Natalie Ceeney CBE is Chair of Innovate Finance and Chair of the Access to Cash Review. Before the UK went into lockdown for COVID-19, Natalie joined the podcast to speak about the Access to Cash Review’s study into the UK’s rapid transformation to a cashless society.

The review found that millions of people – just under 20% of the UK population and disproportionately those on low incomes – would struggle to manage without access to cash. In this episode Natalie tells us why the UK cash system is at risk and what can be done to bolster it, and to protect the people who most depend on it.

Now, with the UK in lock-down, ATM use has reduced dramatically and many shops are refusing to take cash because of health fears. As a result, the country’s fragile cash infrastructure is coming under more pressure than ever.

More information on the Access to Cash Review and their full report can be found at accesstcocash.org.uk

Nathalie Molina Niño is an entrepreneur, investor (at O³) and tech globalization veteran focused on high-growth businesses that benefit women and the planet. In this episode we speak about what investors can do to tackle the climate crisis and why investing in women is the most effective way to do so. Nathalie sets out the case for builder capital, a new (old) approach to investing that focuses on building not extracting. And we hear Nathalie's unique take on feminist finance (spoiler: it's all about timelines).

Oliver Rowntree is Senior Insights Manager in the Connected Women Team at the GSMA. The GSMA represents the global mobile communications industry and each year it releases a study on the mobile gender gap. The study is out today, and Oliver is on the podcast to tell us about its findings on the difference in mobile ownership between men and women and the rapid changes taking place in access to mobile internet. We talk about what the mobile gender gap means for finance, the arrival of hybrid smart-feature phones, and why we should all be paying attention to women’s use of video calls.

Helen White is an expert in building financial capability. She previously led work on the UK Financial Capability Strategy at the Money Advice Service, and has been involved in supporting the Chartered Insurance Institute's Insuring Women’s Futures programme.

In this episode Helen tells us about the increasing need for women to build their financial resilience, and we go into detail about how we can engage with beliefs, mindsets and emotions to change people's behavior around money.

You can follow Helen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FinCapHelen

Find out more about Talk Money Week: https://maps.org.uk/talk-money-talk-pensions-week-2019/talk-money-talk-pensions-week-get-involved/

And the Insuring Women's Futures campaign: https://www.insuringwomensfutures.co.uk

Sign up for updates on the podcast and more: https://tinyletter.com/FeministFinance

Rahel Diro is Senior Research Staff Associate at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.

Rahel is an expert in building farmers resilience to climate change. In this episode we discuss how women's experience of climate change and natural disasters are different to those of men, and we talk about what needs to be done to help women become more resilient.

Rahel explains how initiatives in Ethiopia and around the world have been successful in doing so by putting the most vulnerable first.

Find out more about the International Research Institute for Climate and Society: https://iri.columbia.edu

And the R4 rural resilience initiative: https://www.wfp.org/r4-rural-resilience-initiative

And follow Rahel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahel-diro-01817637/

Barbara Magnoni is President of EA Consultants, a development consulting firm, co-founder of MeXCo, and co-founder of Andares, a non-profit network of over 300 women in Latin America working in financial inclusion.

A self-declared fintech skeptic, Barbara explains how most fintech products, designed with young urban men in mind, are leaving women and others behind. In a bid to bring greater equity to the sector, Barbara started MeXCo, a fintech company which bridges the gap between digital financial services and financially excluded populations in Mexico.

In this episode, Barbara describes MeXCo’s unique approach and makes a compelling argument that putting women in positions of power is not enough to achieve a feminist financial system.

Find out more about MeXCo: https://www.mexcosoluciones.com

Join Andares: http://andaresmujeres.blogspot.com

And follow Barbara on Twitter: @BarbaraatEA

Dr Naaborle Sackeyfio is Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. In this episode, Naborle questions assumptions that microfinance automatically empowers women. She draws on her long experience researching the sector to explain how the impact of microfinance is inseparable from women's social position, family life and access to vital resources like energy. Naaborle argues for reimagining financial institutions to truly encompass the creativity and the power of women. We couldn't agree more!

To find out more about Naaborle's reaserch, take a look at her book: Energy Politics and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Case of Ghana

https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319601212

What would a feminist financial system look like? This podcast brings together leading women in the sector to define feminist finance and talk about how we get there.

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