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Ayannah CEO Mikko Perez explains why there are still so many people in emerging Asia who are unbanked or excluded from financial services.

Globally, almost 50% of adults have no access to banking-type services of any description. The lack of access to basic financial services has created major barriers for people to overcome poverty by making it almost impossible for individuals and businesses to borrow or save money.

In the new issue of “Money Of The Future” annual fintech report, we can see that partnership between Baidu and ZestFinance is just one of several provincial-level or private pilot programs in China’s push to develop a nationwide social credit system. The current implementations are currently unconnected, but may ultimately be combined under government leadership.