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FinDev Interview
Can You Get to Know Your Customer Through an App?
Ibrahim Eid, whose Valify solution won the 2019 Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize, explains how e-KYC works and how a digital identity can give customers access to financial services.
FinDev Blog
The World Is Mobile, Why Isn’t Our Data?
Over 164 million migrant workers make a living in a foreign country, and almost 26 million refugees have been forced to flee due to conflict. Unfortunately, while migrant workers are on the move, their data is not, often preventing them from accessing financial services or better jobs. Developing a digital identity system is one potential solution to this problem.
By Tim Nourse, Making Cents International
FinDev Blog
Can Financial Inclusion Help Reverse Women’s Inequality in Jordan?
Women’s entrepreneurship is on the rise globally, though it still lags behind men’s in most countries. The challenge is how to get female businesses out of a survivalist mode and onto a pathway of growth.
By Scott Graham, Anahit Tevosyan
FinDev Blog
Can Mobile Wallets Increase Access to Remittances and Other Financial Services?
Home to more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, Jordan hosts the second highest ratio of refugees in the world - 89 refugees per 1,000 inhabitants. In this blog post, Amarante Consulting shares what they learned from evaluating the Dig#ttances project, which explored digital solutions for refugees and the unbanked in Jordan.
By Sahana Arun Kumar, Amarante Consulting
FinDev Blog
Who Is Innovating in the Arab World?
Meet the eight finalists of the inaugural edition of the Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize, presented at the Sanabel Conference in Amman, Jordan.
By Miranda Beshara, Arabic FinDev Gateway
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: Providing Financial Services to Refugees
Drawing on the findings from recently released market studies in Jordan and Uganda, here are the top five recommendations for financial service providers (FSPs) willing to contribute to the financial inclusion of refugees.
By Micol Pistelli, Philippe Guichandut
FinDev Blog
Why Have MFIs in the Arab World Been Reluctant to Transform?
Some say regulatory issues, others cite fear of mission drift. But all of these can be overcome.
By Karen Beshay, International Finance Corporation
FinDev Interview
All You Need Is … Innovation!
In this Gateway interview, Reda Maamari discusses a new regional award which aims to spur innovation for greater financial inclusion in the Arab World, sharing how the Arab Financial Inclusion Innovation Prize (AFIIP) came about, and what it hopes to achieve.
FinDev Interview
Amplifying Women’s Voices for Financial Inclusion in Africa
Interview with Nomsa Daniels, CEO of the pan-African advocacy organization Graça Machel Trust