Call to Action: Responsible Digital Payments to Accelerate Climate Action
This publication calls for urgent measures to address climate vulnerability by expanding digital payments and digital public infrastructure and putting women, youth, indigenous peoples, and communities in fragile and climate-vulnerable areas at the center of adaptation planning.
Building Value in Microfinance Through Digitization: A Role for Funders
Funders play a crucial role in ensuring that microfinance institutions (MFIs) continue to serve the most excluded and underserved customers in the future. This note highlights the importance of funders in supporting the digital transformation of MFIs.
The Global State of Financial Inclusion and Consumer Protection, 2022
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.
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2022
In 2022, the FinDev Blog featured the insights and experiences of over 50 community members on a range of topics. In the top ten most read blog posts from 2022, the sector's move to digital, especially with a focus on women, and savings groups were key themes.
COVID-19
This resource hub provides a collective space for our community to share experiences, ideas and lessons learned as we all struggle to manage this unprecedented global crisis.
Inclusive Fintech Funding in Times of Uncertainty
This publication shares insights from interviews with past Inclusive Fintech 50 winners and fintech investors to learn how they are adapting to these uncertain times and the impact of the funding challenges on their business models and the low-income customers they serve.
Micro and Small Enterprises Get Their Own Digital Ambassadors in Colombia
Approximately 16 million people in Colombia depend on income generated from micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Digital platforms and tools can help them grow, but uptake and use is impeded by diverse challenges.
Getting It Right: Providing Financial Services to Refugees
Drawing on the findings from recently released market studies in Jordan and Uganda, here are the top five recommendations for financial service providers (FSPs) willing to contribute to the financial inclusion of refugees.
Want to Stay in Business? Keep Your Loan Officers Happy
Loan officers are in a critical position to influence clients’ experience with an MFI. Yet they are often under intense pressure to meet targets. Here are six steps for improving working conditions for microfinance field staff.
Microfinance in the Digital World: Seven Questions for the Future
Will fintechs take over microfinance? Can traditional microfinance lenders survive? How? Elisabeth Rhyne of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion answers these and other burning questions.