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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.

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Opening the Black Box on the Impact of Inclusive Credit

Inclusive credit is one of the most celebrated and contested tools in development. This Focus Note reframes that debate. Rather than asking whether credit works, it asks: for which borrowers, through what product designs, and under what conditions does inclusive credit generate meaningful benefit rather than harm?
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Innovation for Inclusion: A Roadmap for Inclusive Finance Policy to Navigate Rapid Technological Change

This paper presents a policy roadmap that outlines six key priorities for financial sector authorities, including leveling the playing field for diverse players, making payments systems fit for purpose, expanding open finance frameworks to open data, establishing an approach for inclusive AI, creating a framework for responsible use of tokenization, and building adaptive and innovation-ready ecosystems.
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Solutions to Protect Consumers from Fraud in Digital Finance

This working paper presents a curated set of solutions for fraud (many of which are AI-powered), with more than 50 examples that have shown varying levels of success in protecting consumers from fraud in digital finance, across education, prevention, detection and disruption, and response and recovery.

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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