Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Boston University

Daivi Rodima-Taylor is a social anthropologist and Africanist at the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University, and visiting researcher at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on informal economies and local innovation, financial technologies and inclusion, and migration and diaspora.

At BU’s Center for Finance, Law and Policy, she led an interdisciplinary Task Force on migrant remittances and human security. She has taught anthropology and international relations, and published in academic and policy-oriented journals.

Daivi’s PhD and MA are from Brandeis University, and BA from Tartu University, Estonia.

Articles by Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Guest Articles

Thursday
September 5
2019

Daivi Rodima-Taylor / Bill Maurer

The Missing Piece of the Fintech Puzzle: How Local, Informal Networks Play a Crucial Role in Remittances

The spread of fintech is bringing millions of emerging markets customers – and their relations – into the realm of formal finance. But though they're powered by futuristic technologies, fintech initiatives are often built on complex community networks and informal methods of transacting that have existed for centuries. Researchers Daivi Rodima Taylor and Bill Maurer explore the implications of these roles, relationships and social intermediaries for financial service design.

Categories
Finance

Tags
financial inclusion, fintech, remittances, research

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