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Banking in the Comfort Zone
By providing a familiar environment for small transactions, agency banking can foster good financial habits.
By Scott Graham, Muyumbana Sililo, Anahit Tevosyan, FINCA International
FinDev Blog
Bringing Agent Banking to Rural Women’s Self-Help Groups in India
While the spread of agent networks throughout rural India has helped bring banking to many people’s doorsteps, this type of service was inaccessible for informal groups until the recent spread of a new technical solution called Dual Authentication.
By Veenal Sukhwani, Pradip Das, Amit Arora
FinDev Blog
Agent Gender Matters, but How to Recruit and Retain Women Agents?
This blog post shares four strategies to help FSPs overcome the obstacles they face in onboarding female agents and create an environment that encourages women to join and thrive as agents.
By Anusha Jain, Rahul R. Sinha, Grameen Foundation India
FinDev Blog
Towards a More Sustainable Livelihood for Business Correspondent Agents
A new pilot explores the possibilities for agents in rural India to include assisted e-commerce among the services they offer.
By Bhakti Palande, Ganita Dahiya, Grameen Foundation India
FinDev Blog
Agent Gender Matters… for Customers
The second blog in this two-part series on agent gender looks at evidence on the effectiveness of women agents in cash-in cash-out (CICO) networks for women's financial inclusion.
By Rebecca Calder, Federica Busiello, Kore Global
FinDev Blog
Agent Gender Matters
While there is growing evidence of a positive relationship between cash-in cash-out (CICO) network quality and gender inclusiveness, there is still an ongoing debate about whether the gender of the agent matters for business performance and for women’s financial inclusion.
By Federica Busiello, Rebecca Calder
FinDev Blog
Four Ways to Design Agent Networks That Work for Women
Innovations around agent networks present an opportunity to significantly improve women’s experiences and help build their confidence and access to digital financial services.
By Mary Katica, IDEO.org
FinDev Blog
The Power of Community-Based Organizations to Mobilize Farmers’ Savings
A Scale2Save project in Cote d’Ivoire shares what they’ve learned working with farmer cooperatives as financial agents.
By Celine Stevens, World Savings and Retail Banking Institute
FinDev Blog
How To Get a Historic Bilateral Deal to Share Agent Banking Infrastructure
Scale2Save partners FINCA and Centenary Bank in Uganda go from competition to cooperation, sharing service-distribution infrastructure for the benefit of end-user low-income customers.
By Kimathi Githachuri, Scale2Save
FinDev Blog
Freedom on Wheels – A Ride to Economic Empowerment
How motorcycle loans could help women banking agents in India bring financial inclusion to remote and vulnerable populations.
By Seema Prem, Aiswarya Chandrashekar, FIA Global