Current accounts payable to migrant citizens in Italy are over 2,7 million (al 31/12/2016). Equal to 75% adult immigrants living in Italy account holders. Of these, one in two 'access' to banking services through the web; nearly one in three uses their smartphone or tablet to perform financial transactions.
The Observatory National Financial Inclusion of Migrants It is a multi-year project, a collaboration between the Ministry of Interior and the Italian Banking Association (HELP). It intends to provide a tool for analysis and constant monitoring of the organic phenomenon of financial inclusion of migrants in our country, defined as: "The complex of activities developed to facilitate access and effective use of financial services by persons not yet fully integrated into the formal financial system.
The Observatory National Financial Inclusion of Migrants therefore intends to respond to the information needs, support, discussion and training, providing appropriate tools aimed at operators, policy maker, migrant associations for "education" to financial inclusion.
The collaboration between the aforementioned Observatory, Abi, Ministry of Labor and a number of institutions and organizations, such ACLI, ANCI, ARCI, Caritas Italiana, CESP, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, oim (International Organization for Migration) e UNHCR (the UN agency for refugees) It has allowed the creation of the new edition of Multilingual brochure for foreign citizens, distributed in digital version of "Welcome to the bank".
Useful to know the bank and use it with ease, It turns out to be short and immediate, with clear answers to the many questions everyday. It is available in ten languages: Italiano, English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian, Tagalog, Hindi.
With a simple and clear language explaining for example how to open a checking account, how to send money to their countries of origin, how to apply for a loan or start a supplementary pension.
Alex Gaetani