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It’s Time to Address the Financing Gap for Female Tech Entrepreneurs in Africa
How can we get more investment to women-led companies and more women in the investment pipeline?
By Gloria Muhoro, African Development Bank
FinDev Blog
Instant Liquidity Support for Mobile Money Agents
Inclusive fintech Flow shares how they have adapted their model to continue providing a much-needed service during the coronavirus crisis.
By Michael Rothe, Flow
FinDev Blog
How Can Financial Technology Serve Smallholder Farmers?
Leading fintech providers discuss how to overcome the challenges and risks in providing financial services for smallholder farmers
By Céline Fillet, with the contribution of the Propagate Coalition members
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
Who Bears the Risk in Fintech?
The excitement around fintech in India is palpable. Many see it as a market-led solution to the policy objective of financial inclusion. Fintech regulation must therefore be designed carefully to prevent and mitigate risks while also preserving the potential for financial inclusion.
By Beni Chugh, Dvara Research
FinDev Blog
Does Fintech Have Us Spellbound?
How can we identify which fintech companies and products offer impact potential without being enthralled by the latest 'shiny new object'? Four frameworks help us separate potential from hype.
By Camilla Nestor, MIX
FinDev Blog
Great Expectations: Fintech and the Poor
There’s off-the-charts hype around fintech in the financial inclusion community, but how much does it really help poor people? CGAP’s CEO Greta Bull says it’s time to rethink the promise of fintech and focus on how to better harness the innovation it brings in service of poor people.
By Greta Bull, CEO of CGAP
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 Interview
What Is Crowdfunding and How Could It Help Financial Inclusion?
Crowdfunding is gaining in worldwide popularity and in the inclusive finance sector. But who is the crowd of these platforms and what deals do they fund? As part of this year’s European Microfinance Week, Marloes Noppen will participate in a panel which attempts to answer these and other questions.
FinDev Blog
Closing the “Blockchain for Development” Evidence Gap
Have we formed unrealistic expectations for this new technology?
By Michael Pisa, Center for Global Development