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Building Cyber Resilience for Digital Financial Inclusion and Innovation
The Cyber Resilience Toolkit provides a guide to strengthening cybersecurity and effectively handling cyber incidents for financial service providers.
Fintech: Financial Inclusion or Exclusion?
This paper examines two research questions. First, does fintech improve digital financial inclusion? Second, are there segments of society that are not included because they do not have the capacity and means to adopt fintech – such as women, the poor and people living in rural areas?
Integrating Digital Financial Services Into a National Financial Inclusion Strategy
This guideline note provides actionable guidance on how to properly integrate digital financial services into a national financial inclusion strategy to have a positive impact on end-users.
MiCRO - The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization: Providing Parametric Insurance to Low-Income Populations
This brief explains how a company that aims to close the protection gap through parametric insurance reaches out to different target groups and creates value for them.
Savings and Financial Health
This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health, and explores whether they indicate that savings contribute to financial health.
Strategies to Address Gender-Based Violence
This Roadmap lays out strategies for development finance institutions to incorporate gender-based violence risk assessment and mitigation as well as prevention and survivor support lenses into their investments.
Central Bank Digital Currencies: A New Tool in the Financial Inclusion Toolkit?
This paper draws on interviews conducted with nine central banks that are currently exploring retail central bank digital currencies. It shares concrete examples from their work and discusses challenges, risks and regulatory and legal implications.
Digital Financial Literacy Campaign: Final Report
This publication shares an overview of Digital Financial Literacy Campaign Activity designed to increase the digital financial literacy and decision making skills of women so that they can effectively use digital financial services.
Platforms, Livelihoods, and Inclusive Finance
This publication provides an overview of the increasing interconnectedness of platforms and financial service offerings and how platforms can push the frontiers of inclusive finance.
Outcomes Management for Financial Service Providers: A Proposed Standard Framework Aligned With the Sustainable Development Goals
This report aims to contribute to building a framework of actionable indicators based on the SDG targets that can answer the need for a simple, credible methodology to monitor outcomes.