More than one billion women --40% of women worldwide-- have no access to the financial system. According to the Global Findex 2014 report, the gender gap is obvious: 58% are bank account holders compared with 65% of men.

Slowly but surely, digital wallets are becoming one of the payment channels with the greatest projection, due to two reasons: their easy usability and their adaption to the smartphone ecosystem. Can you imagine leaving your house in the future without cash or cards?

One of the debates in the financial sector is the inclusion of new payment channels that are changing the system as it was known. Virtual currencies, payments through mobile devices and online payments – new players have entered and these are the six characteristics that new payment channels should have to succeed.

Pocket group is emerging as an option in the Mexican payments market to avoid the need to carry around credit and debit cards.

Banks must satisfy the technological demands of their clients and support them via social networks if they are to retain their loyalty.

The present is mobile, and this is why banking, like all other sectors in industry and trade, is committed to offering services through smartphones. This is an unstoppable trend worldwide: in 2018, one in five smartphones will incorporate mobile wallet functions. But, what is the outlook for growth and consolidation of mobile banking in Colombia?

The Association of Financial Technology Companies has been created in Spain with the aim of strengthening this emerging industry in the country to prevent foreign companies from "eating up the local market."

It's no secret that the technology financing sector is red hot, but here we reveal five of the names in this field that are soon going to be on everyone's lips.

Simple, Moven, GoBank, Fidor Bank are leading the way to mobile banking, financial institutions without branches that are causing a digital transformation in banking.

P2P payments on the social media are a reality. India and the U.S. are at the forefront of the so-called ‘social banking’. On the one hand, innovation comes from the banking sector, and on the other, social media place the seal of progress in the era of new banking.