Gail Hodges, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, and Elizabeth Garber, VP of Digital Products at Santander, share their insights on digital identity following the recent publication of the GAIN Paper, an outgrowth from the IIF and OpenID Foundation’s Open Digital Trust initiative. GAIN outlines how an open network can encourage different participants to come together creating an ecosystem with interoperable solutions using common standards. The paper gathered over 150 signatories from an extensive and diverse group of digital identity experts and advocates interested in advancing this vision.


 

The dramatic growth of Mobile Money in Sub-Saharan African markets presents some interesting learnings for bank strategies and partnerships with FinTech firms, and with some fascinating scenarios ahead as app-based payment platforms enter the market.

Having been spotlighted in the IIF’s new series on inclusion, Amin Khairy from CIB Egypt and Chad Harper from the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute join us on FRT to discuss their work in promoting inclusion through digitalization, with Amin’s work focusing on reaching the unbanked through device-driven banking, and Chad discussing VEEI’s latest research report on global digital remittances. Chad and Amin discuss the need for end-to-end digital enablement, the gender disparity in inclusion efforts, and the importance of public-private partnership, among other topics in this episode of FRT.