U.S. Community Development Financial Institutions provide an important Refugee Lens Investing opportunity for impact investors.

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.

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.

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. 

A recent pilot used machine learning and digital tools to provide personalized financial recommendations for rural users, with promising results.

Could the data representing a person’s social life be analyzed by AI to determine creditworthiness?

Innovations in financial inclusion can support climate-vulnerable populations access healthcare and mitigate climate-related health risks.

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. 

To mark International Women's Day 2025, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.

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.