MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Fiji’s National Financial Inclusion Taskforce (NFIT), Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF), Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP) Make Progress Towards 2014 Goal of Financial Inclusion for 150k Unbanked Citizens

Fiji’s National Financial Inclusion Taskforce (NFIT), a committee formed in 2010 by the country’s national bank the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) and the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP), a program established with the intent of increasing access to financial services among low-income households in the Pacific Islands, reportedly has reached 87 percent of its goal of extending financial services to 150,000 unbanked citizens in the country by 2014 [1].