British International Investment and Symbiotics Strengthen Partnership With Launch of Second Green Basket Bond Across Asia and Africa
The green lending program will increase financing to small-scale green projects across Africa, South and Southeast Asia through MSME lenders, with a particular focus on India.
Certified Expert in Sustainable Finance
This course will share insights about creating impact, managing sustainability risks, and benefiting from sustainable business opportunities as well as familiarize participants with the business, regulatory and technical perspective of sustainable finance.
Country-Level Effectiveness and Accountability Review (CLEAR): Sri Lanka
Global Inclusive Finance Summit
This summit features over 127 global thought leaders speaking in sessions, and it gathers 1000+ delegates from the government, regulators, policy influencers, financial institutions, technology enablers, investors, academicians, thought leaders, researchers, foundations and private sector players.
Digital Innovations Empowering Caribbean Small Businesses
As part of the celebration of MSMEs once again this year, UNCDF spotlights two trailblazing enterprises, Unqueue and MLajan Mobile Wallet in the Caribbean.
Certified Expert in Sustainable Agricultural Finance
This course focuses on how financial institutions can help farmers – especially poor smallholders - to shift to sustainable agricultural practices that lead to secured livelihoods, better working conditions on farms, and enhanced resilience to climate change.
IFC Invests in Banco Santander’s Social Bond to Boost Financial Inclusion in Brazil
The investment will help close Brazil's social financing gap and bolster a more inclusive economic growth.
Understanding Customers in Environments of Severe Climate-Related Weather Events
This demand side study in Nigeria and Bangladesh aims to provide firsthand information about how vulnerable people build and lose resilience, as well as a close view of how they gather and spend funds to cope with a climate crisis.
Responsible DPI for Improving Outcomes Beyond Inclusion
Amid the enthusiasm to expand and scale digital public infrastructure (DPI) models to dozens of new markets, this report explores the opportunities for DPI to be built and deployed responsibly for three fundamental elements of financial inclusion: identity (ID), payments, and consent-based data exchanges.