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How Banks are Using Technologies to Help Underserved Communities

Cloudera

Financial inclusion, defined as the availability and accessibility of financial services to underserved communities, is a critical issue facing the banking industry today. According to the World Bank, 1.7 Access to financial services and credit can help lift individuals and entire underserved communities out of poverty.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. “We The bank’s use of its mainframes is two-pronged.

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How fintech innovation is driving digital transformation for communities across the globe  

IBM Big Data Hub

How Dollarito is connecting larger financial institutions with financially underserved communities According to research from the US Government Accountability Office, roughly 45 million people lack credit scores because they don’t have certain data points that credit scores are based on, which limits their eligibility.