Parul is a co-founder and director of pinBox.She has extensive experience in conceptualizing and implementing innovative financial literacy models and strategies, as well as technology-led outreach platforms for micro-pension and micro-insurance inclusion in developing countries. Parul developed and implemented "gift-a-pension", the first P2P eCommerce platform globally for pension and insurance inclusion of home help (nanny, drivers, guards, cooks) and blue-collar workers in garment export units.
At pinBox, Parul has worked in Rwanda, India, Uganda, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Kenya on designing a replicable and inclusive model and for contributory microPension programs. She was also part of World Bank, United Nations Development Program and FSD teams on advising pension regulators and finance ministries in developing field-tested strategies for expanding voluntary pension coverage. Parul has ~10 years of experience as a journalist at BBC, CNBC and NDTV.
Hall 2, Singapore EXPO
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Over 1.8 billion self-employed women and youth in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America are neither eligible for pension benefits nor saving for their old age and face the grim prospect of extreme poverty once they exit the workforce. Without an urgent policy, regulatory and business response to financial and pension exclusion, the looming old age poverty crisis could become the dominant cause of a radical increase in global poverty. But if even a quarter of these excluded workers start saving just $1 a day, they could generate over $15 trillion in new long-term savings. This session will examine the role of governments, regulators, civil society and technology in making small-ticket pension, savings and insurance solutions commercially sustainable. And in making access to well-regulated micro-wealth and micro-pension solutions affordable, simple and easy for everyone. Everywhere.
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