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Resilience, Enterprise and Commitment: Supporting Refugees Through Community Lenders
U.S. Community Development Financial Institutions provide an important Refugee Lens Investing opportunity for impact investors.
By Selen Ucak
FinDev Interview
Zeroing in on the True Bottleneck: What Is Holding Digital Financial Inclusion Back?
The Decision Tree framework provides a tool to help identify the constraints affecting usage of digital financial services in a given country. In this FinDev Interview, Liliana Rojas-Suarez of the Center for Global Development (CGD) shares how it works and why they are now launching an online course on how to use it.
FinDev Interview
Why Biodiversity Matters for Financial Inclusion
In this FinDev interview, Nausica Fiorelli, Mariella Llontop and Chiara Pescatori talk about how microfinance institutions and investors can manage biodiversity-related risks and turn them into investment opportunities.
FinDev Blog
Financial Inclusion, Reframed: What the Well-Being Literature Can Teach Us
While financial well-being is increasingly treated as the end goal of financial inclusion, we’re still not fully connecting the two concepts. This proposed framework for financial well-being addresses people’s material, psychological and social needs.
By Aurélie Larquemin
FinDev Blog
How AI and Human-Centered Design Can Transform Financial Inclusion in Colombia
A recent pilot used machine learning and digital tools to provide personalized financial recommendations for rural users, with promising results.
By Mallory Sheff, Johanna Quiroga Robayo
FinDev Blog
Using AI to Bring Social Capital Into Credit Decisions
Could the data representing a person’s social life be analyzed by AI to determine creditworthiness?
By Elie Kevin Kamgang Kenmoe, BEAC
FinDev Blog
The Triple Burden: Climate, Health and Financial Exclusion
Innovations in financial inclusion can support climate-vulnerable populations access healthcare and mitigate climate-related health risks.
By Sitara Merchant Carter and Azalea Carisch, SCBF
FinDev Blog
Are Instant Payment Systems Changing the Financial Inclusion Landscape in Emerging Markets?
Recent research reveals the promise of instant payment systems, finding five key ways they can push forward progress on financial inclusion - from lowering prices on transactions to enhancing competition and innovation.
By Hakan Ozyilmaz and Hussam Razi
FinDev Guide
Women's Financial Inclusion: A Guide to Knowledge Resources IWD 2025
To mark International Women's Day 2025, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.
FinDev Blog
Women Entrepreneurs Are Confident and Capable - So Why Are Systems Holding Them Back?
New research from CARE shows that women entrepreneurs set clear business goals and believe they can achieve them, but they lack credit. Women-centered design can help break systemic barriers to offer more and better credit options for all.
By Sarah Hewitt, CARE