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MicroFinTech

Expanding Financial Inclusion with Cost-Cutting Innovation

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Authors:
  1. Roberto Moro-Visconti

    1. Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

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  • Analyses microfinance to provide a framework for MicroFinTech applications
  • Explores the various microfinance limitations and issues
  • Shows if and how FinTech business models can be incorporated in traditional microfinance patterns to scale them up

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology (FST)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Microfinance Background

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 9-55

  4. Microfinance Issues

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 57-104

  5. The Impact of Technology on Microfinance

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 105-163

  6. Fintechs

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 165-202

  7. Microfintech Applications

    • Roberto Moro-Visconti
    Pages 203-244

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 245-272
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

    Roberto Moro-Visconti

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: MicroFinTech

  • Book Subtitle: Expanding Financial Inclusion with Cost-Cutting Innovation

  • Authors: Roberto Moro-Visconti

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Financial Services Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80394-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80393-3Published: 07 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80396-4Published: 08 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80394-0Published: 06 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5083

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5091

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Financial Engineering, Financial Services, Economic Growth

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