Muktinath Bikas Bank offers eight different savings products, specially designed for rural and low-income people in Nepal. The 2020 European Microfinance Award winner shares their experience with savings from before and during the pandemic.

COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on women must be urgently addressed through the provision of digital financial literacy and access.

BRAC's experience in Bangladesh shows how digital wallets can act as a tool to include low-income households, especially women, in the financial system.

The A-Card is a new business model helping smallholders in Bangladesh gain access to finance through a digitized four-way linkage between farmers, banks, MFIs and agricultural input retailers. CARE shares how it works and their lessons learned. 

Study finds that access to formal savings and loans played a critical role in coping with disaster 

What if the franchise was turned into a tool to solve developing world problems?