By 2025, 40% of the world’s population should be using digital financial services

Digital financial services present a tremendous opportunity to swiftly increase the number of people using broadband and the Internet, and realizing the social and economic benefits of these digital resources.

Currently, two billion adults are still without access to a bank account, and yet some 1.6 billion of them have access to a mobile phone, creating the potential for e-fi nance access – and with this access to economic empowerment.