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FinEquity: Driving Collaboration to Make Financial Services Work Better for Women

To mark International Women's Day, FinEquity reflects on the importance of connection and knowledge sharing to bridge gaps and keep gender priorities visible.

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Beyond the Checkbox: Can We Get Truly Meaningful Consent?

As open finance regimes proliferate, consumer experience frameworks must lay the foundation for consumer empowerment and protection.

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From Informal to Investable

Banks and MFIs have long bypassed women nano-entrepreneurs as too expensive to serve profitably. But by meeting these women inside their trusted savings groups with digital tools, financial institutions are unlocking viable models to reach segments that traditional lending has missed.


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This policy brief shares practical lessons from customer research on women’s saving behavior in Uganda, examining how different empowerment indicators perform in capturing women’s financial behaviors, decisionmaking, and outcomes.

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Financial Inclusion Community in Conversation: Voices from IF25 and SAM 2025

What was the financial inclusion community talking about in 2025? As a media partner for Inclusive Finance 25 (formerly European Microfinance Week), hosted by e-MFP, and African Inclusive Finance Week (SAM), hosted by ADA, FinDev spoke with participants about the challenges they are grappling with and opportunities they see emerging for the sector. 

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Agents form a crucial human bridge between the cash and digital economies for local communities.

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 / The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Consumer Finance Risk Monitor 2026

The Consumer Finance Risk Monitor 2026 examines trends and challenges affecting financial consumers in 60 jurisdictions, and discusses responses for policymakers, regulators and supervisors.

Guide / Toolkit / Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)

The State of Gender-Sensitive Consumer Protection

This toolkit provides an overview of key trends, evidence, and emerging practices in gender-sensitive consumer protection, drawing on member experiences, surveys, and stakeholder consultations.

Paper / The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Digital Financial Literacy Core Competency Framework for Adults in ASEAN

This paper presents a framework of competencies for digital financial literacy to support consumers in ASEAN safely navigate and benefit from digital finance.

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.

What's Holding Digital Financial Inclusion Back in Your Country?

In this FinDev Webinar, participants learned about a new tool that helps uncover the root causes of digital financial exclusion. Policymakers and researchers shared their experiences using it to identify binding constraints in their own countries.

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