Financial Inclusion Across Asia Bringing Opportunities for Businesses

The term financial inclusion describes an individual?s ability to obtain effective and inexpensive financial products and services that match their demands, whilst extending to include businesses access to finances to enable planning for long-term goals or unpredictable emergencies. This allows micro, small, and medium-sized businesses to access financial products on a sustainable basis for a reasonable price. Financial Inclusion Across Asia provides thought-provoking studies centred around Asia and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some of the many topics discussed in this collection include financial inclusion in under-served markets, financial inclusion products and services, financial inclusion for sustainable and responsible business, micro, small, and medium-sized business practices. The chapter authors consider Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Robotics in financial inclusion for businesses, and financial inclusion in the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0. This collection of studies is useful for social scientists, students, academicians, academic institutions, policymakers, and other related stakeholders. It is also appropriate for practitioners or financial sector stakeholders to discover potential business opportunities of financial inclusion products and services, allowing them to strategically incorporate the SDGs.

Chapter 1. Women Financial Inclusion and Financial Literacy: Bibliometrics Analysis; Wang Fengwen and Muhammad Ali Chapter 2. Unlocking the Power of Technology: A New Era of Financial Inclusion in the Industrial Revolution 4.0; Komal Akram Khan Chapter 3. Financial Inclusion and COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges; Zou Yanting and Muhammad Ali Chapter 4. Unlocking Human Perspective: The Psychological Ripple Effects of Financial Inclusion on Asian Communities and Future Avenues; Tehzeeb Sakina Amir and Rabia Sabri Chapter 5. Significance of Fin-Tech for Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs): Anatomical Linkages of Fin-Tech with Value Chain of MFIs and Its Implications; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Asim Rafiq, Rais Ahmad, and Muhammad Asim Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion: A Conceptual Framework; Zou Yanting and Muhammad Ali Chapter 7. Mobile Banking in the Context of Developing Asian Countries: A Thorough Perspective Based on Customer’s Intention, Benefits, Challenges and Security Issues; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Muhammad Nawaz Tunio, Aamir Firoz Shamsi, and Imamuddin Chapter 8. Empowering Communities: Enhancing Financial Literacy and Inclusion Across Asia; Noman Ahsan and Maiyra Ahmed Chapter 9. Fin-Tech an Opportunity or Opportunity Missed by Developing Sides of the World: An Especial Emphasize on Fintech Use and Prospects in Pakistan; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Muhammad Asim, Raza Ali Khan, and Sadia Shaikh Chapter 10. A Bibliometric Review of Financial Inclusion in Asia; Chen YingTing and Muhammad Ali

Professional and scholarly

Leong Choi-Meng is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Malaysia. Muhammad Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Accounting and Finance, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia. Syed Ali Raza a is a Full Professor of Finance at the Iqra University Karachi, Pakistan. Chin-Hong Puah is a Professor cum Chief Executive Officer at the UNIMAS Business School, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Ibrahim Halil Eksi is a Professor of Finance at the University of Gaziantep, Turkey.