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India’s Digital Payments Boom Is Leaving Persons With Disabilities Behind

Inaccessible interfaces, screen reader incompatibility and unintuitive layouts limit independent use and create “partial inclusion.” Two main issues limit inclusion in India and much of the world.

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AI and the Art of Listening to Customers

How can we better understand our customers? FINCA is using locally trained AI to listen beyond structured questions, analyzing the subtleties of emotional expressions to support impact evaluation and product development. 

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Mobilizing Microfinance for Local Resilience and Jobs

How the World Bank’s Global Microfinance Initiative is working to bridge the climate financing gap


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FinEquity
Conference
June 2, 3 and 25

The 2026 event will bring together financial service providers, policymakers, regulators, funders, and other practitioners from across the world around a shared and urgent question: how do we keep gender on the agenda when funding is tight?

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This report aims to inform practitioners and policymakers about ways in which innovations in credit scoring can advance financial inclusion while ensuring fairness and protecting consumers. 

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How can mentorship – by nature human-intensive, time-intensive, and relationship-driven – be delivered effectively at scale? Especially for a diverse set of women entrepreneurs with varying digital capabilities and operational contexts. That is the question Strive Mexico set out to answer.

Latest Publications

FinDev Gateway hosts publications from over 2,000 organizations. Explore the largest collection of resources on microfinance and financial inclusion including over 8,000 papers, case studies, toolkits and more.

Paper / Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

An Analysis of Financial Literacy, Interest Rate Conditions, and Consumer Borrowing Behaviour in Ghana: A Case Study of Small-Borrowers

This study examined how financial literacy and interest rate conditions influence borrowing behavior among small borrowers in Asante Akim North Municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. 

Paper / Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI)

It’s Still Not Magic: Framing the Risks Facing Financial Services in the Gen AI Era

Paper / CGAP

Confronting the Climate and Health Nexus: Lessons From Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

This case study is the third in CGAP's series on scaling inclusive insurance while preserving consumer value. It takes a deep dive into SEWA's innovative heat insurance product, developed with partners and grounded in direct insights into the needs and risks of its members.

News & Events

Keep up with the global microfinance and financial inclusion community. Check out the latest news from across the sector, and an extensive calendar of events and trainings hosted by a wide range of organizations.

FinDev Webinars

FinDev Webinars enable financial inclusion practitioners to share lessons and attend online presentations and discussions delivered by the world’s leading financial inclusion experts.

Emerging Cyberthreats to Global Financial Inclusion

This faiVLive focused on better understanding the emerging risks of AI-powered cyberattacks, and sought to catalyze informed collective action in the financial inclusion community.

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