Americans for Financial Reform Banking Without Wall Str …
Mr. Boon was one of the speakers in the panel on topic of exploring postal banking. https://vimeo.com/104238414 Read more Program
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Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserv …
One in four U.S. households lives at least partially outside the financial mainstream — without bank accounts or using costly services like payday lenders. The average underserved household spends $2,412 each year just on interest and fees for alternative financial … Read more
Public-Private Partnerships: Best Practices and Opportu …
There are real opportunities for the Postal Service to earn income from its real estate portfolio, upgrade its infrastructure, benefit from private sector innovation, and make its cost structure more variable so costs decline with volume. Public-Private Partnerships have helped … Read more
Inclusive Postal Financial Service, Romania 2012
This International Seminar was held from 28th May – 1st June 2012. The training took place in the Danube Delta. The Seminar focused on improving financial inclusion through Eastern Europe’s largest networks of Posts reaching out to deliver access to … Read more
ICTs, new services and transformation of the Post
With more than 660,000 post offices throughout the world, the postal network is the biggest physical network in the world. Post offices are everywhere, from the capitals of bigger industrialized countries to small rural towns of leastdeveloped countries. In outlying … Read more
Forum on the Development of Postal Financial Services 2 …
Following the 2009 UPU-AFI conference on financial inclusion and postal banking, a forum on the development of postal financial services was held in Bern on the 23 April 2010. This event was targeting postal operators interested in developing financial services through their network. The presentations … Read more
Reaching out to the rural population: the postal networ …
Hans Boon, managing director at PostFinance International Development, presented additional postal financial inclusion models with special reference to Russia – the first case study of the session. “Rural post offices are portals for financial access, inclusion and literacy,” emphasized Boon. … Read more
UPU-AFI Workshop on Financial Inclusion and Postal Bank …
OPENING The missing billion accounts: delivering financial inclusion through postal networks Mr. Edouard Dayan, Director General of the universal Postal Union Ms. Joelle Toledano, Commissioner, ARCEP, professor Of Economics, SUPELEC, Chair Of the postal Economics Project Group Mr. Carlos Henrique … Read more
‘Boring’ post office banks now attractive
The International Post Bank Council has been told that a post office based bank should form a central part of any reform of the banking industry. The council is meeting in Dublin for the first time. Chairman Carl Holsters, from … Read more
Significant progress reached on the way of establishing …
General Director of “HayPost” Company Hans Boon stated that “significant progress is reached on the way of establishing Postbank in Armenia”. Mediamax reports that Hans Boon’s address in connection to the World Post Day on October 9, reads that. Head … Read more