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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
Two Steps Behind: Social Inequality Poses a Challenge for Women’s Financial Inclusion in DR Congo
A recent FINCA survey of clients in DR Congo shows that women entrepreneurs are confined to the smallest, least profitable businesses. Getting a realistic picture of the obstacles women face helps prepare us for the task ahead of shifting the ground in women’s favor.
By Scott Graham, FINCA International
FinDev Guide
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2018
In 2018, FinDev Gateway published more blog posts than ever before, thanks to so many of our partner organizations and contributing community members. So which ones did you read the most?
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
Don’t Let Digitization Create More Inefficiencies
Faisal Abdul Wahab shares how his company PCES is helping financial service providers find smart ways to digitize.
FinDev Interview
How Did Advans Côte d'Ivoire Win the European Microfinance Award?
Albert Sie Dah, Farm Operations Manager of Advans Côte d’Ivoire, talks about how they have succeeded in serving farmers and their children with a combination of high tech and high touch.
FinDev Blog
A Is for Agriculture
The A-Card is a new business model helping smallholders in Bangladesh gain access to finance through a digitized four-way linkage between farmers, banks, MFIs and agricultural input retailers. CARE shares how it works and their lessons learned.
By Tania Sharmin, Emily Janoch, CARE
FinDev Blog
First, Do No Harm
As the microfinance sector has matured, client protection principles have been introduced around issues such as interest rates and product transparency, fair pricing and appropriate product design. But where do gender-based risks fit into these principles?
By Bobbi Gray, Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice
FinDev Blog
How To Transform Gendered Norms
We can’t achieve women’s financial inclusion without considering harmful social norms and trying to change them.
By Fiona Jarden, CARE International UK
FinDev Blog
Financial Inclusion in Paradise
There are currently no Pacific Island Countries included in the Global Findex Database. So how does the Pacific stack up to the Global Findex?
By Liz Larson, Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme