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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Five Lessons From Three Trailblazers
Experiences from the Bahamas, China and Nigeria help illuminate the rocky path for other central banks interested in implementing their own digital currencies.
By Kinyanjui Mungai, Michaella Allen & Barry Cooper, Cenfri
FinDev Blog
Micro and Small Enterprises Get Their Own Digital Ambassadors in Colombia
Approximately 16 million people in Colombia depend on income generated from micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Digital platforms and tools can help them grow, but uptake and use is impeded by diverse challenges.
By Diego Rueda & Katherine Ko, Fundación Capital
FinDev Blog
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Inclusion: How Should Supervisors Respond?
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial sector is spreading exponentially across advanced and emerging economies. What are the risks and opportunities presented by these innovations?
By Denise Dias, Toronto Centre
FinDev Blog
Digital Transformation: Who Is in the Driver's Seat?
The role of executive leadership is key for microfinance institutions to move successfully towards the digital future.
By Christian Loupeda
FinDev Blog
Incentives for Small Retailers to Climb the Modernization and Digitization Ladder
Lessons from traditional small-scale shopkeepers in Mexico on finding incentives beyond business education and cash provision
By Shreya Kankanhalli, Penn State University
FinDev Blog
Digital Innovation: Three Key Lessons to Improve the Resilience of African MFIs and Their Clients
Takeaways from the African Microfinance Week (SAM) on overcoming the challenges and risks associated with digital transformation
By Corinne Riquet, CGAP
FinDev Interview
How To Keep the Human Touch While Digitizing Agricultural Value Chains
Hedwig Siewertsen of AGRA discusses the different digital solutions for financing agricultural value chains that were shared at African Microfinance Week this year.
FinDev Interview
Feeling the Social Finance Vibe in Europe and Central Asia
Microfinance Centre’s new CEO discusses the challenges of the pandemic, digital transformation and the future of inclusive finance.
FinDev Blog
Going Digital Is Not Enough to Reach Scale
More radical organizational change - in the form of self-management - is needed to solve microfinance’s optimization problem.
By Philip Acton, DreamStart Labs
FinDev Blog
After the Storm: How Microfinance Can Adapt and Thrive
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.
By Greta Bull, CGAP