Microfinance is a renowned albeit controversial solution for giving financial access to the unbanked, even if micro-transactions increase costs, limiting outreach potential. The economic and financial sustainability of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) is a prerequisite for widening a potentially unlimited client base. Automation decreases costs, expanding the outreach potential, and improving transparency and efficiency. Technological solutions range from branchless mobile banking to geo-localization of customers, digital/social networking for group lending, blockchain validation, big data, and artificial intelligence, up to 'MicroFinTech' - FinTech applications adapted to microfinance. Of interest to both scholars, students, and professors of financial technology and microfinance, this book examines these trendy solutions comprehensively, going beyond the existing literature and showing potential applications to the traditional sustainability versus outreach trade-off.

Roberto Moro-Visconti is Professor of Corporate Finance at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy, and is the director of studio Moro-Visconti - chartered accountants and financial consultants. Dr. Moro-Visconti manages a consolidated financial boutique (www.morovisconti.com) that derives from a deep-rooted tradition of professional consultants in Milan.

Moro-Visconti, Roberto

Publications by Moro-Visconti, Roberto

ISBN	9783030803940
Article number	9783030803940
Media type	eBook - PDF
Copyright year	2021
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Length	272 pages
Language	English
Copy protection	Digital watermarking