Can the world achieve global financial inclusion by 2020? The many participants in Financial Inclusion 2020 have been asking this question through working groups, webinars, and research efforts throughout 2013 . By raising the question in structured ways and with multiple actors, the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion aims to increase the momentum toward financial inclusion . Our hope is that by building a shared vision of the future of financial inclusion, developing a common roadmap guiding how to achieve it, and grounding the discussion in data on current trends, we will help spark decisions to prioritize financial inclusion among financial service providers, technology innovators, governments, and civil society .

In this report, we look at why financial inclusion matters and why we are confident it can be achieved in the foreseeable future. Through many conversations, we have learned that most of the solutions already exist. Innovative action is already happening, among organizations and companies large and small. We hope that the vision and way forward outlined here will help the actions of such stakeholders to build on each other to make financial inclusion a reality sooner than ever thought possible, and to enable financial inclusion to develop in a way that benefits the millions – or billions – of new clients