This study offers an in-depth analysis of the domestic non banking finance company segment involved in lending services.

This Note describes some of the uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning by financial institutions; considers the supervisory responses to such uses; and highlights some ways in which supervisory authorities can themselves use AI and ML to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision.

An updated take on "What We're Reading", the FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

Kym Cole, Initiative Director, WEE-DiFine with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development sat down with us to discuss measuring intimate partner violence, whether digital asset insurance builds and protects the assets of pastoral women vulnerable to climate change, WEE-DiFine's priorities for the rest of the year and much more.  

The second blog in this two-part series on agent gender looks at evidence on the effectiveness of women agents in cash-in cash-out (CICO) networks for women's financial inclusion.

The sector needs to transition from the idea that financial inclusion means borrowing (and sometimes saving) in a financial institution and give more power to informal savings through the millions of groups that already exist.

This study casts a new angle of linking digital technology and business regulations as drivers of financial inclusion and socioeconomic development.

This is one of several case studies looking at the role of design in digital financial services (DFS) for women focusing on examples where research findings have translated into design that has eased and encouraged women’s use of DFS.

This case study goes in-depth on how the Bancolombia's agent network expansion strategy evolved and the agent network management models it developed to increase geographic coverage in a viable manner.