Positive Friction for Responsible Digital Lending: A Call to Action
This report explores how strategically adding friction to digital financial services can benefit both lenders and borrowers.
Applying Privacy by Design to Inclusive Finance Product Design
This brief is intended for inclusive finance practitioners, discussing three key challenges for implementation of CFI's Privacy as Product playbook and attempts addressing these challenges.
The Privacy as Product Playbook
This playbook, first-of-its-kind for the inclusive finance sector, aims to fill that gap and demonstrate a comprehensive way to integrate responsible data practices into the design process.
Sending Cash Transfers to Women: How to Design Programs that Enhance Well-Being While Safeguarding Against Intimate Partner Violence
This report examines existing evidence on the impact of cash transfers on intimate partner violence against women and proposes design approaches to mitigate and minimize those risks.
Prompts for Equitable Artificial Intelligence in Inclusive Finance
This research presents some of the key challenges with building accountability and transparency for AI in inclusive finance.
Investing in Equitable AI for Inclusive Finance
This publication gives an overview of the use cases of AI in inclusive finance and some of the drivers of harmful AI bias towards women.
Call for Session Proposals for Financial Inclusion Week 2023
CFI invites members of the inclusive finance community to submit proposals for conversations, debates, panels, videos, and other types of creative sessions that raise hard questions about how the inclusive finance community can adapt while keeping consumers at the center.
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.
The Role of Catalytic Capital in Digital Markets: Successes, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned
This report focuses on the role of catalytic capital in the digital credit industry and highlights the limitations of a framework that does not consider broader market-level consequences of such investments.
Fintech Lending Risk Barometer 2022-2023
This study is part of a market monitoring exercise to understand the range of risks and how they are perceived by multiple stakeholders in the Indian fintech lending sector.