inclusion

A reader wonders whether paying debts from a half-decade ago is a good idea -- or whether it would restart the clock for their inclusion in his credit reports.

The newly formed Alliance for Financial Inclusion, which includes more than one hundred central banks and other financial policy makers in sixty developing countries, will work to deliver financial services to millions of the world's poor....

With support from the Omidyar Network, ACCION International, and others, the new Financial Inclusion Fund will invest in businesses that provide insurance and financial services to twenty-five million low-income people in Africa and Asia....