New Frontiers in Banking Services Emerging Needs and Tailored Products for Untapped Markets

This book is devoted to an issue that is the subject of growing interest amongst policy makers, financial providers and academics. That issue is the problem of unbanking or underbanking in developed countries. The issue has arisen because, faced with an ever more sophisticated and efficient financia...

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Other Authors: Anderloni, Luisa (Editor), Braga, Maria Debora (Editor), Carluccio, Emanuele Maria (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I
  • Access to Bank Accounts and Payment Services
  • Access to Credit: the Difficulties of Households
  • Access to Investments and Asset Building for Low Income People
  • II
  • What Are the Specific Economic Gains from Improved Financial Inclusion? A Tentative Methodology for Estimating These Gains
  • From Financial Exclusion to Overindebtedness: the Paradox of Difficulties for People on Low Incomes?
  • The Role of German Savings Banks in Preventing Financial Exclusion
  • Economic Growth and the Financial Inclusion: the Case of Poland
  • Italian Banks’ Credit Approach Towards Low-Income Consumers and Microenterprises: Is There a Bias Against Some Segments of Customers?
  • Banking the Poor: Policies to Bring Low- and Moderate-Income Households in the United States into the Financial Mainstream
  • Migrants and Remittances
  • Conclusions