{"id":42584,"date":"2014-06-04T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging21.finca.org\/uncategorized-en-ca\/agency-banking-drc"},"modified":"2023-12-12T05:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:47:42","slug":"agency-banking-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finca.org\/en-ca\/agency-banking-drc","title":{"rendered":"Innovations from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banks often consider low income customer too risky and too expensive to serve. This leaves poor people with no choice but to resort to informal, unregulated and often unreliable means of savings, credit and insurance.<\/p>\n<p>FINCA is breaking new ground bringing financial services to the <a href=\"https:\/\/finca.org\/locations\/africa\/dr-congo\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> by employing an\u00a0innovative business model of agent banking.\u00a0To make the service as simple as possible, FINCA uses an advanced biometric identification system where clients use their fingerprint to access their\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78EUosH-IDQ?feature=oembed\" title=\"Financial services for everyone -- agent banking in the Democratic Republic of Congo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"  frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The project is supported by IFC and The MasterCard Foundation through the Partnership for Financial Inclusion, an initiative that aims to scale microfinance and advance mobile financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before only rich people had access to banks, but now we are really, really happy that they\u2019re helping us poor people save little by little. 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