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Technology vital over financial services' 'last mile'
Technology will play an indispensable role in covering the “last mile” of delivering financial services to the world’s unbanked populations, according to experts at this year’s Lujiazui Forum.
Eric Jing, chairman and chief executive of Ant Financial, the financial affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, told the audience his company had employed technology to lower the bar for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain credit.
The exponential growth of e-commerce and mobile payment over the years has connected people in the remotest corners into a vast global network of commerce, Jing said. “Even an old lady making cloth shoes in rural China can now sell her products online,” he said.