Ecocash chief executive, Natalie Jabangwe  been appointed into the inaugural global Task Force on Digital Financing by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

The taskforce will recommend strategies to harness the potential of financial technology in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.

It will be co-chaired by ABSA chief executive, Maria Ramos and United Nations Administrator Achim Steiner.

Guterres said the impact of technology in achieving financial inclusion cannot be underestimated.

“We have already seen how technology has helped expand financial inclusion -itself an important goal – by 1.2 billion people in just six years.

“But we have only just begun to tap the potential of digital finance and investment to meet the broader agenda set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change,” he said.

-State Media