Digital Finance “plus” is the use of mobile money and branchless banking to make basic, essential services and utilities - in energy, health, education, and water, for example - more accessible to people at the base of the economic pyramid. Here finance is not an end itself but a means to help solve significant development challenges in order to improve the lives of the poor.

Through a series of video interviews and an animation, this blog series introduces the concept of Digital Finance Plus and highlights some of the innovative companies and individuals working iin this space.