment Management (CIM) talking about how fintechs are uniquely positioned to respond to challenges and continue driving inclusive finance in this crisis. “Lending partners that have access to real-time data
Janet ShulistPast examples and research have both shown that burdensome or overly prescriptive regulation hinders mobile money innovation and scale. For instance, a study conducted in 2015 found that heavy regulation—such as “an insistence that banks play a central role in the schemes, together with burdensome KYC and agent restrictions”—was often fatal to mobile