What are Fintech CEOs saying about the future of inclusive fintech?
An insight, an opportunity, and a challenge Last week, an incredible community of entrepreneurs who are building cutting-edge financial...
Prosper: A Product Innovation to Link PAYGo Customers to MFIs
BrightLife, FINCA Uganda, and FIBR are innovating to develop solutions that bridge the gap between microfinance and pay-as-you-go (PAYGo)...
Getting the Timing Right: The Life Cycle of a Small Shop in Africa
MSMEs Have Different Financing Needs in Four Discrete Stages Small shops or “dukas” account for 80 percent of employment...
R²A CASE STUDY: API AND VISUALIZATION APPLICATION PROTOTYPE
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (the Philippines Central Bank, or BSP) Supervisory Data Center (SDC) was receiving incomplete, late, and...
Fiji Regulatory Impact Assessment
A regulatory impact assessment (RIA) can assist in determining the change effected by regulation/policy (henceforth combined and referred to...
Alternative Delivery Channels for Financial Inclusion: Opportunities And Challenges In African Banks And Microfinance Institutions 2016
Financial inclusion rates in Africa are among the lowest in the world. Providing secure, affordable, and easy-to-use financial products...
How Can Digital Financial Products Be 10 times Better to Deepen Financial Inclusion?
Meet the Newest Inclusive Fintech Startups in the Catalyst Fund Catalyst Fund offers up to $100K in fast and...
Inclusion, Stability, Integrity, And Protection: Observations and Lessons for The I-Sip Methodology from Pakistan
This Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) study was conducted by a joint research team from CGAP, the...
Enabling mobile money policies in Tanzania: A “test and learn” approach to enabling market-led digital financial services
Since 2008, Bank of Tanzania has taken a progressive approach to designing a regulatory framework that has greatly contributed...
Correspondent Banking in Mexico’s Rural Areas: Lessons from a G2P Payment Digitization and Financial Inclusion Project
This paper studies the effect of payment digitization on the government-to-person (G2P) payment platform in Mexico. The main objective...