In this episode of FRT, we hear from Andy Woolnough, Executive VP of Global Advocacy, and Sonja Kelly, Director of Research and Advocacy, from Women’s World Banking, discussing digital solutions for financial inclusion and innovation. Focused on enabling women’s financial stability and resilience, Women’s World Banking pursues research and programs that enable not only women’s financial goals, but ultimately support SMEs, reduce gender inequality gaps, and promote economic growth.

We start off a new year of podcasts with the IIF’s new Managing Director for Digital Finance, Jessica Renier. Jessica shares her views on developments in digital finance, how she came to focus on this work, and discusses some of the key issues that will drive debate in 2022.

Chester Chua, Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy at Google Cloud, joins us on this episode of FRT to share key findings from two studies commissioned by Google Cloud on the regulation and adoption of cloud in financial services.

Linda Jeng, Georgetown University, and Andres Wolberg-Stok, Citi, join us on this episode of FRT to discuss Linda’s recently published book, “Open Banking”, which features chapters written by Andres and the IIF’s Brad Carr.