Artificial Intelligence in Financial Inclusion: How Should Supervisors Respond?
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial sector is spreading exponentially across advanced and emerging economies. What are the risks and opportunities presented by these innovations?
Member Spotlight: Emily Akoth
Emily Akoth, Gender and Inclusion Specialist for Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) sat down with us to discuss how social norms influence the financial behavior of women and market actors, the importance of designing women-centric products and services, influencing market actors to think responsively about the needs of women and much more.
On Our Radar: November 2022
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.
Tackling Social Norms to Reduce the Gender Digital Divide in India
This webinar will focus on learning from a gender intentional, human-centered design intervention to accelerate women's digital adoption in India
The Art of Change: A Practical Approach to Changing Behaviors of Financial Service Providers for More Meaningful Outreach to Low-Income People
This publication explores the leanings from change management processes within the program’s partner financial service providers in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda.
Understanding the Women’s Market Through Gender Data and Analysis
This workshop gave us the opportunity to dig into a few resources featured in our recent Gender Data and Analysis Guide. We were joined by the Financial Alliance for Women, a network of financial organizations dedicated to championing the female economy, advocates for focusing on the women’s market by quantifying the market opportunity and financial benefits for financial service providers in, Global Business Case Tool for Financial Services Providers. We also heard examples of how good gender data and analysis can help FSPs to understand the women’s market and to understand whether they are achieving product goals related to outreach and usage.
Driving Formal Savings: What Works for Low-Income Women
Building on findings from a recent customer research, this learning paper aims to understand of what services female customers value, prioritize and need.
What Findex 2021 Tells Us About Financial Inclusion in India
Digital financial services are helping drive financial inclusion, but infrastructural barriers remain.
FinEquity November 2022 Member Newsletter
The November 2022 newsletter included a number of updates, including the announcement of our #FinEquity2023 annual meeting, recaps of two FinEquity webinars from October, a new Member Spotlight with Emily Akoth of AFR, a monthly round-up of WEE and WFI content our team has been enjoying and more.