This document provides a comprehensive overview of open finance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and its potential impact on the financial industry.

Early lessons can be drawn from the first movers in open banking and the debates that are taking place between regulators and market participants.

This publications shares results from a survey with quantitative and qualitative data along six key dimensions of impact, including Access, Business Impact, Household Impact, Client Protection, Resilience, and Agency.

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

This paper analyzes the benefits, risks and implementation challenges of open finance and provides policy recommendations for the safe and successful implementation of such data-sharing frameworks in finance.

We caught up with FinEquity member and Head of the Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) initiative, Marina Finken, to learn more about her work in advancing financial sector development on the African continent.

These Principles set out the elements of an effective and comprehensive financial consumer protection framework, and were revised and updated in 2021/2022.

The main objective of this paper is to provide guidance on how to implement consumer consent protocols to access bank account data under open banking scenarios.

This publication details the key findings and provides a source of global data to benchmark efforts by financial sector authorities to improve the enabling environment for financial inclusion and consumer protection.

This flagship event will focus on accelerating practical approaches to setting and implementing targets in areas including net zero, nature, impact, pollution, human rights, and financial inclusion to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.