Albert Sie Dah, Farm Operations Manager of Advans Côte d’Ivoire, talks about how they have succeeded in serving farmers and their children with a combination of high tech and high touch.

The A-Card is a new business model helping smallholders in Bangladesh gain access to finance through a digitized four-way linkage between farmers, banks, MFIs and agricultural input retailers. CARE shares how it works and their lessons learned. 

There are currently no Pacific Island Countries included in the Global Findex Database. So how does the Pacific stack up to the Global Findex?

Grameen Foundation India shares how they are working on the first step of improving women’s digital financial literacy.

Mobile offers significant potential to engage people at scale, connecting them to services and solutions that can improve their everyday lives. The rise of mobile banking products, such as Safaricom’s mPesa in Kenya and other digital financial services, show that overcoming specific contextual challenges and responding to the demand of low-income people at scale, requires digitally-led solutions.

With just one telco and a focus on rural markets, Ethiopia challenges many of our assumptions as it creates its own digital finance ecosystem.

Digital financial services (DFS) and FinTech innovations continued to grow in 2017, with increased trust in DFS and more interoperability. But challenges remain...

This learning brief provides an overview of the key players in the Azerbaijan microfinance sector, followed by more detail on the approaches used by Azerbaijan micro-finance Association (AMFA) to build its sustainability and credibility in the sector.