Nearly one in five Americans are unbanked, a 2009 government report found, and the number is growing.

The unbanked are adults who do not have their own bank accounts.

That will push some into the ranks of the unbanked.

"Unbanked customers can now send money across the Country at the touch of a button."

Q: Is the idea to bring the unbanked population into the traditional banking world?

Despite local efforts to bank the unbanked, more families left banking than joined it between 2009 and 2010.

Which may be why the number of unbanked customers has risen by over 800,000 since the financial crisis.

The unbanked usually have no alternative but to use cash for all their transactions.

Unbanked families are finding it more difficult to come up with the minimum balance needed to open an account.

We had a lot of employees who are what we call unbanked.

That would be a real bonus to people on low incomes who, at the moment, are the unbanked.

And as a result, some customers may end up unbanked.”

There are more than 13 million unbanked individuals in South Africa alone.

On loaded passenger trains like 20 Up, they would be unbanked.

This difference in education level may explain the large proportion of "unbanked" Hispanics.

So far, about 10,000 new accounts have been opened for unbanked customers, Cisneros said.

Consumer research shows that the unbanked want the capability to make purchases with a card.

Promises to bring basic banking services to unbanked villages with a population of 2000 and above.

Also, looking at financial inclusion, in many ways the continent of Africa is still largely unbanked.

In the financial world, those without access to traditional financial services have been dubbed the "unbanked."

"I do work with a lot of unbanked consumers.

Growing markets for lenders include the "unbanked," or people who have no credit, and Hispanics.

There are about 58m "unbanked" consumers in Europe who do not have any kind of payment account, according to the commission.

But remittances are a big deal for unbanked economies like Somalia.

He isn't worried that most of the world's unbanked aren't 'digital natives'.