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FinDev Interview
Why Do Practitioners Value FinEquity?
In honor of International Women’s Day, FinDev Gateway features FinEquity (formerly known as the Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice), a special corner of FinDev where practitioners working to increase women’s financial inclusion can share ideas, resources and lessons learned. Uloma Ogba of UNCDF tells us what she values about this community of practice.
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
The Hole in the Bucket: The Impact of De-risking on Non-Profit Organizations
Whole groups are at risk of falling out of the financial system as banks develop increasingly risk-averse controls due to AML/CFT regulations. As non-profits face growing barriers to financial access, what can we do to reverse this trend?
By Karina Avakyan, Floor Knoote, Sofia Ortega, Lia van Broekhoven, Fulco van Deventer, Sangeeta Goswami
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
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