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The Myth of Digital Credit as a Catalyst for Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
A review of the top 20 digital credit companies in the country reveals that regulation is sorely needed.
By Attai Ohiemi, Mobile Pouch Ltd
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Building Resilience in Real Time
Organizations implementing the graduation approach need tools to manage their different program components effectively. Mobile and cloud technology are helping them to support poor women on their path out of poverty.
By Elaine Chang, TaroWorks
FinDev Blog
Does Informal Finance Still Matter?
Informal Savings Mechanisms (ISMs) have long been important to many people’s day-to-day money management across Africa. But as formal financial services become much more prevalent in the region, what will happen to these ISMs? Will they fall by the wayside as the digital revolution takes over?
By Stephen Peachey & Sukhwinder Arora, Savings at the Frontier
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Can You Use Digital Finance If You Can’t Read?
Access to a mobile phone is not enough. The BOMA Project works to overcome illiteracy and innumeracy to bring digital financial services to women living in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
By Nicole Mills
FinDev Blog
Are Refugees Too Risky for Financial Inclusion?
Large numbers of vulnerable communities continue to flee their home countries due to war and conflict. Settling in refugee camps, they are perceived by many financial institutions as too risky to serve. VisionFund International explores the opportunities and challenges in serving refugee communities in West Nile, Uganda.
By Martina Crailsheim, VisionFund International
FinDev Blog
The Gender Gap is Wide. Which FinTechs Are Working to Narrow It?
A new Female-Focused Fintech Prize aims to connect and bring attention to fintech products working for women.
By Alina Kaiser, DFS Lab
FinDev Blog
Making Clean Cooking Affordable
Following the FinDev Gateway webinar on financing for clean cooking, GLPGP discusses how innovative consumer finance approaches can help facilitate access to clean cooking in developing countries.
By Meixi Gan & Richenda Van Leeuwen, The Global LPG Partnership
FinDev Blog
Two Steps Behind: Social Inequality Poses a Challenge for Women’s Financial Inclusion in DR Congo
A recent FINCA survey of clients in DR Congo shows that women entrepreneurs are confined to the smallest, least profitable businesses. Getting a realistic picture of the obstacles women face helps prepare us for the task ahead of shifting the ground in women’s favor.
By Scott Graham, FINCA International
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: Learning About Savings
Five key questions we have (partially) answered so far at the Savings Learning Lab
By Diana Dezso, Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: With Mobile for Girls
Mobile offers significant potential to engage people at scale, connecting them to services and solutions that can improve their everyday lives. The rise of mobile banking products, such as Safaricom’s mPesa in Kenya and other digital financial services, show that overcoming specific contextual challenges and responding to the demand of low-income people at scale, requires digitally-led solutions.
By Henri Habershon, Every1Mobile