Financial Inclusion

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This edition of Citi Perspectives for the Public Sector celebrates progress and highlights opportunities for improvement.

Joint E8 to discuss The Future of Cross Border Payments and to share their insights on new technologies and innovations, partnerships and competitive dynamics reshaping the landscape.

Our guests reflect on the need to improve communication about and advocate for their profession, establishing common terminology and methodologies to gain more respect and influence within organizations.

The global industrials sector is being reshaped by a series of distinct — yet interrelated — tectonic shifts, with critical implications for industrial policy and corporate strategy.

The value of individual philanthropy to the global economy is difficult to measure and therefore woefully underestimated. But its impact is undeniable. In this Citi GPS report, we focus on aspects of individual giving that we can measure – time and money – and estimate that global individual giving reaches $1.3 trillion every year. This can be broken down into $770 billion in monetary donations and $560 billion in the economic value of hours volunteered. To put this figure in context, individuals give time and money making up more than 1% of global GDP every year and 6x the official development assistance committed by OECD countries in 2023.

In series 5, episode 1 of Good Things Happen, host Jorian Murray is joined by Charles Savage, CEO of Purple Group, Bradley Wattrus, Co-founder of Yoco and Keyuri Chibba, Head of Africa Digital FX Sales in Citi’s Market’s division to discuss the Rise of Fintech in Africa, and share their pioneering stories in the financial technology space.

Jorge Rubio, Head of Social Finance, Citi and Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance, explore the transformative power of Fintech for fostering financial inclusion and driving positive societal impact across emerging and frontier markets. They discuss how FinTechs are breaking down barriers and empowering underserved communities.

Economic gaps between Black people and white people in the U.S. persist