This is our new renovated blog. Due to the need for technological updates, the IMTFI Blog has made a platform switch to WordPress. Blogposts from 2011-2022 are still available at the Posts Archive link above, all current subscribers have been
By Claire Greene, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Apr. 8, 2024 At a living history museum in Massachusetts, you can visit a bank built in 1835. That bank has sturdy fluted pillars, a design element that has wordlessly spelled out
IMTFI and the UCI Department of Anthropology for a book talk: Data Money or Cryptocurrencies: Marco Polo Comes to the 21st Century with Koray Caliskan, Parsons School of Design, the New School Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 12:00-1:00pmPTLocation (Hybrid Event): Social
By Melissa K. Wrapp and Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine In 2021, researchers from the University of California, Irvine partnered with the Filene Research Institute to study the role of financial institutions in our era of mis- and disinformation.
Presentation: The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian Stanford University PressSEPTEMBER 2023248 PAGESFROM $25.00 Hardcover ISBN: 9781503636316Paperback ISBN: 9781503636903Ebook ISBN: 9781503636910 Register: bit.ly/IndebtedWoman Introduced and moderated by Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and
By Anette Broløs and Erin B. Taylor, Finthropology The past few decades have seen substantial development in the digitization of financial services, market facilitation platforms and agricultural extension services for farmers. These offer many potential benefits, but the ability of
Watch: Introduced and moderated byBill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and IMTFI Director AbstractThe term ‘metaverse’, like the term ‘blockchain’, is both vague and capacious, mashing together visions for the future of gaming and augmented reality with scenes from Ready Player One.
Cross-posted from APRI, Africa Policy Research Institute’s The Africa Hour, a monthly podcast Synopsis Cash is still king in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, despite a decades-long push by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to switch to alternative modes of
UCI Community Credit partners with nonprofit Abrazar and PhotovoiceWorldwide to capture community stories of financial struggle, resilience in photographs The photos lining the community room at Santa Ana’s Delhi Center on May 12 may have seemed, at first glance, unrelated:
UCI affiliates Jenny Fan, IMTFI manager, and Melissa Wrapp, ’21 anthropology Ph.D. and postdoctoral project manager of Community Credit, report out on Photovoice Worldwide Photovoice is a community-based participatory research approach in which participants tell stories about their lived experience
IMTFI Director Bill Maurer explains in this blog post for Filene “When I was asked to write something about ChatGPT in relation to credit unions, naturally, I created an account with OpenAI, the company that developed this so-called generative AI
