COFACE conference - Accessible and fair financial services: alternatives to mainstream banking, May 2015 in Madrid, Spain

All families have needs. Having a place to live, paying the bills, acquiring a means of transportation or simply being able to make and receive payments with a bank account.

Financial services are essential to all households but some are excluded from access to basic financial products. Strictly speaking, financial inclusion is the delivery of financial services at affordable costs to a variety of segments of society including disadvantaged and low-income families, workers with irregular income earners, or fixed term contract workers. But it is much more than that. Almost all families are vulnerable when it comes to financial services.

More information as it develops: http://www.coface-eu.org/en/Events/Accessible-and-fair-financial-services/