Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP)

NBS and Digicel partner to offer remittance linked savings product

Digicel will work with NBS to integrate its Mobile Money platform with NBS’ banking systems. This will allow beneficiaries to transfer their money received from family and friends from their Digicel Mobile Money wallet into their NBS bank account.

Pacific digital tax system to be trialled in Solomons

The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme's Abigail Chang says tax departments in the region still use manual processes to receive paper tax returns.

Ms Chang said the new digital system would provide more payment options and reduce cash handling.

n Solomon Islands it is estimated the system could be used by more than 123,000 employees, 200 corporate taxpayers and about 3,600 small businesses.

The programme has provided a grant of more than $US450,000 for the system to be installed in the Solomons.