Sri Lanka, Jan. 8 -- According to the World Bank's Global Findex 2025 report, across the globe 700 million women are still unbanked and have no access to bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money services.

However, the report also revealed that as of 2024, 73 percent of women in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have a financial account, an increase of seven percentage pointssince 2021.

Around 36 percent of women in LMICs are using accounts to save formally, a significant rise from 22 percent in 2021.

Moreover, the number of women in LMICs who can make and receive digital payments also increased, from 50 percentto 58 percent.

These payments include digital merchant payments, which increased from 32 percent to 38 percen...