Platform-Based Business Models and Financial Inclusion
This paper assesses how platform-based business models can affect financial inclusion, competition, financial stability and consumer protection.
How Providers Can Build Products That Improve Financial Health: Examples From Mexico and Chile
This paper shares the key challenges, learnings, and overall results from five case studies in Chile and Mexico, uncovering best practices on how to design for and influence financial health.
COVID-19: Crisis Evolution in Some of Our Countries of Intervention 2022
This publication compiles and analyses data to better understand the effects of COVID-19 on supported microfinance institutions and their clients.
Informed Design: A Case Study Series (WomenSave)
The first in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by WomenSave, an organization targeting poor (living on less than $2 a day) women in underserved areas of Uganda through financial literacy training and financial advisory services, access to mobile money and goal-based savings plans.
Measuring Fees and Transparency in Nigeria’s Digital Financial Services
This study investigates three key barriers preventing many potential customers from joining the formal financial system: the reliability of financial services, the cost of using these services, and the limited transparency of cost information.
Member Spotlight: Jumana Asrar
Jumana Asrar, Head of Research and Insights for BRAC Microfinance, sat down with us to discuss what originally drew her to research in the women's financial inclusion space, some of her most meaningful findings, and how those findings shed light on where the sector is headed.
FinEquity February 2022 Newsletter
New FinEquity case study, Member Share blogs, member spotlight and more!
Rebuilding Women’s Financial Health Post-COVID-19
During this webinar, a panel of experts will explore the question of how the impact of external shocks on women entrepreneurs and the institutions that serve them can be reduced.