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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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FinDev Financial Inclusion Year in Review 2025

What did 2025 mean for financial inclusion? We look back at the ideas, debates and developments that shaped the sector over the past year. From a deepened focus on financial health and resilience, to rapid progress in AI experimentation, to growing funding constraints, the trends we saw this year paint a picture of both progress and increasingly complex challenges.

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Beyond Cash: Three Lessons From the Digital Payments Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean

Over the past decade, the region has undergone a profound transformation in how people and businesses transact. What types of policies have brought about this dramatic growth of digital payments?


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This field investigation aims to assess the impact on the financial inclusion sector of reduced international aid, following the decrease in contributions from the United States and other countries to development programs worldwide.

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This report highlights how women’s financial exclusion and climate vulnerability are deeply interconnected, and showcases solutions, rooted in women-centered financial services, that strengthen women’s resilience to climate shocks.

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Data from the Global Findex Database 2025 gives us a glimpse into how well countries across the globe are transitioning from cash toward digital payments. How much progress has been made, and what still needs to be done?

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 / M-CRIL

The Dilemma in 21st Century Microfinance

This publication explores a central debate in the sector: whether access to microcredit and related financial services improves the lives of low-income households, or whether easy access to credit, often from multiple sources, risks leading to over-indebtedness and deeper vulnerability.

Paper / Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)

Enhancing Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Green Finance Through Proportionate Sustainable Finance Standards

This guideline note addresses the challenge developing countries face in aligning with evolving global sustainable finance standards while safeguarding financial inclusion and inclusive green finance.

Paper / United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

SDG Digital Ecosystem Assessment - Jordan 2025

This publication presents the 2025 SDG Digital Finance Ecosystem assessment for Jordan, analyzing how digital finance contributes to financial inclusion, inclusive growth and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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.

Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool

Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.

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