Financial Inclusion

Financial inclusion isn’t a one-size-fits-all process, with more than 2 billion people worldwide living outside the global financial system. The good news: advances in big data and technology along with changes in regulation and creative partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing new pathways to help people gain financial stability.

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Metlife Foundation and Accion Launch New Management Training Program to Provide More than 1 Million Microfinance Clients in China with Better Services

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D2D Secures New Funding from MetLife Foundation for Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund
Doorways to Dreams (D2D) is pleased to announce the 2016 launch of its Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund. The $3 million Fund has secured grants from generous funders to support D2D’s ground breaking work to develop and scale a next generation of practical tools to dramatically improve the financial security of economically vulnerable Americans.

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Steps India Must Take to Achieve Financial Inclusion
India’s financial inclusion campaign has been in the spotlight, winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the number of bank accounts opened in the shortest period of time (over 18 million accounts in the campaign’s first week).

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China Fuels Global Advances in Financial Access

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Women Around the World Face Hurdles to Financial Inclusion
Imagine carrying all of your money on your arms. The gold jewelry circling your wrists and forearms is your retirement, collateral for a loan or a rainy-day fund.

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How Psychology Bolsters Financial Inclusion

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China Fuels Global Advances in Financial Access
A new World Bank study underscores China’s role as a key driver for improved financial access worldwide, especially among low-income and rural populations.

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Do We Have CommonCents?
It is not often that a corporate foundation will partner with a disruptive [the new buzz word] thinker to advance a cause, but recently MetLife Foundation did just that.

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Partnership Brings National Institutional Capital to Resident-Owned Manufactured Home Communities
The country’s leading lender to resident-owned manufactured home communities has secured millions in national institutional capi,tal, a breakthrough in the history of CDFI-financed resident-owned community preservation.

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Infographic: A Snapshot of Financial Health in 3 Countries
Financial health varies greatly around the world and cannot be understood simply by looking at traditional economic data, such as income and access to financial tools.
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