Anne Marie van Swinderen

Anne Marie van Swinderen
L-IFT BV

Anne Marie is the founder of L-IFT BV. She has been active in financial inclusion for over 25 years. She started her career with BRAC, supported the Women’s Union to start one of the first microfinance institutions in Vietnam, she worked on agricultural and cooperative finance in Zambia, supported the regulatory framework for microfinance in Angola, worked on microfinance outreach in Bolivia, conducted financial diaries in rural and urban zones of remote Magdalena Departamento of Colombia, conducted studies about demand for mobile financial services, worked on product development for mobile financial services in Ethiopia and conducted youth financial diaries in Togo and Ethiopia. She is currently leading the MasterCard Foundation flagship livelihood diaries in Uganda and Ghana.

Articles by Anne Marie van Swinderen

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Tuesday
November 3
2020

Anne Marie van Swinderen

Keeping Finance in the Family: How Intra-Family Accounts Can Help Low-Income Customers During COVID-19 – and Beyond

Banks in emerging countries often struggle to generate active usage of the accounts they offer to young people. Yet as Anne Marie van Swinderen at L-IFT points out, financial diaries research has shown that young people save frequently and significantly – especially when their earnings rise. She explores how intra-family accounts could help banks serve this challenging demographic during COVID-19 and in the longer term – while also expanding their financial services to other members of the family.

Categories
Coronavirus, Finance

Tags
COVID-19, financial inclusion, youth

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