1. Innovations in Cryptocurrency Helping Financial Inclusion
Ed Lobbett – COO Acorn Collective

2. What is financial inclusion?
Access to banking facilities
Access to finance, loans
Access to payments platforms
Ability to transfer money
Identity?

3. What’s the problem?
*World Bank

4. How are people managing now?
Mobile-only banking is most popular in developing countries with large unbanked populations; usage rates are highest in India (46%), Indonesia (37%), Mexico (34%) and Turkey (34%).
Of the top 10 markets that use peer-to-peer mobile transactions (giving to or receiving money from another person), eight are emerging markets.

5. What does this mean for cryptocurrencies?

6. What about businesses?

7. Crowdfunding now exceeds VC funding

8. But it’s still a closed shop

9. And it’s expensive

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