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:
- Building Financial Resilience for Covid-19 and its Aftermath Workshop in partnership with OC United Way, Wells Fargo & the SF Federal Reserve.
- "Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value", special themed JCE issue by Mrinalini Tankha and Ursula Dalinghaus.
- MONEY AT THE MARGINS: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion and Design edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj & Ivan Small. Introduction online.
