Access to financial services remains to be a challenge in most of the developing world. Yet the gender gap offers a more serious challenge as women in such countries have lower access to and coverage for banking and microfinancing.

This panel session moderated by Farah Jaafar-Crossby, CEO, Labuan IBFC Inc. alongside Nithya Sharma from Women's World Banking look into the ways and means of how the new mode of finance can help to fix this challenge.