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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
FinDev Blog
COVID-19 Has Made MFI Digital Transformation Even More Urgent: How Can Funders Help?
Belgian development finance institution BIO shares the results of their client survey and how they are changing their practices to better support MFIs
By Jessica Schicks, BIO
FinDev Guide
Gateway Guide to Digital Transformation of Microfinance Institutions
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.
FinDev Blog
Microfinance in the Digital World: Seven Questions for the Future
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.
By Elisabeth Rhyne, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion
FinDev Interview
Does Digital Transformation Mean Turning Your Employees Into Robots?
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.