Welcome to the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI). Established in 2008, the Institute is housed in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. It is a leading research center on the consumer side of financial technology--everything from mobile money to AI-driven alternative credit scoring. We focus on the everyday use and implications of these new technologies: how people engage, refuse, modify, hack, and share them, and how they in turn influence people's understandings of money, value, justice, even faith. Read on here.
Featuring:
- "Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins" from MONEY AT THE MARGINS: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion and Design edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small. View and access content/chapters here.
- "Introduction: Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value" from special-themed issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy Volume 13, Issue 4 by guest editors Mrinalini Tankha and Ursula Dalinghaus
- Picturing Financial Security - An Abrazar, UCI and PhotovoiceWorldwide Collaborative Exhibit on ArtSteps, blogpost write-up here.
Money Archive
Money Archive
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Loy Loy: The Savings Board Game
Loy Loy: The Savings Board Game
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What is a CBDC & Why do they Matter?
What is a CBDC & Why do they Matter?
“CBDCs became a topic of debate after the rise of bitcoin, yet proceed from very different assumptions about the nature of money and the role of the state.”
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