Given the wider range of economic activities that impact and in turn are influenced by the presence of a safe and efficient retail payments infrastructure in the country, developments in these systems can be harnessed to widen the scope of coverage of the services particularly in the context of financial inclusion.
In countries like ours, developments in retail payments and their delivery channels can be effectively dove-tailed for bridging not only geographical  2  BIS Review 42/2009  gaps but also in terms of extension of financial activities and access to these activities to a wider section of society.