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Achieving Financial Inclusion: Fintech, account usage, and innovation

Since 2011, the share of adults with formal accounts has risen from 51 percent to 69 percent, and financial access has expanded to include an additional 1.2 billion people. Read more about financial inclusion in this co-authored blog post by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands:

Achieving Financial Inclusion: Fintech, account usage, and innovation

A teller at a Baobab bank outlet counting out money for a customer in Antananarivo, Madagascar. © Nyani Quarmyne/IFC [[tweetable]]For almost a decade, the global community and national governments have made concerted efforts to expand financial inclusion[[/tweetable]]—creating a financial system …