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LAGOS—Diamond Financial institution as we speak joins Girls’s World Banking to host a world dialogue on the position of digital monetary providers in empowering low-income girls who would not have entry to formal monetary merchandise. Throughout a three-day workshop, discussants from the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, MTN Nigeria, Diamond Financial institution Plc, Jazz of Pakistan, BIMA of Cambodia and Girls’s World Banking will study the most effective practices in growing, enhancing and delivering world-class digital monetary providers to girls. The result of the dialogue will assist in growing and aligning monetary services that may be adopted in markets around the globe.
Highlighting the significance of the workshop and the pressing must develop digital monetary providers to boost girls’s residing requirements, Diamond Financial institution CEO, Uzoma Dozie, acknowledged that the Financial institution may be very keen about girls’s monetary wellbeing. He famous that Diamond Financial institution’s strategic focus is to make sure the enhancement of ladies’s monetary existence by offering revolutionary and handy banking providers utilizing cellphones and different digital instruments.
Dozie mentioned: “We’re conscious that the way forward for banking is digital. Due to this fact, we’re utilizing this to discover methods to innovatively create higher monetary services and produce banking to girls, irrespective of the place they dwell and the kind of handset they’re utilizing.”
Diamond Financial institution works with world nonprofit Girls’s World Banking to develop revolutionary services for low-income girls purchasers. This contains Diamond Y’ello, a mobile-based checking account supplied in collaboration with telecom operator MTN. With assist from the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis, this partnership is working to develop Diamond Y’ello as a world mannequin for increasing girls’s entry to digital monetary providers via simplified steps in account opening and banking transactions, utilizing cellphones. In the course of the workshop, Diamond Financial institution and Girls’s World Banking will share classes from the Diamond Y’ello proposition in addition to different merchandise.
Moreover, the workshop will function learnings from Jazz and BIMA. With assist from the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis, JazzCash, Pakistan’s premiere monetary providers supplier, is working with Girls’s World Banking to extend low-income girls’s adoption and use of digital monetary providers, significantly the JazzCash cell account. In Cambodia, BIMA and cell community operator Good Axiata are working with Girls’s World Banking to extend consciousness and understanding of insurance coverage merchandise. Australia’s Division of International Affairs and Commerce (DFAT) helps this partnership, which goals to make use of cell instruments to boost the worth proposition for purchasers, particularly low-income girls.
“We’re thrilled to deliver collectively companions from around the globe which have demonstrated dedication to serving girls with revolutionary digital instruments,” mentioned Anna Gincherman, Chief Product Growth Officer at Girls’s World Banking, who will reasonable the panel dialogue.
Talking additional she mentioned, “We look ahead to this chance to change useful learnings throughout distinctive markets, all towards the aim of reaching girls, who might not have in any other case had entry, to allow them to plan for the long run, construct a security web for instances of disaster, and even develop their companies.”
In the course of the three-day intensive workshop, members will change methods and ways in constructing and implementing approaches for reaching girls purchasers. They may study profitable practices in behavioral product design, efficient knowledge assortment, agent community administration and advertising to succeed in girls.
Moreover, members may have the chance to go to Diamond Financial institution brokers who’re utilizing revolutionary cell instruments to succeed in girls purchasers of their communities.
