Financial Inclusion, Women, and Building Back Better

Event Details

Event Details


Date and Time

Tue, 14 December 2021

13:30 - 14:30


Location

Online via Zoom

Event Details

Event Details


Date and Time

Tue, 14 December 2021

13:30 - 14:30


Location

Online via Zoom

Event details
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Financial inclusion occurs when adults have access to appropriate, affordable, and well-regulated financial services to meet their needs effectively and improve their lives. Financial inclusion is a growing global phenomenon.

Since 2011, more than one billion adults have opened an account at a financial institution, such as a bank or a mobile money provider. Despite the progress, however, women continue to lag behind men. In low- and middle-income economies, men are 9 percentage points more likely than women to have an account, a gender gap that has stubbornly persisted.

And there is considerably variation among countries. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world are providing relief payments and financial support to citizens and businesses. If such transfers could be transacted digitally, this might help unbanked people, especially women, obtain accounts for the first time.

Join IOB and Leora Klapper, Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, as she discusses financial inclusion, women, and building back better.

The event will be held over Zoom. Please ensure you have access to Zoom in advance of the event taking place. Zoom is available on all PCs, laptops, tablets and Apple or Android devices.

The link to join the event will be emailed to registered members on the day of the event. The registration for the event will close once we reach capacity or at 12pm the day before the event.

There is 1 CPD hour available for the following categories:

APA

QFA

Registered Stockbrokers

LCOI

Professional Banker

Chartered Banker

Certified Bank Director

Leora Klapper

Lead Economist, World Bank

Leora Klapper is a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank.

Her publications focus on corporate and household finance, fintech, banking, and entrepreneurship. Her current research studies the impact of digital financial services, especially for women.

She is a founder of the Global Findex database and Director of the 2022 World Development Report. Previously, she worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Salomon Smith Barney.

She holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from New York University Stern School of Business.

Leora Klapper

Mary O'Dea

Chief Executive of IOB

Mary joined IOB in April 2018 from the Central Bank of Ireland where she was Director of Securities and Markets Supervision. She was previously Ireland's representative at the World Bank and prior to that held the role of Alternate Executive Director representing Ireland with the International Monetary Fund. Mary previously held several director roles with the Central Bank of Ireland, including Director of Financial Operations, Consumer Director and Acting Chief Executive of the Financial Regulator.

Mary O'Dea