Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants often face significant barriers to accessing digital financial services involuntarily, despite affordable and accessible digital financial services being crucial for their economic integration and empowerment.
What strategies can be leveraged to advance financial inclusion for underrepresented communities like these? Which coalitions should be built, what kind of technologies are needed, and what movements should be connected to?
This panel features diverse experts: Daphnee Prates Iglesias, policy advisor at UN-IGF, currently leading a working group on digital access, and previously Financial Inclusion Policy Officer at International Rescue Committee; Tomás Leighton, the Executive Director at Rumbo Colectivo, a think tank associated with the Chilean party Democratic Revolution, leading research and policy work on care policies, social rights, environmetal justice, and new development model; and Sarah Habib, a FinTech Strategies from London that has worked with several FinTech Startups that focuses on supporting refugees. They will offer perspectives from their past work and provide a potential blueprint for advancing digital financial rights for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.