Frontier Issues

Bankable Frontier Associates is a niche consulting firm dedicated to eradicating the barriers that continue to prevent the poor from accessing formal financial services.

In order to do so, we focus our efforts on facilitating strategic thinking about emerging markets and cutting edge projects which promote maximum, long-term impact on the level of financial inclusion.

Through our years of experience, we have developed opinions and beliefs about key interventions that we believe present particularly effective, yet challenging ways to spur comprehensive growth within the financial sector.

We refer to these as frontier issues. While we do not believe that initiatives within these areas will provide an exhaustive solution, we do believe that there is sufficient evidence to warrant increased and sustained resource allocation towards their development.

The current list of issues we feel bear particular importance include:

We also recognize that what is cutting edge today may become commonplace tomorrow. As we continue to work, learn and progress, we expect our list of frontier issues to remain dynamic and evolve according to the key emerging issues within the field financial inclusion.

For a list of relevant articles which discuss issues we feel are particularly important, please visit our library.