Fingular, a Singapore-based global neobank, is getting ready to rapidly launch an innovative digital lending business in Bangladesh through a strategic partnership with a local licensed Non-Banking Financial Institution, with a goal to accelerate financial inclusion.

The training will touch base on microfinance institutions’ diversification of financial products, risk mitigation mechanisms, the importance of selling insurance products for microfinance institutions and how to develop such products.

The report highlights CARE’s commitment to supporting women’s economic power, market systems change, and scaling proven models, all while fostering local partnerships for sustainable progress. 

The bank plans to hire 75 community managers by 2030 to serve areas with limited banking access.

The purpose of the social bond is to empower underserved, low-income communities through improved access to affordable financing to meet their vital transportation needs and ultimately provide a path to mainstream financing.

With this second iteration of the Community Finance Innovation Fund, the Citi Foundation will support a new cohort of Community Development Financial Institution innovators.

This is IFC’s first blue investment in India and the first blue transaction by a financial institution in the country.

This document aims to guide financial institutions toward the intentional inclusion of women through concrete actions to adapt their product offering and make the necessary organizational and cultural changes.

Smartcash by Airtel has won the MSME Payment Service Bank of the Year Award at the maiden edition of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Award Night organized by Nairametrics and the Economic Forum Series.

On 1 October, AFI Chief Executive Officer Dr Alfred Hannig explored how to advance gender inclusive finance in Southeast Europe with a panel of five female central bank governors from across the region.