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FinEquity Blog

Small-Ticket Housing Finance: An Overlooked Pathway to Gender Impact?

Findings from India and Nepal show how inclusive housing finance can strengthen women’s agency and livelihoods.

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Digitizing Savings Groups: Five Steps That Cannot Be Skipped

A growing ecosystem of fintechs, financial service providers and development organizations is working to digitize savings groups and connect them to formal finance at scale. But to actually improve women's financial agency, the foundations must come first.

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From Regulatory Progress to Real Access for Refugees

As more countries open legal pathways to financial inclusion for refugees, implementation challenges and digitalization emerge as the next frontier.


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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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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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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.

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.

Guide / Toolkit / International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Optimizing AML/CFT Risk Management with Technology and Analytics: A Playbook for Financial Institutions in Emerging Markets

This Good Practice Note explores how technology and advanced analytics can strengthen Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) risk management through a more effective, risk-based approach.

Paper / MicroSave Consulting (MSC)

Rewiring the System: Financial Education As Infrastructure, Not Isolated Programs

This brief reframes financial education as a supporting component of financial capability infrastructure rather than a primary consumer protection tool.

Slide Deck / CGAP

Contingent Lines of Credit (CLOC): A Liquidity Tool for Customer Climate Resilience

This reading deck explores how climate Contingent Lines of Credit (CLOCs) work, what design choices matter, and how they can complement savings, insurance, and other resilience tools.

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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