Women's World Banking's President and CEO Mary Ellen Iskenderian on Improving Women's Access to Finance

Access to financial services has tremendous potential to improve prosperity and security - especially for women - if done correctly. The rapid growth of mobile technology has removed some of the barriers to finance and resulted in getting more traditional financial actors involved - or at least considering products - for those in hard to reach communities, according to Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women's World Banking.