Sep 30, 2011
Financial inclusion for poor households and microbusinesses may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, the Financial Action Task Force, the International Association of Deposit Insurers, and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. Yet these global standard-settings bodies have significant influence on how many get access to what range and quality of formal financial services and at what cost.