International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Annual Conference 2024
The Executive Committee Townhall will share progress on key projects such as the finalization and implementation of ICS and discuss the outcome of the comparability assessment of the Aggregation Method.
Segmentation of Women-Led Nano and Micro-enterprises: A Guide to Knowledge Resources
This guide shares resources from an in-depth literature review focused on women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in three countries: India, Kenya, and Uganda.
Al Tadamun for Microfinance Signs EGP 100M Deal With Agricultural Bank of Egypt
This partnership aims to expand funding for women-owned micro-projects across various productive, commercial, and service sectors throughout Egypt.
Curiosity Collective: Evidence of Social Changes for Women in Savings Groups
Impact of VSLAs on women, their families and communities
Al Majmoua (Lebanon), FATEN (OPT), and RUFI (Uganda) Announced as Finalists for EMA2024 on "Advancing Financial Inclusion for Refugees & FDPs"
The finalists will go on to compete for the EUR 100,000 prize for having demonstrated what financial inclusion organizations can do to support refugees and forcibly displaced people (FDPs).
The Philippine Statistics Authority Partners With GoTyme to Offer Free Bank Accounts
Under this collaboration, individuals will be able to open bank accounts for free, with a focus on extending financial services to previously underserved or unbanked segments of the population.
Magnifying the Power of Women’s Savings Groups
VisionFund has been exploring how formal loans to savings groups can help overcome capital constraints and improve members’ resilience.
Assessing the Future of Microfinance as a Development Tool: Continuing the Conversation
In this faiVLive, leaders from all parts of the microfinance sector continued exploring the present and future of microfinance in development policy and practice. Co-hosted by the Financial Access Initiative at NYU and FinDev Gateway.
Systemic Implications of Financial Inclusion
This study analyzes the impact of financial inclusion on various bank risk dimensions, including systemic risk, which has been underexplored.
The Microenterprise Mela - Size & Diversity of the Microenterprise Sector in India
This document combines data from the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises with M-CRIL’s 40+ years of experience studying every aspect of microenterprises in India and in a dozen other countries in Asia as well as to some extent in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and other countries.