M Treasury’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy was published with a vision of improving access to savings, credit, and insurance in order to strengthen financial security and resilience across the population, an objective the TPA Inclusion Working Group had long advocated. Yet setting the strategy was only the first step; the central challenge lay in how its ambitions could be delivered in practice.
The webinar explored the payments innovations that could help drive progress, from cards and account-to-account (A2A) payments to emerging digital tools and savings mechanisms, alongside the roles of regulation, policy, and industry in achieving measurable outcomes. It also examined the broader environment required to scale effective solutions, and considered whether the government’s strategy provided sufficiently strong and ambitious foundations for meaningful impact.
