Lessons from traditional small-scale shopkeepers in Mexico on finding incentives beyond business education and cash provision

Takeaways from the African Microfinance Week (SAM) on overcoming the challenges and risks associated with digital transformation

Hedwig Siewertsen of AGRA discusses the different digital solutions for financing agricultural value chains that were shared at African Microfinance Week this year.

Microfinance Centre’s new CEO discusses the challenges of the pandemic, digital transformation and the future of inclusive finance.

More radical organizational change - in the form of self-management - is needed to solve microfinance’s optimization problem. 

There has been a need for traditional microfinance to face the challenge presented by digital technology for some time, COVID has simply accelerated this process.

Belgian development finance institution BIO shares the results of their client survey and how they are changing their practices to better support MFIs

Should all financial service providers climb on the digital bandwagon to stay relevant? In this Gateway Guide, we share our main take-aways from the latest research and practical lessons across the sector.

Will fintechs take over microfinance? Can traditional microfinance lenders survive? How? Elisabeth Rhyne of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion answers these and other burning questions.

Grzegorz Galusek, Executive Director of the Microfinance Centre, discusses digitalization, agile working and what we can look forward to from this year's annual conference.