Financial Diaries: Financial Health of Low and Medium-Income Households During COVID-19 Pandemic
In order to understand how low and moderate income people were doing during the COVID-19 pandemic, BRAC Microfinance conducted financial diaries research with 273 households from different earning categories.
Getting Repaid in Asset Finance: A Guide to Managing Credit Risk
This Technical Guide summarizes the lessons learned from engagements with 15 asset finance companies in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia between 2018 and 2020 and offers suggestions on credit risk management.
Regulatory Approaches to the Interest Earned on E-Money Float Accounts
This Technical Note outlines five approaches to the regulatory treatment of making use of float interest earned by float accounts.
2019 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
CGAP Funder Survey documenting global trends in funding for financial inclusion.
Interoperability and Digital Finance: Emerging Guidance for Funders
This Technical Note aims to help funders understand the concept of interoperability, how instant payment systems can advance financial inclusion, and what funders can do to support their development.
Agent Network Journeys Toward the Last Mile: A Cross-Country Perspective December 2020
This Focus Note reveals three distinct journeys country stakeholders have taken to extend the reach and quality of rural agent networks in China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, and Kenya.
Eko Grows Agent Network Tenfold Through Open APIs
Eko India has used open APIs to become a platform business, which has enabled it to expand at considerably lower operational cost than its traditional agent business would have.
Designing Data Initiatives to Advance Financial Inclusion
This online tool is meant for donors and development finance institutions to leverage the potential of data to achieve financial inclusion impact.
Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Potential Response to the Financial Inclusion Challenges of the Pacific
This policy brief considers whether central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can promote the accessibility of financial services across the Pacific islands and the design choices involved in their development.
SME Finance Loans for Growth Impact Report 2020
This report shows how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging and frontier markets benefit from access to finance, as well as how they were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.