IFC has updated its first-of-a-kind online climate impact measurement platform to make it easier for financial institutions to assess the climate eligibility of their investments and estimate the development impact of their climate-related activities.

All the government repatriation schemes had excluded undocumented migrant workers, leaving them to languish in COVID-19 hit labor destination countries.

According to a recent GSMA report, Sub-Saharan Africa is the enduring epicenter of mobile money, adding over 50 million registered accounts in 2019.

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Government travel restrictions and orders to defer repayments and lower interest rates on loans due to COVID-19 have reduced the ability of Myanmar’s microfinance companies to help rural people who desperately need capital.

Despite dire predictions about a drastic drop in remittances that Nepal gets from its workers abroad due to the COVID-19 induced economic downturn, money transfers have remained steady. 

The Indonesian Fintech Lenders Association has offered to help accelerate the disbursement of national economic recovery program funds as the government struggles to amass the data needed to deliver the money to the right places. 

As the COVID-19 pandemic froze the United States economy, not all Latin American immigrants living there were affected equally.

Remittances sent to Mexico, a major support for the Mexican economy and in particular for low-income families, continued its historic 2020 run and rose in July to the third highest level on record.

​​​​​​In response to COVID-19, the new SCBF product upscaling project supports a local insurtech company to implement a first-of-its-kind e-health value added service product with two core features: e-health tele-consultation bundled with COVID-19 insurance.