Tag: Financial Inclusion

What are Fintech CEOs saying about the future of inclusive fintech?
Inclusive Fintech |

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...

By Maelis Carraro
Prosper: A Product Innovation to Link PAYGo Customers to MFIs
PAYGo and Essential Services |

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)...

By Daniel Waldron
Getting the Timing Right: The Life Cycle of a Small Shop in Africa
Livelihoods and Microenterprise |

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...

By Michelle Hassan
R²A CASE STUDY: API AND VISUALIZATION APPLICATION PROTOTYPE
Policy and Regulation |

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...

By R2A
Fiji Regulatory Impact Assessment
Policy and Regulation |

Fiji Regulatory Impact Assessment

A regulatory impact assessment (RIA) can assist in determining the change effected by regulation/policy (henceforth combined and referred to...

By BFA GLOBAL
Alternative Delivery Channels for Financial Inclusion: Opportunities And Challenges In African Banks And Microfinance Institutions 2016
Digital Financial Services |

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...

By BFA GLOBAL
How Can Digital Financial Products Be 10 times Better to Deepen Financial Inclusion?
Digital Financial Services |

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...

By Maelis Carraro
Inclusion, Stability, Integrity, And Protection: Observations and Lessons for The I-Sip Methodology from Pakistan

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...

By BFA GLOBAL
Enabling mobile money policies in Tanzania: A “test and learn” approach to enabling market-led digital financial services
Digital Financial Services |

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...

By BFA GLOBAL
Correspondent Banking in Mexico’s Rural Areas: Lessons from a G2P Payment Digitization and Financial Inclusion Project
Digital Financial Services |

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...

By BFA GLOBAL