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

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.

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

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.

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. 

How the World Bank’s Global Microfinance Initiative is working to bridge the climate financing gap

Can mentorship be scaled without losing its human touch? Strive Mexico tested what works for women entrepreneurs with diverse digital capabilities.

Consumer credit frameworks need to be designed with comprehension and product design in mind. 

Recent news coverage of the new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Mythos has raised alarms in many circles about increasing cybersecurity risks, especially for the financial sector. What do financial inclusion practitioners need to know about Anthropic's AI model?

In rural Ghana, there is a gap between financial inclusion data and women’s lived reality. While women may have mobile money accounts registered in their names, many are unable to use the accounts themselves, either relying on intermediaries or ceding control to other family members.