Leveraging Fintech to Expand Digital Health in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore

Leveraging Fintech to Expand Digital Health in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 929269524X

This report highlights how financial technology or fintech can be leveraged to improve health systems and outcomes. A “Fintech for Health” approach integrates digital financial services with health innovations to help solve health-care affordability, quality, and access challenges. It can be powerful in enabling people to gain access to health care and in preventing health-related bankruptcy. The report draws on examples of this approach from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. It considers the enabling environment, challenges, future opportunities, and how Fintech for Health can be adapted to diverse contexts to help promote universal health coverage.

Leveraging Fintech for Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam

Leveraging Fintech for Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789292707279

The report explains how fintech solutions can help women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam access the finance they need to expand their micro, small, and medium enterprises and bolster financial inclusion. It outlines the challenges facing women-owned MSMEs and explains how fintech solutions can better assess the creditworthiness of women who are often unbanked and deemed to be higher risk. The report highlights the need to overcome low digital and financial literacy and sets out how digital lenders can use a mix of online and offline approaches to reach low-income female entrepreneurs.

The Promise of Fintech

The Promise of Fintech
Author: Ms.Ratna Sahay
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513512242

Technology is changing the landscape of the financial sector, increasing access to financial services in profound ways. These changes have been in motion for several years, affecting nearly all countries in the world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has created new opportunities for digital financial services to accelerate and enhance financial inclusion, amid social distancing and containment measures. At the same time, the risks emerging prior to COVID-19, as digital financial services developed, are becoming even more relevant.

Dual Transformation

Dual Transformation
Author: Scott D. Anthony
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633692493

Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent disruption. Dual Transformation shows you how your company can come out of a market shift stronger and more profitable, because the threat of disruption is also the greatest opportunity a leadership team will ever face. Disruptive change opens a window of opportunity to create massive new markets. It is the moment when a market also-ran can become a market leader. It is the moment when business legacies are created. That moment starts with the core dual transformation framework: Transformation A: Repositioning today’s business to maximize its resilience, such as how Adobe boldly shifted from selling packaged software to providing software as a service. Transformation B: Creating a new growth engine, such as how Amazon became the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services. Capabilities link: Fighting unfairly by taking advantage of difficult-to-replicate assets without succumbing to the “sucking sound of the core.” Anthony, Gilbert, and Johnson also address the characteristics leaders must embrace: courage, clarity, curiosity, and conviction. Without them, dual transformation efforts can founder. Building on lessons from diverse companies, such as Adobe, Manila Water, and Netflix, and a case study from Gilbert’s firsthand experience transforming his own media and publishing company, Dual Transformation will guide executives through the journey of creating the next version of themselves, allowing them to own the future rather than be disrupted by it.

FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries

FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Author: Mr.Amadou N Sy
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484385667

FinTech is a major force shaping the structure of the financial industry in sub-Saharan Africa. New technologies are being developed and implemented in sub-Saharan Africa with the potential to change the competitive landscape in the financial industry. While it raises concerns on the emergence of vulnerabilities, FinTech challenges traditional structures and creates efficiency gains by opening up the financial services value chain. Today, FinTech is emerging as a technological enabler in the region, improving financial inclusion and serving as a catalyst for the emergence of innovations in other sectors, such as agriculture and infrastructure.

Fintech

Fintech
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498321860

The paper finds that while there are important regional and national differences, countries are broadly embracing the opportunities of fintech to boost economic growth and inclusion, while balancing risks to stability and integrity.

Innovate Indonesia

Innovate Indonesia
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9292620401

New technologies present governments with opportunities and challenges in a range of key policy areas such as employment, competitiveness, equity, and sustainability. A consensus is that the national government can play an important role in stimulating innovation. This report explores policy options to facilitate Indonesia's technological transformation and unlock its economic growth potential.

Strategy 2020

Strategy 2020
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2008
Genre: Development banks
ISBN:

Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks: Focus on the MENAP and CCA Regions

Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks: Focus on the MENAP and CCA Regions
Author: Ms.Inutu Lukonga
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484376544

Financial technology (fintech) is emerging as an innovative way to achieve financial inclusion and the broader objective of inclusive growth. Thus far, fintech in the MENAP and CCA remains below potential with limited impact on financial inclusion. This paper reviews the fintech landscape in the MENAP and CCA regions, identifies the constraints to the growth of fintech and its contribution to inclusive growth and considers policy options to unlock the potential.

Asian Economic Integration Report 2021

Asian Economic Integration Report 2021
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292627163

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted both supply and demand sides of an interconnected world economy in 2020. Asia and the Pacific was not immune as lockdowns and travel and trade restrictions affected nearly all aspects of cross-border economic activity. This publication examines the initial impact on trade, investment, finance, and people’s mobility across the region as the pandemic struck. It looks at how regional economies individually or collectively respond to the crisis by, for example, leveraging rapid technological progress and digitalization as well as increasing services trade to reconnect and recover. The theme chapter focuses on digital platforms and how they can accelerate digital transformation across the region.