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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Social Finance
AI has the potential to transform social finance, but it also presents a number of challenges related to data privacy and security, bias and fairness, transparency and explainability, technical complexity and employment.
Fintech for Climate Resilience: A Compendium of Startup Innovations Building Resilience in Emerging Markets
This report by the CIFAR Alliance Investors Working Group highlights 11 successful ventures that are building solutions to improve the resilience of communities susceptible to climate change, enabled by fintech.
Fintech Lending Risk Barometer 2022-2023
This study is part of a market monitoring exercise to understand the range of risks and how they are perceived by multiple stakeholders in the Indian fintech lending sector.
Insights From the 2022 Inclusive Fintech 50 Applicant Pool
This report examines data from the 250+ eligible fintech applicants from the fourth Inclusive Fintech 50 competition to better understand the state of early-stage fintechs.
The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises
This reading deck investigates the potential of technology-enabled business models to provide underserved micro and small enterprises with responsible financial services.
Catalyzing Financial Inclusion: Gender-Inclusive Fintech Solutions for Migrants
This report digs into the financial inclusion obstacles disenfranchised migrant populations face in three Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
What's In Store for Embedded Finance?
This podcast episode takes a look at what lies ahead for embedded finance, what forms it will take, what the biggest opportunities and risks are in embedded finance and more.
The Winds of Change- Trends Shaping India’s Fintech Sector: Edition II
This report combines research and expertise to deep dive into seven key trends that continue to shape the fintech industry.
Banking-as-a-Service: How it Can Catalyze Financial Inclusion
This reading deck provides an analysis of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model, a new business model that enables non-banks to offer banking services under their own brand and seamlessly embedded into their digital offering with four case studies of BaaS providers from Europe, US and Mexico.
The Impact of Digital Technology and Business Regulations on Financial Inclusion and Socio-Economic Development in Low-Income Countries
This study casts a new angle of linking digital technology and business regulations as drivers of financial inclusion and socioeconomic development.