Advancing financial inclusion. With Fintech.

<p><strong><a href= "View%20Post%20https:/evepicker.com/advancing-financial-inclusion-with-fintech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:09] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:15] My guest today is Melissa Koide, the founder of FinRegLab, a pretty new research organization. Melissa describes herself as a policy entrepreneur. While working in government she saw the critical need for an independent research organization, an honest broker of sorts, to test financial methodologies and new technological tools. Through FinRegLab, Melissa hopes to inform policymakers and financial institutions. Their ultimate goal is to advance financial inclusion.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:58] Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Melissa on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:21] Hello, Melissa and thank you so much for joining me.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Melissa Koide:</strong> [00:01:24] Good morning. Thanks, Eve, for reaching out to me. I'm looking forward to our conversation.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:28] Yeah, me too. So you launched a company called FinRegLab with the goal of helping to create a more inclusive and safe financial marketplace and I'm wondering how Fintech - because I think that's what FinRegLab does, financial technology - helps to meet the unique needs of the unbanked and the underbanked.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Melissa:</strong> [00:01:52] Absolutely. I'd love to tell you a little bit about why I stood up FinRegLab, if you'd like to hear a little bit of the origination story.</p> <p> </p> <p><st